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1979ref. 150770N.p.: New World Pictures 1979. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Canadian auteur David Cronenberg's sixth film completed shortly after an acrimonious divorce following the dissolving relationship between a demonically disturbed man and his mentally ill ex-wife who is confined in an unorthodox controversial psychiatric institute. Although the film initially received mixed critical reception it has since been reconsidered as a cult film notable in particular for its frank discussion of mental illness and motherhood. Set and shot on location in Toronto and Mississauga Ontario. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Canuxploitation Complete. Criterion Collection 777. New World Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 150718Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1971 Italian film. A police detective investigates a string of murders where the victims are paralyzed and disemboweled. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962ref. 150717Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Stamped production No. 63-83 on the verso and on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning political shocker of 1959 but detached from the novel's Cold War agenda about how American government functions in a free society. Set in Washington DC and shot on location there. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall with a short closed tear to the left edge. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 150715Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1960. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Seven with dealer stamps on the verso. Not to be confused with the 1950 film of the same name. A group of teenagers find a briefcase of money leading to discord and consternation about what to do with the cash. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1930ref. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 151372N.p.: N.p. 1985. Collection of 25 vintage reference photographs from the 1985 film. A multiethnic group of pizza delivery boys are united by their shared interest in break dancing. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 149627Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Set of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1975 film five in black and white one in color the last being a striking still shot of the altered RKO Radio Picture logo one of the earliest examples of a stately studio logo being customized for a particular film. A cult film favorite based on a now lesser-known 1973 stage musical by Richard O'Brien. On a dark and stormy night an uptight young couple finds that their car has broken down in the middle of nowhere forcing them to seek shelter at the weird and wonderful home of Dr. Frank-N-Furter a mad and perverse scientist. Photos vary from 9.25 x 7 inches to 10.25 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1978ref. 151234Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of director Ulu Grosbard and actor Dustin Hoffman on location for the 1978 film. Based on Edward Bunker's 1972 novel about a recently paroled ex-con who struggles to adapt to the outside world written during Bunker's own time in prison in San Quentin. A masterful neo-noir and one of actor Dustin Hoffman's most underrated performances. The film debuts of both Gary Busey and Theresa Russell. Shot on location in California. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine faintly toned. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
1976ref. 151230Burbank CA: Columbia Pictures 1976. Vintage reference photograph from the 1976 film showing Peter Bogdanovich directing actor Burt Reynolds with actor Alan Gibbs looking on to the right. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Bogdanovich's ode to silent film. A lawyer turned film director falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful but klutzy leading lady who is in turn engaged to a vile action actor. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1981ref. 151236N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 151232Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film three showing crew members on the set including novelist Rumer Godden cinematographer Satyajit Ray producer Kenneth McEldowney and director Jean Renoir. One with a partially faded provenance stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Godden's 1946 novel. Renoir's first feature length film in color following an adolescent girl coming of age in British colonial India. Shot on location in West Bengal India. Three photographs 8 x 10 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1965ref. 151229N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes wearing matching wetsuits. Based on Ann Jellicoe's 1962 play. An awkward young man seeks out the help of his slick womanizing flatmate in learning how to seduce women but trouble arises when they both set their marks on the same girl. Although nominally a comedy a film that bears far more similarity to a kitchen sink drama due largely to its polarizing final act. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 151251N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actors Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An innocent man is pursued across the US by a group of foreign spies who have mistaken him for a government agent. Widely considered one of director Alfred Hitchcock's best films the last of four the director made with Cary Grant with a score by Bernard Hermann and a famous title sequence by Saul Bass. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 149576Rome: Union Photos 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 Italian film showing actress Elsa Martinelli. With the stamps of Union Photos and Atlantic Press on the verso. Loosely based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 novel "Ragazzi di vita" following three amoral young men as they make their way through Rome's seedy criminal underworld. The third collaboration between director Mauro Bolognini and screenwriter Pasolini who would of course go on to become a great and arguably better-known filmmaker in his own right preceded by "Marisa" 1957 and "Giovani mariti" 1958 and followed by "Bell' Antonio" 1960 and "From a Roman Balcony" 1960. Set and shot on location in Rome. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Union Photos unknown books
1959ref. 151243N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1959 film showing actor Anthony Perkins balancing a folding chair on his chin. With the stamps of Globe Photos and Pictorial Press on the verso and a printed mimeo snipe. A Venezuelan man flees his home country to avoid a revolution traveling to the Amazon forest where he meets and falls in love with a young orphan named Rima. Shot on location in Santa Clarita California and in Venezuela Guyana and Colombia. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn and faintly toned. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 151250Burbank CA: Warner-Pathe 1965. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1965 British film and one vintage photograph of actors Monica Vitti and Dirk Bogarde at the film's premiere in London in September 1965. Four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A cynical look at Swinging London about a shiftless fashion model who sleeps her way into high society only to be left empty and alone when she finally marries a rich prince. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning three including Best Actress for Julie Christie and Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in London Paris and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1967ref. 151240N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actor Eddie Powell as The Mummy carrying actress Elizabeth Sellars. With a provenance stamp on the verso. A team of archaeologists revive an Egyptian pharaoh who subsequently seeks retribution for the violation of his tomb. The third in Hammer Films' Mummy cycle preceded by "The Mummy" 1959 and "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" 1964 and followed by "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" 1971. The final Hammer film to be produced at Bray Studios before the company's 1967 relocation to Elstree and Pinewood Studios. Set in Egypt. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 149558London: New Cinema Presentations 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film. With the label of New Cinema Presentations on the verso. Based on Rochelle Owens' 1967 play wherein a farmer's sexual relationship with his pet pig sets off an erotic increasingly unhinged chain of events among the local hicks in his small town. Shot on location in Stockton California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. New Cinema Presentations unknown books
1951ref. 151248Burbank CA: Warner-Pathe 1951. Vintage photograph showing two shots from the 1951 film struck onto the single print. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a Warner-Pathe stamp. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel. A Hitchcock classic wherein two passengers on a train form a partnership to permanently rid themselves of incessant problems. The plan seems infallible until one person shirks his end of the responsibilities. Shot on location in New York Los Angeles District of Columbia and Connecticut. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned overall. Grant US. Hardy BFI Crime Companion. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner-Pathe unknown books
1952ref. 151256Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1952 film showing actress Shelley Winters. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. While waiting for a delayed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles a lawyer meets three fellow travelers all of whom have painful conversations waiting for them in California. The plane crashes and the lawyer is one of the few survivors compelling him to contact the families of the three travelers he met before their untimely deaths. Set in Chicago and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a short closed tear at the bottom edge. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967ref. 151244London: Gala Film Distributors 1967. Seven vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 Czechoslovakian film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A volunteer fire department in a provincial town plans a ball in honor of the chief's retirement but the proceedings are marred with comic difficulty at every turn. The first color film directed by Milos Forman a hallmark of the Czechoslovak New Wave and the final film Forman directed in his native Czechoslovakia before relocating to the US in the late 1960s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1980ref. 149577N.p.: Capital Films 1980. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1980 film one showing actors Anne Bennent and Udo Kier the other showing Bennent Kier and director Walerian Borowczyk. Based on Frank Wedekind's plays "Erdgeist" and "Die Buschse der Pandora." An opportunistic amoral young woman rises in society through her relationships with monied men. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Capital Films unknown books
1958ref. 151249N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1958 film showing director Jacques Tati smoking a cigarette and watching as cameraman Paul Rodier films a scene. With two Cine-Revue stamps on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil layout annotations. Tati's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Set in the Parisian suburbs. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 149552N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1971 film showing director Woody Allen behind a pile of bananas. With the stamp of London Press Photos Ltd. on the verso along with manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Anxious to impress his activist ex-girlfriend a blue collar worker travels to a fictitious South American country where he is unwittingly conscripted into a group of violent revolutionaries. Shot on location in New York and Puerto Rico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few tiny nicks and a small faint splash to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 151454Paris: Fox-Lira 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1974 film. A young woman goes mad after the murder of her lover and is incarcerated in a sexually sadistic convent. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Bier 764. Fox-Lira unknown books
