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1948ref. 149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada. 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 149723N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1977 French film showing actress Delphine Seyrig. With the stamp of M.K. 2 DIFFUSION Films on the verso. A desperately unhappy woman reflects on the relationships in her life beginning with her marriage to her womanizing husband who has forced her into prostitution as a means of paying off his gambling debts. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 149769N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1970 French film showing actress Marie-Christine Barrault taking a bubble bath. A drowsy absent-minded man who works at an advertising agency fills his days with fantasy to escape the problems in his life. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Near Fine with brief separation to a few corners. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 149757N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 British film showing director Joseph Losey watching a scene between actors James Fox and Wendy Craig. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a familiar servant-becomes-master tale but surpasses mediocrity through a journey into the psyche of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 149743N.p.: N.p. 1977. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1977 French film showing actress Sylvia Kristel variously with director Claude Chabrol and actors Charles Vanel and Jean Carmet. A young woman in the process of leaving her husband discovers her car's windshield has mysteriously shattered forcing her to spend the night at an isolated mansion in the countryside. Shot on location in Villennes sur Seine France. 7 x 4.5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 149772Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1980. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1980 Japanese pinku pink film. Also included with the set is a film program in Japanese. Housed in a studio envelope. Photographs 6 x 4.25 inches Near Fine. Film program is 28.25 x 6.75 inches one sheet folded four times Near Fine. Weisser and Weisser The Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films p. 89. Nikkatsu unknown books
1957ref. 149744N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph of director Josef von Sternberg what appears to be Howard Hughes and various crew members on the set of the 1957 film. With the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. A Soviet pilot lands at a USAF base in Alaska where she pretends to be a defector leading the base commander to assign an American pilot to monitor her behavior. Sternberg's first film with Howard Hughes' RKO Studios made only a few years before his retirement from directing. Shot on location in California. 5 x 6.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 149741N.p.: N.p. 1954. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1954 film. With agency labels on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 150501N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of L-R Henri-Georges Clouzot Charles Vanel unidentified woman and Vera Clouzot on the set of the 1953 French film. Based on the 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud. Remade in 1958 as "Violent Road" directed by Howard W. Koch starring Brian Keith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and again in 1977 as "Sorcerer" directed by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer. Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece a tense and literally volatile thriller. Four luckless Europeans are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire in the oil fields. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Gard and Bouches-du-Rhone France. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 36. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 150785Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Complete set of eight vintage black and white color studio still photographs from the 1978 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Three adult sisters struggle to cope with the separation of their parents and their mother's subsequent mental decline. Director Woody Allen's first drama without comedic elements. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1983ref. 150556Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1983 film. Numbered E-1 through E-5 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on the 1978 Frank De Felitta novel which was in turn loosely based on the 1974 case of a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted multiple times by poltergeists. De Felitta was present during the initial investigation by with two parapsychologists one of whom also served as a technical advisor on the film. Shot on location in El Segundo and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967ref. 149503Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1967. Three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1967 film: 1 director Norman Jewison sitting alone 2 Jewison directing Rod Stieger and 3 Jewison directing a key early scene featuring actors Arthur Malet Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. With manuscript ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. From the collection of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small bigoted Mississippi town. The film dealt skillfully with the topic of race relations in the South during the Civil Rights movement and included a controversial scene in which a white actor Larry Gates slaps Poitier in the face at which point Poitier slaps him right back. It was said you could determine the racial makeup of a theater by their verbal reaction to the scene: cheers for a predominantly Black audience or whispers for a predominantly white one. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and nominated for two others. Though set in the fictional town of Sparta Mississippi Poitier refused to travel below the Mason-Dixon Line so the film was shot largely in Illinois. One photograph 7.5 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Penzler 101. United Artists unknown books
1991ref. 150483Beverly Hills CA: Orion Classics 1991. Vintage reference photograph of Richard Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel on the set of the 1991 film. Paper snipe on verso. Shot on 16mm on a $3000 budget Linklater's film documents a day in the life of countless young social outcasts and misfits in Austin Texas and became a key film in the American independent film movement of the 1990s. Set in and shot on location in Austin Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 247. Orion Classics unknown books
1969ref. 150609Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian-German film. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with a small closed tear to the right edge. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1981ref. 150784First City / Embassy Pictures 1981. Eight original photographs from the 1981 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. A middle-aged white executive's life takes an unexpected turn when he learns that he has an illegitimate Black son who wants to be adopted by the executive and his wife. Featuring Denzel Washington in his film debut. Shot on location in Malibu Lancaster and Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. First City / Embassy Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 150778Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Three vintage studio still color photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. A teenage girl feels her comfortable life begin to change when her widowed father proposes to his girlfriend and the girl becomes determined to end their relationship. Set and shot on location in Saint-Tropez France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good lightly edgeworn and lightly and evenly toned. Godard Histoires du cinema. Twilight Time. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 150344N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Pier Paolo Pasolini and unidentified crew member with author Alberto Moravia in the background during the filming of the 1971 short documentary film. On the final day of shooting his 1971 film "The Decameron" in Sana'a Yemen Pasolini began shooting the 16-minute documentary of the historic 2500-year-old city center in an effort to have it recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The city center was in threat from modernization following the end of the North Yemen Civil War. The Old City of Sana'a was decalred a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 150336N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage oversize reference photograph of director Alan Rudolph and Genevieve Bujold on the set of the 1985 film. Ex-cop Hawk Kris Krisofferson released from jail after serving eight years for murder is in need of "a woman and a job" and returns to his former hangout Wanda's Cafe run by his ex Wanda Bujold. Wanda's new waitress Georgia Lori Singer whose errant husband Coop Keith Carradine has gotten embroiled in shady dealings catches Hawk's eye in Alan Rudolph's stylish unusual Neo-Noir. Set in the fictional Rain City shot on location in Seattle. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 150574New York: National General Pictures 1973. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film. An erotic thriller following a television reporter who becomes increasingly obsessed with filming his neighbors' private lives. Noted author Michael Crichton's first original screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1974ref. 150708Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Based on Jeff Jacks' 1971 novel "Murder on the Wild Side." A former police officer turned private eye investigates a silent film star's death which is linked to a mysterious religious cult moonlighting as a drug ring. Set and shot on location throughout California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 64 95. Warner Brothers unknown books
1975ref. 150745N.p.: Premiere Releasing 1975. Six vintage studio issued still photographs from the 1975 film. A cop pursues a serial killer responsible for a string of murders of cocktail waitresses at a popular club. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Premiere Releasing unknown books
1969ref. 150740Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Adapted by director Elia Kazan from his own 1967 novel about an advertising executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown balancing the demands of his unhappy wife younger mistress and dying father. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1991ref. 150744N.p.: Alliance Entertainment 1991. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1991 film. An unorthodox insurance claims adjuster and his family are approached by a wealthy voyeuristic couple who want to make a film in their house. Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's fourth feature a fetishistic and unsettling psychological journey. Shot on location in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Alliance Entertainment unknown books
1971ref. 150773Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / EMI 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 musical film showing actresses Georgina Hale Sally Bryant Antonia Ellis and Caryl Little. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a low-budget musical revue after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straightforward pastiche of 1920s musicals director Ken 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 show. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / EMI unknown books
1967ref. 150716Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1967. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 British film. With a stamp noting production No. 68-43 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Len Deighton's 1966 novel. A private eye takes on a case involving a sophisticated computer used by an anticommunist global spy network. The third and last film in the Harry Palmer series preceded by "The Ipcress File" 1965 and "Funeral in Berlin" 1966. Set and shot on location throughout Finland and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
