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1970ref. 139895N.p.: American International Pictures AIP 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. With an American International Pictures stamp to the verso alongside a cello-taped mimeograph snipe. Featuring a "black militant" being forcibly removed from the room by actor Larry Hagman while Harlene Jones and Judy Pace look on. A lighthearted comedy and a movie that probably could not be made today in which Wes Stern fails out of college attempts suicide only to be saved against his will by university president Larry Hagman who flunked him. In grumpy retaliation Stern decides to bed the three women most important to the president: his mistress his wife and his daughter. Set against the backdrop of Civil Rights campus upheaval. Shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1996ref. 162508Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1996. Vintage studio still photograph of director Wes Anderson on the set of the 1996 film. Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. 8 x 10 inches. Lightly toned else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown books
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown
1996ref. 162508Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1996. Vintage studio still photograph of director Wes Anderson on the set of the 1996 film. Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. 8 x 10 inches. Lightly toned else Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1953ref. 156166N.p.: Neue Filmverleih 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 West German film. Text and titles in German. While suffering from voice problems a famous singer hires a street singer to record songs in his place. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. About Near Fine. Neue Filmverleih unknown books
1982ref. 159844N.p.: N.p. 1982. Four vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1982 film including three borderless and one bordered. One with a snipe on the verso crediting photographer Maureen Gosling and three with the printed labels of Photofest. Early twentieth century rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald funds his dream to build an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon by hauling a huge river boat laden with rubber across a mountain. Werner Herzog's astonishing outrageous and downright insane masterpiece the subject of Les Blank's remarkable documentary "Burden of Dreams" 1982. Set and shot on location in Peru and Brazil. Three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. One with a tiny splash at the top right corner else Fine. BFI 2032. Ebert III. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 152423N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Werner Herzog with actors Klaus Kinski Grande Otelo and Miguel Angel Fuentes on the set of the 1982 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. Early twentieth century rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald funds his dream to build an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon by hauling a huge river boat laden with rubber across a mountain. Werner Herzog's astonishing outrageous and downright insane masterpiece the subject of Les Blank's remarkable documentary "Burden of Dreams" 1982. Set and shot on location in Peru and Brazil. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. BFI 2032. Ebert III. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 146134Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1982. Vintage borderless studio photograph of Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale on the set of the 1982 film. Francois Frederic stamp on the verso. Herzog's brilliant bold and audacious "Fitzcarraldo" the story of the early 20th century rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald the ever manic Kinski intent on building an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon and on transporting a 320 ton steamer over a mountain to access a rich rubber territory. Herzog's production being every bit as unrestrained and preposterous as the story he was filming. An astonishing and insane masterpiece whose outrageous production was documented by director Les Blank in his remarkable documentary "Burden of Dreams" 1982. Winner of Best Director and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Peru shot on location in Peru and Brazil. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. BFI 2032. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown books
1979ref. 139657Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz along with some extras on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic "Nosferatu" and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown books
1979ref. 132250New York: New Yorker Films 1979. Original US promotional window poster for the 1979 German film issued in small numbers by New Yorker Films who distributed Herzog's film in the US. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 11 x 17 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. New Yorker Films unknown books
1979ref. 163316N.p.: N.p. 1979. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Werner Herzog directing actress Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1979 film. Stamp of photographer Michael Ciment on the verso. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 151554Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed outer folder containing 13 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between director Werner Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1982ref. 146134Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1982. Vintage borderless studio photograph of Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale on the set of the 1982 film. Francois Frederic stamp on the verso. Herzog's brilliant bold and audacious "Fitzcarraldo" the story of the early 20th century rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald the ever manic Kinski intent on building an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon and on transporting a 320 ton steamer over a mountain to access a rich rubber territory. Herzog's production being every bit as unrestrained and preposterous as the story he was filming. An astonishing and insane masterpiece whose outrageous production was documented by director Les Blank in his remarkable documentary "Burden of Dreams" 1982. Winner of Best Director and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Peru shot on location in Peru and Brazil. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. BFI 2032. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown
1979ref. 163316N.p.: N.p. 1979. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Werner Herzog directing actress Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1979 film. Stamp of photographer Michael Ciment on the verso. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 151554Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed outer folder containing 13 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between director Werner Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1979ref. 139657Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion 1979. Vintage borderless reference still from the 1979 German film showing director Werner Herzog and actor Bruno Ganz along with some extras on the set between takes. Herzog's highly interpretive remake of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic "Nosferatu" and the second of five films Herzog made with actor Klaus Kinski. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion unknown
1942ref. 145119Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1942. Vintage double weight photograph of director Wells Root and actor Dan Dailey on the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and an studio stamp on the verso. Based on a series of short stories by Jennie Harris Olver published in the 1930s. Mokey Robert Blake an eight year old boy who recently lost his mother struggles to adapt to his new household. His father is largely absent and his stepmother doesn't care to understand him and is quick to become angry when he acts out. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1942ref. 145119Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1942. Vintage double weight photograph of director Wells Root and actor Dan Dailey on the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and an studio stamp on the verso. Based on a series of short stories by Jennie Harris Olver published in the 1930s. Mokey Robert Blake an eight year old boy who recently lost his mother struggles to adapt to his new household. His father is largely absent and his stepmother doesn't care to understand him and is quick to become angry when he acts out. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1933ref. 131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in manuscript ink above it. Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1940ref. 164648Universal City: Universal Pictures 1940. Vintage publicity photograph of W.C. Fields with Una Merkel and Evelyn Del Rio from the 1940 film. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. An American comedy classic wherein W.C. Fields stars as a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and becomes the bank security as the result. Shot on location in Lompoc California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 78. Ebert II. Universal Pictures unknown books
1940ref. 150392Universal City: Universal Pictures 1940. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1940 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Egbert Souse a slovenly drunk finds himself in several different positions of employment through sheer luck and happenstance. After being hired on the spot to replace a film crew's no-show movie director Souse unintentionally thwarts a bank robbery and is immediately offered a job as a security guard. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased on the edges. Universal Pictures unknown books
1940ref. 164648Universal City: Universal Pictures 1940. Vintage publicity photograph of W.C. Fields with Una Merkel and Evelyn Del Rio from the 1940 film. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. An American comedy classic wherein W.C. Fields stars as a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and becomes the bank security as the result. Shot on location in Lompoc California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 78. Ebert II. Universal Pictures unknown
1933ref. 131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in manuscript ink above it. Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969ref. 132601London: Warner-Pathe 1969. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs of Warren Oates from the 1969 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso of 1 still. Both stills feature the great Warren Oates. A comedy about two crooks hired to rob an old lady but she proves to be too charming and the robbers can't muster the guts to steal from her. 8 x 10 inches and 7.25 x 9.25 inches no borders as issued. Smaller still with a tiny closed tear else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe unknown books