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1961ref. 143998Paris: Gaumont 1961. Original program for the 1961 French film here under the original French title. Illustrated in red black and white and stills from the film with laid-in synopsis sheets featuring the "Fenouillard" family and oversize umbrella illustration on the rectos. Based on the 19th century French comic by Marie Louis Georges Colomb Christophe one of the earliest in the country's history. Leocadie Fenouillard Desmarets and her family travel to France to visit the Eiffel Tower but end up on a boat headed for Brazil. They escape being eating by cannibals and sail to somewhere in the Arctic where they take refuge in an igloo. Their adventures take them to Japan where they imitate geishas and finally through Africa's riverbanks until they return home all without once seeing the Eiffel Tower. Program 9.25 x 12 inches saddle-stapled 4 leaves with 2 loose sheets slightly smaller. Very Good plus with light foxing and a few short creases. Gaumont unknown books
1961ref. 143969Paris: Cinedis 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi here as "Kiski" in kimono and director Ciampi on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre also for Bar-le-Duc. Also included are a few leaves documenting travel expenses and locations associated with the film and a memo mentioning Kishi's travels signed by "F. Willkomm" at Cinedis the film's distribution company addressed to Maryse Martres dated May 29 1961. All photos and memo housed in original mailing envelopes with annotations in holograph ink on the recto of the larger. Little is known of Willkomm but Martres Martin was a prolific French actress since 1948 notably "Girl on the Third Floor" 1955 and "The Happy Road" 1957 and she was later involved in press relations at Cinedis a notable film agency in operation since the Silent Film era. Kishi was born in 1932 and became a Japanese actress and writer. She married director Ciampi in 1957. Since 1996 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA. Based on the true story of Richard Sorge who was a spy for the USSR working at the German Embassy in Japan between 1935 and 1943. Holtzman plays Sorge and Kishi plays Yuki presumably involved with Sorge romantically and within the workings of his spy ring. Sorge's story was adapted once more "Spy Sorge 2003 a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Photos range from 3.5 x 6 inches to 7 x 9 inches several with white borders. Very Good plus overall slight curling and light creasing. Envelopes memo and travel ephemera Very Good overall. Complete collation details available on request. Cinedis unknown books
1953ref. 147147N.p.: N.p. 1953. Treatment script for the 1953 film here under the working title "Comme le sucre dans le cafe.". Text in French. A doctor turned homeopath poaches patients from his former medical colleagues but is challenged when his shady treatment further endangers the life of a woman with a brain tumor. Set in Brittany France. Tall yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director YVES CIAMPI. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly creased and soiled bound with two silver clamps. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 143969Paris: Cinedis 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi here as "Kiski" in kimono and director Ciampi on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre also for Bar-le-Duc. Also included are a few leaves documenting travel expenses and locations associated with the film and a memo mentioning Kishi's travels signed by "F. Willkomm" at Cinedis the film's distribution company addressed to Maryse Martres dated May 29 1961. All photos and memo housed in original mailing envelopes with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto of the larger. Little is known of Willkomm but Martres Martin was a prolific French actress since 1948 notably "Girl on the Third Floor" 1955 and "The Happy Road" 1957 and she was later involved in press relations at Cinedis a notable film agency in operation since the Silent Film era. Kishi was born in 1932 and became a Japanese actress and writer. She married director Ciampi in 1957. Since 1996 she has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA. Based on the true story of Richard Sorge who was a spy for the USSR working at the German Embassy in Japan between 1935 and 1943. Holtzman plays Sorge and Kishi plays Yuki presumably involved with Sorge romantically and within the workings of his spy ring. Sorge's story was adapted once more "Spy Sorge 2003 a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Photos range from 3.5 x 6 inches to 7 x 9 inches several with white borders. Very Good plus overall slight curling and light creasing. Envelopes memo and travel ephemera Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown
1975ref. 149660Paris: Sofracima 1975. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1975 film showing actress Isabelle Huppert. With the stamp of Cine-Voc Films on the verso. A middle-aged man on his annual family camping vacation rapes and murders the teenage daughter of his old friends then frames a group of Arab immigrant workers for the crime. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners and light wear to the top edge. Sofracima unknown books
ref. 146400N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Film treatment for an unproduced film. Included with the script is a typed English translation credited to Scot Finch. With a small manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper of the treatment and a single manuscript ink annotation deletion to the character list of the translation. Treatment text in French translation in English. A group of policemen reminisce about the rise to power of the late criminal Pierrot Loutrel also known as Pierrot le Fou-"public enemy number one" in Paris after World War II. Screenwriters Yves Boisset and Claude Veillot enjoyed an extensive collaboration on mid-century crime mystery and thriller films including "Coplan sauve sa peau" 1968 "R.A.S." 1973 "Le Juge Fayard dit Le Sheriff" 1977 "La Femme flic" 1980 and "Espion leve-toi" 1982. Set in France. Treatment: Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Yves Boisset and Claude Veillot with a CEDIC European Film Broadcasting Company stamp on the upper right corner. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding Translation: Beige titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Yves Boisset and Claude Veillot and translator Scot Finch. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two silver clips. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 144103France: Regina 1957. Collection of 6 original still photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film here under the original French title. Actress Feuillere is prominently featured in glamour poses and answering the phone. All with ditto-style mimeo snipes on the verso crediting the original title Feuillere Servais Blier and Allegret. Also included is a business card for starring actor Lefebvre here as Lefevre with an inscription in French and initials by him in holograph ink. Housed in a manila envelope with French film title and a credit for director Allegret in holograph ink. Based on the 1956 novel "Sans Attendre Godot" by Jean Amila Meckert who wrote mostly science-fiction and mystery novels. Noirish crime thriller about night-club owner Godot Servais who hires hitman Jo Delon to rub out an enemy convinced of his wife Angele's Feuillere adultery. Angele might be the femme fatale as she moves in on the hitman. 5 x 7 inches envelope twice as large and business card a third smaller. Near Fine overall with slight curl to the photographs light foxing to the business card. Selby Worldwide. Regina unknown books
1953ref. 149721N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1953 French film showing actress Michele Morgan. With holograph ink annotations regarding layout on the verso along with the stamp of City Film N.V. In the midst of a deadly typhoid outbreak a French tourist finds herself widowed and stranded in a small Mexican village where she begins to fall in love with a depressed alcoholic expatriate. Set and shot on location in Veracruz and Mexico City Mexico. 8.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creases to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 132808London: Curzon Film Distributors 1949. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1949 UK release of the 1948 French film. Distributor's rubber-stamp and notation on the verso. Based on a story by Ashelbe Henri La Barthe about a prostitute named Dedee Simone Signoret who works in a night club in Antwerp. She meets an Italian sailor and they fall in love giving Dedee a new outlook on life. A film that would bring Signoret great popularity. A story set in Antwerp. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing overall. Curzon Film Distributors unknown books
1947ref. 138070Beverly Hills CA: Victor Glaser 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development with brief annotations throughout in holograph ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser with his name and address on the front wrapper in holograph ink and the person to whom the internal annotations presumably belong. Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbe. Dedee Signoretworks in a bar and lives Marco Dalio the bouncer and her pimp. When she meets Francesco Pagliero she sees a way to a better life but must avoid the menacing embrace of Marco. Set in Antwerp. Censored upon release in both Finland and France. Blue wrappers with a credit for Ashelbe on the front wrapper. 145 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Victor Glaser unknown books
1947ref. 138070Beverly Hills CA: Victor Glaser 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock a draft of the novel produced for purposes of film development with brief annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Copy belonging to Victor Glaser with his name and address on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and the person to whom the internal annotations presumably belong. Based on the 1939 novel by Henri La Barthe writing as Ashelbe. Dedee Signoretworks in a bar and lives Marco Dalio the bouncer and her pimp. When she meets Francesco Pagliero she sees a way to a better life but must avoid the menacing embrace of Marco. Set in Antwerp. Censored upon release in both Finland and France. Blue wrappers with a credit for Ashelbe on the front wrapper. 145 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Victor Glaser unknown
1958ref. 162097N.p.: Kingsley-Union 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1958 French film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A sailor aboard a French merchant ship arrives at the Port of Hamburg and searches for a woman he knew when he was a prisoner of war in the city during the Second World War. Shot on location in Hamburg Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Kingsley-Union unknown
1953ref. 149721N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1953 French film showing actress Michele Morgan. With manuscript ink annotations regarding layout on the verso along with the stamp of City Film N.V. In the midst of a deadly typhoid outbreak a French tourist finds herself widowed and stranded in a small Mexican village where she begins to fall in love with a depressed alcoholic expatriate. Set and shot on location in Veracruz and Mexico City Mexico. 8.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creases to the bottom edge. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 132691London: Miracle Films 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" 1941 banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Miracle Films unknown
1969ref. 140854Moscow: Gorky Film Studio 1969. Treatment script for the 1972 film. A collaboration between Moscow's Gorky Studio and Stockholm's Omega Film. An English translation produced for consideration by English-speaking parties involved in production. After the October Revolution of 1917 a Russian engineer is assigned to purchase locomotives from Sweden. He is to purchase them with gold claimed by opponents of the revolution. Set in the Soviet Union. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as Literary Scenario on the front wrapper dated April 1969 with credits for screenwriters Semitiov Braginsky Yegorov and Soloviev and translator Alan Blair. 92 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 91. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a comb binding. Gorky Film Studio unknown books
1969ref. 140854Moscow: Gorky Film Studio 1969. Treatment script for the 1972 film. A collaboration between Moscow's Gorky Studio and Stockholm's Omega Film. An English translation produced for consideration by English-speaking parties involved in production. After the October Revolution of 1917 a Russian engineer is assigned to purchase locomotives from Sweden. He is to purchase them with gold claimed by opponents of the revolution. Set in the Soviet Union. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as Literary Scenario on the front wrapper dated April 1969 with credits for screenwriters Semitiov Braginsky Yegorov and Soloviev and translator Alan Blair. 92 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 91. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a comb binding. Gorky Film Studio unknown
1969ref. 143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking." Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. Set in and shot on location in Japan. White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown books
1969ref. 143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking." Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. Set in and shot on location in Japan. White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown
1983ref. 150126Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1983. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure in Japanese from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" "The Family Game" 1983 and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" "Like Asura" 2003 and nominated for eight others. Mayumi and her friend Mai make a killing when they open a barber and beauty shop which serves customers in the nude. A Japanese "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series. Pink film is a broad genre of low budget Japanese softcore films though often with artistic and visual inventiveness and narrative drive far beyond their American counterparts. Nikkatsu was particularly well known for allowing almost unlimited artistic freedom to filmmakers as long as they met the studio mandated requirement of four nude or sex scenes per hour of running time. Photographs: 6 x 4.25 inches Brochure: Folded 4.75 x 6.75 inches. Open 28.75 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Nikkatsu unknown books
1983ref. 150126Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1983. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure in Japanese from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" "The Family Game" 1983 and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" "Like Asura" 2003 and nominated for eight others. Mayumi and her friend Mai make a killing when they open a barber and beauty shop which serves customers in the nude. A Japanese "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series. Pink film is a broad genre of low budget Japanese softcore films though often with artistic and visual inventiveness and narrative drive far beyond their American counterparts. Nikkatsu was particularly well known for allowing almost unlimited artistic freedom to filmmakers as long as they met the studio mandated requirement of four nude or sex scenes per hour of running time. Photographs: 6 x 4.25 inches Brochure: Folded 4.75 x 6.75 inches. Open 28.75 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown
1988ref. 170390Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1988. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a folded program for the 1988 Japanese film. Text in Japanese. A modern sexually explicit take on the Cinderella story about a young woman who discovers a pair of red shoes that give her luck and unstoppable sexual prowess. Photographs 4.25 x 6 inches. Fine. Program approximately 28 x 7 inches folded four times and measuring 5 x 7 inches folded. Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown
1958ref. 151339Tokyo: Shochiku 1958. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. With the stamp of Shochiku Co. on the verso along with a mimeo snipe noting the film's Japanese title "Higanbana." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Ton Satomi's 1957 novel. A businessman hopes to arrange a marriage for his headstrong youngest daughter who has fallen in love with a musician. Director Yasujiro Ozu's first color film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1071. Criterion Eclipse 3. Shochiku unknown books
1962ref. 149373Tokyo: Shochiku 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Shima Iwashita from the 1962 Japanese film. With the stamps of Tele-Magazine and holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter. Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film a farewell to his mother whom he had lived with and cared for his entire life with the title drawn from a poem he wrote upon returning from her funeral. Ozu became ill shortly thereafter and died from cancer at age 60 in 1963. 9.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. Shochiku unknown books
1956ref. 152463Tokyo: Shochiku 1956. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1956 film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso noting the film's title and the names of director Yasujiro Ozu and actor Chishu Ryu. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A married white-collar worker begins an affair at his job with a young woman nicknamed Goldfish. Ozu's first film after a three year hiatus and one of the last of his marriage-related films. Set and shot on location in Tokyo Okayama Shiga and Kanagawa. 6 x 4.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Shochiku unknown books
1959ref. 146860N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. A remake of the 1934 silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds" also directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The leader of a traveling theatre troupe goes to visit his former mistress and their son who is unaware that the man is his father. Meanwhile the man's current lover jealous of his attentions to his former mistress schemes to shame him by convincing a young actress in the troupe to seduce his son. One of the final films the prolific Japanese director made before his death in 1963. Set on the Japanese coast. White titled wrappers. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeographed rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Eureka Masters of Cinema 41. Ebert I. Criterion Collection 232. N.p. unknown books
