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1940161700Los Angeles CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Vintage reference keybook photograph of actor director and screenwriter Orson Welles with a dresser on the set of the 1941 film. Linen backed with two sets of punch holes along the top edge. <br /> <br /> Often considered to be one of the finest American films ever made the story of a reporter investigating the last words of wealthy newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. Welles' first feature film winner of an Academy Award and nominated for eight others including Best Picture. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York and California. <br /> <br /> Photograph 8 x 11 inches image 3.5 x 4.5 with large margins. Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the verso and toning. <br /> <br /> Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1941134897Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills linen backed as issued one still with a mimeo snipe on the verso the other with the RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> The first still shows a young Kane Orson Welles smoking a pipe and smiing signing his "declaration" with advisors Jedediah Leland Joseph Cotten and Mr. Bernstein Everett Sloane. The second still shows Kane as an old man looking on as his young bride Dorothy Comingore completes a giant jigsaw puzzle at a table. <br /> <br /> Both stills 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Spicer US. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1941134898Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with annotations on the verso one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. <br /> <br /> The first still shows a young Kane Orson Welles at a celebration for the inauguration of his newspaper "The Inquirer." The second still shows Kane as an older man reviewing finances with his advisors. <br /> <br /> Stills are 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Spicer US. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1996170717Los Angeles: Atlas Entertainment 1996. Draft script for the 1998 film.<br /> <br /> An American remake of Wim Wenders' 1987 film "Wings of Desire" the setting moved to Los Angeles about an angel who falls in love with a human and decides to become mortal in order to live with her.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Generic white Atlas Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated May 29 1996 with credit for screenwriter Dana Stevens. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Atlas Entertainment unknown
1976167073Universal City: Public Arts / Roy Huggins - Universal Studios 1976. Draft script for the fourth episode of the 1976 NBC television series here under the working title "City of Angels: Quicker Than the Eye" which aired on February 24 1976. Not to be confused with the 2000 CBS medical drama television series created by Steven Bochco.<br /> <br /> Inspired by Roman Polanski's 1974 classic "Chinatown" the series was created by Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins who had previously worked together on the acclaimed 1974-80 television series "The Rockford Files." Wayne Rogers stars as the stalwart private investigator Jake Axminster working amid the corruption of 1930s Los Angeles. Hailed by mystery novelist Max Allan Collins as "the best private eye series ever" the series premiered on NBC on February 3 1976 and lasted for only one thirteen episode season before ending on May 18 1976.<br /> <br /> In this episode Jake is hired by a wealthy man named Underwood to investigate whether his wife Velma is having an affair only to discover Underwood dead after hearing a shot ring out while staking out Velma at their home.<br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated January 27 1976 with credits for screenwriter Philip De Guere Jr. and Story by James Thomas James. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 59. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 1/30/76. Pages Very Good plus with the front wrapper detached and stapled to the following two leaves bound with two gold brads. Public Arts / Roy Huggins - Universal Studios unknown
1975140794Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> An unproduced English-language version of "Mina Drommars Stad" or "City of My Dreams" a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingvar Skogsberg based upon a novel by Per Anders Fogelstrom. Young Henning and his three friends struggle to survive with their freedom intact in 19th century Stockholm. Based on the life of Fogelstrom. This was the Swedish entry to the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but it was not selected as a nominee. <br /> <br /> Set in Stockholm shot on location there. <br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated January 26 1975 noted as Scenario Version with credits for author Per Anders Fogelstrom screenwriter Ingvar Skogsberg and translator Alan Blair. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a white velo binding. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1953125507Sherman Oaks CA: Republic Pictures 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. Screenplay by noted screenwriter Steve Fisher. <br /> <br /> One sheet folded once as issued 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. <br /> <br /> Lyons US. Martin 121. Selby US. 71. Spicer US. Republic Pictures unknown
1970141083Paris: Les Films du Losange 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Director Eric Rohmer's first color film in which mountainous backdrops and varying tones play a significant visual role. In a notedly minimal narrative a newly married diplomat becomes infatuated with a lovely young acquaintance specifically with the girl's knee. His desire to touch her knee becomes the driving force behind the film. <br /> <br /> Two pages 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Near Fine with pin holes to the corners. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 347. Les Films du Losange unknown
1987130708Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1987. Fourth Draft script for the 1988 film. Based on the 1985 novel by Joseph Olshan. <br /> <br /> A family is in crisis following the death of their child from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The mother takes a trip to Jamaica where she meets Clara Mayfield Goldberg who helps her overcome her grief with her no-nonsense straight talk. The mother invites her back to Baltimore to raise their young son Harris and Clara is eventually compelled to reveal dark secrets about her past. <br /> <br /> Pink titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 8 1987 noted as Fourth Draft with credits for screenwriter Medoff and writer Olshan. 128 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine with some mild sunning bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1931140125Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1931 film. Featuring Madge Evans and Lew Cody comparing binoculars while a very young and not yet famous Clark Gable smiles over their shoulders. Mimeograph snipe on the verso. Based on the short story "Horse Flesh" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on September 13 1930. <br /> <br /> An orphaned foal's journey through various owners including that of nefarious gambler Ludeking Hallam Cooley before being returned to his loving breeder Jim Ernest Torrence. Clark Gable's first starring role as a card dealer with occasional moral failings whose love story with Ruby Madge Evans makes for an entertaining side plot. <br /> <br /> Set in Kentucky shot on location in Lexington Kentucky and California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Just about Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1982141263N.p.: N.p. 1982. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two letters to agent Walter Kohner dated December 29 1982 and January 24 1983 respectively-the first introducing the script and the second from an agency reader critiquing the script. <br /> <br /> The brother of a horse breeder is in a successful country western band. When one of the bandmates begins running drugs the band's private jet gets bombed with the brothers being the lead suspects in the subsequent investigation. They work to clear their names and find the true criminals. <br /> <br /> Set in Atlanta. <br /> <br /> Green untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised with credit for screenwriter Howard B. Kreitsek. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographically duplicated rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a spiral binding. 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
1963167790N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing Elizabeth Taylor as the titular pharaoh taking a bath. Newspaper clipping with date stamp annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance label on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Taylor with Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. <br /> <br /> Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963162366N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz sitting on the set surrounded by crew members. <br /> <br /> Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. <br /> <br /> Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the corners. N.p. unknown
1963134356Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs two studio stills one reference still from the 1963 film. This film featured Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in their first pairing beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. <br /> <br /> Based on the histories written by Plutarch Suetonius and Appian and also based on the Carlo Maria Franzero book and set in 48 B.C. in Egypt. Winner of several Academy Awards Best Cinematography Art Direction Costume Design Effects. <br /> <br /> Set in Egypt shot on location in Spain Italy England and the USA. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus corner creases to all studio stills toned short closed tears and a few tiny chips. The reference still has two larger tears at the right edge. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1957158425N.p.: N.p. 1957. Second Revised Draft script for Season 3 Episode 17 of the 1954-1958 anthology television series. Copy belonging to child actor Johnny Crawford with his signature on the title page and his manuscript annotations in pencil throughout.<br /> <br /> An emotionally scarred man must return to the state where his father a governor was murdered. The episode originally aired on February 14 1957 on CBS.<br /> <br /> Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated 2-9-57 with credits for director Robert Stevens screenwriter Adrian Spies and others. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered III-24. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1985119986N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for the 1986 comedy film. <br /> <br /> The headmaster of a British school is trying to get to a conference for school headmasters where he is meant to give a speech. He runs into a number of obstacles that delay him resulting in one of the most hilarious stressful movies ever made.<br /> <br /> Set in England shot on location in West Midlands Shropshire Worcestershire and Yorkshire England. <br /> <br /> Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with manuscript ink annotation noting copy No. 160 dated March 1985 with credits for screenwriter Michael Frayn. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus wit some curling at the corners internally bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1977151940Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage reference photograph of Steven Spielberg and François Truffaut on the set of the 1977 film. <br /> <br /> Roy Neary Dreyfuss is one of several people who witness UFOs at night and subsequently begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy and the agents join together and are led to a place not unlike the place in Roy's visions where they have a close encounter of the third kind: contact. Winner of an Academy Award Best Cinematography 1978 and Spielberg's third feature as director following "Jaws" 1975 and "The Sugarland Express" 1974.<br /> <br /> Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. <br /> <br /> 9.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1980157332Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1980. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1980 re-release of the 1977 film showing Steven Spielberg on the set. <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> After witnessing a UFO hovering over his suburban home an electrician joins with several government agents to seek out and hopefully make contact with the aliens. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br /> <br /> Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at three corners and a short closed tear on the right edge. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1966151607N.p.: N.p. 1966. Collection of 17 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Czechoslovakian film. With the printed label of Columbus Film in Zurich affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on Bohumil Hrabal's 1965 novel about a young man working at a German-occupied train station in Czechoslovakia during World War II. A key entry in Czechoslovak New Wave film poignantly asserting that the Czech people were part of an oppressive system during the war hitting the mark with sly wit and a peculiar innocence. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956140428France / Italy: Les Films Ariane 1956. Collection of over 80 vintage borderless single weight candid and glamor photographs and film negatives black-and-white and color and color transparencies for the 1956 French-Italian film. Most of the images are glamour portraits of the film's leading women: Dany Carrel Nicole Courcel Giorgia Moll and Beatrice Altariba. Several color transparencies show Brigitte Bardot whose sister Mijanou starred in the film leaving a small airplane with her male companion. Several photos rubber-stamped with various photographer names and agencies including Esther Kiss Rene Hollinger and L. Markine. Housed in a vintage French Crumiere brand photo paper box. <br /> <br /> A remake of Jacques Deval's 1936 film of the same name about a women's boarding house and the group of women forced to band together because of a housing shortage. Released during the heyday of American exploitation films about women's prisons all-girl boarding schools and girl gangs. <br /> <br /> Photographs range from 7.25 x 9.25 inches to 3 x 4 inches with most being smaller developed photos from medium-format transparencies negatives and transparencies include 15 frames on 35mm strips 6 mounted medium format color transparencies 5 medium format color transparencies and 39 medium format negatives. Negatives with light rubbing. Very Good plus overall. Box split at corners foxing Good. Les Films Ariane unknown
1980163674Universal City: Universal City Studios 1980. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1980 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography "Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter" cowritten by George Vecsey. A dramatization of Lynn's life following her poverty-stricken upbringing in Butcher Hollow Kentucky to her rise to fame as a country music superstar. Winner of an Academy Award for Sissy Spacek as Best Actress nominated for six others including Best Picture Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Light even toning commensurate with age else Near Fine. Universal City Studios unknown
