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1985141905N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> A Black man and his son struggle to survive in Apartheid-era South Africa where they find themselves constantly at odds with white society whether at the hands of questioning police the disrespect Mogane faces when he is promoted to foreman at his job and his son struggling to earn respect and money for hard work out on the streets. <br /> <br /> Set in South Africa. <br /> <br /> White titled self wrappers dated August 19 1985. Title page present dated August 19 1985 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Adam Rodman. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1964166462N.p.: N.p. 1964. Draft script for Season 2 Episode 7 of the 1963-1965 television series. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with a penciled drawing with annotations on the rear wrapper laying out a set design.<br /> <br /> In the year 2024 astronauts visiting Mars are picked off one by one by mysterious "Sand-Beasts" shark-like monsters that live and travel under the planet's surface. Loosely based on a short story by screenwriter Jerry Sohl which originally appeared in "Imaginative Tales" magazine in September of 1955. <br /> <br /> Lacking front wrapper but with rear wrapper present. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus rear wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1938150942Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1938. Two vintage double weight studio still photographs and two vintage reference photographs from the 1938 film. <br /> <br /> Seeking audience feedback a film producer recruits an ordinary girl to evaluate his movies from the perspective of the everyday American. <br /> <br /> Set in Hollywood. <br /> <br /> Three 10 x 8 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus some with light edgewear creases and toning. The Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown
1950167604Berlin: Carlton-Film 1950. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1950 West German film. <br /> <br /> The inhabitants of a small village in the Bavarian Alps lose their senses upon the arrival of a beautiful young dancer arousing the men and enraging their wives. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Bavaria. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus with pinholes on the margins. Carlton-Film unknown
160904N.p.: N.p. 1977. Early First Draft script for the seminal 1980 film here under the working title "California Girls." Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Jim Brown no relation to the actor we suspect with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. <br /> <br /> A bleak seminal coming-of-age drama about four teenage girls grappling with their families drugs and relationships in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Adrian Lyne's directorial debut.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in San Fernando Hollywood and Los Angeles California. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Nov. 28 1977 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Gerald Ayres. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographiic duplication with the exception of the title page which is a carbon typescript copy rectos onl. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. N.p. unknown
1950144119Hollywood: Paul Kohner 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> Wild Bill Hickok must play a high stakes poker game in order to win back his beloved mare. The script is a partial treatment draft with a moderate amount of script still in full paragraphs. <br /> <br /> Set in Deadwood Dodge City and the Chisholm Trail in 1867. <br /> <br /> Lacking wrappers presumably as issued. Title page present with credits for screenwriter AEneas MacKenzie. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine bound with three gold brads. Paul Kohner unknown
130699N.p.: N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> Four interrelated vignettes about life in the American West featuring Will Bill Hickok praised Indian killer coming a wild town without law enforcement and him acting as sheriff until he humiliated by a woman followed by a story in which he is found in a different town drinking himself to death. A different woman helps him get back on his feet which ultimately leads to him enforcing justice again only to be gunned down. The final two stories involve vengeance on the part of Hickok's friends seeking retribution for their gunned-down friend. <br /> <br /> Mint green titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter MacKenzie. 59 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963163783N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 film showing actors Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. Stamp of photographer Agnès Varda film director and wife of Jacques Demy on the verso. <br /> <br /> Varda and director Jacques Demy were married from 1962 until Demy's death in 1990. <br /> <br /> While vacationing in Nice a quiet young bank employee begins an affair with a gambler whose addiction and despair mirrors his own. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and in and Monte Carlo Monaco. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown
1962146923Paris: Cine Tamaris 1962. Vintage oversize double weight single photograph of four studio still images from the 1962 film. "CINE VOG FILMS S.A." and "CLEO DE 5 A 7" stamps on the verso. <br /> <br /> Told more or less in real time the story of a pop singer trying to distract herself from worry while awaiting the results of a biopsy. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Paris. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus some creasing and curling pinholes primarily in corners repaired with paper tape on the verso.<br /> <br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert IV. Criterion Collection 73. Cine Tamaris unknown
1962150413N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1962 French film showing actors Michel Legrand Corinne Marchand and Jean-Pierre Taste-from the memorable early sequence in the film where Legrand and Taste drop in to Marchand's flat. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> Agnes Varda's second feature film following a pop singer over the course of two hours as she talks with friends and anxiously awaits the results of a biopsy. <br /> <br /> Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Paris. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962150424N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Agnes Varda on the set of the 1962 French film. With a stamp noting Varda's name on the verso along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations.<br /> <br /> Agnes Varda's second feature film following a pop singer over the course of two hours as she talks with friends and anxiously awaits the results of a biopsy. <br /> <br /> Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Paris. <br /> <br /> 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962132899Paris: Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films 1962. Four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 French film. <br /> <br /> Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film prefigures stylistically the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Varda was nominated for the Palme d'Or for "Cleo from 5 to 7" her second feature film about a female pop singer whose spends two adventurous and winsome hours on her own and talking to friends while awaiting the results of a biopsy. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Paris. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Edges lightly toned. Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films unknown
1966149672Paris: Madeleine Films 1966. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1966 film showing director Agnes Varda in conversation with actors Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli. With the stamp of Madeleine Films on the verso.<br /> <br /> A writer and his pregnant wife move to a remote island off the coast of France following a car accident that has rendered the wife mute. The writer begins to plan his next novel using the local islanders as inspiration but the locals are distrustful of the reclusive couple and tensions heighten as the line between reality and fiction begins to melt together. Agnes Varda an important and influential French director writer and artist garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile France.<br /> <br /> 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Madeleine Films unknown
1977168492N.p.: N.p. 1977. Five vintage borderless reference photographs for the 1977 film including two showing director Agnes Varda on the set. All five with French press stamps and layout annotations on the verso.<br /> <br /> A remarkable film depicting the lifelong friendship of two dissimilar but close-knit French women beginning when one helps the other raise money for an abortion. <br /> <br /> Agnes Varda an important and influential French director writer and artist garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in France. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1966137871Paris: Parc Film 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in manuscript marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. <br /> <br /> A writer and his pregnant wife mute from a car accident move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality fact and fiction begin to blend together as he transforms the villagers into characters in his story. In his 1969 review Roger Ebert called The Creatures "a complex and nearly hypnotic study of the way fact is made into fiction. It seems to operate on many levels but in fact it operates on only one illustrating how fantasy reality and style are simultaneously kept suspended in the mind of a creative writer." <br /> <br /> Three photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light scratches. <br /> <br /> Remaining photographs 4.75 x 3.5 inches. A few photographs lightly worn else Near Fine overall. Parc Film unknown
1985149739N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1985 French film three showing director Agnes Varda and actress Sandrine Bonnaire one showing Varda and cinematographer Patrick Blossier and one showing Varda and a film crew inspecting Bonnaire as she poses as a dead body in a ditch. With the stamp of Cinemagence three with provenance stamps and one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.<br /> <br /> Varda's most successful and critically acclaimed film beginning with the discovery of a young migrant woman's body frozen in a ditch in northern France and retracing her life up until the time of her death.<br /> <br /> As an important and influential French director writer and artist Agnes Varda garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Gard Herault and Bouches-du-Rhone France.<br /> <br /> Four photographs 7 x 5 inches one photograph 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 74. N.p. unknown
1968158755New York: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1968. Revised Draft for the 1969 film. Script belonging to uncredited crew member with their name in manuscript ink in three places in the script. Additionally included with the script is a vintage reference photograph from the film showing cast and crew members on location. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1960 novel by Harold Robbins. A Mafia hit man is ready to retire but his employers not happy with this idea send a hit man out after him. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York City and Puerto Rico. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated 9/27/68 with credits for novelist Harold Robbins screenwriter A.J. Russell and director Bernard L. Kowalski. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink yellow blue and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/15/68 and 11/5/68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Photograph: 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown
1980149772Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1980. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1980 Japanese pinku pink film. Also included with the set is a film program in Japanese.<br /> <br /> Housed in a studio envelope. Photographs 6 x 4.25 inches Near Fine. Film program is 28.25 x 6.75 inches one sheet folded four times Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Weisser and Weisser The Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films p. 89. Nikkatsu unknown
148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. <br /> <br /> Annotations relate to the following: a names of the chosen cast members b set rehearsals and camera rehearsals c times for shooting e.g. Morning Afternoon Evening and Night phone numbers for production personnel d names of potential and/or hired camera assistants e names of potential and/or hired actors f indication of the production company chosen Toho Corporation as well as film stock and lens sizes to be used g additional notes regarding location of some settings h changes to dialogue and action and h some final post-production notes.<br /> <br /> Director Akira Kurosawa's first color film based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 1962 novel "Kisetsu no nai machi" A City Without Seasons. A series of vignettes about a slum in the suburbs of Tokyo and its impoverished inhabitants. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Tokyo.<br /> <br /> Script:<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. Title page present. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered d-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding.<br /> <br /> Schedule:<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. 13 leaves with last page numbered 23. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a faintly toned spine and very faint foxing to the fore-edge side-stapled with two staples.<br /> <br /> Detailed notes with translation of annotations noted above with accompanying images are provided with the script. Toho unknown
1948151633Tokyo: Toho Company 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film noir. Text and titles in Japanese.<br /> <br /> The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation forbidding criticism of Americans leading Kurosawa to slip in references to the US presence in Japan satirizing jazz "pan pan" girls unlicensed prostitutes catering to American soldiers and Western clothing and hairstyles.<br /> <br /> Set in the slums of postwar Japan.<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. Approximately 40 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus covered in a protective plastic wrapping from when the script was used during filming side stapled. <br /> <br /> BFI 638. Criterion Collection 413. Grant Japan. Toho Company unknown
1962160922Tokyo: Toho / Kurosawa Productions 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese.<br /> <br /> A legendary Japanese noir based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes however that the boy they have taken is in fact the son of his chauffeur-and must decide whether he will bankrupt himself and his family in order to save a child that is not his own. A nuanced portrait of a man facing the potential destruction of his future further elevated by morally ambiguous characters and the gritty realism of its world. The fifteenth and penultimate film that leading actor Toshiro Mifune would make with director Akira Kurosawa and one of the highest grossing Japanese films of 1963 breaking Kurosawa's box office record for the third time.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Kanagawa Japan. <br /> <br /> White titled perfect-bound wrappers dated 1962 with a protective titled dust jacket. Approximately 94 leaves with last page of text numbered e-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing on the top and bottom page edges. Jacket Very Good with moderate foxing on the extremities.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 24. Grant Japan. Selby Japan. Spicer Japan. Toho / Kurosawa Productions unknown
157439Yokohama Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. <br /> <br /> The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. <br /> <br /> When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights recieving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. <br /> <br /> Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. <br /> <br /> White perfect-bound wrappers. Rubber stamped copy No. 74 at the top right corner of the front wrapper. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered "146." Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine with light toning wrapper Very Good with foxing overall and age toning to the page edges. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 267. Kurosawa Production Co unknown
1980163675N.p.: Toho Company 1980. Three vintage photographs from the 1980 film two film still photographs and a photograph of director Akira Kurosawa on the set with executive producers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. <br /> <br /> The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. <br /> <br /> When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film Coppola and Lucas convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights receiving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. <br /> <br /> Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 267. Toho Company unknown
1992148720Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film.<br /> <br /> Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers perfect-bound dated 1992.11.5. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 197. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine. Dentsu Music and Entertainment unknown
1950166097N.p.: N.p. 1950. Four vintage double weight satin-finish reference photographs from the 1950 Japanese film. Provenance labels and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.<br /> <br /> Few foreign language films have made such a lasting impact on American audiences as director Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" a revolutionary cinematic work in terms of style and substance that challenged audiences about the nature of subjective experience. Winner of an honorary 1951 Academy Award for Most Outstanding Foreign Language Film Released in the United States and credited for being the reason the Academy created the "Best Foreign Film" category. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Kyoto Nara and Tokyo Japan. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 138. Grant Japan. Ebert II. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
