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1946ref. 149877N.p.: N.p. 1946. Vintage reference photograph of director David Lean and producer J. Arthur Rank on the set of the 1946 British film. Based on the 1861 novel. A happy-go-lucky orphan discovers that an unknown benefactor is offering to finance his education and introduction into high society. Lean's first Dickens adaptation followed by "Oliver Twist" 1948 and the film which many consider to be the finest in his oeuvre. Nominated for five Academy Awards and winning two. Set and shot on location in London and Kent UK. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned with some faint soil to the recto. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 159607N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of cast and crew members filming on location for the 1965 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of photographer Federico Grau. Based on Boris Pasternak's controversial Nobel Prize-winning 1957 novel following a married physician whose life is irreversibly changed by the Russian Revolution and resulting Civil War. Nominated for ten Academy Awards winning five including Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Pasternak's novel was widely banned in the Soviet Union due to its perceived criticism of the Soviet government forcing director David Lean to begin filming on location in Spain-chosen in large part as a result of his positive experiences filming "Lawrence of Arabia" there several years prior as well as the promise of snow. The film was shot over ten months in Soria and Aragon and at the Aldeadavila Dam with a large-scale Moscow set built outside of Madrid as documented throughout the archive. An unseasonably warm winter in Spain obligated production to head to Finland and Canada in the final months of shooting in order to obtain a sufficiently wintry backdrop for landscape scenes. Shot on location throughout Spain Finland and Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 151829N.p.: N.p. 1965. Archive of 14 original reference photographs taken on the set of the 1965 film and two original contact sheets with 24 images of cast and crew members at what appears to be a wrap party. Several photographs with manuscript ink annotations to the verso identifying figures in the images. One photograph date-stamped APR 27 1964 inscribed on the recto by uncredited location manager Howard "Dutch" Horton to production supervisor John Palmer and another photograph inscribed to Palmer from an unknown crew member in manuscript ink annotation to the verso. From the collection of John Palmer. Included with the collection is a brief typescript note signed from publicist Phil Gersdorf to Palmer gifting Palmer the contact sheets. Based on Boris Pasternak's controversial Nobel Prize-winning 1957 novel following a married physician whose life is irreversibly changed by the Russian Revolution and resulting Civil War. Nominated for ten Academy Awards winning five including Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Pasternak's novel was widely banned in the Soviet Union due to its perceived criticism of the Soviet government forcing director David Lean to begin filming on location in Spain-chosen in large part as a result of his positive experiences filming "Lawrence of Arabia" there several years prior as well as the promise of snow. The film was shot over ten months in Soria and Aragon and at the Aldeadavila Dam with a large-scale Moscow set built outside of Madrid as documented throughout the archive. An unseasonably warm winter in Spain obligated production to head to Finland and Canada in the final months of shooting in order to obtain a sufficiently wintry backdrop for landscape scenes. The archive includes eleven photographs of cast and crew members between takes on the Moscow set several shots featuring Palmer and director David Lean during a parade scene with crowds of extras in Soviet militia garb in the background. The Moscow photographs in particular highlight the intricate set and costume design elements which went into constructing the mock city including several striking images of parade participants holding huge portraits of Soviet officials. An unusual addition to the collection is a photograph of Palmer in conversation with noted Austrian-American director Fred Zinnemann who collaborated with actor Omar Sharif in "Behold a Pale Horse" earlier in 1964. Shot on location throughout Spain Finland and Canada. Photographs and contact sheets varying sizes. All materials generally Very Good plus several photographs with moderate toning. N.p. unknown
1946ref. 149877N.p.: N.p. 1946. Vintage reference photograph of director David Lean and producer J. Arthur Rank on the set of the 1946 British film. Based on the 1861 novel. A happy-go-lucky orphan discovers that an unknown benefactor is offering to finance his education and introduction into high society. Lean's first Dickens adaptation followed by "Oliver Twist" 1948 and the film which many consider to be the finest in his oeuvre. Nominated for five Academy Awards and winning two. Set and shot on location in London and Kent UK. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall with some faint soil to the recto. N.p. unknown
1946ref. 151468N.p.: N.p. 1946. Vintage reference photograph of director David Lean and producer Ronald Neame in conversation with actor Anthony Wager between takes on the set of the 1946 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Charles Dickens' 1861 novel. A critical and commercial success considered by many to be one of Lean's best feature films and one of the finest adaptations of a Dickens novel to date. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 31. Ebert II. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 150786N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage narrow margin double weight reference photograph of David Lean on the set of the 1954 film. Based on the 1916 play by Harold Brighouse. Previously made as a silent film in 1920 directed by Percy Nash and starring Arthur Pitt and Joan Ritz and in 1931 directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt and Joan Maude. Victorian bootmaker stingy widow and a man of great thirst Henry Hobson an exceptionally brilliant Charles Laughton insists there will be no marriages of his three daughters to avoid the costly settlements but the independent-minded eldest Brenda de Banzie has her sights set on Hobson's prize bootmaker Will Mossop John Mills. Set in and shot on location in Manchester England. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine with black paper affixed to verso. Criterion Collection 461. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 150547N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Peter O'Toole Gamil Ratib and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence Peter O'Toole in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46 we then follow in flashback Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo assigned to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks. Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shot on location in England Saudi Arabia Spain and Morocco. 10.25 x 8 inches. Some edge and corner wear else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 150467Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Alec Guinness Sam Spiegel Jack Hawkins and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence Peter O'Toole in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46 we then follow in flashback Lawrence as a young intelligence officer in 1916 Cairo assigned to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks. Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Shot on location in England Saudi Arabia Spain and Morocco. 11 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 160694N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of David Lean and a camera crew filming on location for the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. The year after the suppressed 1916 Easter Rising a young Irish woman is torn between a British officer she loves and the nationalists from her own home town. The third collaboration between director Lean and screenwriter Robert Bolt following "Lawrence of Arabia" 1962 and "Doctor Zhivago" 1965. Winner of two Academy Awards including Best Cinematography and nominated for two more. Set in an isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry Ireland and shot on location in County Kerry and County Clare Ireland and in Cape Town South Africa. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 150783N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of David Lean Sarah Miles Trevor Howard and John Mills on the set of the 1970 film. Two mimeo snipes and photographer "Ken Danvers" stamp on verso. The third collaboration between director Lean and screenwriter Bolt following "Lawrence of Arabia" 1962 and "Doctor Zhivago" 1965. The year after the suppressed 1916 Easter Rising a young Irish woman is caught between a British officer she loves and the nationalists from her own home town. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Cinematogray and Best Supporting Actor for John Mills nominated for two more. Set in an isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry Ireland shot on location in County Kerry and County Clare Ireland and Cape Town South Africa. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 137367Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage deluxe press kit for the epic 1970 film including two oversize photos and six reference photographs. The third collaboration between director Lean and screenwriter Bolt following "Lawrence of Arabia" 1962 and "Doctor Zhivago" 1965. Winner of two Academy Awards for cinematographer Freddie Young and supporting actor John Mills. Nominated for two more as well as ten BAFTA awards. The press kit contains: Ten loose sheets of heavy weight paper each folded to 11 x 14 inches printing on rectos only. The first sheet with a press release regarding the film the other nine with a description from Bolt's screenplay in English French Spanish German Italian and Japanese on the outside and the corresponding full-color printed image from the film inside. Two 11 x 14 sheets of photographic paper each containing two images one of David Lean on the set the second of the same scene from the film. With descriptions of the scenes printed on the verso of each photograph. Six 10 x 8 reference photographs one showing Lean and crew filming on the coast of Ireland the rest depicting scenes from the film. Each with captions printed on the verso. One biography of David Lean three pages printed on rectos only. 8.5 x 11 inches bound with a single staple. All items housed in a studio clamshell box as issued. Clamshell box: About Near Fine with light fading and a few small bruises. Press materials Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1970ref. 166578North Hollywood: Cinema Center Films 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1970 television film printed on blue leaves which aired on CBS on November 20 1970 here under the working title of "The Man in the Back Seat." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Nick Dimitri with the marker annotations of his name and "Pt. Part of Paul Sarne" on the front wrapper with Dimitri's address label from Cinema Center Films affixed to the verso of the front wrapper. After shooting his wife's lover in Baltimore David Janssen is a man on the run trying to flee to Mexico City. After being trapped at LAX due to bad weather Janssen gets cabbie Yapphet Kotto to drive him from Los Angeles to San Diego at gunpoint. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles and San Diego California. Green titled Cinema Center 100 wrappers. Title page present dated February 17 1970 with credits for screenwriter Marvin A. Gluck and Story by Collier Young. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/10/70 and 6/22/70. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Cinema Center Films unknown
1987ref. 140708Culver City CA: Brooksfilms 1987. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1987 film. Two antiquarian booksellers strike up a long distance friendship during the late years of WWII. Starring Anne Bancroft Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench. Shot on location in England and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Brooksfilms unknown books
1988ref. 129772N.p.: N.p. 1988. Two Draft scripts from 1987 and 1988 for an unproduced film. Both drafts SIGNED by screenwriter David Henderson in holograph ink on the title page in 1992 and each has a lengthy inscription about the development of the script noting "Michael L. Parker" and his investment in the film the script's general plot and characters a proposed directorial role for Robert N. Zagone "San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog" 1970 television movie and revisions Henderson made in order to "make the film roughly a page a minute." A cursory look at the script leads us to believe the story is set in a desolate perhaps post-apocalyptic Southwest landscape and the overall theme seems to have crime/thriller elements i.e. murder guns swords. 1987 draft: Blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1987 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 138 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. 1988 draft: Light blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 111 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1988ref. 129772N.p.: N.p. 1988. Two Draft scripts from 1987 and 1988 for an unproduced film. Both drafts SIGNED by screenwriter David Henderson in manuscript ink on the title page in 1992 and each has a lengthy inscription about the development of the script noting "Michael L. Parker" and his investment in the film the script's general plot and characters a proposed directorial role for Robert N. Zagone "San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog" 1970 television movie and revisions Henderson made in order to "make the film roughly a page a minute." A cursory look at the script leads us to believe the story is set in a desolate perhaps post-apocalyptic Southwest landscape and the overall theme seems to have crime/thriller elements i.e. murder guns swords. 1987 draft: Blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1987 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 138 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. 1988 draft: Light blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 111 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 162417N.p.: N.p. 1966. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film showing a scene with David Hemmings staging a photoshoot with a topless Vanessa Redgrave Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design nonstandard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in London. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 153131London: Avianca 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Fourteen." Copy belonging to producer Harvey Harrison with his name in manuscript ink annotation to the title page. The eldest children of a working class family of fourteen are forced to take care of the younger children when their mother falls ill. Set and shot on location in London. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Roland Starke. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good with wear to the top right page corners of the first 13 pages and front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Avianca unknown
1970ref. 158722London: Mediarts 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on seven leaves noting deletions. Based on the 1958 radio drama by Giles Cooper about a boarding school teacher who begins to suspect his predecessor of having been murdered by the students. OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows one holding. Set in Cornwall and shot on location in Llandudno Wales and in Sonning Berkshire. Missing front wrapper with pink rear wrapper. Title page present dated May 1970 noted as REVISED with credits for playwright Giles Cooper and screenwriter Simon Raven. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages laid in throughout dated August 7 1970. Pages Poor wrapper Poor with moderate dampstaining affecting the last 60 leaves and rear wrapper bound with a silver prong. Mediarts unknown
1962ref. 140839Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as him as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The boy is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to make the occasion of the first atomic bomb leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to diffuse the situation. Set in New York City. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1962ref. 140748Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps toward him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as the shooter as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The shooter is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to commemorate the occasion of the first atomic bomb test leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to defuse the situation. Set in New York City. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown books
1962ref. 141261Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a suicide call and head to the scene only to find the caller shooting wildly at anyone who tries to approach him. To make matters worse police discover one of the building's other inhabitants has declared that he plans to use his homemade bomb to destroy the building and everyone in it. Set in New York City. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter David P. Harmon. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown
1962ref. 140839Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. Police receive a call on a scorcher of an early morning that someone in a apartment building will be killing themselves. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps to him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as him as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The boy is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to make the occasion of the first atomic bomb leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to diffuse the situation. Set in New York City. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown
1962ref. 140748Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1962. Third Draft script for an unproduced film. With one page Typed Letter Signed to agent Paul Kohner laid in. Police receive a call early on a hot summer morning from someone in an apartment building is trying to commit suicide. They arrive on the scene to find the caller with a gun and shooting wildly at anyone who begins to walk up the steps toward him. A sick boy is trapped on the same floor as the shooter as well as an adulterous couple and an old couple content to die. The shooter is revealed to have a bottle of nitroglycerine and plans to take out the whole building at 5:30 am on July 16th to commemorate the occasion of the first atomic bomb test leaving the police in a race against time to figure out how to defuse the situation. Set in New York City. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 14 1962 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter David Harmon. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1962 and September 25 1962. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown
1984ref. 167521Burbank CA: Pressman Productions 1984. First Draft script for the 1985 UK/US film circa 1984 with manuscript pencil annotations on the cast of characters page noting the actor's names adjacent to their characters. Based on the 1978 play by screenwriter David Hare. Spanning nearly 20 years in the life of Englishwoman Susan Traherne played by Meryl Streep the film follows her from her life-changing experiences as a French Resistance fighter during World War II to her life in post-war England which she finds inadequate and trivial her alienation often leading her to act with disregard for those around her. Nominated for two BAFTA Awards. Of note screenwriter Hare divided the script found here into eight segments of which there is a note on the first leaf that this was not for the viewing audience but for clarity in reading for the cast and crew. The eight segments are: "The War" "Europe On The Move" "Austerity" "Plenty" "Suez" "Iran" "The Crisis" and "Liberation." Set in and shot on location in London Brusels Belgium France and Tunisia. Front wrapper integral with first introductory note leaf. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter David Hare. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Pressman Productions unknown
1984ref. 160850London: Greenpoint Films 1984. Draft script for the 1985 British film INSCRIBED by director/screenwriter David Hare on the title page "For Steve with thanks - / David Hare / 15.5.85" with the manuscript ink annotation of copy number "63" on the top of the title page and manuscript ink annotations striking scene 71B on page 51. Laid in is an eight page transcript of a PublicTheater interview with Hare dated May 15 1985 with manuscript pencil and marker annotations throughout in what appears to be Hare's hand a sixteen page program for the film with two modest ink annotations on two pages a thirteen page "Preliminary Production Notes" and a one page clipping of "Stanley Kauffmann On Films: Against the Darkness" a review of the film from the August 12 1985 issue of The New Republic. A middle-age spinster schoolteacher played by Vanessa Redgrave is forced to reevaluate her life after witnessing the suicide of a recently arrived enigmatic stranger. Set in Wetherby England shot on location in West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Middlesex and London. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated May 4 1984 noted as "This Draft" with credits for screenwriter David Hare. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Interview transcript 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light toning overall bound with two staples to the top left corner. Program 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing. Preliminary Production Notes 8.5 x 11 inches. Light toning at the extremities else Near Fine. Article Clipping 8.25 x 11. Very Good with light dampstaining creasing and edgewear. Greenpoint Films unknown
