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1963ref. 135122Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Final script for the 1964 film. Based on Herman Wouk's 1962 novel. Youngblood Hawke Franciscus is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to start a career as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green Pleshette who falls for him while putting together a book deal. Throughout his first three books his hops from woman to woman and book deal to book deal including a Broadway adaptation and an affair with a woman whose jealous husband intends to destroy Hawke. He returns to Kentucky to work on writing contracts pneumonia and realizes that Jeanne was the only woman he truly loved. Set in Kentucky and New York shot on location in New York. Self wrappers noted as FINAl on the front wrapper dated February 15 1963 with credits for screenwriter Daves and novelist Wouk. Title page integral with front wrapper DATE. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1954ref. 152836Los Angeles: ZIV Television Programs 1954. Final Master script for the 1954 television episode. Copy belonging to script supervisor Helen McCaffrey with her manuscript pencil annotations on virtually every page and many versos and her name in manuscript ink annotation on the top right corner of the front wrapper. A dramatization of the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg based on a short story by Stephen Crane. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL MASTER SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 12 1954 with credits for screenwriter Ellis Marcus and story credits to Stephen Crane. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 48 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4-14-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown
1954ref. 152838Los Angeles: ZIV Television Programs 1954. Final Master script for the 1954 television episode. Script supervisor's copy with their manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the front wrapper and virtually every page. A farm girl hides her brother from the police when he is framed for murder. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL MASTER SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 13 1954 with credits for screenwriter Leonard St. Clair and story credits to Stephen Crane. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4/26/54. Wrapper and pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown
ref. 163898Los Angeles: Gramercy Pictures / Propaganda Films / Fleece Films / Volcanic Films 1997. Draft script for the 1998 film seen here under the working title "The Fine Art of Living." Working copy belonging to director Neil LaBute with his extensive annotations throughout noting deletions and revisions to dialogue. Bound in a three-ring binder with numerous production documents including contact sheets scene breakdowns memos legal documents shooting and post-production schedules location and vendor lists and edits of promotional material. LaBute's second feature following "In the Company of Men" 1997 about two middle-class couples who lie and cheat in their struggles to find satisfaction in their empty relationships. Title page present dated 9/19/97 with credit for LaBute. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binder about Near Fine. Gramercy Pictures / Propaganda Films / Fleece Films / Volcanic Films unknown
1997ref. 157411Hollywood: Volcanic Films 1997. Revised Draft script for the 1998 film. A pitch-black comedy about two middle-class couples who lie and cheat in their struggles to find satisfaction in their empty relationships. Neil LaBute's second feature following "In the Company of Men" 1997. Gray titled wrappers with credit for director-screenwriter Neil LaBute. Title page present dated 10/20/97 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Neil LaBute. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound with two gold brads. Volcanic Films unknown
1966ref. 132242Germany: Obpacher Aktiengesellschaft / Atlas Films 1966. Original 1966 German A1 poster for the 1965 French film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23 x 33.25 inches rolled. Near Fine. Obpacher Aktiengesellschaft / Atlas Films unknown
1965ref. 151530Lausanne: Majestic Films 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix on the set of the 1965 film. "Majestic Films S.A." and "Yoyo" stamps on verso. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. Majestic Films unknown
1965ref. 149858N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 149484N.p.: N.p. 1965. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Each borderless except for a bottom margin see image. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Pierre Etaix finds happiness his lost love and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 4.75 x 3.75 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 141425N.p.: Genjiro Amato 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband and her husband's murderer. Purple titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Genjiro Amato unknown
1969ref. 151682N.p.: Cinema V. 1969. Vintage press kit for the 1969 film for use by distributors and the press containing five black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and one gathering of promotional material. Based on the 1967 novel by Vassilis Vassilikos. In 1960s Greece a pacifist left-wing politician's assassination is covered up by prominent government officials leaving a determined magistrate to expose the fraud. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning two including Best Foreign Film. Photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Criterion Collection 491. Cinema V. unknown
1968ref. 167659N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin talking with director Michelangelo Antonioni while on location in the desert. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso identifying subjects and crediting photographer Bruce Davidson with Magnum Photos. Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. 8 x 10 inches with wide top and bottom margins. Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1970ref. 144970Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1973ref. 149156Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. Laid in are six blue revision pages dated 2/26/73. Based on the 1942 novel "The Stranger" by Lillian Bos Ross. Later re-released under the title "For Better For Worse." Gene Hackman stars as a rural rancher who sends away for a mail-order bride looking for an extra ranch hand. His headstrong bride played by Liv Ullman is a tough bargain and the two eventually fall in love through shared hardship and growing respect. An early effort of screenwriter Marc Norman twenty-five years before he would receive an Oscar for his work on "Shakespeare in Love." Set in a remote region of the American West shot on location in Big Sur California. Orange titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated February 26 1973. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 2/26/73 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Marc Norman. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 150605Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of 13 vintage photographs from the 1957 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso crediting photographer Bert Cann. Very loosely based on the 1950 nonfiction book "The Story of Zarak Khan" by A.J. Bevans about an outlaw fighting against British occupation in 19th century Afghanistan pursued by a British officer with whom he develops a mutual respect. Set on the border between Afghanistan and India shot on location in England Morocco India and Burma. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1974ref. 170745N.p.: John Boorman Productions 1974. Vintage color reference photograph of Sean Connery and Sara Kestlman from the 1974 film. After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance" director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery in red briefs and suspenders thigh-high boots a handlebar mustache and a long braid and setting him loose in a utopian city of nearly catatonically bored immortals as a ruthless killer doing the violent bidding of a giant floating talking stone head. In his spare time he woos and has a child with Charlotte Rampling. Somewhat obviously the film has since become a cult classic. Shot on location in Ireland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1147. John Boorman Productions unknown
ref. 143238Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a xerographically duplicated character list laid in with single manuscript ink notation. Text in Japanese. The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one of the screen's great heroes the character of Zatoichi a blind masseur and swordmaster was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa first appearing on film in 1962. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. "Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival" is the 21st film of the series where Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. Set in the Japanese Edo period. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered c-50. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on papers edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. Criterion Collection 679. Daiei Studios unknown
1960ref. 150445N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1960 French film showing actress Catherine Demongeot posing near a metro stop in Paris. With a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release on the verso along with layout annotations in ink. A satire of Parisian society through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl visiting from the French countryside who sneaks away from her relatives to venture into the city alone. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 132925Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films NEF 1960. Three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1960 French film. An anarchic Louis Malle comedy one of his finest films where ten-year-old Zazie from a provincial town escapes the custody of her cross-dressing Uncle George and sets out to explore Paris on her own-all while her mother is off spending time with a lover. Story set and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with very light toning. Criterion Collection 570. Nouvelles Editions de Films [NEF] unknown
1987ref. 141451Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in Japanese. The greatest pimp in all of Japanese history Iheji Muraoka also known as Zegen or the "Boss of the South Seas" grew in power as Japan grew. Not only were his achievements contributing to his mantle of success but he believed they advanced the global ambitions of his nation promoting patriotic interests. Blue titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Imamura Productions unknown
1977ref. 146559Munich: Terrafilm 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk with manuscript ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the script. Text in German. A young woman arrives at a dilapidated hospital searching for answers to her past. Academy Award-winning Hungarian director Karoly Makk garnered accolades for his incisive political films during Hungarian cinema's renaissance in the postwar period most notably "Love" 1971 "Cats' Play" 1972 and "Another Way" 1982. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Karoly Makk and screenwriter Gunther Heller. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and light soil bound with a gold prong. Terrafilm unknown
1933ref. 161157Paris: Franfilmdis 1933. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with François Truffaut in particular paying homage to Vigo's anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in his 1959 film "The 400 Blows." 11.75 x 9.75 inches with wide bottom margins. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis unknown
1933ref. 146133Paris: Franfilmdis 1933. Collection of 3 vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus corner pinholes. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis unknown
1933ref. 139665Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." 8.75 x 6.5 inches. A few tiny pinholes at the right edge else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis / Argui-Film unknown
