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1954ref. 132553Beverly Hills CA: Waterlow and Sons / United Artists 1954. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1954 US film. Based on Richard G. Hubler's 1946 novel "I've Got Mine" about two soldiers on a Japanese-occupied island during World War II. A true survival tale as the soldiers must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. Filmed in Hawaii and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Waterlow and Sons / United Artists unknown
1974ref. 144624New York: Janus Films 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock with about half of the film comprised of archival footage of British training missions and the London Blitz borrowed from the Imperial War Museum in London director Stuart Cooper had originally intended to create a documentary though his aims changed as his research expanded. An underappreciated film with no distribution in the US until Janus re-released the film in 2006. Restored and released by the Criterion Collection in 2014. Set in England and France shot on location in England. Tall dark green wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriters Stuart Cooper and Christopher Hudson. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Criterion Collection 382. Janus Films unknown books
1974ref. 144624New York: Janus Films 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film. A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock with about half of the film comprised of archival footage of British training missions and the London Blitz borrowed from the Imperial War Museum in London director Stuart Cooper had originally intended to create a documentary though his aims changed as his research expanded. An underappreciated film with no distribution in the US until Janus re-released the film in 2006. Restored and released by the Criterion Collection in 2014. Set in England and France shot on location in England. Tall dark green wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriters Stuart Cooper and Christopher Hudson. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Criterion Collection 382. Janus Films unknown
ref. 133217New York: Warner Brothers 1996. First edition of the draft script for the 1996 film boldly signed by Oliver Stone based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber which was in turn based on Rice and Webber's 1976 concept album following the brief life of Argentinean first lady Eva Peron from her impoverished illegitimate beginnings to her later idolatry. The film went through many iterations of production passing between studios and directors with Parker returning to direct in 1994 after having initially rejected the opportunity in 1979. Warner Brothers unknown
1978ref. 161968Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. A man his two daughters and a journalist plan to travel the world on a sailboat but get shipwrecked off the coast of Alaska. Set in Alaska shot on location in Canada Alaska and Gold Beach Oregon. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1980ref. 157332Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1980. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1980 re-release of the 1977 film showing Steven Spielberg on the set. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. After witnessing a UFO hovering over his suburban home an electrician joins with several government agents to seek out and hopefully make contact with the aliens. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at three corners and a short closed tear on the right edge. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1977ref. 151940Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage reference photograph of Steven Spielberg and François Truffaut on the set of the 1977 film. Roy Neary Dreyfuss is one of several people who witness UFOs at night and subsequently begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy and the agents join together and are led to a place not unlike the place in Roy's visions where they have a close encounter of the third kind: contact. Winner of an Academy Award Best Cinematography 1978 and Spielberg's third feature as director following "Jaws" 1975 and "The Sugarland Express" 1974. Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. 9.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 150057Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film of Spielberg and crew in wetsuits filming waist deep in the Atlantic Ocean. "Movie Star News" stamp on verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed and along with "Star Wars" two years later effectively signaled the end of the New Hollywood Cinema. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. Winner of three Academy Awards with a fourth nomination for Best Picture. Set in the fictional Amity Island shot on location in Martha's Vineyard MA. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with 1.25 inch closed tear on the upper mid left side mended on verso with paper tape. Ebert II. National Film Registry. Universal Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 157962Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1975 film showing director Steven Spielburg talking with producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed and along with "Star Wars" two years later effectively signaling the end of the New Hollywood Cinema. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. Winner of three Academy Awards with a fourth nomination for Best Picture. Set on the fictional Amity Island shot on location in Martha's Vineyard MA. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Universal Pictures unknown books
1981ref. 150245Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph with left margin of Steven Spielberg on the set of the 1981 film. An homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 40s "Raiders" is the first in the well-loved Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of the highest grossing films of all time. Winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture. Set in Peru Egypt Nepal and Washington DC shot on location in England France Tunisia California and Hawaii. 8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. National Registry. Ebert II. Paramount Pictures unknown books
ref. 171961Universal City: Medway Productions 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Dated June 3 1979 a full two years prior to its release. A well-loved homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 1940s "Raiders" is the first entry in the lauded Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of the highest grossing films of all time. Winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture. Set in Peru Egypt Nepal and Washington DC shot on location in England France Tunisia California and Hawaii. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. National Registry. Ebert II. Medway Productions unknown books
1980ref. 157332Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1980. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1980 re-release of the 1977 film showing Steven Spielberg on the set. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. After witnessing a UFO hovering over his suburban home an electrician joins with several government agents to seek out and hopefully make contact with the aliens. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at three corners and a short closed tear on the right edge. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1977ref. 151940Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage reference photograph of Steven Spielberg and François Truffaut on the set of the 1977 film. Roy Neary Dreyfuss is one of several people who witness UFOs at night and subsequently begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy and the agents join together and are led to a place not unlike the place in Roy's visions where they have a close encounter of the third kind: contact. Winner of an Academy Award Best Cinematography 1978 and Spielberg's third feature as director following "Jaws" 1975 and "The Sugarland Express" 1974. Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. 9.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1975ref. 157962Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1975 film showing director Steven Spielburg talking with producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed and along with "Star Wars" two years later effectively signaling the end of the New Hollywood Cinema. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. Winner of three Academy Awards with a fourth nomination for Best Picture. Set on the fictional Amity Island shot on location in Martha's Vineyard MA. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Universal Pictures unknown
1975ref. 150057Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film of Spielberg and crew in wetsuits filming waist deep in the Atlantic Ocean. "Movie Star News" stamp on verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed and along with "Star Wars" two years later effectively signaled the end of the New Hollywood Cinema. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. Winner of three Academy Awards with a fourth nomination for Best Picture. Set in the fictional Amity Island shot on location in Martha's Vineyard MA. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with 1.25 inch closed tear on the upper mid left side mended on verso with paper tape. Ebert II. National Film Registry. Universal Pictures unknown
ref. 171961Universal City: Medway Productions 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Dated June 3 1979 a full two years prior to its release. A well-loved homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 1940s "Raiders" is the first entry in the lauded Spielberg/Lucas high-adventure trilogy starring Harrison Ford as roguish archaeology professor Indiana Jones. Still one of the highest grossing films of all time. Winner of five Academy Awards and nominated for four others including Best Picture. Set in Peru Egypt Nepal and Washington DC shot on location in England France Tunisia California and Hawaii. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. National Registry. Ebert II. Medway Productions unknown
ref. 158230Beverly Hills CA: Leading Artists Inc 1988. Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut and a landmark of independent cinema. A languid provocative chamber piece exploring intimacy and desire revolving around a husband John his wife Ann Ann's sister Cynthia and John's old drifter friend Graham who use Graham's own peculiar fetish videotape to mediate their feelings. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or making Soderbergh the youngest director to receive the prize. Set and shot on location in Baton Rouge Louisiana. White untitled Outlaw Production wrappers. Title page present dated 21 FEB 88 noted as second draft with credits for screenwriter Steven Soderberg. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 938. Leading Artists Inc unknown books
2000ref. 156768Los Angeles: Bedford Falls 2000. For Your Consideration script for the 2000 film. Shortly after being appointed by the president to lead America's war on drugs a conservative judge in Ohio discovers that his teenage daughter is addicted to heroin. Meanwhile the wife of a jailed drug baron attempts to continue her husband's business. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning four including Best Director for Steven Soderbergh Best Screenwriter for Stephen Gaghan and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro. Shot on location in California New Mexico Ohio and Texas in the US and in San Ysidro and Tijuana in Mexico. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present undated. 73 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Bedford Falls unknown books
1991ref. 150037N.p.: N.p. 1991. Vintage matte finish reference photograph of Steven Soderbergh on the set of the 1991 film. Printed snipe on verso. Loosely based on the life of Franz Kafka combined with elements from Kafka's novels "The Castle" 1926 and "The Trial" 1925. Soderbergh's second feature film experimental in concept and execution and today a cult favorite frequently compared to Terry Gilliam's 1985 film "Brazil" and David Cronenberg's 1991 film "Naked Lunch." Set in 1919 Prague shot on location in Prague Czech Republic. 8 x 10 inches wide bottom margin. Very light creasing in right margin else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1991ref. 150037N.p.: N.p. 1991. Vintage matte finish reference photograph of Steven Soderbergh on the set of the 1991 film. Printed snipe on verso. Loosely based on the life of Franz Kafka combined with elements from Kafka's novels "The Castle" 1926 and "The Trial" 1925. Soderbergh's second feature film experimental in concept and execution and today a cult favorite frequently compared to Terry Gilliam's 1985 film "Brazil" and David Cronenberg's 1991 film "Naked Lunch." Set in 1919 Prague shot on location in Prague Czech Republic. 8 x 10 inches wide bottom margin. Very light creasing in right margin else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 158230Beverly Hills CA: Leading Artists Inc 1988. Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut and a landmark of independent cinema. A languid provocative chamber piece exploring intimacy and desire revolving around a husband John his wife Ann Ann's sister Cynthia and John's old drifter friend Graham who use Graham's own peculiar fetish videotape to mediate their feelings. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or making Soderbergh the youngest director to receive the prize. Set and shot on location in Baton Rouge Louisiana. White untitled Outlaw Production wrappers. Title page present dated 21 FEB 88 noted as second draft with credits for screenwriter Steven Soderberg. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 938. Leading Artists Inc unknown
2000ref. 156768Los Angeles: Bedford Falls 2000. For Your Consideration script for the 2000 film. Shortly after being appointed by the president to lead America's war on drugs a conservative judge in Ohio discovers that his teenage daughter is addicted to heroin. Meanwhile the wife of a jailed drug baron attempts to continue her husband's business. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning four including Best Director for Steven Soderbergh Best Screenwriter for Stephen Gaghan and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro. Shot on location in California New Mexico Ohio and Texas in the US and in San Ysidro and Tijuana in Mexico. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present undated. 73 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Bedford Falls unknown
1987ref. 161345Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1987. Second Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal in his film debut stars as Nico Toscani an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop Zargon Henry Silva the corrupt CIA agent behind it all. Shot on location in O'ahu and Chicago. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 27 1987 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Steven Pressfield Ronald Shusett and Andrew Davis and story credits for Andrew Davis and Steven Seagal. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. Warner Brothers unknown books
1987ref. 161345Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1987. Second Draft script for the 1988 film. Steven Seagal in his film debut stars as Nico Toscani an Italian-American ex-CIA agent and martial arts expert working for the Chicago police force. What begins as a drug trafficking investigation soon reveals the CIA's involvement in an international weapons-trade operation. Nico goes to great lengths to stop Zargon Henry Silva the corrupt CIA agent behind it all. Shot on location in O'ahu and Chicago. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 27 1987 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Steven Pressfield Ronald Shusett and Andrew Davis and story credits for Andrew Davis and Steven Seagal. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Moore The Good the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-2015. Warner Brothers unknown
1979ref. 147090N.p.: N.p. 1979. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Based on an unpublished nonfiction book by Joseph W. Still which proposed to "strip away the veneer of 'magic' and antiquated thought concerning many aspects of Life Love the Universe and Nature." The intended television series would address such topics as aging the birth of the universe and the soul. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 7/10/79 with credits for screenwriter STEVEN P. DUCHSCHERER and author JOSEPH W. STILL. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
