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1901142546Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. <br/><br/>One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made including "Prison Bars" a film featuring the Wright Brothers and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo Bill. Touring with an electronic lamp house and a portable gasoline-powered electric power supply of his own invention he found great success with his traveling show until stationery theaters made his business model obsolete in 1917. From a nearly-forgotten era of film history his name innovations and films have largely been lost. <br/><br/>Set in Wisconsin's Waupun Prison and shot there on location where Barnsdale had arranged to film the lives of inmates in exchange for screening entertainment for the them. An especially bright attractive copy of this piece of early film history and an uncommonly detailed artifact from the height of stone lithography poster advertisements. One of the earliest documentary motion picture ads we have ever seen in remarkable condition. Created by the U.S. Lithograph Company Russel-Morgan Print. <br/><br/>42 x 28 inches rolled. Two light creases else Fine. Walter Barnsdale unknown books
140712Palos Verdes Peninsula CA: Capitol International Pictures. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in holograph ink throughout. <br/><br/>Alex the playwright daughter of a famous actress is taking her mother's body to her homeland of Greece to bury her when she meets Kristo a married man whose wife is pregnant with his brother's child. They begin a serendipitous romance in Athens starting completely anew until everything starts to fall apart with Kristo's university friend trying to sleep with Alex until he reveals he is actually a homosexual the death of Kristo's brother and Alex's husband running into all of them at a party. <br/><br/>Set in Athens. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Walter Anton White. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered 164. Mechanical duplication Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Capitol International Pictures unknown books
1966146489Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1966. Collection of 108 vintage contact sheets from the 1966 film with approximately 1100 images. Stills as well as on the set shots.<br/><br/>The only film in which Walt Disney received a story credit as "Retlaw Yensid." Disney's take on Daniel Dafoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" features Dick Van Dyke as Naval Lieutenant Robin "Rob" Crusoe who after ejecting from his airplane finds himself castaway on a tropical island with a marooned NASA chimp named Floyd and a beautiful island girl Wednesday Nancy Kwan. <br/><br/>Shot on location in San Diego and Kauai Hawaii. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine light curling some light creasing one with open tear on left edge. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1955146249Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1955. Draft script for the 1956 film here under the working title "Children of the Covered Wagon." Walt Disney's working copy with "Walt Disney" in holograph ink on upper left margin of Walt Disney Productions label on the front wrapper not in Disney's hand and annotations in red blue and graphite holograph pencil throughout all clearly in Disney's hand. The most substantive of the annotations denote sequence order and use of stock footage.<br/><br/>Our first reaction was to doubt such close involvement by Disney on a 1950s feature but it turns out that this film was special: it was Disney's first Western and only its second live-action CinemaScope feature following on the heels of the wildly successful "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" the year before. Too Disney's first animated CinemaScope feature "Lady and the Tramp" was released just prior to this film in the summer of 1955. All three were major debuts for Disney and Walt Disney's involvement was naturally more hands-on than usual.<br/><br/>Based on the 1934 novel "Children of the Covered Wagon" by Mary Jane Carr about a group of pioneers in a wagon train traveling across the West. Staring Disney stalwart Fess Parker of "Davey Crockett" fame as John "Doc" Grayson and featuring four Mouseketeers from the "Mickey Mouse Club" television series: Tommy Cole Doreen Tracey Cubby O'Brian and Karen Pendleton.<br/><br/>A one-hour Disneyland telecast on November 14 1956 entitled "Along the Oregon Trail" included a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "Westward Ho the Wagons!" and on the day of the film's opening the first segment of a four-part series about Native Americans entitled "The First Americans" began on the Disneyland series.<br/><br/>Set in the American West shot on location at the Conejo Ranch near Thousand Oaks in California. <br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with affixed Walt Disney Productions label as called for with Disney scripts from this era with credits for screenwriter Tom Blackburn and production number 2093. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine prong binding. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1944128914Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht with her name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. <br/><br/>The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment featuring spiritualists a haunted house and a murder by suffocation in what was seemingly a last gasp from the studio's film series. Sadly the film's failure superseded its potential even with all the right elements of a chilling melodrama. <br/><br/>ChaneyJr. plays attorney Wayne Fletcher who is engaged in an affair with his secretary Donna Joyce who is tied to a rich family. He arrives home after a late night at the office to discover his wife has been murdered a death by asphyxiation with Wayne as the suspect. With the help psychic Julian Julian Bromberg the police investigate the murder. The psychic's motives are questionable but he says he can contact Wayne's dead wife. At a seance to reach Vivian's spirit the reluctant Wayne hears what he thinks is her voice but discovers Julian Julian in the shadows and accuses him of conspiracy. After several sleepless nights haunted by the voice of his lost wife Wayne finally "gives in" to her spirit and attempts to kill Donna with a pillow but is overpowered by police and leaps from a window to his death per his wife's instructions. <br/><br/>Gray card titled wrappers lacking rear wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7285 dated February 19 1945 with credits for screenwriter Bricker and story writer Babcock. 106 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good lacking rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown books
1983149305Rome: 2T Produzione Film 1983. Vintage grande French poster from the 1983 erotic film. <br/><br/>Inspired by Ovid's 1 BCE collection of poems "Ars Amatoria" "The Art of Love".<br/><br/>Set in ancient Rome the poet Ovid Massimo Girotti teaches courses in the art of love. Cornelius Philippe Taccini one of Ovid's students sets out to test his skill on Claudia Marina Pierrro whose husband Macarius Michel Placido has gone to war. <br/><br/>47 x 63 inches. One panel. Folded as issued. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Bier p. 58. 2T Produzione Film unknown books
1980149577N.p.: Capital Films 1980. Collection of two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1980 film one showing actors Anne Bennent and Udo Kier the other showing Bennent Kier and director Walerian Borowczyk. <br/><br/>Based on Frank Wedekind's plays "Erdgeist" and "Die Buschse der Pandora." An opportunistic amoral young woman rises in society through her relationships with monied men.<br/><br/>9.25 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Capital Films unknown books
1973149309Neuilly-sur-Seine: Argos Films 1973. Vintage grande French poster from the 1973 erotic film. <br/><br/>Borowczyk's fourth feature length film an anthology film of four erotic tales set in different historical eras. Incest bloodlust masturbation and loss of virginity are among the film's themes featuring characters ranging from a nineteenth-century country girl fantasizing about Jesus to the bloodthirsty exploits of sixteenth-century Hungarian noblewoman and purported serial killer Elizabeth Bathory.<br/><br/>47 x 63 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Near Fine. Argos Films unknown books
1973149290Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Argos Films 1973. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 French erotic film. Two with stamp snipes on the verso one with a printed mimeo snipe to the verso and all three with the stamp of still photographer Andre Marinie.<br/><br/>Walerian Borowczyk's fourth feature length film a sexually explicit time-traveling romp ranging from the bloodthirsty exploits of Elizabeth Bathory to a nineteenth-century country girl fantasizing about Jesus. <br/><br/>Two photographs 7 x 4.75 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Bier p. 207. Argos Films unknown books
1953WRCLIT69893Hollywood: ZIV Television Inc. 1953. 344 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed and carbon typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in production company wrappers. Very very extensively annotated throughout in pencil and colored pencil with prompts revisions and camera/production notes. Clean slice into fore-margin of upper wrapper otherwise very good. A "Final Master" of this teleplay by Wald written for the FAVORITE STORY series production 70b and based on a short story "The Substitute" by Francois Coppée. Leslie Goodwins directed Robert Blake and Noah Beery Jr. and Adolphe Menjou introduced the episode as usual. This particular copy was intimately involved in the production of the episode and a manuscript designation on the upper wrapper implies it was used by Larry Lund the script supervisor. Wald had an extended and productive career as a screen and television writer for a number of the best known series of the 1950s and early 1960s. He was co-nominated with Albert Maltz for an Oscar and WG Award for screenwriting for the 1948 film THE NAKED CITY. ZIV Television, Inc. unknown books
1944134788Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1944. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1946 film. Copy belonging to the film's editor Clarence Kolster with his name in holograph pencil on the first revision page and annotations throughout mostly noting cut or completed scenes. Actress Bette Davis' name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil though Davis was the lead role in the earlier 1934 John Cromwell version. <br/><br/>This second film version of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel stars Paul Henreid as a clubfooted medical student. Eleanor Parker is Mildred the vulgar cockney waitress adored by Philip Carey Henreid. The subject matter of Maugham's novel exploring how sexual obsession can lead to ruin was missing in the 1946 version thanks to studio censors and Alexis Smith who played the second female lead said the remake should never have been produced. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as 2nd REV FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 40 dated June 22 1944. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/22/44 with a credit for screenwriter Turney. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 219 several pages omitted. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/12/44 and 8/29/44. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with an archival repair to a long tear in the front wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1944131507Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves all featuring Smith and costar Paul Henreid. <br/><br/>Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel about a forlorn artist in France who gives up the trade to become a doctor. Philip Cary Henreid the artist meets Mildred Rogers Eleanor Parker a waitress and becomes dreadfully infatuated in spite of the waitress' complete disregard for him. Eventually the waitress' charms wane and Cary reconnects with a beautiful young writer Nora Nesbitt Smith and their romance flourishes-until Mildred Rogers returns pregnant and in need. <br/><br/>First adapted to film in 1934 directed by John Cromwell and starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis the novel was also adaptated in 1964 by Ken Hughes starring Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey and has been adapted several times for television. <br/><br/>Brown full sheepskin boards with gilt titles. Distribution page present receipt intact. Title page present dated 6/22/44 with credits for screenwriter Turney. 179 leaves including black and white publicity photos bound in mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 8/12/44 and 8/29/44. Very Good. Warner Brothers unknown books
1976149849N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Margarethe von Trotta Volker Schlondorff cinematographer Igor Luther and other crew members on the set of the 1976 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1939 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Young left-wing aristocrat Sophie von Reval von Trotta sides with the Bolsheviks after being rejected by a young German soldier Matthias Habich preparing to fight the Red Army.<br/><br/>The third and final collaboration between husband and wife team Schlondorff and von Trotta von Trotta here co-writing and starring before von Trotta would branch off into her own esteemed career as director. Previously they worked together on "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" 1971 which von Tratt starred in and co-wrote with director Schlondorff and the New German Cinema masterwork "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" 1975 which they co-wrote and co-directed together. <br/><br/>Set in 1919 Latvia during the Russian Civil War.<br/><br/>12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at far corners. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 192. N.p. unknown books
1990141270N.p.: Bioskop Film 1990. Collection of 11 vintage studio still photographs from the 1990 film. <br/><br/>Based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel which envisions a dystopian future in which fertile women are forced to play sexual surrogate to wealthy childless families. <br/><br/>Shot on location in North Carolina. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. Bioskop Film unknown books
1978144593Munich: Bavaria Atelier 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the set of the 1978 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. Herman Herman Dirk Bograde a Russian immigrant and Jewish business owner in Berlin is targeted by Nazis. While slowly losing his mind he fixates on a man he believes to be his doppelganger. After taking out a new life insurance policy he devises a plan to free himself of his problems. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Germany. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Bavaria Atelier unknown books
1974137795Rome: Ultra Film S. p. A. 1974. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1973 Italian film" Baciamo le mani" here under the English title "The Family." Released internationally as "I Kiss the Hand" "Family Killer" and "Kiss My Hand" and re-released in the US as "Sin City Confidential." Brief annotations in holograph ink on the first page noting the role of Luca played by Spiros Focas and on a few other pages. Rubber-stamped on the title page as an Ultra Film production however Aquila Cinematografica would receive final credit. <br/><br/>Based on Schiraldi's 1972 titular novel. Stefano Ferrante Joshua Sinclair the son of a Mafia boss Kennedy is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone Saxon because he refused to sell a piece of land. Eventually Ardizzone becomes the new Don and the prior is soon killed by some indifferent construction workers. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Schiraldo and translator Denis Hall. 208 leaves with last page of text numbered 207. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Ultra Film S. p. A. unknown books
1969150478N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 sexploitation film two black and white and one in color. One with the stamp of Studio 111 on the verso. <br/><br/>Two 9.5 x 7 inches one 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus one with light fading on the recto. N.p. unknown books
1953135958Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1953. Original Spanish pressbook for the 1953 film<br/><br/>12 pages saddle-stapled 11 x 14 inches. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 202. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1952136688N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage oversize double weight matte finish photograph from the set of the 1952 film. <br/><br/>A sobering and striking image of the film's destitute loner and his dog Flike standing in the streets of Rome late in the evening. Shot by the film's still photographer Angelo Pennoni using a striking example of designer Virgilio Marchi's meticulously designed and lit set. <br/><br/>Generally considered the masterpiece of the post-WWII Italian neorealist movement. Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film and director De Sica was nominated for the Grand Prix at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. <br/><br/>16 x 11.75 inches. Very Good with some scuffing at the extremities. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 201. N.p. unknown books
1960141245N.p.: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion 1960. Vintage double weight reference studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Sophia Loren won an Academy Award fro her role as Cesira. <br/><br/>Vittorio De Sica's harsh war-era film follows the plight of an Italian mother an daughter as they traverse the Italian countryside in search of safety. The film stars Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belonodo and Eleonora Brown. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Rome Italy. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with pin holes and a holograph ink notation to the verso. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion unknown books
1951122115Rome: Albert and Charles Boni 1951. Original Italian program for the 1951 film based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. SIGNED by Vittorio De Sica at the bottom of the title page. One of the director's classics pure visual storytelling made just after "Bicycle Thieves" 1948 and just before "Umberto D." 1952. A gorgeous oversize program with a central illustration on the front wrapper within a debossed frame. The wrapper houses 6 loose deluxe card plates as issued the first two devoted to text and the last four being full-color lithograph illustrations reflecting the film story. One of the most beautiful programs we've ever seen. Plates Near Fine outer wrapper Very Good plus with a few tears at the edges but no loss 12.75 x 17.25 inches. Albert and Charles Boni unknown books
1960144145Rome: Aquila Cinematogtafica 1960. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>Based on a story from volume three of "De Novelle Della Pescara" or "The Stories of Pescara" by Gabriele D'Annunzio published in 1902. <br/><br/>Don Giovanni makes a clamorous entrance into a production of "The Countess of Amalfi" in a makeshift theater inside an old military hospital in the small town Pescara. He greatly admires Violetta the opera's star and hosts a party in her honor. <br/><br/>Set in Pescara Italy. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. bright blue tape binding. Title page present with credits for director Vittorio De Sica screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and novelist Gabriele D'Annunzio. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with blue binding tape. Aquila Cinematogtafica unknown books
1950125431Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1950. Original pressbook for the 1950 film noir. Based on a story by Virginia Kellogg published in "Colliers" on June 3 1950 written for the screen by Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld. <br/><br/>The gradual transformation of one woman at first innocent and shy into a hardened and knowing criminal. Eleanor Parker gives the best performance of her career and Hope Emerson as always makes for an intimidating and villainous female. An unusually realistic representation of prison life. <br/><br/>16 pages 11 x 17 inches saddle stapled. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a few short closed tears at the stitching light soil and a small chip at one corner. <br/><br/>Lyons US. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1962132587London: National Screen Service / MGM 1962. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1962 UK release of the 1962 US film. <br/><br/>Based on Irwin Shaw's 1960 novel about an ex-film star who gets released from a sanitarium and tries to acclimate back into life in the entertainment industry at the same time trying to connect with his ex-wife and his former director's new wife. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Tiny corner creases else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1956144566Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1956. Vintage borderless photograph of Kirk Douglas from the 1956 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone about the tumultuous life of the famous Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh played by Kirk Douglas. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and nominated for three others. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Belgium France and The Netherlands. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
