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1956ref. 161080United Kingdom: Associated British Picture Corporation 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 British film noir showing actress Diana Dors in the tub. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso and a small stamp on the bottom corners of the recto. Based on Joan Henry's 1954 novel "Yield to the Night" about a woman who resorts to murder after her true love proves himself just the latest in a long line of abusive philanderers. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled on the margins. Grant UK. Lyons UK. Selby UK. Spicer UK. Associated British Picture Corporation unknown
1987ref. 163715N.p.: N.p. 1987. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 Polish film one showing actors Bogus awa Pawelec and Tadeusz omnicki the other showing actors Monika Gozdzik and Bogus aw Linda. Dutch distributor labels and annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. A predecessor to "Sliding Doors" 1998 and "Run Lola Run" 1998 about a young man presented with three choices which lead his life in three separate political directions. Although completed in 1981 the film's release was suppressed in Poland for several years and finally released in 1987 albeit in a censored format. Shot on location in ódzkie and Warsaw Poland. 9.5 x 7 inches. One Near Fine one Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 772. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 162345Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1974 film showing actor Count Basie on the set with Cleavon Little and Mel Brooks respectively. Two with stamps and labels of an Amsterdam photograph agency on the versos. Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire on the racism and misogyny inherent in Hollywood's depiction of the American West among many other targets. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in the fictional frontier town of Rock Ridge shot on location in California. 9.5 x 7 inches. Two Near Fine one Very Good plus with a light crease and discoloration at one corner. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown
1974ref. 166113N.p.: N.p. 1974. Five vintage transparencies from the 1974 film. Mel Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western in which an escaped African-American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire on the racism and misogyny inherent in Hollywood's depiction of the American West among many other targets. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in the fictional frontier town of Rock Ridge shot on location in California. 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 161048N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage reference photograph of Cleavon Little talking with director Mel Brooks on the set of the 1974 film. Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire on the racism and misogyny inherent in Hollywood's depiction of the American West among many other targets. Nominated for three Academy Awards. Set in the fictional frontier town of Rock Ridge shot on location in California. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 162018N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Blaze Starr from the 1962 film here under its alternative release title "Nature Girl." Famed stripper Blaze Star escapes from the pressure of stardom by becoming a member of a nudist colony much to the dismay of her manager and boyfriend who worries she may loose her acting contract. The only feature to feature the famed Baltimore stripper. Shot on location in Homestead Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with even toning and faint creasing overall with two pinholes in the lower left margin. N.p. unknown
1993ref. 169975N.p.: Wife N' Kids Productions 1993. Fifth Draft script for the 1993 film. With extensive manuscript marker and ink annotations to the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations to six pages. After his grandmother is murdered a nerdy repairman with a knack for invention stumbles onto a method to make his clothes bulletproof and decides to become the low budget superhero "Blankman" to help defend his neighborhood from crime. Set in New York City filmed on location in Chicago Illinois. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 20 1993 noted as 5th DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Damon Wayons "based on revisions" by Wayons J.F. Lawton and Chris Matheson and "Revised by" Wayons and Lawton. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Wife N' Kids Productions unknown
1983ref. 152549N.p.: N.p. 1983. Revised Draft script for the 1984 film here under the working title "Tin Soldiers." With a single manuscript annotation to the verso of the final leaf noting No. 88. After the death of his mother a straitlaced cadet is taken out of his military academy by his alleged father a wild-spirited rock star. Shot on location in Arizona and California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 27 1983 noted as TAFT REVISION with credits for screenwriters Gene Taft and Len Jenkin and story credits to Jenkin and Michael Philip Jagger. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly foxed on the first and last leaves wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1996ref. 155767Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1996. Revised Draft script for the 1998 film copy belonging to Master Lead Painter Charlie Palazzo with the annotations in manuscript ink of "Charli P. / Print Dept." and copy number "301" on the front wrapper. "Blue Rev.1" script on blue paper dated 12/11/96 with copy number "707" in manuscript ink on the top right corner of the title page. Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Followed by two sequels "Blade II" 2002 directed by Guillermo del Toro and "Blade: Trinity" 2004 directed by screenwriter David S. Goyer all starring Wesley Snipes. Snipes stars as the Dhampir Blade a half-man half-vampire protecting the human race from evil vampires. The beginning of Marvel Comic's success in film adaptations which still continues unabatedly two and a half decades later. Set in and shot on location in Long Beach Death Valley and Los Angeles California and London Moscow and Vancouver. White titled self wrappers noted as Production Draft on the front wrapper dated 9/19/96 with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. Title page present dated 12/11/96 noted as "Blue Rev. 1" with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. New Line Cinema unknown
1987ref. 169169Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. Vintage film program for the 1987 film. Bi-fold with a two color front panel and full credits in the interior spread. Theresa Russell stars as the deadly "black widow" Catherine who marries lone millionaires and kills them changing her appearance and identity with each murder. Debra Winger stars as Alex a data analyst for the Justice Department who stumbles upon the pattern of deaths and becomes obsessed with pursuing the killer and bringing her to justice. Set in New York Texas and Washington shot on location in Hawaii Washington New York and Washington DC. 9 x 11.5 inch Bi-fold. Very Good with light overall rubbing and creasing to the extremities. Grant US. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir: The Complete List. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer Neo-Noir. Twilight Time. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1972ref. 150709Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 documentary film. A documentary capturing the first performance of an all-Black rodeo in Harlem and the varied audience reactions to seeing African Americans participating in what was widely considered a white sport. Featuring appearances by Muhammad Ali who rides a horse down 125th Street and noted Western actor Woody Strode. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinerama Releasing unknown
1972ref. 164079N.p.: Camelot Entertainment 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 Blaxploitation film. Two enslaved African-American brothers-one albino one non-albino-discover a treasure map on their enslaver's plantation and decide to run away to hunt for the treasure. Director and actor Chris Robinson is best remembered today for his roles in soap operas in the later half of the twentieth century including "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "General Hospital." Shot on location in Hobe Sound Florida. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus lightly toned along the creases. Camelot Entertainment unknown
1975ref. 162161N.p.: Cinema International 1975. Six vintage lobby cards for the 1975 French film. 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. An experimental film loosely based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" about a young woman in a post-apocalyptic world who seeks refuge from a violent civil war in an abandoned château. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 571. Cinema International unknown
1972ref. 158416New York: American International Pictures AIP 1972. Collection of 10 vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film housed in their original envelope stamped "Savage Sisters / 10 Stills / Story in Tens" with the original three-page press release of descriptions for all ten photographs. Pam Grier and Margaret Markov escape from a remote women's prison aided in part by Markov's revolutionary boyfriend. What follows is an almost comical series of bloody shootouts pitting revolutionaries and drug dealers and the authorities all against each other. Shot on location in the Philippines. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Arrow Films. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1968ref. 143231Tokyo: Shochiku Company 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Based on Yukio Mishima's 1961 stage adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's 1934 novel. A cunning lady thief known as the Black Lizard tries to kidnap a wealthy jeweler's daughter as part of a plot to steal her father's priceless Star of Egypt diamond. Set in Tokyo. White titled perfect-bound wrappers dated 1968.6.17. 126 pages with last page of text numbered d-34. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good lightly foxed overall. Shochiku Company unknown
1968ref. 148700N.p.: Plaza Pictures 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Woody Strode began his career as an American decathlete and football star and went on to become a film actor working in American and international films. Both a modern Marxist re-imagining of the Christ story and a poetic and allegorical depiction of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba the film was to debut at the Cannes Film Festival but did not screen due to the festival being canceled in support of the May 1968 Paris uprising. 26.75 x 38 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with closed tears to top corners two chips to bottom corners and pinholes. Plaza Pictures unknown
1974ref. 161544N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. Also released as "Street Sisters." Based on the 1969 play "Don't Leave Go My Hand" by director and screenwriter Arthur Roberson. A mixed-race boy raised on a farm by his grandmother attempts to reconnect with his mother a Black prostitute. Set in and shot on location in Long Beach and Stockton California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Parish and Hill Black Action Films. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 150707Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters who married and had children at a young age and who express dissatisfaction and frustration with their stagnant lives. One of the few blaxsploitation films of the 1970s to depict the everyday lives and dreams of blue collar Black women. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 97-98. Cinerama Releasing unknown
1993ref. 158525Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1993. First Draft script and Revised First Draft script for the 1994 film. First Draft script dated April 12 1993 and Revised First Draft script dated July 30 1993. Based on Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel about the eponymous black horse and his varied experiences in England in the 1800s. The fifth film adaptation of Sewell's novel. Shot on location in London Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire and Hampshire England. First Draft: White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated April 12 1993 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for director-screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Revised First Draft: White untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated July 30 1993 noted as REVISED / FIRST DRAFT with credit for director-screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 16 and September 13 1993. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a silver prong. Warner Brothers unknown
ref. 149250Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the 1977 French film. Jean-Jacques Annaud's directorial debut. A scathing black comedy in which the residents of a French outpost in Africa learn of France's 1915 declaration of war on Germany conscript the local population and plan an attack on a nearby German garrison. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set in and shot on location in Ivory Coast. 27 x 41 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists Pictures unknown
1958ref. 132462Culver City CA: Waterlow and Sons / Columbia Pictures 1958. Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1957 French-American film first released at the 1957 Venice Film Festival. Based on the French novel by Rene Hardy about a group of WWII British commandos who have raided a German outpost at Benghazi. They make their way across the desert facing starvation thirst and the delusions of their leader Captain Brand. 8 x 10 inches. Light toning and creasing overall else Near Fine. Waterlow and Sons / Columbia Pictures unknown
1984ref. 141892Munich: Bayerischer Rundfunk 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. Text in German. A lawyer survives a plane crash and uses his new found lust for life to take on a new identity and start again. Based on a novel of the same title by Johannes Mario Simmel. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present dated October 12 1984 with credits for screenwriter Johannes Mario Simmel. 146 leaves with last page of text numbered 144. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with white velo binding. Bayerischer Rundfunk unknown
1975ref. 162359N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Richard Brooks talking with actress Candice Bergen on the set of the 1975 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. In 1906 fifteen contestants compete in a 700-mile cross-country horse race with a cash prize of $2000. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in New Mexico and Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Pitts 348. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 152314N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 French film. With manuscript ink annotations and stamp of photographer Gerard Cossevin on the verso. While hiding out on a Peruvian island an emotionally numb young woman has sex with a group of sailors on a beach. Meanwhile her wealthy husband and his strange chauffeur search for her to no avail. One of the first films to receive an X rating from the MPAA purportedly written by director Romain Gary about his marriage to actress Jean Seberg. Shot on location in Mauritania. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Bier 1209. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 158035N.p.: N.p. 1963. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film all four showing director John Schlesinger on the set. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse. A working class teenager living with his parents in a small Yorkshire town spends his time dreaming and compulsively lying to others in order to distract himself from his boring job as an undertaker's clerk. A key film in the British New Wave balancing the experimental techniques of the French New Wave with the gritty disillusionment of kitchen sink realism. Shot on location in Bradford Yorkshire. 10 x 8 inches. About Very Good moderately edgeworn. One with light toning and one with light creasing that has been reinforced with paper tape on the verso. Criterion Collection 121. N.p. unknown
