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1979ref. 139657Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz along with some extras on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic "Nosferatu" and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 holograph 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 books
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 books
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 books
1969ref. 139645Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1969. Revised First Draft script for the classic 1971 Disney film "The Million Dollar Duck" here under the working title "Mr. Webfoot Waddle." Based on a story by Ted Key notable writer who created the famous time-traveling duo Mr. Peabody and Sherman both regular characters on the cult classic television series "The Bullwinkle Show" 1960-1964. Professor Albert Dooley Jones brings home an American Pekin duck from his lab as a gift for his son unaware that the duck lays golden eggs. Blue titled wrappers noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay on the front wrapper production No. 7286 dated November 19 1969 with credits for story writer Key and screenwriter Rogers. Title page present dated November 19 1969 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Rogers. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mechanical duplication on yellow stock. Pages and wrapper Newar Fine bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1966ref. 138768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 UK film. Featuring a very relaxed Michael Caine laying across the laps of his four female costars Vivien Merchant Jane Asher Julia Foster and Shelly Winters between takes. Tipped-on snipe humorously describing Michael Caine's interest in the opposite sex on the verso. Based on Naughton's 1966 play about a young man from the working classes of sexy swinging 1960s London Alfie Caine in his first starring role is a confident charming ladies' man whose appetites for sex are met in the fun-loving Ruby Winters. Director Gilbert breaks the fourth wall in this film with Caine directly addressing the camera in attempt to gain sympathy from the audience a technique used again by Gilbert in "Shirley Valentine" 1989. Gilbert also addressed the then-taboo issues of pregnancy and abortion in an uncommonly candid style. Set in London shot on location there and in Middlesex England. 7 x 9 inches. About Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 139518Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 film. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 play about two teachers at an all-girls boarding school accused of being in a lesbian relationship by one of the students ruining the careers and personal lives of both. The play was previously adapted by William Wyler in 1936 as "These Three" though the Production Code forced Hellman to change the substance of the rumor from homosexuality to infidelity. The 1961 version restores the content of the child's lie and is overall incredibly faithful to the stage play. Nominated for five Academy Awards including a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Fay Bainter. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1994ref. 139582N.p.: N.p. 1994. Vintage borderless black-and-white matte reference photograph of director Jim Jarmusch on the set of the 1995 film standing on the Oregon coast near the water's edge for the filming of its final sequence. Label on verso indicating that the photo is ex libris from the collection of Daniel Bouteiller. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1938ref. 140177Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1938. Temporary Complete script for the 1939 short film one of several classic shorts featuring the great Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley. A stereotypically clueless husband is left in charge to show his apartment to a prospective subletting couple while his wife is at church and manages to botch the job in all the expectedly silly ways. "How to Sub-let" is the second-to-last of beloved Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley's "How to" shorts which included the 1935 Academy Award winning "How to Sleep" with his signature and untrue affinity for being lazy throughout the script. Set in an apartment in an unknown city. Blue titled wrappers noted as TEMPORARY COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 946 and production No. 89665 dated 11/1/38 with credits for comedian Robert Benchley. Title page integral with the second page of the text with credits for comedian Robert Benchley as issued. 13 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
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 Night of the Hunter." 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 books
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 holograph pencil on the front wrapper and marginal annotations throughout in holograph 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 books
1971ref. 139935Norway: Shamrock Studio 1971. Vintage Norwegian one sheet poster for the 1970 UK film. Distributor annotations on the verso in holograph ink. Bank-heist film following Mr. Graham Baker an assistant bank manager who meets Lady Britt Dorset Andress. They devise a plan to rob the bank involving counterfeit money and a close call with the local inspector. Set in London's West End notorious for its adult film industry shot there on location. 27.5 x 39 inches. folded as issued with other later folds. Very Good with a few tears light toning. Uncommon. Shamrock Studio unknown books
1963ref. 130735Hollywood: Petramonte Productions 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his holograph 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 books
1972ref. 138774Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1972. Revised Final Shooting Script for the 1973 television movie which originally aired on March 18 1973 on NBC. Numerical notation in holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck filmed once before by Lewis Milestone in 1949. Winner of two Primetime Emmy awards and nominated for seven more. Shot on location in Sonora California. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 7 1972 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Totten and novelist Steinbeck. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Mimeograph duplication with five blue revision pages dated 8/10/72. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1957ref. 130852Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1957. Final Draft script for the 1958 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his annotations throughout. A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Will their paths cross again Filmed on location in Belgrade Serbia. Red titled wrappers noted as copy No. 3 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 1957 noted as Final Screenplay with credit for writer Pushkin. 142 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 130776Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1957. Draft script for the 1959 television episode. Actor Van Heflin's working copy with his name on the first leaf and his holograph annotations througout. An episode of CBS's legendary "Playhouse 90" series an original script by Rod Serling which aired on May 28 1959. Starring Luther Adler Charles Bronson and Luther Adler along with many other men and apparently no women. A dramatic study of pro- and anti-labor movements considered at the time to be Serling's answer to his study of capitalism from the previous year "Patterns." Script is as issued with self wrappers and unpunched. 108 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-4-57 and 9-14-57. Pages Near Fine unbound. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown books
1969ref. 140636Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1969. Draft script for the 1970 UK film. Based on the 1959 stage play of the same name by the same writer the Crompton family is living in Bolton England and deals with a father trying to assert his authority in the household while his children grow up around him. Originally a radio play entitled "My Flesh My Blood" the stage production was incredible successful worldwide and soon was adapted to the American stage under the name "Keep it in the Family" where it ran on Broadway for five performances in 1967. The cinematography in the film version is perfect for the setting where filming was actual done in Bolton capturing the town in its transition from an industrial to a modern city. Set in Bolton UK shot on location there as well as in London. Red blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated March 1969 with credits for screenwriter and playwright Bill Naughton. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Allied Artists unknown books
1978ref. 140622N.p.: Cal-Am Artists 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Script belonging to assistant director John Neukum with his name inscribed on the front wrapper. A rouge cop fed up with the ineffectual justice system decides to take the law into his own hands in this 1978 exploitation thriller. Jack Palance stars as the steely Lt. Jim Wade an L.A. cop who strikes a deal with a mobster in order to uncover the identity of the notorious serial killer "The Slasher." Director Charles Martin's final film he passed away only a few years after its completion. Yellow titled wrappers dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. Title page present dated 07/11/77 with credits for director/screenwriter Charles Martin. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographically duplicated with revision pages throughout dated 07/11/77. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Cal-Am Artists unknown books
1939ref. 140631Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1939 film. A musical drama that follows the romantic and professional arc of two performers. Louise Hall abandons her humble beginnings to become a singer in New York City where she meets and falls in love with John Ramsey the star of Victor Herbert's operas. Ramsey takes her under his wing introducing her to New York's musical society. Their relationship is tested however when Louise's career begins to eclipse her husband's. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Shot on location in California. Titled white self wrappers dated July 11 1939 and July 14 1939. Title page present with credits for the entire cast. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Two small chips to the top margin of the front wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 140601N.p.: Aaron Spelling Productions 1979. First Draft script for Episode 8 from the sole season of the 1980 television series. Two former race car drivers join the LAPD as part of the B.A.D. C.A.T. squad Burglary Auto Detail Commercial Auto Thefts. The men often end up running the burglars off the road rather than taking them in for questioning a method quietly encouraged by their superior Captain Nathan. Michelle Pfeiffer costarred as Samantha "Sunshine" Jensen another B.A.D. Cat. Orange titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated 12/20/79 with credits for Aaron Spelling Productions. Title page present dated 12/20/79 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriters Larry Alexander and Richard Carr executive producers Aaron Spelling and Douglas S. Cramer supervising producer E. Duke Vincent and producer Everett Chambers. 60 leaves mechanical duplication with last page of text numbered 56. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Aaron Spelling Productions unknown books
1966ref. 140536Ottawa Canada: Crawley Films Limited 1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary "The Man Who Skied Down Everest." "Budge" and his wife Judith founded Crawley Films in 1938 and won the first Canadian film award in 1950. Crawley has been referred to as "the Godfather of Canadian cinema" and rightfully so. Included in the archive are 27 film still photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos several on-the-set images and a few with director Bonniere; a folder containing 25 letters "to salute 25 Years" from various French American British and Canadian film and government associations including former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Eric Johnston president of the Motion Picture Association of America all dated 1963 with reproduced signatures for press purposes; a promotional brochure on the "new and improved" Crawley Films Limited; 2-page press memos 19 on Crawley parchment nearly all flat-signed by the company vice president Graeme Fraser; 3-page press information on the World's Fair in Montreal; French and English film credits sheets; a "how-to" booklet from Crawley discussing the proper ways to produce one's own motion picture housed in printed company envelope; 2-page "facts" on Crawley Films' 25th anniversary; a letter from Fraser to Jean Vinant asking her to be the production company agent; 3-page company property breakdown camera department script department sound stages etc.; several letters to-and-from studio secretary Maryse Martres signed by persons involved with the film including director Bonniere; a 27-page ditto-style mimeograph French version of the script; and various telegrams receipts and synopses relating to the film. The film itself was the first Canadian feature to be shot in both French and English using the same actors the first Canadian film shot in color and an early career appearance for actress Bujold. A man obsessed with his lawn in the suburbs of Montreal has a surprise awakening when mysterious mushrooms start to grow and become impossible to eradicate. He stops at nothing including a deadly confrontation with his neighbor to protect his lawn and his reputation. Shot on location in Quebec. Film still photographs 8 x 9.75 inches most mimeo snipes loose but present and many photographs with tape stains as a result of having been stacked. Letters press material interoffice material and other ephemera varying sizes with most being 8 x 11 inches. Complete collation details available on request. Crawley Films Limited unknown books
1965ref. 140566Canada: National Film Board of Canada 1965. Original souvenir program printed in Canada for the 1965 Canadian film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example is French language square in shape versus the normal rectangular card stock. Black-and-white film based on the exploits of New France Jesuit missionaries set in 1638. Existential and probing the film adapts the Jesuit Relations actual journals of real missionaries and their conflicts of faith. Shot on location in Canada. 10 x 10 inches printed card stock in black purple and blue gatefold. Very Good plus with light foxing and rubbing overall. Scarce. National Film Board of Canada unknown books
