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1980129295Rome: Vides Cinematografica 1980. Set of 10 master typescripts for the ambitious 1982 television miniseries all dated June 1980 used as a master for printing the final scripts. Anthony Burgess was one of the series writers credited on the title page of each segment and Ennio Morricone composed the original score. <br /> <br /> Present are scripts for all 8 segments of the miniseries. Also included is a script for an unproduced segment titled "Ruby of Ceylon" and a separately bound "Series Outline." Screenwriters Burgess and Labella are present on the title page of all 8 produced segments though not on "The Ruby of Ceylon". <br /> <br /> An international co-production financed by the US Italy Japan and China. Shot on location in Beijing Inner Mongolia Italy and Morocco. Nominated for two Prime Time Emmys. <br /> <br /> Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. <br /> <br /> Series Outline:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Outline with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 27 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode I<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 37 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode II:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 35 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode III:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 31 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode IV:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 44 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode V:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 47 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode VI:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 38 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode VII:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 40 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> Episode VIII:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 66 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br /> <br /> The Ruby of Ceylon unfilmed:<br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Burgess and Labella. 28 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Vides Cinematografica unknown
1963164219N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage banner poster for the US release of the 1961 Italian-Austrian film. Rare in this format.<br /> <br /> A series of murders begin at a reformatory for troubled girls following the arrival of a mysterious science teacher.<br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light overall rubbing and two vertical creases to the right side. N.p. unknown
1928162823N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage borderless publicity portrait photograph of actor Buster Keaton Jr. in his shirtsleeves issued to promote the 1928 silent comedy film. Contemporary dealer stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> The last film Keaton would make with United Artists before moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was a commercial and critical failure upon release but has since been reevaluated as one of Keaton's masterpieces. <br /> <br /> From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. <br /> <br /> 6.25 x 9.5 inches archivally mounted in a white mat measuring 11 x 14 inches. Very Good with moderate wear at the bottom corners. N.p. unknown
1952135028Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1952. Vintage US program for the 1952 film. <br /> <br /> Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer representative of a new generation of performers. <br /> <br /> The first and only time that Charlie Chaplin and fellow silent film star Buster Keaton would appear onscreen together "Limelight" is also notable for being the only Chaplin picture to win an Academy Award albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release. <br /> <br /> 9 x 12 inches 16 pages saddle stapled two-color wrappers. Very Good plus with light rubbing at the extremities. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collectiopn 756. United Artists unknown
1955144737Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Second Revised Draft script for the 1956 film noir. Loosely based on the death of Russian-born financier Serge Rubinstein. Copy belonging to Guy Prescott who plays an uncredited role in the film as the assistant to Captain LaFarge played by Morris Ankrum with Prescott's manuscript annotations at the inclusion of his dialogue and appearances.<br /> <br /> George Sanders plays a wealthy hated businessman who has conned his way to the top and as the film begins has been found murdered. We see his life in a series of flashbacks as it is told to the police by his secretary and fellow con artist Yvonne DeCarlo. One of only two films in which Saunders and his real-life brother Tom Conway also play brothers onscreen. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City and California. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers noted as 2ND REVISION on the front wrapper copy No. 54 dated December 29 1955 with credits for producer Charles Martin. Title page present dated December 29 1955 noted as 2ND REVISE with credits for screenwriter/producer Martin. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 190. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1940171507Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1940. Two vintage programs from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's classic satire held in New York on October 15 1940. Includes a large-format 14-page illustrated program and smaller bi-fold black-and-white program. Color program with illustrations by noted artist Al Hirschfeld. <br /> <br /> Affixed to the title page of the color program are two ticket stubs for an October 30 1940 showing of the film at the Astor Theatre. The premiere was held at both the Astor and the Capitol Theatres in New York to accommodate high patron turnout. <br /> <br /> For his follow-up to his 1936 classic "Modern Times" Chaplin chose to do what only a handful of other films dared to do in 1940-make fun of Hitler. Though several of Chaplin's previous films had made use of music and sound effects and while Chaplin had sung briefly in "Modern Times" "The Great Dictator" marked the first time he spoke dialogue onscreen. <br /> <br /> Large-format program 9 x 10 inches saddle-stapled. Smaller program 6.25 x 9.5 inches bi-fold. Both programs Very Good plus to Near Fine with some light foxing toning and soil to the extremities.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 565. United Artists unknown
1961160655N.p.: N.p. 1961. Five vintage borderless oversize reference photographs from the 1961 film. Printed labels affixed to the versos. <br /> <br /> Considered overly sympathetic to the newly formed communist government the documentary was banned in France for two years. An early effort by director Chris Marker one of the French New Wave's few film essayists. <br /> <br /> 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good with moderate edgewear. N.p. unknown
1957166064Iver Heath Buckinghamshire: Pinewood Studios 1957. Revised and Final Shooting script for the 1958 film copy belonging to Production Designer George Provis. Laid in are over 30 pages of notes shooting schedules and call sheets including four pages of original pencil storyboards as well as several clippings of handwritten notes all in Provis' hand as well as seven letters written to Provis most typed letters signed from Production Manager "Freddie" Pearson all dating from 1957.<br /> <br /> George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1940 novel by Phyllis Bottome. Set in Austria during WWII a young Austrian boy is forced to sell the family dog to pay for food rather than have his abusive father played by Donald Pleasence sell the dog to the butcher.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Innsbruck Austria. <br /> <br /> Tall titled orange wrappers noted as Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated 26.9.57. Title page present dated September 12th 1957 noted as Revised and Final Shooting Script. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding.<br /> <br /> Laid in materials Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. Pinewood Studios unknown
1986143499N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid" discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. <br /> <br /> Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" 1941 "I Walked with a Zombie" 1943 and "Donovan's Brain" 1953 and many other science fiction and horror classic. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined modern scientific findings with fictional pseudo-scientific themes. <br /> <br /> Set largely at the Paris World Exhibition of 1867 centered on the life of soprano singer Hortense Schneider and famed composer Jacques Offenbach largely describing Schneider's wide-ranging effect on European history based on her affairs with various heads of state. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Curt Siodmak. Title page present with credits for novelist and screenwriter Curt Siodmak. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong bound. N.p. unknown
1960171147Los Angeles: Bischoff-Diamond 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. Noted in manuscript ink on the title page as being based on a novel by screenwriter Dalton Trumbo although we find no evidence of the novel's publication. <br /> <br /> Laid in with the script are several budgetary pre-production documents issued by Allied Artists including a production cost statement. <br /> <br /> A former actor and war veteran meets a strange young woman in a car accident and is drawn to pursue her to her hometown. He soon realizes that the woman planned the accident to murder her husband a wealthy alcoholic businessman and decides to help her-although he has motives of his own. <br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Trumbo in manuscript ink. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. Bischoff-Diamond unknown
1980146088N.p.: N.p. 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a twenty-page German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis for the film. <br /> <br /> An early draft written by screenwriter Jeffrey Boam a year after the novel's release at the request of Lorimar Film Entertainment before they shuttered their film division and the rights went to Dino De Laurentiis. This draft of the script includes a gruesome ending in which Johnny has a vision of the Castle Rock serial killer as he dies which director David Cronenberg later requested be revised. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1979 novel by Stephen King about a man who wakes up from a five year coma with an uncontrollable psychic power: the ability to see the past and future of anyone he touches. King is said to have approved of Boam and Cronenberg's substantial changes to his work stating that they "intensified the power of the narrative." <br /> <br /> Set in Castle Rock Maine shot on location in Ontario. <br /> <br /> Partial blue untitled wrapper. Title page present dated November 17 1980 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jeffrey Boam and novelist Stephen King. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Manually reproduced rectos only. Pages Near Fine uniformly age toned wrapper Very Good plus with light soil and dampstaining bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1984160850London: Greenpoint Films 1984. Draft script for the 1985 British film INSCRIBED by director/screenwriter David Hare on the title page "For Steve with thanks - / David Hare / 15.5.85" with the manuscript ink annotation of copy number "63" on the top of the title page and manuscript ink annotations striking scene 71B on page 51. Laid in is an eight page transcript of a PublicTheater interview with Hare dated May 15 1985 with manuscript pencil and marker annotations throughout in what appears to be Hare's hand a sixteen page program for the film with two modest ink annotations on two pages a thirteen page "Preliminary Production Notes" and a one page clipping of "Stanley Kauffmann On Films: Against the Darkness" a review of the film from the August 12 1985 issue of The New Republic.<br /> <br /> A middle-age spinster schoolteacher played by Vanessa Redgrave is forced to reevaluate her life after witnessing the suicide of a recently arrived enigmatic stranger.<br /> <br /> Set in Wetherby England shot on location in West Yorkshire North Yorkshire Middlesex and London. <br /> <br /> Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated May 4 1984 noted as "This Draft" with credits for screenwriter David Hare. 89 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Interview transcript 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light toning overall bound with two staples to the top left corner.<br /> <br /> Program 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing.<br /> <br /> Preliminary Production Notes 8.5 x 11 inches. Light toning at the extremities else Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Article Clipping 8.25 x 11. Very Good with light dampstaining creasing and edgewear. Greenpoint Films unknown
1953151615Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1953. Eight vintage reference photographs from the 1953 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures and still photographer Van Pelt.<br /> <br /> A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher who enslaves children and forces them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it. The only feature film written by Theodor Geisel Dr. Seuss who co-wrote the screenplay and song lyrics.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown
1979144562Los Angeles: Essex Productions 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler with his name in manuscript ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. <br /> <br /> Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Idyllwild California. <br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 28th 1979 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter and director Edwin Scott Brown. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated Oct. 7th and white undated revision pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine clip binding.<br /> <br /> Thrower Nightmare USA. Essex Productions unknown
1957152372N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing Elvis Presley getting the lash from prison guard Bill Hickman. <br /> <br /> A handsome young man named Vince Everett is sent to prison for manslaughter and begins a musical career with the help of his cellmate a washed-up country singer. Presley's third film appearance and first film with MGM.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning along the top edge. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1974154527Paris: Warner Brothers 1974. Collection of 19 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 French hardcore film consisting of 17 black-and-white photographs and two oversize color photographs. Also included with the photographs are two gatherings of promotional reading material in French. <br /> <br /> A young college student leaves her school and family and seeks employment at a brothel where she enjoys a variety of strange experiences. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in France and Sri Lanka. <br /> <br /> Photographs range in size from 11.75 x 9.5 to 9.5 x 7 inches. Photographs and promotional reading material Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Bier 176. Warner Brothers unknown
1969151531Paris: les Films du Carrosse 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut on the set of the 1969 French neo-noir film.<br /> <br /> Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on Reunion Island and Nice France.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant US. les Films du Carrosse unknown
1964147446Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1964. Vintage oversize borderless photograph from the 1964 French film. Manuscript pencil annotations on the verso noting the name of the film and photographer. <br /> <br /> Legendary director and French New Wave auteur François Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Portugal and France.<br /> <br /> 11 x 8 inches. Very Good with a slight curl light creasing to the bottom edge and pinholes to the corners. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1939148444Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its accurate then and now depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional shallow egotists the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany Italy Spain and the USSR and later Nazi occupied France. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Washington DC. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint diagonal crease to lower right. Columbia Pictures unknown
1938148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years.<br /> <br /> Set in New York City. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1945155840Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Cinema International Corporation. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On the Town" 1949. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Hollywood. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1955162873Beverly Hills CA: Kent Productions 1955. Draft script for the 1956 Western film. Specially bound copy belonging to actor Robert Osterloh with his name in gilt on the front board.<br /> <br /> The brother of a notorious gunfighter must help take down two desperadoes who have invaded his town. Actor Frank Sinatra's first serious Western allowing him to play against type as a dislikable character. <br /> <br /> Bound in full maroon leather with two raised spine bands and gilt titles and rule. Title page integral with the distribution page stamped copy No. 101 with credit for Sinatra director Don McGuire and screenwriter David P. Harmon. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages dated 11/15/55 and 11/28/55 bound in throughout. Pages Fine binding about Fine. Kent Productions unknown
1938136085Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 noir antecedent showing director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben and Paramount along with an exclusivity notice. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Spicer US Precursor. Paramount Pictures unknown
2006167248N.p.: N.p. 2006. Revised Draft script for the 2007 neo-noir film. Copy belonging to actor Scott Patrick Green with his annotations in manuscript ink on two leaves pertaining to dialogue for his character "Scratch." <br /> <br /> With an extended postscript ending that goes slightly beyond the ending of the released film.<br /> <br /> Based on the 2006 young adult novel by Blake Nelson about a teenage skateboarder who is drawn into a murder investigation after his involvement in the accidental death of a security guard. The film's extras as well as several of the lead roles were cast through an open casting call on MySpace.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in director Gus Van Sant's hometown of Portland Oregon.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 10 2006 with credits for Nelson and Van Sant. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 10/10/06. Pages Very Good plus lightly soiled on a couple of leaves bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1979132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. <br /> <br /> Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. <br /> <br /> At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. <br /> <br /> Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a manuscript notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with manuscript annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown
