10,264 results
1971ref. 172851New York: CBS Television Network 1971. Original permanent set design drawing imagining a 1971 update for the Captain's quarters and bridge for "Captain Kangaroo" created by Emmy Award-winning artist Gary Smith. Smith began his career at CBS in 1956 and created this design at the peak of his career there in 1971 by which time he was doing work for specials devoted to Burt Bacharach Barbra Streisand and the Tony Awards. Set design noted as "Capt. Kangaroo Perm. Set" above Smith's autograph during the period when the show's original setting "The Treasure House" had been renovated and renamed "The Captain's Place" and the Captain's navy blue coat was replaced with a red one. From the estate of actor puppeteer and television host Chuck McCann who starred as the recurring character "Sailor Clyde" on the series during the 1960s. The groundbreaking children's television series aired on CBS on weekday mornings from 1955 to 1985 for over 6000 episodes the longest running nationally broadcast children's program of its time later surpassed by "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and was the winner of three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Entertainment. Created by and starring Bob Keeshan as the Captain who previously played Clarabell the Clown on "The Howdy Doody Show" from 1947 to 1952. The show's loose structure was built around life in the "Treasure House" later "The Captain's Place" where the Captain would tell stories meet guests present cartoons and engage in conversation silly stuntsm and skits with regular characters both human and puppet such as Mr. Green Jeans and the psychedelic Dancing Bear. 24 x 20 inches Ozalid duplication folded as issued. Near Fine overall with starting at the center fold and a small chip at the right fold. A well-preserved lovely example almost certainly unique. CBS Television Network unknown
1935ref. 158497N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1935 film showing director Michael Curtiz on a camera crane preparing to filming a scene. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of National Film Archive. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini-the first talkie adaptation of one of his works. A young Irish doctor is exiled to Jamaica after rebelling against King James II later becoming one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean. Shot on location in Corona Laguna Beach and Palm Canyon California. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 139995England: ITC Entertainment 1977. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1977 American-British film. Robert Gould is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission including a fake landing transmitted messages and a fatal reentry. Shot on location in Arizona Texas and California. Novelized by both Ken Follett and Ron Goulart. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner creases else Near Fine. Scarce. Lentz US. Spicer US. ITC Entertainment unknown books
1977ref. 139995England: ITC Entertainment 1977. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1977 American-British film. Robert Gould is a reporter investigating the questionable actions of NASA after a failed mission to Mars. The head of the mission forces three astronauts to participate in a fake Mars mission including a fake landing transmitted messages and a fatal reentry. Shot on location in Arizona Texas and California. Novelized by both Ken Follett and Ron Goulart. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner creases else Near Fine. Scarce. Lentz US. Spicer US. ITC Entertainment unknown
ref. 158711Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1982. Small archive of material from the 1982 film including a Master Stencil Final Revised Draft screenplay with studio secretarial annotations throughout a press kit with eight studio still photographs and six gatherings of promotional material and a complete set of eight lobby cards. Based on John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" 1945 and "Sweet Thursday" 1954. David S. Ward's directorial debut. In 1940s Monterey a self employed marine biologist and former baseball star befriends a drifter working at the local bordello. Set and shot on location in Monterey and San Diego California. Screenplay: Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 24 1980 noted as FINAL REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter David S. Ward and novelist John Steinbeck. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/17/80 and 2/17/81. Pages Near Fine unbound. Lobby cards 14 x 11 inches. About Fine. Press folder photographs and promotional photographs Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1980ref. 152211N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. SIGNED on the title page by director and screenwriter David S. Ward. Based on John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" 1945 and "Sweet Thursday" 1954. David S. Ward's directorial debut. In 1940s Monterey a self employed marine biologist and former baseball star begins a relationship with a drifter working at the local bordello. Shot on location in Monterey and San Diego California Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter David S. Ward and author John Steinbeck. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 152211N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. SIGNED on the title page by director and screenwriter David S. Ward. Based on John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" 1945 and "Sweet Thursday" 1954. David S. Ward's directorial debut. In 1940s Monterey a self employed marine biologist and former baseball star begins a relationship with a drifter working at the local bordello. Shot on location in Monterey and San Diego California Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter David S. Ward and author John Steinbeck. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 152815Miami FL: Worldfilm 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a newspaper advertisement for the screenplay dated December 4 1978. A handsome secret agent named Thomas Corrigan is sent to Miami to stop an influx of drugs from Cuba smuggled in by a mysterious drug baron with World War II connections. Gray titled pictorial wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Thomas Conners. 206 leaves with last page of text numbered 205. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with dampstains affecting the first ten leaves wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Worldfilm unknown books
1968ref. 149656Paris: Les Films Corona 1968. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph of actress Ewa Aulin from the set of the 1968 film showing director Christian Marquand with a hand-held camera getting a close-up shot of Aulin sitting fully clothed and soaking wet on the floor of a shower. With a gold foil title label from the film's French release on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel co-written by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg following the psychedelic frequently involuntary erotic experiences of a teenager named Candy. Set in New York and California shot on location in New York. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creases to the corners. Les Films Corona unknown books
1968ref. 135902Paris: Le Spectacle du Monde 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the film in Rome. Pictured are director Christian Marquand whose faux-grim countenance is in nice contrast to the attractive innocence of the film's lead actress Ewa Aulin. With the stamp of French magazine Le Spectacle du Monde twice on the verso. 8 x 10.5 inches. Fine. Le Spectacle du Monde unknown books
1968ref. 149656Paris: Les Films Corona 1968. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph of actress Ewa Aulin from the set of the 1968 film showing director Christian Marquand with a hand-held camera getting a close-up shot of Aulin sitting fully clothed and soaking wet on the floor of a shower. With a gold foil title label from the film's French release on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel co-written by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg following the psychedelic frequently involuntary erotic experiences of a teenager named Candy. Set in New York and California shot on location in New York. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light creases to the corners. Les Films Corona unknown
1968ref. 135902Paris: Le Spectacle du Monde 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the film in Rome. Pictured are director Christian Marquand whose faux-grim countenance is in nice contrast to the attractive innocence of the film's lead actress Ewa Aulin. With the stamp of French magazine Le Spectacle du Monde twice on the verso. 8 x 10.5 inches. Fine. Le Spectacle du Monde unknown
1987ref. 145997Paris: Films A2 1987. Three vintage oversize studio photographs from French release of the 1987 French/Swiss/Canadian co-production. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank his only feature length fiction film and acclaimed wirter Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the screenplay "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer and featuring a cast full of notable musicians such as Tom Waits Leon Redbone Dr. John Joe Strummer Arto Lindsay David Johansen and others. Set in and shot on location in New York and Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine some light creasing and pinholes in corners in two of the three photographs. Rosenbaum 1000. Films A2 unknown books
1987ref. 149579N.p.: Xanadu 1987. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 film. With the label of Xanadu Film on the verso. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank his only feature-length fiction film and experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the screenplay. A musician's road movie heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer and featuring a cast full of notable musicians such as Tom Waits Leon Redbone Dr. John Joe Strummer Arto Lindsay and David Johansen. Set in and shot on location in New York and Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Shot on location in New York and Nova Scotia Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Xanadu unknown books
1987ref. 149579N.p.: Xanadu 1987. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 film. With the label of Xanadu Film on the verso. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank his only feature-length fiction film and experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the screenplay. A musician's road movie heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer and featuring a cast full of notable musicians such as Tom Waits Leon Redbone Dr. John Joe Strummer Arto Lindsay and David Johansen. Set in and shot on location in New York and Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Shot on location in New York and Nova Scotia Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Xanadu unknown
1987ref. 145997Paris: Films A2 1987. Three vintage oversize studio photographs from French release of the 1987 French/Swiss/Canadian co-production. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank his only feature length fiction film and acclaimed wirter Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the screenplay "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer and featuring a cast full of notable musicians such as Tom Waits Leon Redbone Dr. John Joe Strummer Arto Lindsay David Johansen and others. Set in and shot on location in New York and Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine some light creasing and pinholes in corners in two of the three photographs. Rosenbaum 1000. Films A2 unknown
1960ref. 139082Paris: Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema 1960. Original French petite small poster for the 1960 film. Set during WWII Candide Cassell is an orphaned Westphalian who falls in love with the baron's daughter Cunegonde Lavi and is thrown out of the house when the baron discovers them kissing. Candide is drafted and captured by the Nazis but escapes and joins the International Red Cross. His improbable adventures take himto the revolutions of South America the tribes of Borneo Moscow and to racially charged New York. 16 x 27 inches folded once as issued. Good with edge tears creases and chips light foxing. Scarce. Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema unknown books
1944ref. 164516Universal City: Universal Studios 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1944 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. In the early years of the Gold Rush a senator's daughter takes a wagon train west in order to follow her boyfriend a lieutenant in the US cavalry. One of the most expensive productions in Universal's history and the only Technicolor film in which Deanna Durbin appeared. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Shot on location in Utah and California. 10 x 8 inches. Faint scratches on the recto else Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1979ref. 156737Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1979. Revised Shooting script for the 1979 television film here under the working title "Can You Hear the Laughter The Freddie Prinze Story." Copy belonging to sound mixer Keith A. Wester with his name in manuscript ink on the top right of the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on 20 pages. Bound in preceding the script are a six page Staff and Crew contact list a 30 page Shooting Schedule 17 pages of Call Sheets with annotations in manuscript ink and a map to the Comedy Store West. Originally aired on CBS on September 11 1979. Based on the article "Good Night Sweet Prinze" by Peter Greenberg published in the June 1977 issue of Playboy magazine. A portrayal of the sudden rise and success of the troubled Puerto Rican stand-up comedian and actor Freddie Prinze who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 29 1977. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 60. Title page present dated March 19 1979 noted as REV. SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/79 and 5/4/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown books
1969ref. 161570N.p.: Cinex Film Industries 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. College students explore their sexuality with the help of burlesque dancers. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light edgewear. Cinex Film Industries unknown books
1969ref. 161570N.p.: Cinex Film Industries 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. College students explore their sexuality with the help of burlesque dancers. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and light edgewear. Cinex Film Industries unknown
1980ref. 153888N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Manuscript ink annotations to the title page and page 82. A teen comedy about a serious young girl who moves with her widowed father from Toronto to California where she quickly becomes immersed in her high school classmates' hijinks. Set in Toronto and California. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter William Byron Hillman. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with first leaf separated from the binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 153888N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Manuscript ink annotations to the title page and page 82. A teen comedy about a serious young girl who moves with her widowed father from Toronto to California where she quickly becomes immersed in her high school classmates' hijinks. Set in Toronto and California. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter William Byron Hillman. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with first leaf separated from the binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1988ref. 149439Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1988. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1988 French film. All with mimeo snipes and manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout on the verso and two with collector labels. A dramatization of the career of talented lesser-known sculptor Camille Claudel who began as an apprentice to Auguste Rodin later became his muse and lover and struggled to differentiate herself and her work from his legacy. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Gaumont unknown books
1988ref. 149439Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1988. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1988 French film. All with mimeo snipes and manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout on the verso and two with collector labels. A dramatization of the career of talented lesser-known sculptor Camille Claudel who began as an apprentice to Auguste Rodin later became his muse and lover and struggled to differentiate herself and her work from his legacy. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Gaumont unknown
