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1958ref. 132722London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. Based on a play by F. Hugh Herbert about a young woman who asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss. When her rescuer suggests that she get out of her wet clothes she escapes and finds safety in the home of a retired actor. A story set in Connecticut shot at Universal Studios in California. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown
1984ref. 148189N.p.: Embassy Pictures 1984. Eight vintage lobby cards from the 1984 film. The film that invented the "rockumentary." Rob Reiner's debut now a timeless cult classic. Film director Mary DiBergi Reiner chronicles the American comeback tour of the aging heavy-metal band Spinal Tap. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2002. 14 x 11 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 12. Embassy Pictures unknown
1984ref. 155631N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage reference photograph of actors Tony Hendra Christopher Guest Lara Cody and Harry Shearer on the set between takes and a take that ostensibly was not in the film. Reiner's debut and a much-loved cult classic about a documentary filmmaker chronicling the American comeback tour of an aging heavy-metal band. Shot on location throughout California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 12. Ebert II. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. N.p. unknown
1944ref. 164361Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress Louise Allbritton behind a camera. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A teenage orphan from New England receives an inheritance for education but instead uses it to travel to New York to pursue the object of her obsession an Army surgeon. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1942ref. 151348Santa Ana CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols inscribed by Nichols to Los Angeles Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols-with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in manuscript pencil at the top right corner. Renoir's second American feature an anti-fascist propaganda film following a meek schoolteacher in a German-occupied European country who is falsely accused of murder and forced to take a stand against the Nazis and their collaborators. At the peak of his career Nichols worked with many key Golden Age directors including John Ford George Cukor Howard Hawks Fritz Lang and of course Jean Renoir. He was a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild and is best remembered for "The Informer" 1935 for which Nichols won an Academy Award "Bringing Up Baby" 1938 "Stagecoach" 1939 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1943 "Scarlet Street" 1945 "And Then There Were None" 1945 "The Bells of St. Mary's" 1945 and "The Tin Star" 1957. He continued to write prolifically for film up until the time of his death in 1960. Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. Pink titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 104 dated OCTOBER 2 1942 with credits for director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Dudley Nichols. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1969ref. 151671Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1969. Vintage press kit for the US release of the 1969 French film for use by distributors and the press containing four black and white photographs one pressbook a promotional pamphlet and a one sheet poster for the film. Based on the 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake. A man seduces a young actress as part of his plan to avenge the hit-and-run death of his son. The second of four films Claude Chabrol made with actor Jean Yanne following "Line of Demarcation" 1966 and preceding "Le Boucher" 1970 and "Madame Bovary" 1991. Shot on location in Finistere Brittany and Paris. Poster photographs and promotional material Very Good plus. Grant France. Allied Artists unknown
1963ref. 150563N.p.: National Screen Service 1963. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1963 film. An exploration of unusual people and behaviors throughout the world narrated by George Sanders. Includes a performance artist who sticks long needles into his body footage of the Grand Guignol theatre in Paris reindeer castrations and many more. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown
1963ref. 127386N.p.: Continental Distributing 1963. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1963 British film. Based on the 1960 novel by screenwriter David Storey. One of the greatest films in British cinema and regarded by many to be Richard Harris' finest performance. A young and angry Yorkshire rugby footballer finds his romantic life to be as unsuccessful as his sporting life is rewarding. Lindsay Anderson's stunning feature film debut following years of documentary work. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palm d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Yorkshire England. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a pinhole to each corner and a tiny chip to the top right margin. Bright and unfaded. Criterion Collection 417. Continental Distributing unknown
1965ref. 159827Paris: UniFrance Film 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Georges Franju on the set of the 1965 French film arranging the coat of actress Emmanuele Riva. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with the stamp of UniFrance Film. Based on the 1923 novel by Jean Cocteau about a teenager who is mistaken for the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy during World War I. Shot on location in Paris and Oise. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. UniFrance Film unknown
1974ref. 145245Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film likely for a specific theatre as it advertises "Starts May 1" about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. A Blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. Shot on location in New Mexico. 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with vertical and horizontal folds and light edgewear. Manuscript annotations on the verso. Parish and Hill Black Action Films 213. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 210. Columbia Pictures unknown
1963ref. 152260London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Archive of production material from the 1965 British film including a Revised Draft screenplay three original character design illustrations and a hand drawn storyboard. A British newspaper offers a substantial prize to the winner of a cross-channel air race bringing aviators from around the world to compete for the chance at victory and grabbing the attentions of various women. A number of authentic airplanes from the 1900s were used during production including a 1910 Deperdussin Monoplane and a 1912 Blackburn Monoplane. Set and shot on location in England including at Book Airfield in Buckinghamshire. Fuchsia titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1963 noted as REVISED SCRIPT with credits for director-screenwriter Ken Annakin and screenwriter Jack Davies. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Multilith duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly faded on the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Storyboard and design illustrations varying sizes Near Fine overall housed in a manila folder. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1982ref. 146404N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. Included with the script are two typed pages proposing the play be made into the pilot for a longer-running television series detailing possible titles show format and episode synopses. The melodramatic trials and tribulations of a community theater troupe addressing problems such as one actor's alcoholism and another actor's dissolving marriage. Set in a suburb of New York. Black titled faux leather wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 with credits for screenwriters Sal Catania and Elfin Snyder. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-36. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Good wrapper Very Good with dampstaining and light soil to both bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1939ref. 147689Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash" with "Those Were the Days" written in manuscript pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Missing one page likely as used or issued. Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha William Holden Bonita Granville reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met. Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. Self wrappers front wrapper dated October 23 1939 rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
2017ref. 163911London: Blueprint Pictures 2017. Draft script for the 2017 film. Copy belonging to production designer David Wasco with his name watermarked on every leaf. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A Missouri woman rents three billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder setting off a violent chain of reactions among members of her small community and the police officers responsible for overseeing the investigation. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell and Best Leading Actress for Frances McDormand. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 films including "The Last Seduction" "Pulp Fiction" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Ebbing Missouri shot on location in Sylva North Carolina. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for director and screenwriter Martin McDonagh. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with one gold and one silver brad. Blueprint Pictures unknown
1969ref. 162292Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the US release of the 1969 British film including three borderless and one bordered. All with mimeo snipes on the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A married sales executive must conceal his past affair with a young hitchhiker after his wife agrees to take the girl on as a boarder. Set in Middlesex shot on location in Hampshire. Three 7.5 x 9.5 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1998ref. 166262Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. Each page with a numeric watermark 2850. A black comedy about a gold heist executed by four American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the First Gulf War. Director David O. Russell's third feature film. Shot on location in the deserts of Casa Grande Arizona and in California and Mexico. Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 17 1998 with credit for director and screenwriter David O. Russell and story writer John Ridley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine with first page lightly worn and partially detached from the binding bound with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1934ref. 167828New York: Columbia Pictures 1934. Collection of three vintage pressbooks for three pre-Code films written by noted hard-boiled novelist Horace McCoy: "Hold the Press" 1933 "Fury of the Jungle" 1933 and "Speed Wings" 1934. McCoy moved to Hollywood in 1931 hoping to pursue a career as an actor. After a failed screen test at MGM McCoy discovered a talent for writing treatments and film scenarios and would go on to pen numerous films for Columbia Paramount and other studios through the next three decades. 12 x 18 inches. Generally Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1988ref. 151514N.p.: AMLF 1988. Two vintage reference photographs of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1988 film. Demy's fanciful portrait of the life of singer and actor Yves Montand playing himself who returns to Marseille the city of his childhood to rehearse a stage musical based on his life and falls in love the female lead Marian only to discover she is his daughter. Music by Demy's long-time collaborator Michel Legrand. Demy's final film before his unexpected death in 1990. Set in and shot on location in Marseille France. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. AMLF unknown
1988ref. 151512N.p.: AMLF 1988. Vintage reference photograph of Jacques Demy and Yves Montand on the set of the 1988 film. Demy's fanciful portrait of the life of singer and actor Yves Montand playing himself who returns to Marseille the city of his childhood to rehearse a stage musical based on his life and falls in love the female lead Marian only to discover she is his daughter. Music by Demy's long-time collaborator Michel Legrand. Demy's final film before his unexpected death in 1990. Set in and shot on location in Marseille France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. AMLF unknown
1924ref. 171399N.p.: N.p. 1924. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1924 silent film. Five with "Country of Origin: USA" stamps on the versos. Based on Elinor Glyn's 1907 romance novel about the love affair between the married queen of a fictitious European country and a handsome young Englishman. Glyn's novel was previously adapted for film in 1914 starring Madlaine Traverse and George C. Pearce. Set in Switzerland. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn with light even toning overall. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 162469N.p.: J.E.R. Pictures 1971. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 German film. Both photographs with a provenance stamp on the versos. Marie Liljedahl stars as the young Eva who solemnly swears to remain a virgin until it can be logically argued that her view is foolish and contradicts the course of human fate. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. J.E.R. Pictures unknown
1961ref. 156281Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Collection of 22 vintage double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1961 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. The first entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a glimpse into a private world seen through a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. About Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners and light edgewear. Criterion Collection 209. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961ref. 133624Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Vintage oversize Swedish still photograph from the 1961 film. With the Svensk Filmindustri logo at the bottom right corner. In a typically heavy moment from the film Max Von Sydow Martin and Lars Passgard Minus stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's cinematographer the legendary Sven Nykvist. 11 x 9 inches. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. Fine. Criterion Collection 209. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961ref. 130180Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 27.5 x 38.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1961ref. 130113Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1961. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1961 Swedish film. The first entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy which won the director his second Best Foreign Film Oscar and defined what came to be called his "chamber dramas." A young woman is released from a mental institution and moves to an island where her family resides to recover. But she finds little solace and no support from her father her husband or her brother. A landmark film in that it is not so much an examination into mental illness as a perspective of on a private world from a mind that has departed day to day concerns. 27.5 x 39.5 inches linen-backed. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
