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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. 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
1962ref. 149373Tokyo: Shochiku 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Shima Iwashita from the 1962 Japanese film. With the stamps of Tele-Magazine and manuscript 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 overall. Shochiku unknown
1956ref. 152463Tokyo: Shochiku 1956. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1956 film. With manuscript 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 Eclipse 3. Shochiku unknown
1958ref. 151339Tokyo: Shochiku 1958. 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
1959ref. 149872Tokyo: Shochiku 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults leading to a number of comic misunderstandings in their tight-knit community. Set in a suburb of Tokyo. White titled wrappers. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly foxed with some wear to the binding with perfect binding. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 84. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Shochiku unknown
1961ref. 143276Tokyo: Takarazuka Productions 1961. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Working copy belonging to uncredited crew member Takahashi Toshihiro with his name rubber stamped on the first leaf and the last page of text. Director Yasjiro Ozu's penultimate film about a widower and his daughters who become concerned when he begins visiting an old flame while also trying to find husbands for his youngest daughter and widowed daughter-in-law. White titled wrappers noted as 1 on the front wrapper dated 1961. Title page present. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered d-26. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some slight foxing. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 3. Takarazuka Productions unknown
ref. 130318N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A fantasy about some bandits of a secret society who live in the woods near the mythic Ibari. From Tony Award winning playwright Yasmina Reza this script was written in Europe and remains unproduced. Red-orange titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Reza and Martiny. 186 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 158745Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City and Tokyo. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present. Noted as Draft #2 on the first page of text. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver clasp binding. Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc unknown
1928ref. 140906Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script here under the working title "Southern Skies" four vintage photographs each with a mimeo snipe on the verso one with a press stamp as well and a later 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film signed and dated by Blue with his bookplate on the front pastedown. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie" as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. Carbon typescript draft: Cream colored titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338 dated November 29 1927 with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated November 161927 with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. 1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:" Early The Century edition from 1921 first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good lacking jacket. Front hinge split with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1937ref. 143347Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage photographs of director W.S. Van Dyke instructing a bleacher full of young women including stars Eleanor Powell and Ilona Massey on the set of the 1937 musical film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 Broadway musical about a West Point cadet who falls for a Vasser student who just happens to be a princess in disguise with most of the original songs by George and Ira Gershwin replaced with new material by Cole Porter including the classic "In the Still of the Night." 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1953ref. 169939New York: Kagran Corporation 1953. Revised script for Season 2 Episode 2 of the 1953-1954 ABC television series. Screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith's working copy with his substantive annotations in manuscript ink throughout marking deletions editorial notes and revisions. The "Johnny Jupiter" program appeared in two iterations throughout 1953 and 1954: the first aired on the DuMont Television Network from March to June of 1953 and the second aired on ABC and aired between September 5 1953 and May 29 1954. Both series featured 30-minute episodes blended hand puppetry and live action and featured a shop employee interacting with aliens through a magical television set but the second series was geared toward adults while the first was geared toward children. The ABC series followed a young television shop employee as he fielded interactions with his human colleagues his boss and his boss' daughter and the Jovian aliens from Jupiter the titular Johnny Jupiter and two robots. In this episode the Frisby general store is paid a visit by the chief scoutmaster of the Frontier Scouts of America throwing Duckweather Horatio and Katherine into a tizzy and causing the Jovians to intervene in an unwanted attempt to help. Self wrappers. Title page present with credit for series writer Jerome Coopersmith noted as "Script #1" and "'Frontier Scout Story'". 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus first and last leaves detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. Kagran Corporation unknown
1968ref. 148700N.p.: Plaza Pictures 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Woody Strode began his career as an American decathlete and football star and went on to become a film actor working in American and international films. Both a modern Marxist re-imagining of the Christ story and a poetic and allegorical depiction of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba the film was to debut at the Cannes Film Festival but did not screen due to the festival being canceled in support of the May 1968 Paris uprising. 26.75 x 38 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with closed tears to top corners two chips to bottom corners and pinholes. Plaza Pictures unknown
1994ref. 161134Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1994. Three vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1994 film: one showing Oliver Stone and Woody Harrelson consulting a screenplay between takes one showing Stone leaning on a railing with Robert Downey Jr. and the last showing Stone talking with Juliette Lewis. All three photographs credited to photographer Sidney Baldwin on the recto margins. After killing her abusive father a young woman sets off on a murderous road trip with her lover finding new victims at every stop. Their story piques the interest of an unscrupulous journalist who spins their crimes into heroism through his sensationalistic reporting. Shot on location in New Mexico Arizona and Statesville Correctional Center Illinois. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown
1977ref. 164698N.p.: N.p. 1977. Set of seven color studio still photographs from the 1977 film each machine-numbered at the bottom left corner: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8. A romantic comedy about the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian and his quirky girlfriend. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Actor. Shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 157687N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 film showing director and actor Woody Allen. A romantic comedy about the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian and his quirky girlfriend. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Actor. Shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 159146N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing director Woody Allen and actress Louise Lasser. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
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
1989ref. 150949Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1989. Vintage reference photograph of Martin Landau and Woody Allen on the set of the 1989 film. One of Allen's finest films a dark drama with comic elements interweaving two opposing stories. In one ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal's Landau mistress Angelica Huston threatens to reveal their affair unless he leaves his wife Miriam Claire Bloom. Responding to the threat his gangster brother Jack Jerry Orbach offers to have her killed. In the other documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern Allen is hired by his pompous television producer brother-in-law Alan Alda to make a documentary about him and begins to fall in love with producer Halley Reed Mia Farrow. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. Schrader Canon Fodder 39. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1971ref. 147580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Collection of nine photographs including six black and white vintage studio still photographs two-color studio still photographs and one black and white reference photograph for the 1971 film. Included with the collection is a xerographically duplicated four-page set of captions intended to accompany the set with "for reference" written in manuscript ink annotation across the first leaf. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1972ref. 145746Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1972. Vintage photograph of Woody Allen and Louise Lasser on the set of the 1972 film. With manuscript annotations and adhesive tape on the verso. Woody Allen's comical take on David Reuben's 1969 book of the same name. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1992ref. 150946Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1992. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen Mia Farrow and Judy Davis on the set of the 1992 film. Married couple Jack and Sally Sydney Pollack and Davis casually inform their best friends married couple Gabe and Judy Allen and Farrow they are separating leading Gabe and Judy to question the stability of their own relationship. One of Woody Allen's most celebrated films a pointed examination of marriage love and vulnerability. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Davis. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown
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
1975ref. 127315Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A coward accidentally becomes a war hero after being forced into in the Russian army. The last of Allen's early outrageous comedies before pursuing a more narrative and dramatic approach beginning with "Annie Hall" 1977. Set in Russia shot on location in France and Hungary. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown
