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1994ref. 167456Los Angeles: Miramax 1994. Vintage press kit for the 1994 film including 13 black-and-white studio still photographs and a 21-page gathering of promotional material issued by Miramax in conjunction with the film's release. Tarantino's masterful second film a noir-infused grouping of three stories told together in cutup style each with one violent narrative folding in on the next. Controversial winner of the Palme d'Or and winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Nominated for six more Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress for Uma Thurman Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Best Actor for John Travolta. Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Promotional gathering: 21 leaves unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Miramax unknown books
1994ref. 167456Los Angeles: Miramax 1994. Vintage press kit for the 1994 film including 13 black-and-white studio still photographs and a 21-page gathering of promotional material issued by Miramax in conjunction with the film's release. Tarantino's masterful second film a noir-infused grouping of three stories told together in cutup style each with one violent narrative folding in on the next. Controversial winner of the Palme d'Or and winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Nominated for six more Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress for Uma Thurman Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Best Actor for John Travolta. Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Promotional gathering: 21 leaves unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Miramax unknown
1959ref. 160564N.p.: N.p. 1959. Four vintage reference photographs by John Cohen from the 1959 short film. Three with the title in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto and one with a provenance label on the verso. Based on a purportedly true incident in the life of Beat icons Neal and Carolyn Cassady wherein a couple's dinner party for a visiting bishop is crashed by their zany bohemian friends. Adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play "Beat Generation" with voiceover narration by Kerouac and a title taken from the poem of the same name co-written by Kerouac Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. For years the film was rumored to have been entirely unscripted capturing a real event at co-director Alfred Leslie's loft in the Bowery until Leslie revealed in a 1968 interview that the film had in fact been scripted heavily rehearsed and shot in a photography studio. 10 x 8 inches. Small chips at the top edges else about Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 160564N.p.: N.p. 1959. Four vintage reference photographs by John Cohen from the 1959 short film. Three with the title in manuscript ink on the bottom margin of the recto and one with a provenance label on the verso. Based on a purportedly true incident in the life of Beat icons Neal and Carolyn Cassady wherein a couple's dinner party for a visiting bishop is crashed by their zany bohemian friends. Adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play "Beat Generation" with voiceover narration by Kerouac and a title taken from the poem of the same name co-written by Kerouac Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. For years the film was rumored to have been entirely unscripted capturing a real event at co-director Alfred Leslie's loft in the Bowery until Leslie revealed in a 1968 interview that the film had in fact been scripted heavily rehearsed and shot in a photography studio. 10 x 8 inches. Small chips at the top edges else about Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 135571Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of Anthony Perkins on the set of the 1960 film silhouetted against the Bates Motel. The most sought after image from the known stills produced. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career nominated for 4 Academy awards including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination and a key film in expanding allowable depictions of both violence and sexuality under the eroding Production Code. Selected by the National Film Registry in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 135571Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of Anthony Perkins on the set of the 1960 film silhouetted against the Bates Motel. The most sought after image from the known stills produced. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career nominated for 4 Academy awards including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination and a key film in expanding allowable depictions of both violence and sexuality under the eroding Production Code. Selected by the National Film Registry in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1968ref. 140427Santa Monica: Dick Clark Productions 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. A deaf runaway hides out with a gang of hippies as she searches for her long-lost brother is 1960s San Francisco. With a relatively early appearance from Jack Nicholson who plays the aptly named hippie "Stoney." Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a sticker to the verso indicating the previous owner's number and address. An early role for Jack Nicholson. Dick Clark Productions unknown books
1994ref. 168325N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film here called a "Schedule Draft". Annotations in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 33 and the name of supervising accountant Danielle Sotet. Robert Altman's sardonic take on Paris Fashion Week featuring an enormous star-studded ensemble cast of international actors models and designers. Set and shot on location in Paris France. Mylar front wrapper white card rear wrapper. Title page present dated January 14 1994 noted as Schedule Draft with credit for Altman and screenwriter Barbara Shulgasser. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 168325N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film here called a "Schedule Draft". Annotations in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 33 and the name of supervising accountant Danielle Sotet. Robert Altman's sardonic take on Paris Fashion Week featuring an enormous star-studded ensemble cast of international actors models and designers. Set and shot on location in Paris France. Mylar front wrapper white card rear wrapper. Title page present dated January 14 1994 noted as Schedule Draft with credit for Altman and screenwriter Barbara Shulgasser. 82 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown books
1982ref. 166414Los Angeles: Avon Productions 1982. Draft script for the 1982 pornographic film. Three violent escaped convicts on the run from the law break into a house where a young girl is being given a wedding shower and they proceed on a rampage of violence rape and sexual assaults. IMDB. Title page integral with the first page of narrative text. No wrapper as issued undated. 18 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine staple bound at the top left corner. Avon Productions unknown
1968ref. 162293Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Vintage borderless color studio still photograph from the 1968 film showing actress Judy Geeson. 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 wealthy London banker his wife his mistress and his extended family and servants enjoy a series of comic misunderstandings when they swap birth control medications. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly rubbed else about Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950ref. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1976ref. 158745Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City and Tokyo. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present. Noted as Draft #2 on the first page of text. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver clasp binding. Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc unknown books
1976ref. 158745Tokyo: Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc 1976. Second Draft script for the 1977 film. A young African American is killed upon his arrival in Tokyo. The Japanese detective in charge of his case teams up with a New York City detective to try to solve the murder. Set and shot on location in New York City and Tokyo. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present. Noted as Draft #2 on the first page of text. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a silver clasp binding. Haruki Kadokawa Films Inc unknown
1979ref. 139445Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1979. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Jerome Hellman's directorial debut. A heart-wrenching drama the follows the steady deterioration of a young cancer patient. Actress Susan Clark pictured in the photos plays the ailing patient's mother. Shot on location in Connecticut. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 151088Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing two black-and-white photographs and two gatherings of promotional reading material. A young emotionally isolated doctor finds friendship and solace in her newest patient a 17-year-old girl dying of cancer. Set and shot on location in Hartford Connecticut. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Orion unknown books
1965ref. 146897N.p.: N.p. 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. With a "With Compliments" card from Seven Arts Productions laid in with the script along with a set of three stapled revision pages on pink stock. In order to provide a father figure for her infant son a recently widowed woman attempts to choose between two marital prospects-the grumpy child psychologist for whom she works or her hippie next-door neighbor. Set in Greenwich Village NY. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages laid in dated 21.1.65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 146897N.p.: N.p. 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. With a "With Compliments" card from Seven Arts Productions laid in with the script along with a set of three stapled revision pages on pink stock. In order to provide a father figure for her infant son a recently widowed woman attempts to choose between two marital prospects-the grumpy child psychologist for whom she works or her hippie next-door neighbor. Set in Greenwich Village NY. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages laid in dated 21.1.65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 162120N.p.: Avco Embassy Pictures 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1962 play "First Love: A Play in Three Acts" by Samuel Taylor which was adapted from the 1960 French autobiographical novel "La Promesse de l'aube" by Romain Gary. Depiction of the the young life of writer Romain Gary illegitimate son of Soviet silent film actress Nina Kacewa and their life together in Leningrad Krakow and Paris. The last film film to be directed by Hollywood black-listed director Jules Dassin. Shot on location in Nice and Paris France and the USSR. 8 x 10 inches. A tiny bruise in the far bottom margin else Near Fine. Avco Embassy Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 162120N.p.: Avco Embassy Pictures 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1962 play "First Love: A Play in Three Acts" by Samuel Taylor which was adapted from the 1960 French autobiographical novel "La Promesse de l'aube" by Romain Gary. Depiction of the the young life of writer Romain Gary illegitimate son of Soviet silent film actress Nina Kacewa and their life together in Leningrad Krakow and Paris. The last film film to be directed by Hollywood black-listed director Jules Dassin. Shot on location in Nice and Paris France and the USSR. 8 x 10 inches. A tiny bruise in the far bottom margin else Near Fine. Avco Embassy Pictures unknown
1938ref. 173115N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film. A professor who is working on translating the ancient Egyptian tablets of Neferus fears he will face the same fate as he falls in love with an aspiring actress while continuously getting caught up in strange circumstances. Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles and Kernville CA. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1938ref. 173115N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film. A professor who is working on translating the ancient Egyptian tablets of Neferus fears he will face the same fate as he falls in love with an aspiring actress while continuously getting caught up in strange circumstances. Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles and Kernville CA. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 167421Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Final script for the 1972 feature-length television pilot originally aired on February 21 1972 on NBC. A science fiction thriller about a technologically advanced group of detectives known as "probes" following one such figure as he searches for a valuable cache of gemstones hidden by Nazis during World War II. The series was later picked up by NBC and renamed "Search" since "Probe" was already in use by a different series. Screenwriter Leslie Stevens is better remembered today as the creator of the cult science fiction television series "The Outer Limits" 1963-1965 and as the director of the 1966 horror film "Incubus" starring William Shatner. Mustard titled Warner Brothers wrappers noted as FINAL SCRIPT dated November 16 1971. Title page present dated November 16 1971 noted as FINAL SCRIPT with credit for screenwriter Leslie Stevens. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
