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1943ref. 149399N.p.: N.p. 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Georg Wilhelm G.W. Pabst on the set of the 1943 German film. Production stamps on verso. Made to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus. Story of the 16th century Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim played by Werner Krauss. Made under the auspices of the Third Reich Pabst's second film upon his forced return to Germany after a period in France Paracelsus took on a new vogue in early 1940s Germany attributing Nazi ideals and a hyper-Germanness to the Swiss alchemist and physician. After the collapse of the Third Reich Pabst would go on to forcefully denounce Nazism. Shot on location in Old Town Prague Czech Republic. 7 x 9.75 inches. Light creasing and edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 149484N.p.: N.p. 1965. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Each borderless except for a bottom margin see image. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Pierre Etaix finds happiness his lost love and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 4.75 x 3.75 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown books
1964ref. 149396Universal City: Universal Pictures 1964. Vintage reference photograph of director Edward Dmytryk with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker on the set of the 1965 film noir. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Fallen Angel" by Howard Fast writing under the pseudonym Walter Ericson about an accountant with amnesia being pursued by unknown people trying to kill him. Shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Faint tiny dimples on right side else Near Fine. Spicer US. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 149420Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Vintage reference photograph of director Delbert Mann directing a passionate scene between Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth on the set of the 1958 film. Based on Terence Rattigan's 1954 play following several long-term residents during off-season at a seaside hotel where things are not as they appear. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning two for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress for David Niven and Wendy Hiller respectively. Set in Bournemouth Engand. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1961ref. 149454Paris: F.O.G. 1961. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1961 film two borderless two with bottom margin and one vertical photograph with left margin. "L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad" stamp on versos. Three photos shown. Please inquire for others. An enigmatic dreamlike film about a man and a woman who meet at a party where he insists they have met before and she that they haven't. Viewed as either ambiguous surreal masterpiece or an incomprehensible indulgence with almost no middle ground. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear one with creasing at left corners. Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel Film as Subversive Art. F.O.G. unknown books
1959ref. 149472Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Alan Ladd in a dynamic pose with the image manipulated for effect from the 1959 film noir. Based on the 1956 novel by Hugh Wheeler under the pseudonym Patrick Quentin. A struggling artist Alan Ladd is accused of murdering his unstable alcoholic wife Carolyn Jones when she goes missing and must flee from the lynch mob forming amongst the townsfolk. Set in fictional Stoneville Connecticut shot on location in Woodstock and Thompson Connecticut and Framingham Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint toning at edges else Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. United Artists unknown books
1971ref. 149438London: EMI Films 1971. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of director Joseph Losey filming a scene on location in Norwich with actor Dominic Guard with cast and crew members looking on. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration with Losey following "The Servant" 1963 and "Accident" 1967. Set and shot on location in Norfolk England. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. EMI Films unknown books
1979ref. 149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in manuscript marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set. Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell. Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one. Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown books
1980ref. 149409N.p.: N.p. 1980. Five vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film. Title labels affixed to the verso of each. Jim Jarmusch's directorial debut made just after dropping out of film school his signature patient ambling and dryly humorous approach to storytelling firmly established. Set against the backdrop of a grungy late-1970s New York City we follow the young unemployed Allie Chris Parker full of ennui meandering through the city contemplating his life and encountering curious and odd characters along the way. Set in and shot on location in New York City. Four photographs 5.5 x 3.75 inches one 5.25 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 400. Destroy All Movies The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 149428Los Angeles: Cinema Shares International 1978. Vintage borderless matte reference photograph from the 1977 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with a provenance stamp. An exploitative horror film late on the coattails of cautionary drug movies of the 1960s about a string of violent murders in Los Angeles linked to a dangerous LSD strain called "Blue Sunshine." Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cinema Shares International unknown books
1967ref. 149386N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1967 film with actors Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Leaud and Mireille Darc. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso with celo tape from the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema for a July 5 1968 showing with annotations of actors names in manuscript ink. In one of Godard's most misanthropic films a loveless bourgeois couple Corinne Darc and Roland Yanne fantasize about killing each other when they aren't cheating on the other. They ponder these matters as they take a nearly never-ending nightmarish road trip to visit Corinne's parents intent on securing an inheritance resolved to murder if necessary. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 149448France: JLG Films 1985. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard and actors Claude Brasseur Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday playing pool on the set of the 1985 film. Two detectives staying at a Parisian hotel investigate a murder which occurred two years prior. Released the same year as Godard's highly and pointlessly controversial film "Je Vous Salue Marie." Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. JLG Films unknown books
1972ref. 149441Stockholm: Cinematograph AB 1972. Three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1972 film two showing director Ingmar Bergman and the other showing Bergman with actresses Harriet Andersson Kari Sylwan and Ingrid Thulin. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations to the verso. In her last days a woman dying of uterine cancer is moved to her childhood home where she is cared for by her emotionally distant sisters and distraught maid. Bergman's abstracted portrait of his mother with each of the women in the film representing an aspect of her personality. Shot on location at Taxinge-Nasby Castle in Mariefred Sweden. Two photographs 5 x 7 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Cinematograph AB unknown books
1973ref. 149290Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Argos Films 1973. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 French erotic film. Two with stamp snipes on the verso one with a printed mimeo snipe to the verso and all three with the stamp of still photographer Andre Marinie. Director Walerian Borowczyk's fourth feature length film a sexually explicit time-traveling romp ranging from the bloodthirsty exploits of Elizabeth Bathory to a nineteenth-century country girl masturbating to thoughts of Jesus Christ. Two photographs 7 x 4.75 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 354. Argos Films unknown books
1965ref. 149311Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of actor-screenwriter Woody Allen and actress Paula Prentiss on the set of the 1965 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter a movie that Allen today describes as "dreadful" but one that was a box office smash at the time. A soon-to-be-married womanizer attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 8.25 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall with light creasing to the right edge and lower right corner reinforced with white tape on the verso. United Artists unknown books
1988ref. 149439Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1988. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1988 French film. All with mimeo snipes and manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout on the verso and two with collector labels. A dramatization of the career of talented lesser-known sculptor Camille Claudel who began as an apprentice to Auguste Rodin later became his muse and lover and struggled to differentiate herself and her work from his legacy. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Gaumont unknown books
1963ref. 149232Paris: Lux Film 1963. Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film. Text in French. During World War I a man supplements his income by luring middle-class Parisian women to a countryside villa where he seduces and kills them burns their bodies then helps himself to their bank accounts keeping himself his wife his mistress and his four children in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. The first and only screenwriting credit of author and playwright Francoise Sagan. Shot on location in Paris and Gambais France. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Single sheet. Near Fine with a small dampstain to the top edge. Lux Film unknown books
1970ref. 140640London: John C. Mather / Ben Arbeid 1970. Draft script for an unproduced British film called "Act of Treason" written by Guy Elmes based on Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Emmanuel Robles' 1948 play "Montserrat." Screenwriter Elmes also wrote for films like "Bad Blonde" 1953 "Across the Bridge" 1957 "Pontius Pilate" 1962 "the Invincible Six" 1970 and "White Fang" 1973. Robles' play opened in Paris in 1948 a story about the civil war in Venezuela during the early 1800s where a Spanish officer commits treason and joins the Venezuelan revolutionaries. Guy Elmes is a screenwriter primarily known for his work in writing the original story and screenplay for "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" 1979. Gray blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Guy Elmes playwright Lillian Hellman and producer Ben Arbeid. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. John C. Mather / Ben Arbeid unknown books
1969ref. 147586Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A semi-documentary dramatization of the violence that surrounded the 1968 Democratic National Convention and a film that questions the politics inherent in journalism and image-making "Medium Cool" is a remarkable directorial accomplishment highlighting the political unrest of the late 1960s in part by using real footage. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine one uniformly faded. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 148400Los Angeles: Melville Productions 1959. Revised Shooting Final Draft script for the 1959 film belonging to actor Martin Landau his screen debut housed in paper envelope bearing Landau's name film title script and "Will pick up at the gate" on label. Annotations of Landau's name and character's name written on the top of page 36 of script and Landau's name again written at the top of page "66-67" of script in manuscript ink. Laid in is a nine page production announcement from United Artists which includes cast credits synopsis and production notes. Based on the 1956 historical novel Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action by S.L.A. Marshall. The first bloody Battle of Pork Chop Hill which took place in April of 1953 between the US Army's 7th Infantry Division and Chinese and North Korean forces. Gregory Peck portrays Lieutenant Joe Clemons who along with South Korean Lieutenant Suki Ohashi played by George Shibata lead the Division to recapture the hill. All while American and Communist North Korean and Chinese forces convene to discuss a cease fire 70 miles away at Panmunjon. Martin Landau's feature film debut and featuring break out performances from numerous actors who become major film and television stars in the 1960s and 1970s including Woody Strode Harry Guardino Robert Blake George Peppard Norman Fell Abel Fernandez Gavin MacLeod Harry Dean Stanton and others. Set in Cheorwon-gun South Korea shot on location in California and Arizona. Title page integral with front wrapper dated APRIL 22 1958 noted as REVISED SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter James R. Webb and author S. L. A. Marshall. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/20/58 and 6/20/58. Pages Very Good plus with occasional light soil and dampstain on very bottom edge of leaf following title page title page Very Good with large dampstain along two to three inches of bottom and lightly along outer edge bound with three gold brads. Melville Productions unknown books
1969ref. 149345N.p.: Clesi Cinematografica 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing actors Catherine Spaak and Claudia Cardinale. With the stamp of photographer Glauco Cortini to the verso along with a manuscript ink annotation identifying the actors. A woman's obsession with finding a husband ruins her friendship with her best friend and roommate. Set and shot on location in Rome. 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Clesi Cinematografica unknown books
1966ref. 149344Rome: B.R.C. Produzione 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actor Franco Nero crouching in the pose that would later be used for the Italian poster for the film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout and stamps to the verso. One of the few Westerns made by Fulci starring Nero and released the same year as "Django." Also released as "God Forgives I Don't!" Set on the US-Mexico border shot on location in Lazio Italy and Madrid Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pitts 1113. Cox 10000 Ways to Die. Blue Underground. B.R.C. Produzione unknown books
1960ref. 149354Paris: Balzac 1960. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1960 French film showing director Jean-Pierre Mocky actors Juliette Mayniel Jean Kosta and other members of the cast and crew. With numbered stamps on the verso. A husband and wife decide to separate when they realize their relationship lacks sexual excitement after three years together. Shot on location in France. 6.75 x 5.5 inches. About Near Fine. Balzac unknown books
1964ref. 149367Paris: Parc Film 1964. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actors Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of still photographer Patrick Gil Bertrand on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations identifying the actors. One of director Jacques Demy's most beloved films about a young woman in Cherbourg who falls in love with a man who is promptly drafted into the Algerian War. A classic of French cinema with every word of dialogue sung in recitative. The first French film musical shot in color and the movie that made Catherine Deneuve a star. Winner of the Palme d'Or and two other prizes at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for five Academy Awards Set and shot on location in Cherbourg Normandy France. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with light creasing and a few scratches to the image. Criterion Collection 716. Godard Histoires du cinema. Parc Film unknown books
1959ref. 149374Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Charlton Heston and his son in a chariot on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamps of Time Press and Dalmas press agency on the verso along with a numbered stamp reading 008818. Based on the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will Ben-Hur endures hard labor and slavery in prison and once released vows revenge on Messala. The most expensive film ever made at the time of its release with a 15 million dollar budget and a massive elaborate set. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winning 11 including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor. Shot on location in Italy and California. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
