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16-2806Moscow: 1926. Original color lithograph poster from the collection of Alma Law. Repaired by Sasha Mosolov and mounted on a support sheet. No losses. 102 x 71.5 cm. The best and rarest of the Stenberg posters. From CineMaterial:The Stenberg brothers Vladimir 1899-1982 and Georgii 1900-1933 were Soviet artists and designers. While born in Moscow both remained Swedish citizens until 1933 because their father was a Swede.The innovative visual aspects of their posters included a distortion of perspective elements from Dada photomontage an exaggerated scale a sense of movement and a dynamic use of color and typography. Their artwork was frequently based on stills from the films.Radical even today the posters by the brothers working together were realized within the nine-year period from 1924 to 1933 the year Georgii died at age 33. His motorcycle hit a truck a few months after the brothers had become Russian citizens. Vladimir continued to work on film posters and organized the decorations of Moscow's Red Square for the May Day celebration of 1947._______________Directed by Ivane Perestiani Maria Shirai Maria Shirai . Princess Shirvanskaya as M. Shirai Cinematography by Aleksandre Digmelovi Film Editing by Lev Push as L. PushiProduction Design by S. Gubin-guni Fiodor Push as P. Pushi Moscow: 1926. unknown
1950156756Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1950. Final Draft script for the 1951 film dated October 18 1950. Although the front wrapper and the first distribution page identify the script as Part I the script presented here is the complete Final Draft divided into four parts Parts I-IV each with its own distribution page. Laid in are twelve call sheets dating from October 31 1950 through December 23 1950 with all but one heavily annotated in manuscript pencil.<br /> <br /> Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel. A Hitchcock classic following a psychotic socialite and tennis pro who meet on a train and promptly form a partnership to "exchange murders." The plan seems infallible until one person shirks his end of the deal. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York Los Angeles Washington DC and Connecticut.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 115 dated OCT. 18 1950. Four distribution pages present one for each Part with the first receipt removed all others intact. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/30/50 and 11/20/50. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with edgewear and a closed tear to the center left front wrapper bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Call sheets: 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
19755110Inscribed by Bertolucci in Italian to Walter Alferol on title page. Full green morocco faded to brown with debossed decoration to front cover. Marbled endpapers. 36 original tipped-in silver gelatin prints 1 color print of the film crew and 1 loose silver gelatin print. All beautifully printed. Loss to tail of spine and its leather is detached from back cover board. Discoloration to spine edge. Unpaginated. 12 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches. hardcover
51-04331975-1977. 48 16mm films thirty minutes to ten minutes 48 Synchronized sound tracks one tape and transcript . Various loose 16mm filmstrips editing. These are the masters and outtakes of the films directed by Richard O. Moore for The Writer in America Series 1975-77.A few of the audios have been converted to MP3 files. Sample MP3 snippets available. 1975-1977 unknown
51-04321975-1977. 27 16mm films thirty minutes to five minutes 29 Synchronized sound tracks one tape and transcript. These are the masters and outtakes of the films directed by Richard O. Moore for The Writer in America Series 1975-77. A few of the audios have been converted to MP3 files and one of the films to a digital file. Sample MP3 snippets available. 1975-1977 unknown
L3 box713 b2First Monday at Jordan Hall Thirty Years 1985 - 2015. New England Conservatory. By Laurence Lesser Founder and Artistic Director et al. Cloth hardcover 174 pages. Laurence Lesser presented this book to Terry Decima and signed in title page. New England Conservatory. hardcover
1927149511Shanghai China: The Commercial Press Limited 1927. First edition of White's fine photographic study of the monuments of Shanghai. Folio original royal blue embroidered silk pictorial boards illustrated with seventy mounted color and monochrome photographic plates of the celebrated monuments of China's Northern Capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes by Herbert C. White Art Director of Signed of the Times Publishing House Shanghai. Introduction by Hu Shih Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Peking. In fine condition. Housed in the original publisher's box. Very rare in such fine condition. Herbert C. White 1896-1962 arrived in China in 1922 together with his twin brother James H. White 1896-1954. They opened a language school in Beijing. Attracted by Chinese landscapes and civilization they used their vacations to travel around the country and took large numbers of photographs. This album is a selection of photographs of the city gates and walls the Temple of Heaven the Forbidden City and the temples and monasteries of Beijing. It presents a realistic view of the city's appearance during the early Republican era. From the preface: "For a long time there has been a recognized need for an album on historic Peking that would embody a representative set of all the important monuments of the capital. The very fact that so many of the ancient landmarks . are being torn from their foundations and ruthlessly destroyed makes an album of this kind not only interesting as an art volume but a work of immeasurable value to China and to the world as an authentic record of picturesque Peking." The Commercial Press, Limited hardcover
142842N.p.: N.p. 1981. Handmade vernacular conceptual journal documenting the shooting of Robert Frank's 1981 film "Energy and How to Get It" circa 1980-1981. <br /> <br /> Includes tipped in ephemera drawings business cards and 46 Polaroids of Wurlitzer Robert Frank June Leaf and "Lightning" Bob. Annotations and captions throughout by Wurlitzer. Also included are 4 reference photos all likely unique from the shooting of the film: two showing both Wurlitzer and Frank one showing Wurlitzer and one of the "Enola Gay" aircraft in the film. <br /> <br /> Mead Memo notebook spiral bound. Green wrappers. 4.25 x 6 inches Very Good overall tipped in photos Near Fine. Reference photos 8 x 10 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1965158800N.p.: N.p. 1965. Archive of vintage treatments scripts and other ephemera from the 1962 film.<br /> <br /> Archive includes: <br /> <br /> Two carbon typescript treatment scripts by Jean-Paul Sartre one in English and one in French both dated December 15 1958 with annotations in Sartre's hand.<br /> <br /> An early xerographically duplicated draft of Sartre's voluminous three-part script a later reproduction made for internal use with copied annotations throughout. <br /> <br /> A working script used during the film's production with revision pages.<br /> <br /> A film program. <br /> <br /> Three telegrams a telefax and a letter regarding the release of the film the return of Sartre's treatments and script and a deposition reminder all from agent Paul Kohner to director John Huston. <br /> <br /> A copy of the 1984 posthumous publication of Sartre's script The Freud Scenario.<br /> <br /> Huston announced his intention to make a film about a young Sigmund Freud in 1958 and asked Sartre whom he had met on the set of his 1952 film Moulin Rouge to submit a screenplay. The partnership quickly soured however due to Sartre's refusal to shorten his script which had ballooned to the colossal 472-page script on offer. Huston and Sartre would meet in Galway but Sartre continued to reject the director's proposed cuts wryly noting "We can make a film of four hours in the case of Ben Hur but the Texas public couldn't stand four hours of complexes." The film was ultimately finished and released in 1962 and although many elements of Sartre's script remain in the film the philosopher went uncredited. <br /> <br /> Set in Vienna shot on location in Austria and Germany.<br /> <br /> French Treatment:<br /> <br /> Salmon untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 15 Décembre 1958 noted as Scénario original with credits for author Jean-Paul Sartre. 95 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Carbon typescript copy on onionskin rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine saddle-stapled with two staples.<br /> <br /> English Treatment:<br /> <br /> Tan untitled wrappers with a titled label noted as Original Outline on the front wrapper with credits for author Jean-Paul Sartre. Title page present dated December 15 1958 noted as 1. Draft with credits for author Jean-Paul Sartre. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Carbon typescript copy on onionskin rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three screw brads.<br /> <br /> Xerographically duplicated Sartre Script:<br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers. 472 leaves with last page of text numbered 181. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling overall bound internally with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Working Script:<br /> <br /> Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 168. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue buff and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/8/61 and 12/19/61. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good lacking rear wrapper and much of the spine bound with a prong binding.<br /> <br /> Telegrams telefax and letter: 6.5 x 4.5 to 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Program: 7 x 8.5 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Book: Near Fine and unread in a lightly rubbed Very Good plus dust jacket. N.p. unknown
1914000179Ottoman Turkish official report about the Hijaz health rules and organizations with several illustrations of Jeddah and Mecca. Amira , government press paperback
190158762Matanzas Cuba 1901. Oblong folio approx. 12" x 16" overall original padded leather with elaborate filigreed silver corner-pieces and central band bearing two engraved shields Cuban and American and a central medallion bearing the name of the school and the Buffalo Exposition a.e.g. silk moiré endpapers; leather a little scuffed the endpapers loosening but in all the binding is very good and sound; internally fine. Containing an autograph leaf signed by the director and 20 instructors and professors 7 printed leaves of text within red borders describing the Institute's curriculum professors natural history museum gymnasium etc. and 37 original photographs on printed mounts with decorative borders depicting professors benefactors alumni classrooms views of buildings both interior and exterior library and museum. The photographs are by C. Ruiz de Castro of Matanzas of whom there seems to be scant information. Photographs measure 7½" x 10" on mounts 11½" x 14". The Institute exists to this day. Started in September 1839 it went through many transformations over the years. By the mid-1860s the school was offering degrees in "Reasoned Arithmetic Algebra Topography Geometry Trigonometry History Physics Line Drawing Bookkeeping Applied Chemistry Geography and Commercial Statistical Geography Industrial Mechanics Natural History Political Economy and in terms of languages: English and French." Shortly thereafter were added "Grammar Latin Greek Sacred History and Religion Psychology Logic and Morals." By 1895 two chairs were added "Linear Drawing and Natural Drawing and it also had a Museum of Natural History with collections of snails and invaluable plants and specimens of the fauna and flora of Cuba." See a good history of the Institute online at dcubanos.com/rinconcuba/instituto-de-segunda-ensenanza-de-matanzas. unknown
1946157187Beverly Hills CA: MGM 1946. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1946 film.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. A high spot of film noir as well as the careers of Lana Turner and John Garfield. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> 27.25 x 41 inches. In an archival frame. Near Fine with some professional restoration and repair at the original folds.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Penzler 101. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. MGM unknown
1958167441N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage ribbon copy typescript treatment for the 1960 French film. With substantive annotations in director Jean Cocteau's hand throughout noting deletions and amending dialogue. <br /> <br /> Full provenance available. <br /> <br /> The final film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and "Orphee" 1950. The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying as indeed he was his greatest desire being to experience rebirth so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. <br /> <br /> With cameos by Pablo Picasso Charles Aznavour bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguen and Yul Brynner. A few seconds of color are spliced in at one point a surreal effect used prior to this film in "Portrait of Jennie" 1948 and later in Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" 1963. <br /> <br /> Having run out of funds in mid-production Cocteau was given money to complete filming by François Truffaut who used the prize money he had won at Cannes for "Les Quatre Cents Coups" 1959. <br /> <br /> Unbound housed in a gray paper folder. Title and Cocteau's name in manuscript pencil on the front of the folder. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Fine unbound. N.p. unknown
1967160830Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1967. Revised Estimating script for the 1969 Western film.<br /> <br /> Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western of nearly inestimable importance and violence made at the peak of his career and which-along with "Straw Dogs" 1971-remains the lasting testament to his vision. A major contributor to the "end of the West" theme so prevalent of the genre in the 1970s and one of the earliest New Hollywood Westerns. <br /> <br /> Set in Mexico shot on location in Mexico and Spain. <br /> <br /> Beige titled Warner Brothers wrappers dated November 15 1967 noted as Rev. Estimating Script and stamped copy No. 75. Title page present dated 11/15/67 with credits for screenwriters Wallen Green and Sam Peckinpah and story credit for Roy Sickner. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert I. Hardy US. Pitts 4934. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 28. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
54774Paris; Imprimerie "Le Souterrain" 1970-1973. Folios 43.8 × 31 cm. Original color illustrated self-wrappers; first issue 16 all other issues 24 pp. each with numerous reproductions of photographs mostly printed in one or two colors as well as several comic strips. A few leaves somewhat toned and with wear to edges; one issue with small missing section of final leaf; else very good. Complete run of the rare Parisian underground music and counterculture monthly combining music journalism and radical politics with adventurous illustrations comics and written features on diverse aspects of the international counterculture experience particularly the psychosexual theories of Reich coverage of conflicts in Vietnam Algeria Ireland and South Africa the nascent ecological movement drug use and regulation film "anti-authoritarian education" occultism "sexual liberation" and underground new media.<br /> <br /> Experimental rocker and artist Enu was a major figure in the Parisian underground in the early 1970s and deeply committed to alternative media and new modes of distribution - primarily through Le Parapluie video and comics. International in scope Le Parapluie was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate network with notable contributions by artists and authors such as Dominique Tarlé Jean-Louis Brau Timothy Leary Allen Ginsberg and Andy Warhol and reviews or articles on music festivals and groups including the Isle of Wight Jimi Hendrix James Brown Roxy Music The Velvet Underground The Rolling Stones The Who John Lennon and Yoko Ono The Yardbirds David Bowie and Sun Ra among others. Together presenting a sophisticated and frank rendering of French counterculture shifting from the psychedelic era toward the harder-edge iconoclasm of protopunk.<br /> <br /> Bernière/Primois 32f.<br /> <br /> As of November 2024 KVK OCLC show only four holdings in North America. unknown
1942151348Santa Ana CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols inscribed by Nichols to Los Angeles Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols-with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in manuscript pencil at the top right corner.<br /> <br /> Renoir's second American feature an anti-fascist propaganda film following a meek schoolteacher in a German-occupied European country who is falsely accused of murder and forced to take a stand against the Nazis and their collaborators. <br /> <br /> At the peak of his career Nichols worked with many key Golden Age directors including John Ford George Cukor Howard Hawks Fritz Lang and of course Jean Renoir. He was a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild and is best remembered for "The Informer" 1935 for which Nichols won an Academy Award "Bringing Up Baby" 1938 "Stagecoach" 1939 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1943 "Scarlet Street" 1945 "And Then There Were None" 1945 "The Bells of St. Mary's" 1945 and "The Tin Star" 1957. He continued to write prolifically for film up until the time of his death in 1960. <br /> <br /> Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. <br /> <br /> Pink titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 104 dated OCTOBER 2 1942 with credits for director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Dudley Nichols. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1966160106Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1966. Early Draft script for the 1967 film seen here under the working title "Point Blank!" <br /> <br /> The lead character named Parker here as he was in the novel was renamed Walker in the finished film the role played by Lee Marvin. <br /> <br /> A foundational crime film of the late 1960s setting the stage for the New Hollywood era. A blunt unapologetic nihilistic work one of the gems of early neo-noir with touches of French New Wave. Viewers and critics have often questioned whether or not the film is really a dream that its protagonist has after he is shot in the very beginning. Director John Boorman claims to not have an opinion on the matter and has said that the film is about the lead character's brutalizing experiences in World War II that had dehumanized him and left him desperately searching for his humanity. <br /> <br /> The film's oblique final sequence wherein Parker/Walker realizes he has been unknowingly eliminating the competition for a shadowy figure who now wishes to hire him was not developed at this stage of the script's history. The ending instead adheres more closely to that of the novel. <br /> <br /> Goldenrod titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 6 dated December 5 1966 with credits for screenwriters Rafe Newhouse and David Newhouse. Title page integral with front wrapper. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Mimeograph duplication rectos only all leaves dated variously between 12/4/66 and 12/9/66. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Housed in a green cloth clamshell box.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
167957Los Angeles: Amblin Entertainment 1988. Fourth Revised Draft script for the 1989 film. All pages with a numeric watermark noting copy No. 0078.<br /> <br /> George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's beloved homage to the serialized Saturday matinee films of the 1930s and 40s. The third installment in the series features Indy fighting to retrieve his father an academic specializing in medieval studies who has been kidnapped by Nazis in order to help them locate the Holy Grail. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one.<br /> <br /> Set in Utah Venice Berlin and Jordan shot on location in Mexico California Colorado Texas Utah New Mexico England Italy Spain Jordan and Germany. <br /> <br /> Generic blue Amblin wrappers. Title page present dated May 8 1988 noted as Fourth Revision with credits for story writer George Lucas and screenwriters Jeffrey Boam and Barry Watson the latter being the nom de plume of Tom Stoppard. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Amblin Entertainment unknown
1954153634N.p.: N.p. 1954. Archive of five vintage borderless oversize photographs of director Alfred Hitchcock with various cast and crew members on the set of the 1954 film noir. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso including layout annotations "FILE" stamps and the stamp of photographer Sanford H. Roth. Four photographs with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and four photographs with manuscript annotations noting their appearance in the May 24 1954 issue of Life magazine. <br /> <br /> Brooklyn-born photojournalist Sanford Roth was best known for his portrait photography capturing intimate and now iconic images of artists and actors throughout his decades-long career including Marc Chagall Joan Crawford Albert Einstein Henri Matisse and Elizabeth Taylor among many others. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1952 play by Frederick Knott who also wrote the screenplay about a tennis player who arranges to have his wife framed for murder after discovering her infidelity. The only Hitchcock film to be shot in 3D although the format would ultimately be discarded for theatrical release and the first of three Hitchcock films to feature actress Grace Kelly followed by "Rear Window" 1954 and "To Catch a Thief" 1955. <br /> <br /> One photograph features Hitchcock leaning over a giant rotary dial a prop made as a result of Warner Brothers' proprietary 3D camera rig. Hitchcock wanted the first shot of the film to feature a finger pressing the letter M on a rotary dial telephone but the specialized 3D camera was unable to focus the close-up correctly leading the director to order a giant finger made from wood and a proportionally large dial in order to achieve the effect. <br /> <br /> Four photographs 10 x 13.5 inches one photograph 9.5 x 13.5 inches. Lightly edgeworn else generally Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1940153773New York: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1940 film noir generally considered to be the first in the American film noir cycle.<br /> <br /> An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a cafe owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. Widely regarded as the first film noir. Author and occasional screenwriter Nathanael West who is credited with revisions on the front wrapper was not credited on the finished film. <br /> <br /> Purple titled card wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated MAY 24 1940 with credits for screenwriter Frank Partos and revision credits to Nathanael West. Title page integral with the title page as issued. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication on yellow onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1949143058Tokyo: Film Art Association 1949. First Draft script for the 1949 Japanese film noir. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations from production on two leaves. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> Generally considered to be the greatest film noir made in Japan and hugely influential on American film noir of the 1950s and 1960s. <br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mechanical duplication. Toning due to aging throughout wrapper split at spine with mild foxing otherwise Good condition. <br /> <br /> BFI 534. Criterion Collection 233. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan Classic Noir. Film Art Association unknown
19277591London: UFA / Wardour Films Limited 1927. First U.K. Edition. Small quarto 24.5cm; original pictorial card wrappers saddle-stitched; 32pp; illus. Slim quarto 24.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers stapled; 30pp; illus. Trivial wear along the spine-fold some oxidation to staples with some mild dustiness to rear wrapper; contents are fresh and complete cover is rich in color with corners still sharp; a Near fine unrestored example. Housed in a custom clamshell case.<br /> <br /> Well-preserved program for the British premiere of Fritz Lang's epochal science fiction film held at London's Marble Arch Pavilion on 21 March 1927. The program contains 78 photos and stills - from the film itself and from behind the scenes - including a synopsis of the film casting information a dramatic centerfold and several short pieces written by Fritz Lang Thea Von Harbou Rudolf Klein-Rogge Gustav Frolich Carl Freund Alfred Abel and Brigitte Helm. A desirable and intensely visual piece of ephemera from a groundbreaking sci-fi film. Not found in OCLC. 7591. UFA / Wardour Films Limited unknown
147168Beverly Hills CA: E-K-Corporation / United Artists 1971. First Draft script for the 1973 film written nine months before the production began.<br /> <br /> From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br /> <br /> Based on Chandler's 1953 novel the sixth and penultimate Philip Marlowe book. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett who also co-wrote the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" 1946 updated not just the setting from the 1950s to the 1970s but the attitudes themes and relationships as well. The result was less of a straight adaptation than it was a satire of the traditional detective story a New Hollywood classic. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles Malibu Hollywood and Mexico<br /> <br /> Black titled Studio Duplicating Service Inc. wrappers. Title page present dated September 1971 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Leigh Brackett. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. E-K-Corporation / United Artists unknown
1963165707N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage script for the 1964 production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy staged at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway from April 9 through August 8 1964. Copy belonging to actor Christopher Culkin who appeared in the play as "Player King" with his manuscript name on the title page and his manuscript annotations on over 20 pages marking stage blocking and dialogue.<br /> <br /> With sparse set design and a total absence of period costuming director John Gielgud's ultra-minimal staging of "Hamlet" proved entirely new for New York audiences and was ultimately wildly successful achieving the longest run for the play in Broadway history at 137 performances. Actor Richard Burton received a Tony nomination for his performance as the tragic prince and actor Hume Cronyn won a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. <br /> <br /> A filmed version of the play was created by recording three live performances on the then-new technology of Electronovision and editing them into a single film. Although considered lost for many years the film was rediscovered and restored in 1995 by producer and director Paul Brownstein. <br /> <br /> Actor Christopher "Kit" Culkin appeared in several Broadway productions throughout the early and mid-1960s but is perhaps best known today for his more famous offspring Kieran Rory and Macaulay. <br /> <br /> Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10-1-63. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-37. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Very Good separated along the hinge and now archivally reinforced bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown
1933143459Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1933. 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film including seven of cast and crew at work on the set three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning housed in a Kodak photographic paper box with his name in manuscript pencil on the lid. <br /> <br /> Based on an unpublished play by John W. McDermott about a pair of construction workers one a romantic the other a ladies' man who tries to prevent his friend from rushing into marriage with a con artist ex out to steal his friend's nest egg with dangerous consequences. A lesser known film and rare comedy from Browning. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. <br /> <br /> For complete collation details please inquire. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
