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1957ref. 143311Paris: Cinedis 1957. Seven original black-and-white still photographs from the 1957 French-Italian film. Five photos feature actors Carlo Delle Piane and Hossein in a rousing bathtub scene one a juxtaposed bar scene and one photo features Arnoul and foreboding mystery man in black with his hand on the door. All with French film titles in manuscript ink and series number on the versos and photographer credit printed on the rectos. Housed in a vintage glassine sleeve. Vadim's second film as director entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Sophie Arnoul is an amoral French girl betrothed to rich and seedy Eric Hasse an ex-nazi turned forger. Sophie also attracts the attention of Eric's secretary Sforzi Hossein while falling in love with yet another man Michel Marquand. Photographer Voinquel's films include "Anne-Marie" 1936 "Le Jour se Leve" 1939 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 1956 "Belle de Jour" 1967 and "Army of Shadows" 1969. Four photos 3.5 x 4.75 inches three slightly larger. Vertical crease to one photo else Near Fine overall. Cinedis unknown
1960ref. 143236Paris: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 11 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Une fille pour l'été." Featured are several images of the cast and crew on the waterfront basking in the shade director Molinaro in white straw hat and images of starring actress Petit including a striking portrait image of her under an elegant sconce and with Auclair reading scripts. All but one photograph with annotations in the verso in manuscript ink film title names of persons pictured and all but two photographs with numerical annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. Based on a novel presumed by screenwriter Clavel. Philippe Auclair is an unsung artist with a mistress he does not love. He spends leisurely vacations at Paule's Presle in the Riviera where he meets Manette Petit a poor girl whom he befriends and lusts for to the chagrin of Manette herself under the romantic allure of Philippe. Late in the canon of cinematographer Jean Bourgoin whose credits include some of Jean Renoir's films in the 1930s Orson Welles' film noir "Confidential Report" 1955 and Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" 1958. 1 photograph 3.25 x 4.25 inches remaining photographs 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. Filmsonor unknown
1962ref. 143284Paris: Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex 1962. Original French program for the 1962 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Le diable et les 10 commandements." Illustrated wrappers featuring esoteric cartoons by Vaissier with original glassine. Contents of the program include film credits synopsis actor biographies and advertisement campaigns; often these programs are illustrated throughout with still photographs from the film this production seems to have invested the visual element entirely in the wrapper art. An epic comedy on the Book of Exodu's most epic tale with elements based on David Alexander's novel "Murder Points a Finger" 1953. Over a series of 8 episodes various commandments are portrayed by prominent European actors including Alain Delon Mel Ferrer Louis de Funés Danielle Darrieux Charles Azvanour Fernandel and Dany Saval. 9.25 x 11.75 inches 18 leaves. Very Good plus with light dampstaining and foxing most reserved to the wrapper and glassine. Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex unknown
1959ref. 143911Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film two fascinating test shot photographs and a series of clippings from the Bloomington Indiana Herald featuring stories about the film an advertisement and an article about Denny Miller. A remake of the 1932 film of the same name with lots of stock footage and a soundtrack by Shorty Rogers. Set in Africa shot on location in California. Gold titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 138 with credits for producer Al Zimbalist director Joseph Newman and screenwriter Robert Hill. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mechanical duplication with blue gray revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-9-59 and 3-12-59 all other pages are eye rest green and dated between 1-22-59 and 2-4-59. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1961ref. 143198Tokyo: Toho Company 1961. Second Final Draft script for the 1961 Japanese film. Manuscript ink notation on rear wrapper and manuscript ink and rubber-stamped name Takahishi Toshihiro not credited in the final film on the top and bottom page edges with the same initials in Arabic lettering "T.T." near the spine. Manuscript annotations on preliminary page 4 noting the entire proposed cast lining up pretty closely with the final cast and a note in manuscript ink on the rear wrapper about an unrelated play titled Minamioka. A psychological drama that a love triangle unraveling a family in the process. Set in Japan. White titled wrappers noted as 2 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 78 leaves with last page of text numbered "e-30." Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some foxing due to age. Toho Company unknown
1921ref. 143526US: Metro Pictures Corporation 1921. Vintage photograph from the 1921 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1916 anti-war novel by Vincent Basco Ibanez about a French and German family on both sides of World War I. Along with "The Sheik" later the same year the film the catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and helped create his "Great Lover" image. The film also launched the career of director Rex Ingram made screenwriter June Mathis one of the most powerful woman in Hollywood inspired a tango craze and was the first to gross over $1000000 at the box office. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a partial and faint studio stamp on the recto light soil and edgewear. National Film Registry. Metro Pictures Corporation unknown
1945ref. 143451Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1944 film noir showing director Robert Siodmak conferring with star Stanley Ridges while some extras relax behind them. With a mimeo snipe and date stamp of "12 Apr 1945" on the verso. Based on the 1939 novel "This Way Out" by James Ronald about an unhappily married man who falls in love with a younger woman only to be investigated by a Scotland Yard detective when his wife dies in what appears to be an accident. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light diagonal creasing to the corners and a slight curl. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1964ref. 143345Italy: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion 1964. Vintage borderless press photograph from the set of the 1964 film. Shown is Annie Giarardot the "ape woman" in the film in a dressing room with two other semi-clothed "normal" women conveying an immediate irony as she looks up at her husband Ugo Tognazzi standing in the doorway. With the stamps of both the French Dalmas and Italian Publifoto photo agencies on the verso. Inspired by the real life story of Julia Pastrana who suffered from a condition that caused excessive hairiness and was exhibited in a freak show and mummified after her death by her husband/manager. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing to the edges and slight curl. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion unknown
1975ref. 143326Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1975 film showing cinematographer Gerry Fisher behind the camera filming a scene between stars Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn. Wilder's directorial debut from his own original script a musical comedy about Sigerson Holmes the younger brother of Sherlock investigating missing government documents with the aid of a Scotland Yard detective Marty Feldman and a deceitful musical hall singer Kahn. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1971ref. 142743New York: Magic Lantern Inc 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal played by Max von Sydow is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater" where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create including building a relationship with the Hesse family in order to acquire the rights. While "Steppenwolf" is a precisely-realized film replete with Jungian symbols and created with some of the best special effects available at the time the film has remained somewhat obscure due to problems with its marketing and distribution including the color of the prints having been incorrectly developed. Set in 1920s Germany shot on location in Germany and Switzerland. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for novelist Hermann Hesse. Title page present dated April 1971 with credits for screenwriter Fred Haines. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Magic Lantern Inc unknown
1971ref. 143084London: Russflix / MGM 1971. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1971 musical with director Ken Russell staring intently at stars Twiggy and Christopher Gable. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a touring musical after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straight forward pastiche of 1920s musicals Russell's adaptation is a full blown parody of 1930s musical films particularly Busby Berkeley with heavy metatextual elements as the more lavish numbers take place in the imagination of a Hollywood producer watching the simple touring stage show. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Russflix / MGM unknown
1956ref. 142890N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for a 1956 student film. Front wrapper title in decorative manuscript black ink presumably by the screenwriter. Based on the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce. 22 pages of storyboards corresponding with the script that follows all bound together. Decorative cast and crew invite to premiere and wrap party laid in. The second filmed version of Bierce's short story the first one titled "The Bridge" was made by Charles Vidor in 1929 virtually unknown preceding both the well known 1959 version filmed for the fifth season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" and the French version made in 1962 by Robert Enrico. According to the 1956-57 Film Review of Student Productions presented by Department of Cinema and Delta Kappa Alpha at the University of Southern California USC the film was part of the Productions of the Graduate Workshop in the fall of 1956. Laid in is an invitation to premiere screening held at CineManor where USC's California National Honorary Cinema Fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha hosted screenings and social events. Douglas W. Gallez served as President of the Alpha USC Chapter at the time. Not in IMDB. Presumably shot in Southern California. Set in Civil War era Alabama. Pale untitled wrapper with credits for screenwriter. Title page present with credits for story writer Ambrose Bierce and screenwriter Douglas W. Gallez. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 22. Mimeograph both storyboards and script. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1918ref. 143521US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying manuscript notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd about a young socialite and a millionaire who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand respectively. No known prints of the film survive and it is considered lost. 8.75 x 7.75 inches irregularly trimmed. Very Good plus. Diagonal crease to the top corner with a short closed horizontal tear to one edge. Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company unknown
1961ref. 143580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake" with the release title in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK the film was a US co-production and this is a US draft of the script noting the US production company Playstar Productions on the front wrapper. A doctor injects his pregnant wife with snake venom causing her to give birth to a snake woman who grows up to terrorize the local town. Set in Victorian England. Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph Pages Fine. Front wrapper detached. Now encapsulated in mylar else Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. United Artists / Caralan Productions unknown
1963ref. 143365Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1963 film showing director Elia Kazan and crew on a scaffolding shooting across a large lake. With some manuscript pencil annotations including the film title on the verso. Based on Kazan's own 1962 novel based on the life of his uncle about a young Greek man living in 19th century Ottoman Turkey and his long and poverty stricken journey to emigrate to America. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in Turkey and Greece. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
ref. 142842N.p.: N.p. 1981. Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film "Energy and How to Get It" circa 1980-1981. Includes tipped in ephemera drawings business cards and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer Robert Frank June Leaf and "Lightning" Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included are 4 reference photos all likely unique from the shooting of the film: two showing both Wurlitzer and Frank one showing Wurlitzer and one of the "Enola Gay" aircraft in the film. Mead Memo notebook spiral bound. Green wrappers. 4.25 x 6 inches Very Good overall tipped in photos Near Fine. Reference photos 8 x 10 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 143728N.p.: Objektiv Film 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Objektiv Film unknown
1957ref. 143707Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs 1957. Draft script for the May 11 1958 episode of the television series "Harbormaster" 1957-1958. Faint annotations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil "Captain Hates the Sea" "Leon Benson" and an illegible name. Copy presumably belonging to Benson. A television series about crime-fighting sailboat captain Scott Sullivan on the shores of New England. In this episode Captain Owens Tweddle is willing to commit murder to oppose his daughter's Bain marriage to a lobster fisherman Hagman. Steve Fisher went uncredited upon the episode's release and his credits for other series the same year include "Wire Service" "The George Sanders Mystery Theater" "tombstone Territory" and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre." Leon Benson's credits include "West Point" 1956-1957 "Sea Hunt" 1958-1961 "Ripcord" 1961-1963 and "Bonanaza" 1967-1970 as well as another ZIV production "Harbor Command" 1957-1958 directing three episodes in 1957. Set and shot on location in Rockport Massachusetts. Orange titled wrappers noted as "Harbourmaster / 23-B" on the front wrapper dated 1957 with credits for Fisher and Drake. Title page present noted as HARBOURMASTER PROD. #23-B. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown
1964ref. 143227Paris: Les Films Ariane 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film "That Man from Rio" here under the original French title "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio Les Films Ariane still photographer Trigo Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title several with annotations in manuscript ink also on the verso several with Trigo's name in manuscript ink. Over 100 smaller photos bear white borders and credit for photographer Voinquel. Also included is an issue of French magazine "Telérama" Sunday August 18 1963 No. 709 featuring cover and editorial on Belmondo and the film an original Somarco accordion folder dated 1963 and original mailing envelope addressed to Maryse Martres Ariane Films Champs-Élysées from Télé-photo Paris. Martres Martin was a prolific French actress who was later involved in press relations at Cinedis a notable film agency in operation since the Silent Film era. Airman Adrien Dufourquet Belmondo is in Paris on shore leave eager to see his Agnes Dorléac. When he finally sees her only briefly before she's kidnapped and held for ransom by a treasure-hungry family friend. A James Bond spoof in the wake of Belmondo's swashbuckling success "Cartouche" 1962 opposite Claudia Cardinale with puzzle solving murder in Brasilia art thieves and a pursuit to find sacred Amazon treasure. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing Story and Screenplay: Written Directly for the Screen 1965 and winner of a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1964. Members of the cast and crew are featured throughout the collection including director de Brocca who earlier worked under directors Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut Belmondo cameramen and an extensive look at the scenery of Brazil and Paris. Boats racing Belmondo dangling from a speeding car and languid down times as cast and crew break for naps in the shade photographer Trigo's often provocative angles capture the director in dimly lit noirish scenarios and a glimpse of the action-packed thrill-ride of shooting a Bond spoof with elements of MacGuyver. Coincidentally photographer Voinquel's direct approach shows stills from a more casual standpoint not without generous documentation of the crew behind the camera. Photographs 7 x 9.25 inches and 3.5 x 5 inches some varying slightly overall. Mailing envelope and folder each 10 x 12.5 inches. Photos Very Good Plus overall moderate curling several with bruises or insect wear at the edges several with moderate dampstains. Envelope and folder Good with short tears and similar dampstains. Magazine Very Good wavy brief toning. Les Films Ariane unknown
1980ref. 143481Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Noirish in theme and based on true-life accounts. Murphy played by Paul Newman and Corelli Ken Wahl are police officers in the decaying South Bronx region of New York. Together they try to bring peace and justice to their corrupt precinct. Ethnic minorities play a major role in the film particularly African Americans and Puerto Ricans though community groups from the Bronx found their depiction lacking overall. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 22 1980 with a credit for screenwriter Gould. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mechanical duplication with pink blue yellow purple brown orange and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/6/80 and 4/18/80. Pages and wrapper Near Fine prong bound. Hardy BFI Crime Companion. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
ref. 143729N.p.: Mafilm 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Shot on location in Hungary. Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Mafilm unknown
1960ref. 143202Tokyo: Toho Company 1960. Draft script for the 1960 Japanese film. Manuscript ink and stamp on the outer page edges. Production designer's script with manuscript underlining on numerous pages regarding objects needed for a given scene swimsuits sun cream summer kimonos Persian cat etc. Other annotations in the same hand fill in the names of actors who have been chosen to play the parts of various characters whose names are printed. The double directed feature intentionally creates a juxtaposition between each director's lens and the credits give no indication of how the two collaborated also intentional. According to Audie Bock author of "Japanese Film Directors" Naruse filmed all of the older generation scenes and the Japanese restaurant scenes while Kawashima did the younger generation and the geisha house scenes comparatively the 'comic relief'. A family love triangle sees a mother and daughter in competition and parallels the conflicting nature of new and older generations in modern society. Set in Japan. White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1960. Title page present. 88 leaves with last page of text numbered g-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two staples wrapped in paper on spine. Toho Company unknown
1969ref. 143372Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage photograph on director Elia Kazan conferring with a lounging Kirk Douglas holding a prop baby doll and Faye Dunaway during an outdoor shoot on the set of the 1969 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Adapted by Kazan from his own 1967 novel about a suicidal advertising executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown dealing with his unhappy wife younger mistress and dying father. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1956ref. 143359Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage borderless photograph of a contemplative Alfred Hitchcock on the set of the 1956 film. With the stamp of Warner Brothers Netherlands on the verso. Based on the real life story of Manny Balestrero accused of a series of robberies he didn't commit as detailed in the nonfiction book "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero" by Maxwell Anderson who co-wrote the screenplay and the "Life" magazine article "A Case of Identity" by Herbert Brean. Hitchcock's final film for Warner Brothers and an influence on both Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese. 7.25 x 9.25. About Near Fine. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 142885N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Manuscript ink on front wrapper noting title screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947 starring Cary Grant Loretta Young and David Niven and "Portrait of Jennie" in 1949 starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films included "Racket Busters" in 1938 "Chasing Danger" in 1939 "Monsoon" in 1953 and two foreign films that he produced and directed as well as wrote "Square of Violence" in 1963 and "Story of a Woman" in 1970. Bercovici was blacklisted during the McCarthy era losing his US passport regaining it in 1956 and then moving to Europe for several years. Bercovici later became a respected teacher of writing at UCLA and the American Film Institute work that he continued until shortly before his death. Set in Rome. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated January 15 1957 with credits for screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
