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1963ref. 151321N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1963 film. Partial label on the verso. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke following "The Connection" 1961. Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite and while appearing improvisational were in fact semi-documentaries with carefully scripted dialogue. Clarke aspired to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent in Hollywood "social issue" films. It was the first film to be produced by Frederick Wiseman who would go on to become a legendary documentary filmmaker and was scored by noted jazz composer and pianist Mal Waldron with performances by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Set and shot on location in New York. 5 x 8 inches trimmed irregularly with wide margins photograph measuring 3.75 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 157842Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1984. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1984 film. An extravagant production with a star-studded cast following the lives of musicians in the famed Jazz Age in Harlem who become involved in the dealings of local mobsters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion unknown
1962ref. 167556Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of Grant Williams from the 1962 film. A violent ex-con embarks on a murder spree using his court-ordered weekly therapy sessions as his alibi. Actor Onslow Stevens' final film appearance. Screenplay by noted horror and mystery writer Robert Bloch. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1951ref. 158754Rome: Titanus 1951. Vintage pressbook for the 1951 Italian film. Text and titles in Italian. An opera singer falls in love with a masked bandit known as the Count of Saint Elmo who robs the wealthy in order to fund his fight against the oppressive Italian government. Set in Sicily. 8.7 x 12.5 inches. Bi-fold. Near Fine with faint wear on the bottom edge. Titanus unknown
ref. 146805N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced television film. Incomplete as issued. With a small handwritten label to the first leaf noting the name and address of screenwriter Martin Warner. A lonely widower finds new love with a vibrant retired school teacher aided by his well-intentioned but meddling apartment building neighbors. Set in Santa Monica California. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Martin Warner. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with light rust to the first and last leaves likely from a paper clip bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 142595Moscow: Mosfilm 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1957 film. From the archives of French weekly "Tele Magazine" with two stamps on the verso one referencing its inclusion in issue 52 page 5 along with manuscript annotations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov who also wrote the screenplay about a young woman who must flee in the face of Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia while feeling guilty over her missing lover who unbeknownst to her has been killed in the war. Winner of the Palme d'Or the only Soviet film to do so while star Tatiana Samoylova would receive a Special Mention for her role becoming a European film icon in the process. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good with some light creasing. Criterion Collection 146. Mosfilm unknown
1966ref. 137871Paris: Parc Film 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in manuscript marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife mute from a car accident move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality fact and fiction begin to blend together as he transforms the villagers into characters in his story. In his 1969 review Roger Ebert called The Creatures "a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels but in fact it operates on only one illustrating how fantasy reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer." Three photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light scratches. Remaining photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches. A few photographs lightly worn else Near Fine overall. Parc Film unknown
1982ref. 153824N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a three-page autograph note discussing the script's plot. In the Virgin Islands in the 18th century a prominent doctor is given a valuable crucifix to protect his employer the governor of Jamaica unaware that the artifact is highly desired by a nefarious supernatural being for its mystical properties. Set in the Virgin Islands. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriter Michael H. Krohn. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 167295Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film showing the infamous "office set" with dozens of identical desks in a largely windowless room. Provenance label mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A bleak populist film heavily influenced by German cinema and nominated for several awards at the very first Academy Awards ceremony including Best Director for King Vidor. Shot on location throughout New York and in Los Angeles. 10 x 7.25 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn with old cello tape at the corners and center bottom edge. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 44. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1959ref. 151413Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1959. Estimating script for the 1960 film on yellow stock except title/distribution page white and second "This Script Is Not Final ." page pink copy belonging to uncredited crew member Nick Bova with name in manuscript ink on front wrapper and annotations in manuscript red pencil graphite pencil and ink throughout. Based on the 1960 novel by Hank Searls. The troubled and complicated lives of passengers and crew of a commercial airliner and a US Navy jet are examined as severe weather and a malfunctioning radio bring the two planes on an inextricable course toward collision. Shot on location in Washington DC and Naval Air Station North Island Coronado California. Beige titled wrappers noted as ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 60 dated June 5 1959. Title page integral with Distribution page receipt intact dated 6/5/59 noted as ESTIMATING. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 142608France Germany: Pathe Consortium Cinema 1957. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1957 film. With the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" and manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on the 1953 Tony Award winning play by Arthur Miller and the first of two film adaptations. The second came 43 years later and was written by Miller himself. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Pathe Consortium Cinema unknown
1935ref. 151084N.p.: N.p. 1935. Two vintage reference photographs of Cecil B. DeMille on the set of the 1935 film one with Henry Wilcoxon and C. Aubrey Smith. Mimeo snipes printed on versos. DeMille's typically spectacular dramatization of the Third Crusade launched by King Richard the Lionheart in 1187 AD. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear and creasing in margins. N.p. unknown
1948ref. 158749N.p.: Continental Distributing 1948. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1948 French film. A meek Parisian tax collector sets off on a madcap hunt for his aunt's lost corpse in order to claim his inheritance leading to his inadvertent involvement in the French criminal underground. 10 x 14 inches. Bi-fold with a second horizontal fold and a single laid-in leaf as issued. Near Fine. Continental Distributing unknown
1969ref. 161645N.p.: Forbes Unistar 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Two photographs with provenance stamps on the versos and each with a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. Outrageous Argentinian sexploitation film wherein a mad doctor based on instructions from a talking brain kidnaps couples having sex and injects them with a drug to enhance their sexual abilities-all so he can then extract from them a resulting fluid which prevents him from transforming into a monster. Set in and shot on location in Buenos Aires. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Forbes Unistar unknown
1970ref. 150612Los Angeles: Fanfare Films 1970. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1970 film. In the year 2177 the world has been overtaken by an all-powerful dominating computer and all films with the exception of sex tapes naturally have been banned. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Fanfare Films unknown
1968ref. 161646N.p.: American Film Distributing 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. One of two sequels along with the 1968 film "The Kiss of Her Flesh" to exploitation maestro Michael Findlay's 1967 breakthrough "The Touch of Her Flesh." Strip club owner Steve a killer of strippers seeks revenge after catching his stripper wife with another man. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. American Film Distributing unknown
1962ref. 167544Various cities: Columbia Pictures / Hammer Films 1962. Vintage lobby card for the Spanish-language release of the 1962 British horror film. In turn-of-the-century Egypt a mummy revives and begins to kill the Egyptologists responsible for its discovery. The second film in Hammer's Mummy franchise following the studio's better-remembered 1959 film "The Mummy" released as a double feature with "The Gorgon." 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. Johnson and Del Vecchio 244-246. Columbia Pictures / Hammer Films unknown
1961ref. 167579Universal City: Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 British film showing Oliver Reed in costume as Leon Corledo the werewolf. Based on Guy Endore's 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris." Reed's first starring role in a feature film and the first werewolf film to be shot in color. Released as a double feature with another Hammer film "Shadow of the Cat" 1961. Set in Spain and shot on location in Buckinghamshire and Surrey England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the margins. Johnson and Del Vecchio. Universal-International Pictures / Hammer Films unknown
1969ref. 167512N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing director Luchino Visconti as his cigarette ash dangles dangerously adjusting the bedding during a scene with actors Ingrid Thulin and Dirk Bogarde. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 150609Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian-German film. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with a small closed tear to the right edge. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1955ref. 140173Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 1955. Final Draft script for the Season 2 Episode 1 of the 1955 television program originally broadcast on October 15 1955 on CBS. Copy belonging to actor who played Johnny with his character's name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. With page numbers annotated in ink at the lower right corner of each page throughout. "The Damon Runyon Theater" presented dramatized versions of short stories by Damon Runyon. This particular episode deals with a boxing match. It was sponsored by Anheuser-Busch's beer Budweiser. Orange titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 3924 dated June 15 1955. Title page present dated June 14 1955 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Jack Harvey. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1969ref. 150225N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight satin-finish black and white photograph from the 1969 film one showing actors Robert Stephens Geraldine McEwan and Laurence Olivier the other showing Olivier alone. With a photographer's stamp on the verso noted only as "Dominic" along with a library stamp. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A filmed version of the National Theatre Company play originally directed by Glen Byam Shaw which was based in turn on the 1900 play by August Strindberg. In their isolated home on the coast of Sweden an aging mentally ill ex-military captain engages in vicious battles of will with his wife a former actress whose marriage ended her career. Set in Sweden. One photograph 8 x 9.5 inches one photograph 7.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 130772Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1967. Final Draft script for episode 19 of the 1967-1968 television anthology show. Actor Van Heflin's copy with the name of his character in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and manuscript annotations on nearly every page. "The Danny Thomas Hour" ran for one season on NBC as an anthology show with Thomas presenting dramas comedies and musical variety shows. In "Fear the Chain" Van Heflin plays a deserter from the German army trying to reach Switzerland. Goldenrod titled wrappers with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Title page present dated April 20 1967 noted as Final Draft with credit for screenwriter Bercovici. 66 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 5-18-67 and 5-29-67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1923ref. 158259N.p.: Daniel Carson Goodman 1923. Vintage reference photograph from the 1923 film showing actress Mildred Harris performing with other dancers in a cabaret scene. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A dancer wrongfully accuses one of her young suitors of killing her lover a boxer. Clara Bow's fourth film appearance. Currently considered a lost film. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Daniel Carson Goodman unknown
1982ref. 172924Universal City CA: Universal Pictures / Henson Associates 1982. Four vintage borderless matte-finish studio still photographs from the 1982 film. The first major live-action mottion picture without any human actors with characters realized by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. A young alien must try to heal a broken crystal to bring peace and order back to her home planet. Set on the fictional planet Thra shot on location in England and Scotland. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Weldon 1996. Universal Pictures / Henson Associates unknown
