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1936147033Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful of films to feature an all-Black cast made by a major Hollywood studio during the Golden Age becoming the highest grossing such film and remaining so until surpassed by "Carmen Jones" in 1954. <br/><br/>14 x 11 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and light vertical creasing down the center. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1939151485Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty" seen here under the working title "Down Went McGinty" corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges with two earlier titles "Biography of a Bum" and "The Vagrant" cited on the second and fourth leaves respectively. <br/><br/>Sturges had become a very successful Hollywood screenwriter by the late 1930s and with his screenplay for "The Biography of a Bum" wanted so much to direct the film that he offered to do the job for free. With very few exceptions notably Charlie Chaplin the notion of an established studio writer directing a film was nearly unheard of in Hollywood where writers were typically not even allowed on the set. Only the irresistible cheapness of Sturges' offer made it possible for the film to get made. <br/><br/>Over the six year period during which the script remained unproduced the title changed to "The Vagrant" then "Down with McGinty" then finally just prior to production to "The Great McGinty." It was not only a success but won Sturges an Oscar for Best Screenwriter. More importantly he was allowed to continue as a writer-director with a magnificent career that included one classic after another including "Sullivan's Travels" "The Lady Eve" "Unfaithfully Yours" "The Palm Beach Story" and "Hail the Conquering Hero."<br/><br/>Tall cream colored titled self wrappers rubber-stamped Production No. 672 MASTER FILE FILE COPY PRODUCED and PLEASE RETURN TO THE STORY DEPARTMENT / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD. Dated April 28 1939. Title page present dated 1933 with credits for screenwriter Sturges and Sturges' name written in holograph pencil just above. 109 leaves mimeograph on cream colored stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
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
19712110502150906729Chiku ma shobo 1971. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Chiku ma shobo paperback
1948151350N.p.: N.p. 1948. Draft carbon typescript screenplay for an unproduced film.<br/><br/>While hiding out from his wife and business associates at a seedy hotel a millionaire who has recently lost his fortune falls in love with a troubled young woman.<br/><br/>Screenwriter Eliot Gibbons worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Republic Studios for most of his career. He was best known for his aviation pictures most notably "Storm Over the Andes" 1935 "Flight at Midnight" 1939 and "Sky Raiders" 1941. <br/><br/>Set in postwar Chicago and Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Housed in a quarter-leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers with the label of Paul Kohner Agency affixed to the front wrapper with credits for screenwriters Jean Renoir and Eliot Gibbons. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriters Jean Renoir and Eliot Gibbons. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
193544791Berlin/ Hannover/ Leipzig: Verlag "Ross"/ Cigarettenfabrik Constantin/ Film-Kurier/ Ufa-Delca 1935. First edition. This collections consists of 9 separate pieces: <br /> 1 Complete set of 40 Photo-postcards housed in a modern 4-ring binder<br /> 2 An unused official album for those cards<br /> 3 Complete set of 75 cigarette cards in an official album<br /> 4 A smaller format copy of the same album including the cards<br /> 5 "Die Nibelungen. Ein Deutsches Heldenlied". Original German film premiere program. <br /> 6 "Das Nibelungenlied. Ein Deutscher Heldensang" "The Nibelungenlied. A German Epic Poem"<br /> 7 Film Program for Die Nibelungen Pt.1: Sigfried<br /> 8 Film Program for Die Nibelungen Pt.2: Kriemhilds Rache<br /> 9 Kriemhilds Rache Der.2 Nibelungenfilm.<br /> <br /> All text in German.<br /> <br /> 1 This is a complete collection of 40 postcards printed by Verlag Ross for Ufa-Delca Film to celebrate the release of Fritz Lang's two-part epic fantasy film Die Nibelungen. The postcards measure approximately 3.5 x5.5" each and are printed in striking sepia-toned photogravure on heavy cardstock. The images depict characters and dramatic scenes from the film covering both parts "Siegfried" and "Kriemhilds Rache" "Kriemhild's Revenge" and are divided into 6 groupings. Each card is captioned with the serial number and title of the character or scene with the name of the actor often mentioned as well. The final group of 4 cards is a sequence showcasing the pivotal dramatic battle between Siegfried and the dragon. This set is not to be confused with the series of colored postcards by Uvachrom which were based in part on these images. The postcards were never used circulated but some have a red triangle stamped insignia on the back. The cards are housed in a blue leather covered photo album with plastic sleeves. The cards and album are in near fine condition overall.<br /> <br /> 2 Also included is an unused empty official Verlag Ross album to house the postcards. Oblong brown-grey thick paper wrappers illustrated with a gilt-bordered cutout image from one the postcards depicting Seigfried and the dragon and gilt-stamped lettering. Brown string-tassel. The album is empty and contains 25 double-sided leaves. Publisher's debossed blind-stamp on the bottom of the back wrapper. Protected by modern mylar. <br /> <br /> 3 Die Nibelungen Complete set of 75 Cigarette Cards in an Album. Small folio. 13x10". Textured Gray-green string-tied wrappers with embossed brown and gold lettering and helmet illustration on the front cover. Yellow-green decorative tassel. The is an album containing the complete collection of Cigarette Cards for "Die Nibelungen" produced by the Cigarettenfabrik Constantin company of Hannover in 1928. Each card measures 2.5x4" and featured b/w photogravure images from the film. Many of the images featured are the same as those of those of the Verlag Ross set but many are unique to this collection. Each double-sided leaf of the album contains a mat with an average of 6 windowed cutouts framing the cards which have been slid underneath. Each cutout section contains a caption in German bellow naming or describing the image on the respective card. The set coves both parts of the film "Siegfried" and "Kriemhilds Rache". Introduction to the collection from the company on the first page of the album. Text in German. Wrappers with some minor creasing along the edges and to the corners. Interior with some minor bumping to the corners of some of the leaves a light closed tear along the bottom left corner of one of the leaves. Wrappers interior and cards in very good to near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar.<br /> <br /> 4 The rarer smaller variant of the same album with smaller cards. Includes all the same images in the same order except for image #18 Gunther missing. 74 of 75 images present. Protected by modern mylar.<br /> <br /> 5 "Die Nibelungen. Ein Deutsches Heldenlied". 24pp. Rare original theater program for the German premiere of the film on Feb. 14th 1924 held at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. Dark grey paper wrappers with red string-tied binding and the original UFA gilt-stamped embossed seal. Nicely illustrated throughout with b/w gravure images featuring stills from the film as well as portrait images of director Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea Von Harbou. The images accompany a series of short essays on the making of the film including one from von Harbou herself. Page 11 contains period manuscript notes in pencil from a previous owner which note in detail various specific scenes from the film. In near fine condition overall. Protected by modern mylar.<br /> <br /> 6 "Das Nibelungenlied. Ein Deutscher Heldensang" "The Nibelungenlied. A German Epic Poem". Wezel & Naumann. Leipzig. 1935. 79pp. Blue cloth boards with debossed gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. This finely printed book pairs text passages from the original medieval German Epic poem "Das Nibelungenlied" with relevant b/w photographic reproductions of stills from Fritz Lang's 1924 film adaptation. Most of the images are smaller cutouts pasted onto the pages but the book also includes 6 full-page glossy photographic plates including frontispiece. All text finely printed in blue gothic script on japan vellum pages. An additional loose copy of one of the smaller images laid in at the front. Binding with some minor bumping to the corners. Interior with name of a previous owner on the endpapers. Rusting to the staples of the binding. Staring at the gutter of a number of pages. Binding tight overall. Binding in near fine interior in very good condition overall.<br /> <br /> <br /> 7 & 8 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried WITH Kriemhilds Rache TWO SOUVENIR FILM PROGRAMS<br /> Berlin: Film-Kurier 1924. First edition. Two premiere souvenir programs depicting both parts of Fritz Lang's monumental "Die Nibelungen" production "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" released on 2/14/1924 and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache" Kriemhild's Revenge released on 4/26/1924.<br /> <br /> - Die Nibelungen. I Film: Siegfried. Large quarto approx.11.5 x 8.5". Unpaginated. 8pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 22 sepia tone photogravures this program contains the film credits as well as a synopsis of the story. With a later variant cover image showing Siegfried with a sword and a mention of both parts 1&2 of the film.<br /> <br /> - Kriemhilds Rache: Small folio approx.11.5 x 8.5". Unpaginated. 8pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. This program devoted to the second part of the "Nibelungen" movie contains 19 sepia-tone photogravures as well as the usual film credits and the synopsis.<br /> <br /> Text in German. Horizontal folding crease at centers of the front wrappers for both programs. Interior of Siegfried with some minor water staining to the first two pages. wrappers in very good interiors in very good to near fine condition overall. vg to near fine. Softcover.<br /> <br /> <br /> 9 Kriemhilds Rache Der.2 Nibelungenfilm. 24 1 unpaginated pages. 7 1/2 x 7 3/4". Hardcover. Tan illustrated paper boards with gilt sword motif and black text on the front cover. The binding is done in a style meant to evoke an older style vellum binding including an ornamental flap with gilt motif. Textured endpapers. Missing 4 pages of printed text at the front. Extremely scarce promotional souvenir publication coinciding with the release of the second part of Die Nibelungen Kriemhilds Rache. Comprised of 24 finely printed b/w collotype images from the film including many striking images not used in other promotion materials. Each image measures 5 3/4x 4 1/2". Cover with very minor smudges and stains. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Top left corner near spine lightly bumped and cracked. Front endpaper with a few small stains but the interior is otherwise quite clean throughout with all images clean and vibrant. In very good condition overall. Verlag "Ross"/ Cigarettenfabrik Constantin/ Film-Kurier/ Ufa-Delca unknown
1936147033Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1936. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs from the 1936 film. Each with a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Marc Connelly itself based on "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun" a 1928 collection of pseudo African American folk tales by Roark Bradford. One of only a handful of films to feature an all-Black cast made by a major Hollywood studio during the Golden Age becoming the highest grossing such film and remaining so until surpassed by "Carmen Jones" in 1954. <br /> <br /> 14 x 11 inches. Very Good with light edgewear and light vertical creasing down the center. Warner Brothers unknown
1965122002N.p.: N.p. 1965. A dazzling collection of ten original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s 60s and 70s. <br /> <br /> Several of the pressbooks defy the conventions of pressbook design with custom shapes to represent items in keeping with the films for which they were made: "Advise and Consent" resembles a briefcase "In Harm's Way" is designed as a dossier with a string tie "The Cardinal" as a parcel and "Bunny Lake is Missing" as a newspaper. Other key titles in the collection include "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "The Man with the Golden Arm."<br /> <br /> For most of the pressbooks in this collection we have never seen another example. A fascinating example of the advertising work done by the premiere title and ad designer of the twentieth century. <br /> <br /> Various sizes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine condition. <br /> <br /> Complete details available on request. N.p. unknown
1965136325New York: Andy Warhol Film 1965. Vintage mimeograph poster advertising the world premiere of Andy Warhol's seminal films "Vinyl" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" on June 19-20 1965 at the Filmmaker's Cinematheque in New York. Photo-illustrated with a repeating image of Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga from the film. <br/><br/>Technically this was only the premiere of "Poor Little Rich Girl" as "Vinyl" had previously been shown on June 4 1965 also at the Filmmaker's Cinematheque.<br/><br/>Variously cited as Warhol's either most or least "entertaining" film "Vinyl" is an experimental adaptation of Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" for which Warhol legitimately paid $3000 for rights but unlike Kubrick's version it is a pop music extravaganza that predicted the many others that would follow featuring songs by The Rolling Stones The Kinks Martha and the Vandellas The Isley Brothers and others. <br/><br/>Shot by Warhol and Malanga in Sedgwick's apartment "Poor Little Rich Girl" was conceived as a day in the life of "socialite" Sedgwick and was at least conceptually autobiographical. IMDB's description of the story seems to sum up its intentions best: "A young jobless woman stays in bed reads talks on the phone smokes cigarettes makes fresh coffee and tries on some clothes from a large wardrobe."<br/><br/>"Vinyl" was Sedgwick's first speaking role in a Warhol film preceded by a non-speaking part in Warhol's "Horse" 1965 and "Poor Little Rich Girl" 1965 was the first film to feature Sedgwick as the star. All were made the same year Warhol met Sedgwick between January and June of 1965. "Vinyl" was filmed unrehearsed and was also performed live in various stage productions. <br/><br/>11 x 8.5 inches. Archivally mounted in a black metal frame with wooden back brace. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Murphy The Black Hole of Cinema. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown books
1942149240Universal City: Universal Pictures 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film.<br /> <br /> First is a First Draft script under the working title "'Sherlock Holmes' #2" by screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling dated March 24 1942. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin with annotations in manuscript pencil on several pages inquiries about plotline question marks as well as dates and name of screenwriter Darling. Bound in preceding script are: A two-page carbon typescript breakdown of the story in 21 points with annotation of "1st rough draft" and "One 3/24/42" in manuscript pencil in upper right of first page. A ribbon copy typescript "continuity" breakdown of locations and sequences in ten points dated 4/6/42. A ribbon copy typescript "comments on Sherlock Holmes #2" broken into nine points dated 4-6-42 and a three-page ribbon copy typescript synopsis dated 3/24/42.<br /> <br /> Second is a Third Draft script under the working title "'Sherlock Holmes' #2" crediting screenwriter Scott Darling on front wrapper and Edward T. Love and Scott Darling on title page dated April 22 1942. Annotation in manuscript pencil of "mimeographed pink" on lower right of front wrapper. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin with several annotations in red or graphite manuscript pencil question marks an asterisk underlines and screenwriter S. Darling's name and date "4-27-42." <br /> <br /> Third is a Draft script under the working title "Sherlock Holmes Fights Back" with name of screenwriter Edmund L. Hartmann on front wrapper. Title page credits to "Additional Changes by Edmund L. Hartmann" and screenwriters Scott Darling and Edward T. Lowe dated May 22 1942. Carbon typescript with mimeograph duplication revision pages. Bound in preceding script is a page describing concept for "The Miss Bently School for Girls" with photograph affixed illustrating concept. Annotations in red and graphite manuscript pencil throughout noting dialogue locations shots characters as well as strikes and dates.<br /> <br /> Lastly a Post-production Dialogue and Contitnuity script dated August 6 1942 with single annotation in manuscript ink on front wrapper.<br /> <br /> Loosely based on the 1903 Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br /> <br /> The fourth Sherlock Holmes movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and the second produced at Universal Studios. Preceded by "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" 1942 directed by John Rawlins and followed by "Sherlock Holmes in Washington" 1943 also directed by Roy William Neill who would go on to direct all subsequent Holmes films at Universal.<br /> <br /> Watson and Holmes transplanted from their usual Victorian setting now in England in the midst of WWII have to protect Swiss scientist Dr. Franz Tobel and his invention an advanced bomb site from falling into the hands Nazi Germany as well as Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty Lionel Atwill. The first Holmes film to feature Inspector Lestrade Dennis Hoey of Scotland Yard.<br /> <br /> March 24 1942 script "'Sherlock Holmes' #2":<br /> Gray titled wrappers dated March 24 1942 with credits for screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling. Title page integral with first page dated 3/24/42 noted as 1st draft screenplay with credits for screenwriters Lowe and Darling. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with chipping and closed tears to extremities and one large 4.5 inch closed tear on bottom of front wrapper bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> April 22 1942 script "'Sherlock Holmes' #2":<br /> Gray titled wrappers noted as THIRD DRAFT on the front wrapper dated April 22 1942 with credits for screenwriter Scott Darling. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Ribbon copy typescript rectos. Pages Near FIne wrapper Very Good with closed tears and chipping at extremities bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> May 22 1942 script "Sherlock Holmes Fights Back":<br /> Gray titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Edmund L. Hartmann. Title page present dated May 22 1942 with credits for Additional Chages by screenwriter Edmund L. Hartmann screenwriters Scott Darling and Edwart T. Lowe and author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Carbon typescript with mimeograph duplication revision pages rectos only with pink revision pages throughout undated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with large closed tear to front wrapper and chipping and closed tears to extremities bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> script:<br /> Titled self wrappers noted as DIALOGUE CONTINUITY on the front wrapperdated August 6 1942 with credits for director Neill. 109 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound at top with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1942149229Universal City: Universal Pictures 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film.<br/><br/>First an early Draft script under the working title "Sherlock Holmes vs. Lord Haw-Haw" by screenwriter John Bright noted as "Contract File Copy" on front wrapper. Carbon typescript preceded by a four page ribbon copy typescript outline dated 3/10/42. Annotation of inquiry into necessary story elements and plotline on title page in holograph pencil. Several annotations throughout of Bright's name page numbers strikes question mark and dates ranging from 3/10/42 to 3/27/42 in holograph pencil and ink.<br/><br/>Second is a Draft script under the working title "Sherlock Holmes #1" by screenwriter Lynn Riggs dated April 2 1942. Annotations in red and graphite holograph pencil on front wrapper some illegible citing Arthur Conan Doyle and the story upon which script is based and "Copy from which we mimeod yellow script 4/27/42." Carbon typescript on onionskin with annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout primarily amending page numbers scene numbers and character names as well as striking the "#1" on title page title and adding "Saves London" amending title to "Sherlock Holmes Saves London" another early working title. <br/><br/>Third is a Draft script under the working title "Sherlock Holmes' Series #1 'Sherlock Holmes Saves London'" credited as "A Free Adaptation" by Robert Andrews and credits for screenwriters Lynn Riggs and John Bright dated May 4 1942. One annotation in holograph pencil of the name "M. Nicht" on top right of page 107 likely a stenographer.<br/><br/>Lastly the post-production Dialogue and Contitnuity script here under the working title "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Fear" dated July 28 1942. Annotation on front wrapper in holograph pencil striking "Fear" in title adding "Terror" amending title to it's release title.<br/><br/>Based on the 1917 short story "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and loosely on the real-life exploits of Lord Haw-Haw several broadcasters but most notably William Joyce a US born Briton who broadcast Nazi Propaganda from Germany to the UK during WWII. Joyce would be convicted of high treason in 1945 and hanged in 1946 the last person executed for treason in the UK.<br/><br/>The third Sherlock Holmes movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and the first produced at Universal Studios. Preceded by "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" 1939 directed by Alfred L. Werker and followed by "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" 1942 directed by Roy William Neill.<br/><br/>Watson and Holmes transplanted from their usual Victorian setting and from the WWI setting of the original story are now in England at the start of WWII investigating the mysterious broadcasts by "The Voice of Terror" apparently from Nazi Germany warning of acts of terror moments before their occurrence.<br/><br/>3/10/42 script "Sherlock Holmes vs. Lord Haw-Haw":<br/>Gray titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter John Bright. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Bright. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some chipping creasing and closed tears at extremities primarily to front wrapper bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>April 2 1942 script "Sherlock Holmes #1":<br/>Gray titled wrappers dated April 2 1942 with credits for screenwriter Lynn Riggs. Title page integral with first page with credits for screenwriter Lynn Riggs. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 122a. Carbon typescript on onionskin. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and small closed tears to extremities on front wrapper bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>May 4 1942 script "Sherlock Holmes' Series #1 'Sherlock Holmes Saves London'":<br/>Gray titled wrappers dated May 4 1942 with credits for adaptation by Robert Andrews author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and screenwriters Lynn Riggs and John Bright. Title page integral with first page. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/8/42 and 5/14/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with some chipping creasing and closed tears to extremities bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>July 28 1942 Dialogue and Contiuity post-production script:<br/>Title self wrappers noted as DIALOGUE CONTINUITY on the front wrapper dated July 28 1942. 117 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound at top with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1932160793New York: Abbott-Dunning 1932. Draft script for the Broadway premiere of the 1932 play. Working copy belonging to playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur with their annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. <br /> <br /> An early theatrical effort by legendary playwrights authors and creative collaborators Hecht and MacArthur preceded by "The Front Page" 1928 and "The Great Magoo" 1932.<br /> <br /> Based on "Napoleon of Broadway" an unproduced play by Charles B. Millholland about an egomaniacal theatrical producer based on real-life impresario David Belasco as he attempts to win back his former protégé now working as a Hollywood actress. The play made its Broadway premiere on December 29 1932 at the Broadhurst Theatre running for 152 performances. Adapted for film by Howard Hawks two years later starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. <br /> <br /> Set in New York. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers with credits for playwrights Hecht MacArthur and Millholland on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 29 1932 with credits for playwrights Hecht MacArthur and Millholland director George Abbott and others. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-29. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Title page lightly dampstained else Pages Near Fine wrapper Good moderately dampstained and edgeworn bound with two gold brads. Abbott-Dunning unknown
1897139206N.p.: Veriscope 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. <br /> <br /> At over 100 minutes the film is the first feature length release anywhere and with an aspect ratio of 1.65:1 the first widescreen film ever produced. Though fragments such as this survive the film in its entirety is considered lost. <br /> <br /> A five frame fragment is held the National Media Museum in the UK and approximately 19 minutes are available for viewing but OCLC locates no fragments in institutions. <br /> <br /> The heavy weight title bout took place on March 17 1897 in Carson City Nevada which legalized boxing specifically to host this fight beginning the long and storied relationship between the Silver State and the sweet science. Boxing was already a popular subject for filmmakers however these were short films generally of single rounds. Using the new Latham loop technology which he claimed to have invented director Rector shot the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight continuously using three adjacent ringside cameras with each camera capable of shooting six minutes of footage before reloading. In total approximately 11000 feet of film was shot over all 14 rounds of the contest. In addition to length the film distinguished itself from the boxing films of the time by presenting an introduction to the fight by former champion John L. Sullivan and his manager the fighters entering the ring in their robes the fighters resting between rounds and in later releases the immediate aftermath of the fight all of which are standards of boxing broadcasts to this day. <br /> <br /> On release the film became a sensation and gained wide and lasting popularity proving the financial viability of feature length films as well increasing the public's interest in both motion pictures and boxing becoming a landmark in the history of film and sports. <br /> <br /> Also included is a flyer for a showing of the film on September 21 1897 at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster PA including a brief synopsis of the action. <br /> <br /> First film print 2.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good with chips to some of the sprocket holes on the right edge and to the upper right corner of one frame a 3/4 inch closed horizontal tear to the bottom frame and a bit of accompanying loss to the image and a vertical scratch running through the left edge of each frame. <br /> <br /> Second film print 2.5 x 4.75 inches. Very Good plus with vertical scratches running through each frame. <br /> <br /> Flyer 4.25 x 7.25. Near Fine. Light horizontal and vertical creasing from being folded light edgewear. <br /> <br /> Film strips encapsulated in mylar. Housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Veriscope unknown
1941141535Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1941. Draft script for the classic 1942 film noir. <br /> <br /> An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. <br /> <br /> Set in Turkey. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped and production No. 1223 dated July 30 1941. 159 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Carbon typescript with revision pages dated July 29 1941. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. <br /> <br /> Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1934137374Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1934. Archive for the 1934 film including a Draft script with holograph corrections the resulting mimeograph Final script and signed "Certificate of Authorship" Certificate of Authorship notarized by the County of Los Angeles and signed by each of the film's writers including J.P. McEvoy Claude Binyon Garnett Weston Lex Neal Walter DeLeon Paul Jones and Ralph Ceder. <br/><br/>Based on the story by Charles Bogle a W.C. Fields pseudonym "The Old Fashioned Way" follows the story of The Great McGonigle W.C. Fields and his rag-tag vaudeville troupe's production of "The Drunkard" a William H. Smith temperance play as well as the wayward romantic exploits of McGonigle's daugther Betty. <br/><br/>A rare and comedic glimpse into the life of a vaudevillian at the turn of the century "The Old Fashioned Way" is also somewhat autobiographical in nature. Like McGonigle Fields himself began his career in vaudeville as a silent juggler eventually earning the distinction of "world's greatest juggler" and an illustrious career in both silent and early "talkie" films. Fields' "The Great McGonigle" is of course an homage to the famed "The Great Ziegfeld" or Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. a noted impresario of his time and a key player in vaudeville history. <br/><br/>Draft script:<br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper. 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Typescript on yellow stock with pink revision pages and with heavy holograph annotations throughout. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Each screenwriter's Certificate of Authorship bound in at the front and bound individually with two brads as well. <br/><br/>File copy:<br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper rubber stamped FILE COPY on the front wrapper dated May 3 1934. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 62. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. <br/><br/>Certificate of Authorship:<br/><br/>Self wrappers. First signee integral with front wrapper noted as CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORSHIP on the front wrapper dated April 24 1934. 25 unnumbered leaves. Typescript on white stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads and rebound to Draft script. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1972149873London: Eon Productions 1972. Shooting script for the 1973 film. With a holograph ink annotation on the title page noting copy No. 56. <br/><br/>Roger Moore's first turn as 007 and the eighth film in the franchise overall. Based on the 1954 novel by Ian Fleming which sees Bond go up against a Caribbean dictator moonlighting as a Harlem drug lord aided by a claw-handed henchman and a voodoo priest. One of the first Bond movies to explicitly address race most notably featuring the first African American Bond girl with whom 007 is romantically involved Rosie Carver played by Gloria Hendry.<br/><br/>Filmed on location in New York Jamaica and Louisiana.<br/><br/>Green titled Studio Duplicating Services wrappers with credits for novelist Ian Fleming on the front wrapper. Title page present dated October 2nd 1973 noted as Shooting Script with credits for novelist Ian Fleming and screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly worn and creased to the edges bound with two gold brads. Eon Productions unknown books
1934144598Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.<br/><br/>The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br/><br/>Detached green wrappers noting the title screenwriter and director on the spine in holograph ink. Title page integral with first page of text with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1954160913Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. Text and titles in Japanese. <br /> <br /> Often considered one of director Kenji Mizoguchi's masterworks an elegant and contemplative film about the wife and children of an exiled local governor as they are separated and forced into servitude. Winner of the Silver Lion award at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. <br /> <br /> White perfect-bound wrappers with navy blue titles. Approximately 47 leaves with last page of text numbered B-41. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Very Good with age toning foxing and faint soil on the wrappers.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 386. Ebert III. Rosenbaum 1000. Daiei Studios unknown
1925143899Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1925. Draft script for the 1926 film. Based on the 1924 novel "Escape" by Alden Brooks. File copy rubber stamp to the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Conrad Nagel and Renée Adoree star in this Silent film today lost originally directed by Josef von Sternberg. Midway into shooting Von Sternberg was fired by MGM and replaced by Phil Rosen. <br/><br/>Rosen's many changes completely altered von Sternberg's version to the point that it was unrecognizable and in a bizarre twist MGM ultimately released both versions: the original one as "Exquisite Sinner" in 1926 credited to both Von Sternberg and Rosen running 60 minutes and Rosen's extensively reworked version as "Heaven on Earth" in 1927 runtime unknown. <br/><br/>AFI Catalog notes that von Sternberg was replaced as director on January 17 1926 which would place this script dated in mid-December 1925 firmly within the time frame that von Sternberg was still the director. <br/><br/>It is rumored that the Warner Brothers and Turner Entertainment archives hold a full print of this film but as of 2014 no print has surfaced. Only a few images promotional artwork and productions stills are currently known to exist. <br/><br/>Set in France. <br/><br/>Pale yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2 and production No. 1510 dated Dec 19 1925 with credits for screenwriters Marion Orth and Harvey Gates. Title page integral with the first page of text dated Dec. 12 1925 with credits for screenwriters Orth and Gates. 128 leaves with last page of text unnumbered. Spirit duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor now encapsulated in archival mylar bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1950158441Buenos Aires: Industia Argentina 1950. Vintage one sheet poster for the Argentinean release of the 1951 film the film's country of origin and whose premiere preceded the US release by more than three months.<br /> <br /> Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as the leading man in the film adaptation of his own novel after initial choice Canada Lee was stuck in South African customs after shooting "Cry the Beloved Country" 1951. Lee had starred in Orson Welles' prior stage adaptation.<br /> <br /> Set in Chicago and shot on location in Chicago and Argentina. <br /> <br /> 29 x 43.25 inches folded as issued. With a few small closed tears and creases at the extremities else Near Fine. Bright and unfaded. Industia Argentina unknown
1970143123Talent Associates/N.S.I. / ABC Pictures 1970. Final Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title and title of the source material "The Siege of Trencher's Farm." <br/><br/>Based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel. Director Sam Peckinpah and screenwriter David Z. Goodman kept only the central concept of the siege itself but completely altered the circumstances around it including the creation of the film's controversial rape scene. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Set in Trencher's Farm in Dando Cornwall shot on location in Cornwall and Middlsex England. <br/><br/>Maroon titled wrappers. Title page present dated 24th August 1970 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters David Z. Goodman and Sam Peckinpah. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 182. Grant US. Talent Associates/N.S.I. / ABC Pictures unknown books
1965122002N.p.: N.p. 1965. A dazzling collection of 10 original pressbooks designed by Saul Bass documenting the majority of the famed title and ad designer's work with director Otto Preminger in the 1950s 60s and 70s. Several of the pressbooks typically defy the existing conventions of pressbook design utilizing a wild variation of size and dimension with several of the items literally molded to represent the films they represent: "Advise and Consent" is shaped like a briefcase "In Harm's Way" is designed as a dossier with a string tie "The Cardinal" as a parcel and "Bunny Lake is Missing" as a newspaper. Other key Bass designed titles include "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" and "The Man with the Golden Arm."<br/><br/>For most of the pressbooks in this collection we have never seen another example. A fascinating example of the advertising work done by the premiere title and ad designer of the twentieth century. <br/><br/>Various sizes ranging from Very Good to Near Fine condition. <br/><br/>Complete details available on request. N.p. unknown books
1985139365London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film "Sid and Nancy" here under the working title "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. <br/><br/>Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and she helped him vis a vis the fine details of the 'time of the Sex Pistols' in London in 1976 / To that end she showed him in London the pub where we hung out took sulphate the Roebuck and she also tried to set up a meeting with him and Johnny Thunders / Finally she is thanked at the end of 'Sid and Nancy' and she photographed him as he was writing the script there at the room in the Chelsea Hotel where Sid and Nancy lived / Kate Simon / 4-8-09." <br/><br/>Brilliant but gritty biographical look at Sid Vicious Oldman bassist for the British punk band Sex Pistols and his girlfriend Nancy Webb. Their relationship is sprinkled with guilt sympathy and copious drug use implying Nancy introduced Sid to heroin when she traveled to London to have sex with the Sex Pistols. The two fall in love commit to a suicide pact and try to start a new solo career in New York after the breakup of the band. One night in a drug-induced stupor Sid announces his intention to quit heroin and move back to London prompting a suicidal Nancy to beg him to kill her. Perhaps unintentionally perhaps not Sid stabs Nancy and she dies in the bathroom. <br/><br/>Set in London and New York shot there on location and in New Jersey California and France. The soundtrack boasts songs by Dan Wool The Pogues John Cale KC & The Sunshine Band and several Sex Pistols songs with the title track "Love Kills" by Joe Strummer. <br/><br/>Illustrated titled self wrappers noted as 3RD DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 1985 with credits for screenwriters Cox and Wool. Title page integral with front wrapper. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mechanical duplication. Very Good plus bound with three green twist ties in true punk fashion. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 20. Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures unknown books
