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1975ref. 11898STAR TREK: THE CRIER IN THE EMPTINESS Paramount Pictures Corporation 1975 first edition near fine full color pictorial wraps with 45 rpm record included. This comic book is design so that one can read along with the actors on the recording. Product # PR-26. An incredible production put together by cretins from another dimension as herewith is the blonde caucasian Uhura the African-American Sulu and the voice of Russian Checkhov in the body of a blond American male! Paramount Pictures paperback books
1979ref. 2347718Hollywood CA: Paramount Pictures 1979. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. An exceptional copy. 1979 Stapled Binding. 16 pp. The original 1979 pressbook from the horror/science fiction movie "Prophecy" from award-winning director John Frankenheimer. Includes synopsis cast bio advertisements for theatrical use and publicity articles. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1936ref. 167672Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1936. Vintage booklet advertising films released by Paramount Pictures in 1936 and 1937 intended for distributors' use. Films released "The Texas Rangers" "Murder with Pictures" "Queen of the Jungle" "The Plainsman" "High Wide and Handsome" and many others. Of particular note are features starring Marlene Dietrich and Claudette Colbert the latter being the highest paid actress in Hollywood in 1936. 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus in wrappers bound with a red comb with several leaves detached from the binding and an owner stamp on the verso of the front wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1929ref. WALTER-FILM007805Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1929. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photo. Strips of non-restoration brown paper on verso overall just about fine. Director Josef von Sternberg's last silent film The Case of Lena Smith is ranked by film historians as among the lost masterpieces of the silent era and the holy grail for archivists who sift through film repositories. In 2003 Japanese film historian Komatsu Hiroshi unearthed a four-minute fragment of The Case of Lena Smith in Manchuria China reviving interest in the film. Wikipedia The little surviving fragment contains some utterly dazzling imagery. Paramount books
ref. WALTER-FILM006420Paramount. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1947. Vintage original 8 x 10"" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white print still photo coded ""10008-110"" fine. This is a great film noir image. Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott stand tensely by a newsstand as its vendor hawks a newspaper with Lancaster's image identified as that of a killer wanted by the police. Silver Ward. Ursini Porfiro p. 146. Grant p. 330. Paramount unknown books
1928ref. WALTER-FILM007765Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Set of 3 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white linen-backed keybook photos just about fine. Emil Jannings at left of first photo won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 1929 ceremony for his performances in this film and in The Way of All Flesh -- the only year multiple roles were considered. Paramount books
ref. WALTER-FILM007769Paramount. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1936. Set of 6 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photos. Some with collector stamps and photo agency stickers on verso overall fine. Josef von Sternberg's final film with Marlene Dietrich. One photo has the film's tentative working title Caprice Espagnol. Dietrich is in four of the six photos. Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM007767Paramount. No binding. Very Good. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Set of 5 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photos. Two have mimeographed text on verso another has film's title mimeographed on verso. One is a linen-backed keybook photo two have title written in ink in blank bottom margin. One has a marginal chip at top right overall very good. Josef von Sternberg's gloomy romantic drama with George Bancroft Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova is now considered one of the final classics of the silent film era. Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM006790Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1934. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Some wear at bottom corners near fine. Original type on verso explains that Wally Westmore head of Paramount's make-up department has invented a new gun spray make-up device for applying body make-up. In this image showman Earl Carroll is shown demonstrating it on one of his showgirls Anya Taranda. Carroll's dancing ladies performed an extravagant production number in the film. The device is the forerunner of today's airbrush make-up technique. Photo is coded 989/2/90. Paramount unknown books
1938ref. WALTER-FILM006816Paramount. No binding. Very Good. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of four 4 Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photos. Minor corner creases and wear to all. One has chip at top right corner another has chip at bottom left corner. Overall very good. Four photos in a series called "How To Swim in Nine Easy Lessons". The series includes nine photos as indicated; present are numbers 1 6 8 and 9. Each has a blurb printed on the verso explaining the swim technique which Buster is demonstrating. They were used to publicize his appearance in the Paramount film Tip Off Girls. The Olympic swim champ was popular and utilized in film for his physique more so than his acting talents but he did make for an iconic Flash Gordon. From the Kenneth Anger collection but not stamped. Anger may have been planning a beefcake storyline for one of his books or just liked collecting beefcake photos of the stars. Photos coded P1498-240 241 243 248. Paramount books
ref. WALTER-FILM007820Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount 1930. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Minor wear small edge crease at lower right corner 1930 holograph note on verso. Near fine. Star Gary Cooper poses at center with director Roland V. Lee at left surrounded by crew on location for the pre-Code war romance film A Man from Wyoming. The handwritten notes on verso indicate "10 days ranch pontoon bridge" and dated April May 1930. This came from the collection of one of the crew members likely present in the photo. This story took place during the United States entry into World War I. By 1930 Americans were ready to take in stories about the horrific war Paramount unknown books
1928ref. WALTER-FILM007745Paramount. No binding. Very Good. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Set of 9 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photos one trimmed for publication one the portrait of Evelyn Brent with chipping and a long tape repair on verso one with mimeographed text on verso and five linen-backed keybook photos. Overall very good or better. The Drag Net is a lost gangster film from Josef von Sternberg. These photos provide a tantalising glimpse into what once existed. Film historian John Baxter provides a synopsis: "Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan George Bancroft is appointed head of the New York detective force and as his first act rounds up every criminal in town – the 'drag net' of the title. Gang boss 'Dapper' Frank Trent William Powell stands bail for all of them including 'The Magpie' Evelyn Brent as independent minor gang-leader with complex alliances. Nolan is particularly impressed by the girl who affects caps of black-and-white feathers and is attended by her own bodyguard of gunmen. She and the detective have a number of sexually charged encounters before her release. Setting out to get Trent Nolan moves in on his hideout assisted by his friend 'Shakespeare' Leslie Fenton. Trent armed with a machine gun kills Shakespeare but makes Nolan believe it is his shot that has done so. Nolan for motives as obscure as those which motivated the futile round-up of the gangs resigns his commission and becomes a drunk. Found unconscious by Trent he is offered as the pièce de résistance at a gangland banquet which 'The Magpie' attends. Pitying the humiliated man she discovers that he did not kill his friend reveals the fact to him and is reformed and wounded in the downfall of Trent killed by Nolan in his steel-shuttered apartment." Paramount books
ref. WALTER-FILM006357Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures ca. 1934-1936. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white print still photo blank bottom left corner reinforced on verso with archival paper just about fine. A strong photo of actress Katherine DeMille during the two-year period when she was under contract to the studio of Cecil B. DeMille for whom she was the adopted daughter. Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM007819Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount 1929. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Minor soiling to edges crease at bottom right corner 1929 holograph note on verso. Near fine. Rare is this image of cast with crew so many waiting to be identified with many of the top artists at Paramount Studios. The film is notable for being both the debut of Jeanette MacDonald and the first talkie film made by Ernst Lubitsch. The picture was also released in a French-language version called Parade d'amour. Maurice Chevalier thought he would never be capable of acting as a royal courtier and had to be persuaded by Lubitsch. This huge box-office hit appeared just after the Wall Street crash and did much to save the fortunes of Paramount Studios. The major players of this groundbreaking early sound musical are present in the front row including Lupino Lane Lubitsch MacDonald Chevalier and likely cinematographer Victor Milner at left behind Jeanette. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. He and Lubitsch are mentioned in the handwritten note on verso. The notations also specifically indicate the filming dates of June July and August 1929. Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM007507Paramount. No binding. Very Good-. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1930. Vintage original 35 5/8 x 14" 90.5 x 35.6 cm insert poster. Folded three times as issued with small copyright text at bottom missing poster is trimmed by approximately 3/8 in. at bottom. Some normal wear at foldlines one marginal chip overall very good-. Tom Sawyer was the first talking film adapted from Mark Twain. It starred Jackie Coogan and was directed by John Cromwell. The film was the third screen adaptation of the Twain novel following silent versions released in 1907 and 1917. The picture was made on location at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura California. Wikipedia Paramount unknown books
1933ref. WALTER-FILM006815Paramount. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1933. Set of five 5 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white double weight matte finish photos. Very minor corner wear and some with tiny pinholes at corners about fine. When Buster Crabbe lost out to fellow Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in playing Tarzan at MGM Paramount came up with this competitive story. It was Buster's first feature film and the studio photographers wasted little time in presenting photography of his physique which bared nearly all and would not be tolerated once the Production Code was enforced. This series of images introduced moviegoers to Crabbe. They are amongst the finest photos in male beefcake. Photos coded P-1495-2 3 4 6 27. Paramount books
ref. WALTER-FILM007776Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1929. Set of 12 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photos one with mimeographed text on verso three with the film's title stamped on verso overall just about fine. Josef von Sternberg's first talking film. Some historians credit his importance in the evolution of gangster films with his UNDERWORLD 1927. This was by any standard the first significant talking gangster film. It tells the story of a criminal facing execution who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his former girlfriend. Sternberg experimented with asynchronous sound effects which served to augment or supplement the visual effects or as he framed the process "To be correctly and effectively used the sound had to bring to the image a quality other than what the lens included a quality out of the range of the image. Sound had to counterpoint or compensate for the image add to it – not subtract from it." Rather than the external and complementary musical accompaniment of silent films Sternberg's scores arise organically with the mise-en-scène and form a key component of the film. The music off-screen does not recede in deference to the on-screen dialogue but competes with it. Off-screen voices comment on the visual action but are not identified visually until later in the film sequence contributing to an "unrealistic cadence" that characterizes the film's dialogue. Film historian Andrew Sarris describes it as "a startling experiment. his use of sound and music for mood effects and the very unreality of his style seems to justify the unusual density of his sound track." Sternberg also uses sound expressionistically such as the erratic start-stop of a sewing machine or the "sinister" squeaking of a dog's ball toy squeezed by the condemned criminal in the hours before his death. Wikipedia Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM006265Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Hollywood: Otto Preminger 1964. Two 2 vintage original 7 7/8 x 9 3/4" 20 x 24.5 cm. borderless double weight black-and-white photos just about fine. Director Otto Preminger works with John Wayne behind-the-scenes on the 1964 WWII masterpiece In Harm's Way. Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM007618Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1935. Vintage original 14 x 17" 36 x 44 cm jumbo lobby card. Small diagonal crease at extreme upper top reinforced with archival paper on verso overall near fine. Marlene Dietrich Lionel Atwill and Alison Skipworth in a scene from Josef von Sternberg's final collaboration with Dietrich. Paramount unknown books
ref. WALTER-FILM007621Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1929. Vintage original 14 x 17" 36 x 44 cm jumbo lobby card. Small tear mended on verso with archival paper and minor diagonal crease both in extreme upper left corner near fine. A portrait of the legendary actress and singer Helen Morgan in her first starring role in a talking film a pre-Code backstage musical which remains a classic of early American sound movies. Paramount unknown books
1922ref. 12673St. Louis 1922. Broadside 11.25 x 14.25 inches. Tanned short closed diagonal tear on right edge left edge a bit frayed tiny hip to top right corner otherwise minor edge wear. Fragile but in good condition. An unrecorded promotional broadside recruiting membership in the short-lived Paramount Progressive Order of Moose PPOM an African-American fraternal organization founded in the early-1920s by H.A. Stewart of St. Louis. The organization was created to serve the needs of the African-American community after the Loyal Order of Moose refused to admit Black members. The PPOM was gone by the 1930s following lawsuits from the Loyal Order of Moose who claimed infringement due to the PPOM's use of similar imagery. Still the PPOM offered members a number of benefits during its operations. According to the present broadside which asks "WHY NOT JOIN THE MOOSE" and touts itself as "One of the Most Progressive Orders" above the moose-centric logo at upper center the PPOM was "Now Open to Men and Women Between the Ages of 18 and 50 Years." Members could enjoy "Free Medical Aid" as well as sick and death benefits. Membership was $6 for men and half that for women with women receiving $3 sick benefits as opposed to $5 for men and $150 death benefit men received $200. Potential members are asked to contact the Grad Supervisor but the name city and state for said person is not filled in. A wonderful and evocative promotional broadside for an important though short-lived St. Louis-based African-American mutual aid society with no copies reported in OCLC. unknown books
1927ref. WALTER-FILM005709Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1927. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white print still photo light crease and rippling from descriptive paper snipe on back near fine. A portrait of Evelyn Brent George Bancroft and Clive Brook from Josef von Sternberg's gangster film often cited as a proto-film noir. Grant p. 675: "Important precursor of the 1930s US gangster movie and as such significant to noir's ancestry." Silver and Ward p. 301: "Enhanced immeasurably by the exotic visual preoccupations of . Sternberg which encompass a range of original symbols and imagery. The script as written by ex-newspaperman Ben Hecht realistically details the personalities populating the sordid speakeasies and dingy dwellings of the gangsters." Paramount books
1942ref. WALTER-FILM006653Paramount. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Tape repair at top right corner about fine. Veronica Lake displays her iconic appearance in this unusual portrait in which she sports a designer bracelet in promotion for her work in This Gun for Hire. The original attached paper blurb on verso calls it a "He and She" bracelet designed by Hobe. A picture of "he" and "she" can be inserted in the hearts. A vintage King Features Syndicate Inc. ink stamp on verso. Paramount books
ref. WALTER-FILM006440Paramount. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1935. Vintage original 8 x 11"" 20 x 28 cm. black-and-white double weight glossy silver nitrate keybook photo. Minor wear at bottom left edge keybook holes at left edge about fine. Independent film producer Walter Wanger throws a wrap party at the completion of his Paramount-released musical Every Night at Eight on the film's nightclub set and likely on the last day of principal photography; it is rare to find photos showing such events. His stars Alice Faye Frances Langford George Raft and director Raoul Walsh are joined by left-to-right: - Henry Fonda who was placed under contract to Wanger in 1935 after Broadway success and was just finishing his first film The Farmer Takes a Wife; - Gail Patrick Paramount contract player who was appearing in Wanger's Smart Girl at the time; - Walter Wanger producer of the film; - Alice Faye who was on loan from Fox Pictures to star in Wanger's film. She is still in costume; - Ida Lupino who was appearing in and is in costume and makeup for Wanger's production Smart Girl; - William Wellman well-known director writer and producer seemingly between projects; - Alison Skipworth in costume for The Devil is a Woman; - Frances Langford making her feature film debut and debuting her signature song ""I'm In the Mood for Love"". Her costume matches that of Alice Faye; - George Raft lead star of the film and Paramount contract player; - Joan Bennett who would be married to Wanger between 1940-65 and who was appearing in numerous Paramount films in 1935; - Raoul Walsh director of the film; - Bert Hanlon though the verso identifies him as Harry Holman -- the character actor who appeared in over 20 films in 1935 alone including uncredited in this film -- it is incorrect. This is composer songwriter actor author and director Bert Hanlon who wrote dialogue for this film. The party took place in late-June 1935 at General Service Studio Hollywood CA. Ink stamped by the Hollywood Advertising Council June 26 1935. Paramount unknown books
1928ref. WALTER-FILM007800Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Set of 22 vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm black-and-white photos one with a marginal chip. Sixteen have mimeographed text on verso some have old photo agency stickers. Two have writing in margins. Overall near fine. A remarkably substantial group of photos from this film which came near the end of Erich von Stroheim's career as a director. Set in Vienna in 1914 this was one of Stroheim's regular forays into the world of decadent European aristocracy. Paramount books
