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1971ref. 149665N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1971 French film. The final film to feature Jacques Tati as the iconic lovable Monsieur Hulot following "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" 1953 "Mon Oncle" 1958 and "Playtime" 1967. This feature finds Hulot as a naive but intrepid Parisian automobile designer whose plan to show off his newly created camper car at an auto show in Amsterdam is waylaid by a plethora of roadway obstacles including Dutch customs a car accident and a slow-moving mechanic. Set and shot on location in Paris and the Netherlands. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 149665N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1971 French film. The final film to feature Jacques Tati as the iconic lovable Monsieur Hulot following "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" 1953 "Mon Oncle" 1958 and "Playtime" 1967. This feature finds Hulot as a naive but intrepid Parisian automobile designer whose plan to show off his newly created camper car at an auto show in Amsterdam is waylaid by a plethora of roadway obstacles including Dutch customs a car accident and a slow-moving mechanic. Set and shot on location in Paris and the Netherlands. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
2000ref. 156768Los Angeles: Bedford Falls 2000. For Your Consideration script for the 2000 film. Shortly after being appointed by the president to lead America's war on drugs a conservative judge in Ohio discovers that his teenage daughter is addicted to heroin. Meanwhile the wife of a jailed drug baron attempts to continue her husband's business. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning four including Best Director for Steven Soderbergh Best Screenwriter for Stephen Gaghan and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro. Shot on location in California New Mexico Ohio and Texas in the US and in San Ysidro and Tijuana in Mexico. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present undated. 73 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Xerographic duplication rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Bedford Falls unknown books
1985ref. 152106N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a brief handwritten note clipped to the first leaf on PanArts letterhead dated 9/7/89 addressed to actor Johnny Crawford from Robert Crawford introducing the script. Based on the nineteenth-century novel by Hayden Carruth. A young boy finds himself lost in a snowstorm in the northwestern prairie and must struggle to survive aided by his cat Pawsy and his dog Kaiser. Set in the Dakota Territory. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 28 1985 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for novelist Hayden Carruth and screenwriter Eric Bercovici. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 152106N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a brief handwritten note clipped to the first leaf on PanArts letterhead dated 9/7/89 addressed to actor Johnny Crawford from Robert Crawford introducing the script. Based on the nineteenth-century novel by Hayden Carruth. A young boy finds himself lost in a snowstorm in the northwestern prairie and must struggle to survive aided by his cat Pawsy and his dog Kaiser. Set in the Dakota Territory. Self wrappers. Title page present dated February 28 1985 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for novelist Hayden Carruth and screenwriter Eric Bercovici. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 159215Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1963. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on the 1960 play by Lillian Hellman. Two sisters who have always taken care of their younger brother are surprised when he returns to New Orleans married and with a large amount of money. One of the sisters suspects him of having an affair. Set and shot on location in New Orleans Louisiana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine one photograph with pin holes at the corners. United Artists unknown books
1991ref. 149319Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1991. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1991 film. Based on the 1988 novel by William P. Kennedy. A prep school is overtaken by terrorists and a group of tough rebellious students led by Billy Tepper Sean Astin fight back. Shot on location in Montana Charlottesville Waynesboro and Richmond VA and San Antonio Texas. 27 x 41 inches. Good to Very Good with creasing and edgewear. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 147879Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1965. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Based on the 1957 novel by screenwriter Frank Gruber. Gun-for-hire Tom Rosser Dana Andrews is almost killed by gunslinger Lee Ring Lyle Bettger who inadvertently kills Rosser's wife. A few years later Rosser arrives in a town in need of his services is run by Riley Condor Bruce Cabot the man who paid the killer of Rosser's wife. 8 x 10 inches. One Very Good plus with a small closed tear in bottom margin. One Very Good with several pinholes throughout. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 162516N.p.: Maron Films 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the French/Italian/German film. Based on the 1832 play "La Tour de Nesle" by Alexandre Dumas which was based on the fourteenth century French scandal the "Tour de Nesle affair." Captain Buridan king's swordsman and hero of the Flanders campaign returns to Paris to find the city in fear of a "vampire/witch" in the Tour de Nesle luring men to a night of sexual ecstasy followed by slaughter. Shot on location in Budapest Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Maron Films unknown books
1970ref. 162516N.p.: Maron Films 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the French/Italian/German film. Based on the 1832 play "La Tour de Nesle" by Alexandre Dumas which was based on the fourteenth century French scandal the "Tour de Nesle affair." Captain Buridan king's swordsman and hero of the Flanders campaign returns to Paris to find the city in fear of a "vampire/witch" in the Tour de Nesle luring men to a night of sexual ecstasy followed by slaughter. Shot on location in Budapest Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Maron Films unknown
1955ref. 163793N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1955 French film showing actors Lia Di Leo and Marcel Raine in an intimate moment. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas and Frédéric Gaillardet about Queen Margaret of Burgundy who kills her partners after their dalliances have ended in order to leave no trace of her sexual misdeeds. Partially shot on location in Paris. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with multiple pinholes and accompanying wear at the corners and light soil on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 163793N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1955 French film showing actors Lia Di Leo and Marcel Raine in an intimate moment. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas and Frédéric Gaillardet about Queen Margaret of Burgundy who kills her partners after their dalliances have ended in order to leave no trace of her sexual misdeeds. Partially shot on location in Paris. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with multiple pinholes and accompanying wear at the corners and light soil on the verso. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 139131France Italy: Cineriz 1962. Archive of press material related to the 1961 French-Italian film. Includes film production-related material like shooting schedules and synopses a cinema magazine reviewing the film and several leaves of correspondence addressed from various members of film production to Maryse Martin Martres a prolific French actress who was also involved in press relations in France. Brief annotations in manuscript ink throughout. More than 150 leaves of correspondence and notes. A glimpse inside the behind-the-scenes process of French press and the attention paid to prolific French figures of cinema notably René Clair. Maryse Martin whose film credits include "The Happy Road" 1957 "Bonjour Tristesse 1958 and several films each for directors Jacqueline Audry Maurice Labro and Jean Gourguet was a popular "B" actress who played supporting roles in over 40 films. She presumably worked for a press agency involved in publication of film reviews press kits photographs and more. Several letters are represented addressed to and from Maryse from persons like Gay-Lussac Gordon Reid A. Sergio Berrocal George L. George Monsieur Bergougnous Monsieur Lourau J.D. van Leeuwen Edmundo Duran members of UniFrance Film Alessandro Ferrau R. Betmalle Clare Simpson Pierre Lazareff Francois Timmory I. Dally and even René Clair's secretary. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. All material Very Good overall housed in Martin's file folder with the film title in manuscript ink. Cineriz unknown books
1961ref. 144268France: Limot 1961. Original black-and-white single weight photograph from the 1961 French film. Actor Philippe Noiret is seen anxiously conversing on a telephone. Rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and with numerical annotations 641 in manuscript pencil. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. One of Clair's final films. Shot on location throughout France. 5 x 7 inches tiny white border at the foot. Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing. Limot unknown books
1961ref. 144105Nice: Gaumont-Palace 1961. Vintage French program and two invitations for the 1961 film here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1 1961 generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot a Southwest France commune with the Lot River running through the middle. The invitee's RSVP is unsigned. The two remaining pieces are from a slightly later November 15 1961 showing at the Gaumont-Palace in Nice in the Southeast of France the Riviera. A folding invitation stamped in blind with the theatre's coat of arms credits the president of the Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont Jean Le Duc suggests formal wear and the invitee has inscribed in manuscript blue ink in French "one chair." A large program accompanies printed by Havas for the Gaumont-Palace showing details film credits and synopsis greetings from the Gaumont and advertisements for businesses in Nice. Formal programs often omitted still images from the film like this example opting for candor instead of promotion. The film echoes director's Clair's early silent films interweaving separate themes of comedy and fantasy involving a well with supernatural powers that lengthens life expectancy. Cyrano invitation 4 x 5.25 inches Gaumont invitation 4 x 8.25 inches the program 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Light rubbing and foxing overall and a vertical crease to the Gaumont invitation else Near Fine. Gaumont-Palace unknown books
1961ref. 160356Rome: Cineriz 1961. Four vintage borderless double weight publicity photographs from the 1961 film. With stamp on verso identifying photographer H. Martin. Also with file folder with the film title in manuscript ink. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Set in France shot on location in Lot-et-Geronne Hauts-de-Seine and Paris Fracne. Photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches Folder 10.25 x 12.75 inches. Photographs Very Good plus Folder Very Good plus with one small tear at one of the folds. Cineriz unknown books
1961ref. 140159France: N.p. 1961. Archive of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director René Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs conducting a recorded interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini. The festivities seem to take place in a large music hall with musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. Bourvil is also present in two contact prints seen traveling cavorting with Clair getting a shave and playing bocce. Several with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil and a few double weight photographs with rubberstamps crediting photographer Martin on the versos. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos range from 4.5 x 7 inches to 8 x 10.5 inches most are 7.25 x 9.25 inches with 87 frames on 35mm and medium-format negative strips. Very Good plus overall with light curling and foxing negatives lightly rubbed. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 144266France: Limot 1961. Archive of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots pinup images of actress Castel Bourvil mending fences and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes gunfights in the town square and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of Clair's final films. Nearly all are rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Housed in an original French Kodak photo paper box. One photograph shown. Please inquire for others. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos 5 x 7 inches with a few trimmed slightly smaller and box slightly larger. Photos Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing and box Very Good Plus two splits to the lid. Limot unknown books
1961ref. 144660Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in manuscript pencil on the versos 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot 18 with his name stamped on the verso and each notebook page with corresponding numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Also included is a vintage Cinedis manila mailing envelope. Limot's action photographs are poignantly interlaced with on-the-set images including tender exchanged between actors Bourvil Annie Fratellini and Colette Castel herself seen in striking authority behind a handheld camera. A few feature Black musicians in the background surrounded by paparazzi and a few photos are slightly more candid with subjects hamming for the camera. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. 747 photos are 3.5 x 4.5 inches or slightly smaller with small white borders at the foot and 2 photos are 5 x 7 inches. Light curling and most with tape ghosts and discoloration else Near Fine. Envelope and notebooks Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown books
1961ref. 140160France: N.p. 1961. Collection of 32 vintage borderless reference photographs of director René Clair with members of the cast and crew at a release party for the 1961 film. Approximately half the photographs bear the stamp of photographer Walter Limot on the verso. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs presumably conducting a radio interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini The festivities were located perhaps at a music hall with several musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but harbors a secret desire to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. About Very Good plus or better lightly curled with some faint foxing on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 140160France: N.p. 1961. Collection of 32 vintage borderless reference photographs of director René Clair with members of the cast and crew at a release party for the 1961 film. Approximately half the photographs bear the stamp of photographer Walter Limot on the verso. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs presumably conducting a radio interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini The festivities were located perhaps at a music hall with several musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but harbors a secret desire to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. About Very Good plus or better lightly curled with some faint foxing on the verso. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 144660Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in manuscript pencil on the versos 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot 18 with his name stamped on the verso and each notebook page with corresponding numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Also included is a vintage Cinedis manila mailing envelope. Limot's action photographs are poignantly interlaced with on-the-set images including tender exchanged between actors Bourvil Annie Fratellini and Colette Castel herself seen in striking authority behind a handheld camera. A few feature Black musicians in the background surrounded by paparazzi and a few photos are slightly more candid with subjects hamming for the camera. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. 747 photos are 3.5 x 4.5 inches or slightly smaller with small white borders at the foot and 2 photos are 5 x 7 inches. Light curling and most with tape ghosts and discoloration else Near Fine. Envelope and notebooks Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown
1961ref. 144105Nice: Gaumont-Palace 1961. Vintage French program and two invitations for the 1961 film here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1 1961 generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot a Southwest France commune with the Lot River running through the middle. The invitee's RSVP is unsigned. The two remaining pieces are from a slightly later November 15 1961 showing at the Gaumont-Palace in Nice in the Southeast of France the Riviera. A folding invitation stamped in blind with the theatre's coat of arms credits the president of the Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont Jean Le Duc suggests formal wear and the invitee has inscribed in manuscript blue ink in French "one chair." A large program accompanies printed by Havas for the Gaumont-Palace showing details film credits and synopsis greetings from the Gaumont and advertisements for businesses in Nice. Formal programs often omitted still images from the film like this example opting for candor instead of promotion. The film echoes director's Clair's early silent films interweaving separate themes of comedy and fantasy involving a well with supernatural powers that lengthens life expectancy. Cyrano invitation 4 x 5.25 inches Gaumont invitation 4 x 8.25 inches the program 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Light rubbing and foxing overall and a vertical crease to the Gaumont invitation else Near Fine. Gaumont-Palace unknown
1961ref. 144266France: Limot 1961. Archive of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots pinup images of actress Castel Bourvil mending fences and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes gunfights in the town square and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of Clair's final films. Nearly all are rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Housed in an original French Kodak photo paper box. One photograph shown. Please inquire for others. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos 5 x 7 inches with a few trimmed slightly smaller and box slightly larger. Photos Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing and box Very Good Plus two splits to the lid. Limot unknown
1961ref. 140159France: N.p. 1961. Archive of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director René Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs conducting a recorded interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini. The festivities seem to take place in a large music hall with musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. Bourvil is also present in two contact prints seen traveling cavorting with Clair getting a shave and playing bocce. Several with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil and a few double weight photographs with rubberstamps crediting photographer Martin on the versos. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos range from 4.5 x 7 inches to 8 x 10.5 inches most are 7.25 x 9.25 inches with 87 frames on 35mm and medium-format negative strips. Very Good plus overall with light curling and foxing negatives lightly rubbed. N.p. unknown
