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1922réf. 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
réf. 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
1942réf. 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
réf. WALTER-FILM005811Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount 1942. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo. Photo is lightly sepia toned. There is creasing in all four blank white margins. Near fine. A stunning portrait of Veronica Lake during her early time at Paramount when she was appearing in such now classic films as I WANTED WINGS THIS GUN FOR HIRE and I MARRIED A WITCH. Lake worked with the top directors and filmmakers and turned in some wonderfully subtle and deft performances in which her genius has been more recently recognized. This publicity photo is coded #2745034. Paramount unknown books
réf. WALTER-FILM006308Paramount. No binding. Fine. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1947. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo fine. Studio portrait shot a year after Veronica Lake appeared in THE BLUE DAHLIA. She remained at Paramount for a few more years after. Paramount unknown books
réf. WALTER-FILM006307Paramount. No binding. Just About Fine. Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage original 10 x 8" 25 x 20 cm. black-and-white print still photo small closed tear in blank upper center top just about fine. Studio portrait of Veronica Lake during her time at Paramount Pictures. Photo coded P2745-504. Paramount unknown books
1927réf. 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
1933réf. WALTER-FILM001169William Faulkner source Vintage original pressbook "Press Sheet and AD-SALES Catalogue" UK. Pictorial wrappers 8 pp. 11 ½ x 9 ½" 30 x 24 cm. pages partly coming loose VERY GOOD. 1933 pre-Code film based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel Sanctuary. An extremely rare film only shown at festivals on occasion since its release with only one known nitrate print in storage at UCLA. Along with Baby Face made the same year The Story of Temple Drake is one of the most notorious of the films from the pre-Code area so controversial that it was ordered never to be shown again after the Production Code Administration was instituted the following year. The controversy comes straight from Faulkner's source material wherein a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle is trapped in a hideout with a gang of vicious criminal bootleggers. The leader of the gang Trigger lusts after the woman and her subsequent rape is presented in a manner that was unheard of at the time. George Raft under contract to Paramount was assigned the part but found the part repulsive and went to battle with the studio in a suit that nearly cost him his career. This British pressbook has extensive illustrations of the notorious advertising and poster campaign which eventually made the film's release such a troubled one. A rare piece from a film that is legendary in the history of literary adaptation and film censorship. It is very interesting to note a few references to Faulkner in the text as he was not yet a well-known author much less in the UK. Paramount British paperback books
1975réf. 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
réf. 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
1979réf. 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
réf. 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
1936réf. 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
1932réf. WALTER-FILM006662Paramount. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Paramount 1932. Vintage original 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. There are light signs of use at blank corners about fine. Marlene Dietrich was the true writer of the screenplay for this opus which took her from wealth to ruin to rags to fame to wealth again. The censors crossed out so much of her material even in the pre-Code period that by the time a final script was approved she and director/mentor Joseph von Sternberg had little interest in making the film. They came through though with a brilliant odyssey highlighted by Dietrich in many moods all behind heavy diffusion. Here is Dietrich as the down-and-out vagrant Helen Faraday with Sidney Toler as the detective on her trail. Photo coded 1385-87. Paramount books
réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
1928réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 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
1929réf. 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
1928réf. 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
réf. 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
