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1984ref. 130321Atlantic Entertaining Group 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on the 1981 debut novel by Leonard Michaels. Seven singularly dysfunctional men form a discussion group and share their feelings about women love and life. Red titled wrappers recycled by studio from a previous wrapper with the film title noted in manuscript ink. Title page present dated April 1984 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Michaels and Gottfried. 116 leaves with last page numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Atlantic Entertaining Group unknown
1957ref. 140274France / Italy: Productions Sigma 1957. Archive of 42 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and 2 color transparencies from the 1958 French-Italian film. Seen in the images is starring actress Dany Robin both on the set and at a birthday party and other stars of the film in action. Notations on the verso of several photos in manuscript pencil and five photos rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Boutinot. Housed in a vintage Crumiere brand paper box with the film title in manuscript ink on the lid and accompanied by a receipt dated 1957 on parchment from the Waroline photography store in Paris. Based on Champly's 1932 novel "L'Homme Qui Mourra Domain." A jeweler is suspected of conspiracy in South America so he is imprisoned and his strong-willed wife will do anything to declare his innocence. Photos range in size with the largest being 7 x 9.25 inches with two-color transparencies 2.5 x 2.5 inches. Very Good plus overall. Productions Sigma unknown
1962ref. 140353France: Cinetel 1962. Archive of 64 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1962 French film. Seen in the images are starring actor Phillippe Noiret actor Rene Lefevre and actresses Berthe Granval and Zouzoue as well as several shots of the film crew and director Michel in action. Numerical annotations and some with layout annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in manuscript pencil. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box. Little-known drama about a man who aspires to be a sailor. One of director Michel's final films after notable others "Confession Under Four Eyes" 1954 and "The Blonde Witch" 1956. Most photos approximately 7 x 9.25 inches several 5 x 7 inches and one slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good plus. Cinetel unknown
1959ref. 140346Italy / France: Riama Film 1959. Collection of 12 vintage single weight still photographs from the 1959 Italian-French film. Seen in the images are starring actress Magnani Masina singer Perry Como director Castellani and two images of Magnani and adoring fan author Tennessee Williams. Notations on the verso of nearly all photos in manuscript ink and as many rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographers A. di Giovanni Licio D'Aloisio and the Italy's News Photos agency in Rome. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box. Overlooked Italian exploitation of the popular women's prison theme based on Isa Mari's 1960 novel "Roma Via della Mantellate" or "Cage of Passio" with the usual elements including domineering and submissive female characters. Masina plays the role of a victimized woman turned criminal. All photos approximately 7 x 9.25 inches a few slightly larger. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good. Riama Film unknown
1925ref. 140352Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1925. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1925 silent film. Bumbling newspaper clerk Henry Baxter is helplessly in love with a coworker in this silent-era comedy. The subject of his longing barely acknowledges his existence. His unrequited love coupled with his manager's devious daily taunts makes work tortuous for the poor clerk. He begins to day dream about a better life and a less cowardly self. Footage from William Beaudine's 1925 film is believed to be lost. In the still we see a wide shot of the newspaper office in which Baxter works. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pin holes toning overall and two manuscript pencil annotations to the verso. Warner Brothers unknown
1969ref. 140527Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1969. Three scripts from the seminal police procedural television program from its colorful pop culture-infused revival made between 1967-1970 starring Jack Webb and Henry Morgan along with a relentless cast of hippies druggies bad parents priests and a host of substantially less hip efficient and often troubled men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department. The collection includes: "Burglary Auto: Courtroom": Revised Draft script for Season Four episode nine originally aired on November 20 1969. With a manuscript ink notation on the front wrapper referring to LAPD Sergeant Dan Cooke who was the department's liaison to the show. Friday and Gannon testify in court about a search of suspect's car but their key witness is missing. Pink self wrappers with title page integral on the front wrapper noted as production number 30208 dated September 9 and September 12 1969 with credits for screenwriter Barrett and LAPD technical advisor Lt. Charles W. Walters. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 39. Mechanical duplication on pink stock with revision pages throughout dated 9/12/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. "Narco: Pill Maker": Revised Draft script for Season Four episode 18 originally aired on February 19 1970. Here under the slightly more formal working title "Narcotics: Pill Maker." Pink self wrappers with title page integral on the front wrapper noted as production No. 30237 dated November 26 and December 5 1969 with credits for screenwriter Harris and LAPD technical advisor Sgt. Ronald Garrahan. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Mechanical duplication on pink stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with one gold brad. "Forgery: The Ranger": Revised Draft script for Season Four episode 21 originally aired on March 12 1970. With a manuscript ink notation on the front wrapper referring to LAPD Sergeant Dan Cooke who was the department's liaison to the show. A routine traffic stop reveals a forest ranger in possession of checks and credit cards not in his name and Friday and Gannon begin to suspect him of being a con man. Blue self wrappers with title page integral on the front wrapper noted as production No. 30239 dated December 29 1969 and Janary 5 and 6 1970 with credits for screenwriter Dan Page and LAPD technical advisor Sgt. Robert L. Cameron. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Mechanical duplication on pink stock with blue revision pages bound in front dated 1/6/70. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with one silver brad. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1954ref. 140533N.p.: Federal Telefilms 1954. Draft script for Season One Episode 14 of the 1954-1956 television show originally aired on September 23 1954. Copy belonging to episode director Derwin Abrahams with his name as Derwin Abbe on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil and manuscript pencil annotations on nearly every page. Based on the character created by Michael Arlen which first appeared in 1940 short story published in "Town & Country" magazine. The character would go on to appear in 15 films throughout the 1940s as well as a radio serial before finally being adapted as this early syndicated television show which ran for 39 episodes between 1954 and 1956. Beige titled wrappers noted as production No. 216 dated May 18 1954. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with some light dampstaining to both bound with three gold brads. Federal Telefilms unknown
1999ref. 139964Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1999. Vintage press kit for the 1999 film. Includes six page pamphlet on the cast filmmakers synopsis and film production. Also includes a black and white film still photograph. Housed in a photo illustrated folder. Director Malcom D. Lee's directorial debut in part financed by his cousin Spike Lee. The first major lead role for Taye Diggs who plays an author whose upcoming autobiographical novel will spill the beans on all the dirt between his friends set to release with unfortunate timing just around a wedding at which he will see many of them. "The Best Man" proved the mainstream commercial viability of African American romantic comedies. Folder Very Good plus with light rubbing and creasing. Contents about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1966ref. 138830Moscow: Mosfilm 1966. Three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 French release of the 1964 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos including one three-part panoramic shot demonstrating the massive scale of the film shot on location in Dorogobuzh a region in the Smolensk province of Russia. An epic film over seven hours long and slavishly faithful to Tolstoy's novel that was for many years the most expensive European movie every made. The lengthy graphic battle scenes which killed a number of horses led to the film being boycotted in many American cities. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Mosfilm unknown
1967ref. 138750Rome: Arco Films 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1967 Italian film. Director Pier Paolo Pasolini is seen behind the camera shooting Silvia Mangana and Franco Citti. Short typescript description in Italian and Roma Press rubber stamp on the verso. A sparse intensely personal modern adaptation of the Oedipus Rex tale in which a man and woman have a child and the man becomes jealous of his wife's attentions to his son. The film's setting then changes back to antiquity where the legend largely follows its original course suggesting we may not be as emotionally removed from ancient times as we may believe. Set in modern and ancient Italy shot on location in Italy. 8 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Masters of Cinema 39. Rosenbaum 1000. Arco Films unknown
1955ref. 137952Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage candid photograph of Robert Mitchum sharing a moment with his wife Dorothy while on the set of the 1955 film. Dressed in costume as Harry Powell the image of a smiling relaxed Mitchum is incongruous with the severe terrifying nature of the character he played one of the most iconic villains in all film history. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Shallow vertical slice to the right side of the image. United Artists unknown
1976ref. 138189Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1976. Vintage press kit for the 1976 film. Included in the kit are 18 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs and 58 pages of promotional and production information. Based on the 1964 novel "Le locataire chimerique" by Roland Topor. The third final film in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy" following "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby" in which Polanski plays the role of a man who finds out that the previous tenant of his Parisian apartment attempted suicide by jumping out the window. Slowly the man becomes obsessed with the tenant taking on more and more of her habits ultimately including her attempts at self destruction. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in Paris and shot there on location. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. 18 pages of production information saddle stapled 8.5 x 11 inches with an additional 40 pages of corner stapled production information. All materials about Fine housed in a Very Good plus studio folder. Paramount Pictures unknown
1962ref. 139565Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Revised Draft script for the 1963 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member "Brokaw" with that name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper and marginal annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Shooting schedules bound in. Included is a vintage production photograph of Kirk Douglas from the film. Based on Vahe Katcha's 1957 novel "L'hamecon." During the Korean War a group of American soldiers capture an enemy pilot and orders are to execute the prisoner. Sgt. P.J. Briscoe Douglas orders his men to kill the prisoner but their reluctance forms a wedge in their allegiance. Shot on location in the Catalina Harbor. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 63 dated May 1 1962 with a credit for screenwriter Denker. Title page integral with front wrapper. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered "133-137" followed by 24 leaves bound upside down. Mimeograph duplication with white pink yellow gray green and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/19/62 and 5/11/62. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Davenport p. 171. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1963ref. 130735Hollywood: Petramonte Productions 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his manuscript annotations throughout. Based on the 1951 novel "Fortress in the Rice" by Benjamin Appel. The only film ever released by Petramonte Productions and eventually distributed by Allied Artists. During World War II the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the Philippine guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese. Shot on location in the Philippines. Gray titled wrappers with credit for with credit for screenwriter Marcus. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Marcus and writer Appel. 141 leaves roneograph with annotations throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. internally bound with three gold brads. Petramonte Productions unknown
1970ref. 139851Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris a book initially banned in the US. Miller Torn and his wife Ellen Burstyn dally in France's finer things while he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon takes a boy to a bordello and aids his asylum-bound friend who's in love with a prostitute. 27 x 41 inches folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus with small central holes faint creases. Uncommon. Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions unknown
1967ref. 138581Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967 and like both "Week End" and "La chinoise" one that showcases Godard's increasing focus on deconstructing filmic narrative and structure and vocalization of leftist political ideas. Godard has stated that his overall desire with the film was "to include everything: sports politics even groceries" to make "an attempt at description of a phenomenon known. as a complex." 5 x 7 inches. Fine condition. Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica unknown
1952ref. 130769Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A mother confronts her college aged son about his girlfriend who is a communist spy and turns him into the FBI but he's killed by enemy agents before he can confess. One of the most blatantly pro-McCarthy films of the Red Scare era. Lacking title page self wrapper typically issued by Paramount during this time period. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 133 leaves on blue stock mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good with exception to page 132 unbound. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960ref. 140402France / Italy: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1960 French film noir. A remarkable collection including still photographs from the film candid shots and shots from the set. On-set images include director Jacques Becker with his camera and with the actors actors Marc Michel and Michel Constantin and other members of the cast and crew. Notations in manuscript pencil on the versos of nearly the photos. Based on Jose Giovanni's 1957 first novel "Le Trou" The Break. True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break with one of the real escapees Keraudy playing his own character in the film. Four photos 7 x 9.5 inches twelve photos 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 129. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Hayden and Schneider 1001. Selby France. Spicer France. Filmsonor unknown
1933ref. 138407Germany: Kinematrade 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933 as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era "Kuhle Wampe oder" is according to screenwriter Brecht a "Collective Presentation" that tells the tale of a family in early 1930s Berlin. After the son is prolongedly unemployed he commits suicide and the family is forced to relocate to a shantytown known as "Kuhle Wampe" or "Empty Stomach." Created under severely limited material conditions with filming constantly being broken up by the Weimar government's paramilitary SA agency the film attempts to depict archetypes of the times including an intellectual clash on a subway between members of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Banned first by the failing Weimar Republic and subsequently by the Nazi Reich the film was believed to have been lost until it reappeared over 20 years later in East Germany in 1958. This poster likely originates from screenings held in November 1933 by an unknown pro-communist organization in Philadelphia at the short-lived left-leaning Philkino theater. A US screening of this film dating before the film's disappearance and only just after the very beginnings of Hitler's rise to power makes this poster not only very scarce but one of significant historical value. The poster touting "Kuhle Wampe" as "The Film Hitler Burned" features an image of a man with a hammer and sickle attacking two snakes that form the Nazi swastika and touts the involvement of members of the "Labor Sports Union" in the film. 9.5 x 13 inches letterpress on pale faded pink stock. Very Good with expected moderate wear. Kinematrade unknown
1964ref. 139221California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild ATG began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films mostly Japanese rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s with theaters in Arizona California Colorado Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Missouri New Mexico Ohio and Tennessee. The first of Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black-and-white powerful psycho-sexual female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. Other films in his "Gothic" period include "Mudhoney" 1965 "Motorpsycho!" 1965 and the epic and legendary "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! " 1965. "Fanny Hill" 1964 snuck in right after "Lorna" although that film is generally left out of the "Gothic" period. "Lorna" was written by James Griffith who stars as the Preacher narrator of the film and stars Lorna Maitland as a voluptuous sexually unfulfilled newlywed. Her husband Jim Rucker works in a salt mine all day and studies all night giving Lorna too much time to herself. One day while Lorna skinny-dips in a nearby river an escaped convict Bradley rapes her in the reeds. The vile act could otherwise have been exploited perhaps comically by Meyer but here the scene acts as a catalyst for one repressed woman's sexual awakening. Lorna invites the convict into her home while her husband is gone prompting Jim's coworkers among them the underrated Hal Hopper to tease him about Lorna's infidelity. Things take a bitter fatal turn when Jim returns home to discover Lorna and her object of desire. 5.5 x 8.5 inches folded once as issued. Two horizontal creases and faint foxing else Near Fine. Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions unknown
1997ref. 139690Stockholm: Sveriges Television SVT 1997. Three vintage color still photographs showing Ingmar Bergman on the set of his 1997 Swedish television movie which also screened at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section. Two patients at a mental hospital attempt to make and market a film. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Fine. Sveriges Television [SVT] unknown
1965ref. 139246Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage black-and-white press photograph from the 1965 French-American film. Editorial annotations and Wide World Photo rubber stamp on the verso with a Spanish rubber stamp "paso por fotograbado." Shown are Ursula Andress and Katrin Schaake on-the-set conferring between scenes while standing on a bed. Woody Allen's film debut as actor and screenwriter. Michael O'Toole is a womanizer soon to be married to Carole Schneider but Liz Paula Prentiss and Rita Andress get in the way. His psychoanalyst Dr. Fritz Sellers is no help and Carole flirts with Victor Allen a nervous wreck. Somehow they all end up in the same hotel in the French countryside and they mayhem ensues. Shot on location in France. 6.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus light creases heavy soil and sticker pull to the verso. United Artists unknown
1961ref. 138215Paris: N.p. 1961. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Godard and Macha Meril on the set of the 1961 film. With the Paris stamp of photographer Claude Schwartz on the verso. 9 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 138817New York: Cinehaus / Ed Pressman Productions 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film. The third film to be written and directed by Mamet. Script belonging to actor Paul Butler a Mamet regular who plays Commissioner Walker in the film. Laid in is an unrelated legal agreement addressed to Butler regarding his involvement in the 1986 television series "Crime Story." Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in a nameless American city shot in Baltimore. White self wrappers integral with title page dated JULY 1990 with a credit for screenwriter Mamet and with mention of Ed Pressman Productions and Cinehaus Inc. Xerographically reproduced. 146 pages last leaf numbered 145. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good only with some edgewear bound with three gold brads. Criterion Collection 486. Grant US Neo-Noir. Silver and Ward US Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cinehaus / Ed Pressman Productions unknown
1970ref. 139053N.p.: Madison Productions Inc 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. An early exploitation take on the deathless we had to say that topic of clone research which was in its infancy at the time the film was released. Leslie Nielson plays a hard-nosed reporter who witnesses a car crash involving a senator and whose subsequent investigation reveals an intricate conspiracy involving high-level blackmail and advanced medical research. Set in Alamogordo New Mexico shot on location in Albuquerque New Mexico. Red titled front wrapper green rear wrapper. Title page present dated 12/01/70 with credits for screenwriters Jay Simms and Tom Rolf. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication first generation copy with no copied punch holes with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/23/70. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Madison Productions Inc unknown
