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1959ref. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown books
1959ref. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown
1950ref. 146343London: Ealing Studios 1950. Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and consumed by guilt donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton Wirral Cheshire and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 13th January 1950. Title page present noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Ealing Studios unknown books
1950ref. 146343London: Ealing Studios 1950. Draft Shooting script for the 1950 British comedy film. With a few manuscript ink annotations and a single copied manuscript notation to page 81 noting a single line of dialogue in Chinese. A young boy cons a friend out of a toy magnet and consumed by guilt donates the magnet to a man collecting items for a charity auction. The story of the boy's assumed sacrifice drives the bids for the magnet up higher and higher and the lowly magnet begins to take on astronomical significance. Set and shot on location in New Brighton Wirral Cheshire and Liverpool. Tan titled wrappers noted as Draft Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 13th January 1950. Title page present noted as DRAFT SHOOTING SCRIPT. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Ealing Studios unknown
1979ref. 132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a manuscript notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with manuscript annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown books
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 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. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
1958ref. 151648Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of 14 vintage black and white oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1958 film. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist Max von Sydow faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown books
1979ref. 132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a manuscript notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with manuscript annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown
1958ref. 156282Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of nine vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1958 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. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good with pinholes at the corners and several with small closed tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the versos. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1958ref. 151648Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1958. Collection of 14 vintage black and white oversize double weight studio still photographs from the 1958 film. A traveling magic show led by a depressed fraudulent illusionist Max von Sydow faces opposition from a small town's authorities who wish to expose the spectacle as a sham. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 537. Rosenbaum 1000. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1956ref. 147925Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 television movie. Disney re-edited the 1954 film Rob Roy the Highland Rogue into a two part movie for The Magical World of Disney which aired on ABC on October 3 and 10 1956. Wartime adventures of Scottish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor Richard Todd outlawed and hunted by the forces of King George I Eric Pohlmann. Set in and shot on location in Scotland. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing in corner margins. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1988ref. 171904N.p.: N.p. 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1988 television movie aired as part of the revamped 1988-1990 Disney television anthology series. With two annotations in manuscript ink to two pages of the script noting prices. The ghost of a private eye teams up with an out-of-work dancer to find the woman he believes to be responsible for his death. Originally aired on May 15 1988 on ABC. White titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present dated January 14 1988 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Blake and Jennifer Edwards. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1988ref. 171904N.p.: N.p. 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1988 television movie aired as part of the revamped 1988-1990 Disney television anthology series. With two annotations in manuscript ink to two pages of the script noting prices. The ghost of a private eye teams up with an out-of-work dancer to find the woman he believes to be responsible for his death. Originally aired on May 15 1988 on ABC. White titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present dated January 14 1988 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Blake and Jennifer Edwards. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 167842N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the 1962 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A fantasy film loosely based on the tale of St. George and the Dragon about a young knight raised by an elderly sorceress. Featured on a 1992 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 167844Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film showing actors Anne Helm Gary Lockwood and Merritt Stone. Provenance stamp on the verso. A fantasy film loosely based on the tale of St. George and the Dragon about a young knight raised by an elderly sorceress. Featured on a 1992 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with annotations in manuscript ink on the bottom recto. United Artists unknown books
1973ref. 141542Stockholm: Sveriges Television SVT 1973. Draft script for the 1975 television film. Text in Swedish. Based on Mozart's 1791 opera "The Magic Flute" titled in German "Die Zauberflote" and here under the Swedish title "Trollflojten." Nominated for one Academy award. The Queen of the Night offers her daughter Pamina to Tamino but also offers Tamino a magic flute to bring Pamina to him. The Queen also gives magic bells to the bird hunter Papageno who joins Tamino on his journey for them both to find wives and learn about themselves. Shot on location in Stockholm. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1973 with credits for screenwriter Ingmar Bergman and translator Alf Henriksson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a spiral binding. Criterion Collection 71. Sveriges Television [SVT] unknown books
1968ref. 135672London: Grand Films 1968. Complete set of vintage double weight color reference photographs from the 1968 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grand Films unknown books
1973ref. 141542Stockholm: Sveriges Television SVT 1973. Draft script for the 1975 television film. Text in Swedish. Based on Mozart's 1791 opera "The Magic Flute" titled in German "Die Zauberflote" and here under the Swedish title "Trollflojten." Nominated for one Academy award. The Queen of the Night offers her daughter Pamina to Tamino but also offers Tamino a magic flute to bring Pamina to him. The Queen also gives magic bells to the bird hunter Papageno who joins Tamino on his journey for them both to find wives and learn about themselves. Shot on location in Stockholm. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1973 with credits for screenwriter Ingmar Bergman and translator Alf Henriksson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a spiral binding. Criterion Collection 71. Sveriges Television [SVT] unknown
1968ref. 135672London: Grand Films 1968. Complete set of vintage double weight color reference photographs from the 1968 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grand Films unknown
1969ref. 161908N.p.: RAF Industries 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A crime syndicate extorts politicians by luring them to sex parties and filming them. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. RAF Industries unknown books
1969ref. 158833N.p.: Commonwealth United Entertainment 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1945 French play by Jean Giraudoux. A countess decides to rally her friends in her community to stop a group of powerful men from drilling for oil in Paris. Set in Paris shot on location throughout France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Commonwealth United Entertainment unknown books
1915ref. 144596France: Le Film d'Art 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film struck from the original negative circa 1936. With manuscript annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself a dog and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special effects that mimic an altered state of consciousness. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Le Film d'Art unknown books
1915ref. 144596France: Le Film d'Art 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film struck from the original negative circa 1936. With manuscript annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself a dog and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special effects that mimic an altered state of consciousness. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Le Film d'Art unknown
1973ref. 150828Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of John Huston and Paul Newman on the set of the 1973 film. Based on the 1971 novel "The Freedom Trap" by Desmond Bagley. Director John Huston's neo-noir Cold War spy thriller with Paul Newman as a British Intelligence officer who allows himself to be imprisoned to infiltrate a spy organization. Screenwriter Walter Hill's third produced screenplay. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 9.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973ref. 150828Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of John Huston and Paul Newman on the set of the 1973 film. Based on the 1971 novel "The Freedom Trap" by Desmond Bagley. Director John Huston's neo-noir Cold War spy thriller with Paul Newman as a British Intelligence officer who allows himself to be imprisoned to infiltrate a spy organization. Screenwriter Walter Hill's third produced screenplay. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 9.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
