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2011ref. 167669Burbank CA: DMP Productions 2011. Vintage set designer's reference bible for the 2011 film with 18 full-color film sets represented. The seventh Muppets feature film in which Kermit and two human friends attempt to reunite the Muppets who have been disbanded for years in order to save the Muppet Theater from destruction. Intended to revive the franchise after years of inactivity following Disney's acquisition of the Muppets in 2004. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Bret McKenzie's "Man or Muppet." Set in Los Angeles Paris Reno and the fictional city of Smalltown and shot on location in Los Angeles Reno and Zürich. Housed in a generic white three-ring binder with board inserts noting the film's title and the names email addresses and phone numbers of leadman Lou Mugavero decorator Tracey Doyle and assistant decorator Leighanne Haddock. Binder and contents about Fine. DMP Productions unknown
1975ref. 153977London: Hemdale International Films 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pete Townshend Keith Moon and John Entwistle performing onstage in the 1975 film. Printed mimeo label affixed to the verso. Based on the 1969 rock opera written by The Who about a deaf dumb and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball and subsequently becomes the idol of a religious cult. The cast included among others every member of The Who Jack Nicholson Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. Shot on location in Cumbria Buckinghamshire and Hampshire England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hemdale International Films unknown
1947ref. 144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso. Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
ref. 258559 August 1927. On letterhead of New Grove Petworth Sussex. Mason was according to E. V. Lucas ‘famous in both hemispheres’. His entry in the Oxford DNB ends with this assessment: ‘His books were best-sellers for fifty years and the films made from them notably The Drum 1938 for which he wrote his own scenario and The Four Feathers 1939 were among the most popular in their time.’ 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. The valediction is in Mason's autograph: 'Yours sincerely / A. E. W. Mason'. The rest of the note is typed: 'Dear Rosemary Barron / I am very happy to send you my autograph since you are kind enough to say that you would like to have it.' 9 August 1927. On letterhead of New Grove, Petworth, Sussex. unknown
1974ref. 144137N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film with blue holograph ink annotations on the title page. A US moon expedition discovers large glyph covered stones that closely resemble Mayan artifacts. Russia's sudden interest in The Maya civilization after their moon expedition years prior becomes highly suspicious. Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for screenwriter David A. Lown. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriter David A. Lown. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 143943Hollywood: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Don and Irene are a young and unhappy married couple whose lives and relationship are thrown asunder as Don gravitates toward Spiritology a spiritual organization that promises the 'Ultimate Release." Gold titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Aaron Nash. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 143943Hollywood: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Don and Irene are a young and unhappy married couple whose lives and relationship are thrown asunder as Don gravitates toward Spiritology a spiritual organization that promises the 'Ultimate Release." Gold titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Aaron Nash. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1984ref. 153832N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a letter from Kodiak Films producer Wolf Schmidt to agent Walter Kohner declining to produce the film. A group of scientists accidentally create a deadly chemical compound which is promptly stolen by a rival scientist who threatens to kill thousands of people with the compound unless he is given one billion dollars. Two spies from the mysterious Sub Rosa agency are sent to retrieve the chemical. Blue card wrappers with a printed title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1984 with credits for screenwriter R. Delano Brown. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 141881Burbank CA: Warner Home Video / Cannon Films 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film. Here under the working title "Voices." Chuck Norris does his vigilante thing as no one else can in the this Cannon quickie but with a horror twist. Two Chicago police officers are investigating the murder of a local Rabbi when their search leads them to Israel where they realize the culprit is not human but rather supernatural. Directed by Norris' younger brother Aaron Norris. Set in Chicago and Israel shot on location in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Ian Rabin and Anthony Jon Ridio. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Warner Home Video / Cannon Films unknown books
1976ref. 166654Universal City: Universal Studios 1976. Draft script for the eighth episode of the fourth season of the CBS television series printed on yellow leaves which aired on November 14 1976. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with the pencil annotation of his name on the title sheet next to his character "Lucas" credited as "Dagger's Associate" with manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Bound in preceding the script are three "Shooting Call" sheets with an additional "Shooting Call" sheet bound in following the title page with pencil annotations underlining Dimitri's name and character name on two of the sheets and a thirteen page "Shooting Schedule" dated March 12 1976. One of the most beloved police dramas in television history "Kojak" was loosely based on the 1967 book "Justice in the Back Room" by Selwyn Raab and premiered on CBS on March 8 1973 with the pilot film "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" and aired for 5 seasons and 118 episodes ending on March 2 1977. The character was revived by CBS for two television films in 1985 and 1987 and in 1989-1990 by ABC for five additional television films. Telly Savalas stars as the titular bald lollipop-sucking New York City police detective Lieutenant Theophilus "Theo" Kojak a tough and incorruptible cop with a penchant for the expression "Who loves ya baby" Winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards. Kojak's investigation into the deaths of two longshoremen is complicated by their co-workers code of silence and desire to deal out justice themselves. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated March 1 1976 with credits for screenwriter Chester Krumholz. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 65. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with green revision pages throughout dated 3/10/79. Pages Very Good plus with the penultimate leaf partially detached and the last leaf separated with light foxing to the front "Shooting Call" sheet bound with two gold brads. Universal Studios unknown
1969ref. 147492N.p.: N.p. 1969. Draft script for an unproduced play. Copy No. 9 noted in holograph ink on the title page. Based on screenwriter Abby Mann's original screenplay for Stanley Kramer's 1961 film "Judgment at Nuremberg" about an American court trial of four war criminal Nazis. Set in occupied Germany. Teal titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present with credits for playwright M.R. Lefkoe and screenwriter Abby Mann. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered E-1. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1930ref. 34866New York: circa 1930. 1930. Good. - 41 words typed on an approximately 10 inch high by 8 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead. Signed "A Abdullah". Folded 3 times for mailing. There are several short tears at the folds with some light red staining below the text. There is some light soiling at bottom right and there is a crease & tear to & a small piece out of the bottom right corner. Good. Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending by this mail the signed picture to your friend." Achmed Abdullah who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter most noted for his pulp stories of crime mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935 film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer". The Queens New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern 1913-1997 started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law including measures on schools housing civil rights nutrition and mental health. A Liberal he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits including painting and collecting autographs he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. New York: circa [1930]. unknown
1985ref. 161051N.p.: N.p. 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film both showing actress Melanie Griffith. A former boxer turned nightclub promoter joins together with a police detective to investigate a serial killer targeting strippers. Set in Manhattan and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. N.p. unknown
ref. 160437N.p.: N.p. 1997. Archive of material relating to the 1998 film. Archive includes four scripts dated variously between 1991 and 1997 and credited variously to screenwriters Christ Zois Zoë Lund and William Gibson as well as approximately ten pages of correspondence and ephemera relating to the film's production and a xerographically duplicated copy of Gibson's source story. One screenplay with the ownership name of Zois on the title page. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. Of note are several pieces of correspondence regarding writing credits for the film dated variously between 1997 and 1998. Screenwriters Abel Ferrara and Christ Zois claimed that prior adaptations of Gibson's novel by Gibson Lund and others had no bearing on their own adaptation. Ferrara and Zois would ultimately receive sole screenwriting credit on the completed film. Based on the 1984 short story by William Gibson about two freelance industrial spies in Tokyo who decide to use a call girl to execute their latest mission. Shot on location in New York. November 1991 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated November 1991 noted as Third Draft with credit for author and screenwriter William Gibson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a binder clip at the top left corner. October 9 1993 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated Oct. 9. 1993 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Zoë Lund. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a binder clip at the top left corner. September 28 1997 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/28/97 noted as Draft with credits for screenwriters Christ Zois and Abel Ferrara. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a binder clip at the top left corner. Undated Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Christ Zois. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a binder clip on the top edge and housed in a red card folder. N.p. unknown
2011ref. 160434N.p.: N.p. 2011. First Draft script for the 2014 film. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. A biopic about the final days in the life of controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini then middle-aged and living in Rome as he finishes production of his notorious 1975 film "Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom." Housed in a blue card folder. Title page present dated February 28 2011 noted as First Draft with credits for director-screenwriter Abel Ferrara and screenwriter Nicola Tranquillino. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine partially bound with a binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown
ref. 160435N.p.: N.p. 2017. Archive of two Draft scripts for the 2020 film one undated and with the ownership name of screenwriter Christ Zois on the title page-this being from Zois' archive collection-with Zois' extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout the other dated June 27 2017. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. The sixth collaboration between actor Willem Dafoe and director Abel Ferrara a psychological thriller heavily based on the work of Carl Jung about an American living a largely solitary existence in Siberia. Undated script: Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. June 27 2017 script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text dated June 27 2017. 37 leaves with last page of text dated 37. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown
ref. 152444N.p.: N.p. 1994. Collection of 17 vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film by photographer Shade Rupe. Variously featured are director Abel Ferrara actress Lili Taylor cinematographer Ken Kelsch screenwriter Nicholas St. John and other cast and crew members all photographed over the course of a single evening near Manhattan's Puck Building Lafayette Street an alley off Jersey Street NYU and Keith Haring's Pop Shop on Lafayette Street. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives these being the only existing prints. Full provenance available with letter from Rupe stating "no other prints have ever or will ever be struck." Stamp on verso of each photo crediting Rupe as photographer. A conceptual black-and-white reimagining of the vampire movie about a philosophy graduate student who is forced to reconsider the nature of evil and humanity after succumbing to a vampire and developing an addiction to human blood. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. 12 x 9 inches. Fine. Arrow 1769. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
1937ref. 168078France: Forrester-Parant 1937. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1938 film showing a group of soldiers many with facial disfigurements. French annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso along with a provenance label. Both a remake and sequel to director Abel Gance's 1919 film of the same name born out of his anger and frustration in watching Europe descend into the Second World War as much as the original was born out of his horror with the First. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Forrester-Parant unknown
1980ref. 152548San Francisco: Zoetrope Studios 1980. Vintage program and invitation for Francis Ford Coppola's 1980 Los Angeles screening of the 1927 French silent film. Housed in a white envelope with Coppola's address on the return flap letterhead. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era following Napoleon's early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army. Notable for the many innovative and experimental techniques used by director Abel Gance uncommon in the silent era including location shooting fast cutting close up hand held and point of view shots multiple camera set ups in-camera movement and visual effects such as superimposition film tinting and split screen or mosaic shots. Most famously the film helped pioneer widescreen viewing as Gance created a technique later referred as Polyvision which required three projectors to run film shot from three different cameras simultaneously to achieve a 4:1 aspect ratio for the film's climatic battle sequence although seams between the screens would remain visible. After only showing at a handful of theaters the film was acquired by MGM and severely cut with only the middle section of the triptych retained the other two sections remaining largely unseen until Coppola's 1980 restoration debuted at Radio City Music Hall in New York on January 23 igniting public interest in Gance and bringing him much-belated recognition before his death eleven months later in November 1981. Program folded three times 7 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. Invitation 6 x 9 inches Near Fine. Zoetrope Studios unknown
1960ref. 149512N.p.: Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinematographiques 1960. Five vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1960 French film including one borderless photograph. One with a manuscript ink annotation and stamp on the verso noting the photograph as No. 756. A dramatization of the Battle of Austerlitz wherein Napoleon enjoyed the greatest victory of his career driving away both Austrian and Russian forces. Set and shot on location in Zagreb Croatia. Four photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches one photograph 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinematographiques unknown
1915ref. 144596France: Le Film d'Art 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film struck from the original negative circa 1936. With manuscript annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself a dog and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special effects that mimic an altered state of consciousness. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Le Film d'Art unknown
1955ref. 163793N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1955 French film showing actors Lia Di Leo and Marcel Raine in an intimate moment. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas and Frédéric Gaillardet about Queen Margaret of Burgundy who kills her partners after their dalliances have ended in order to leave no trace of her sexual misdeeds. Partially shot on location in Paris. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with multiple pinholes and accompanying wear at the corners and light soil on the verso. N.p. unknown
1915ref. 144596France: Le Film d'Art 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film struck from the original negative circa 1936. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself a dog and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special effects that mimic an altered state of consciousness. 7 x 5 inches. Near fine. Le Film d'Art unknown books
1960ref. 149512N.p.: Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinematographiques 1960. Collection of five vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1960 French film including one borderless photograph. One with a holograph ink annotation and stamp on the verso noting the photograph as No. 756. A dramatization of the Battle of Austerlitz wherein Napoleon enjoyed the greatest victory of his career driving away both Austrian and Russian forces. Set and shot on location in Zagreb Croatia. Four photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches one photograph 4.5 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinematographiques unknown books
1956ref. 130940Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1956 film noir. The co-owner of a dog track Barker discovers his partner has sold out to a local gangster and soon finds himself framed for two murders by the gangster and a femme fatale Oberon. White self wrappers noted as Continuity and Dialogue on the front wrapper production No. 1813 dated February 27 1956 with credits for actors Merle Oberson Lex Barker et al and director Abner Biberman. Title page integral to the front wrapper. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
