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1978147119Burbank CA: Edgar J. Scherick and Associates 1978. Second Draft script for the 1978 television film. One of director John Carpenter's earliest efforts as a screenwriter released the same year as "Halloween" and the television movie "Someone's Watching Me." Originally aired on NBC on September 27 1978. While written as a vehicle for Suzanne Somers some actors that would soon eclipse her can be found in the supporting cast including Timothy Hutton Rosanna Arquette and Michael Biehn. <br/><br/>A glamorous but aging rock star takes a vacation to Zuma Beach where she unwittingly seduces the teenage beachgoers and gradually becomes involved in their lives. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in California.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 31 1978 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter William Schwartz. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine lightly soiled on the first leaf wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Edgar J. Scherick and Associates unknown books
2001140169Beijing: China Film Co-Production Corporation 2001. Vintage French poster for the 2001 Chinese film. Directed by Tsui Hark the film is laden with intense action sequences and elaborate CGI effects. <br/><br/>27 x 38 inches. Light wrinkling to the margins else Near Fine. China Film Co-Production Corporation unknown books
1934150486N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage matte-finish portrait photograph of actress Josephine Baker from the 1934 film INSCRIBED by Baker: "To Miss Contin-Souza / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker." With the stamp of Baker and her then-lover Giuseppe Pepito "Joseph" Abatino on the verso. <br/><br/>A young orphaned laundress seeks employment as a nightclub dancer in order to raise money for her childhood friend who has been wrongly accused of murder. Baker's fourth film appearance.<br/><br/>Baker moved to France in 1925 where she quickly gained success as an erotic dancer and actress starring in several films throughout the 1930s including "Zouzou" 1935 and "Princesse Tam-Tam" 1935. When France entered into World War II in 1939 Baker was recruited by the Deuxieme Bureau a branch of French military intelligence and became an "honorable correspondent." The actress gathered information about German troop locations housed members of the Free French effort and helped them access visas and carried secret Allied transmissions throughout Europe while ostensibly touring as an entertainer. Baker was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Rosette de la Resistance for her bravery and in 1945 was named a Chevalier de Legion d'honneur the highest order of merit for military and civil action.<br/><br/>Set in Paris. <br/><br/>8.5 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and curling to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1933144854Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1933. Vintage keybook photograph of Loretta Young and Gene Raymond on the set of the 1933 Pre-Code film. With a printed snipe and studio stamp on the verso and two holes punched into the left edge.<br/><br/>Zani Gene Raymond a young zoo keeper has spent his life inside the zoo in Budapest where his only true friends are the animals. He meets Eve Loretta Young an orphan on a tour with her caretakers from the orphanage. They fall in love and to stay together they must hideout overnight in the zoo while a search party looks for them. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1970132470Beverly Hills CA: National Screen Service / MGM 1970. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1970 film. <br/><br/>A dying man frames himself for the murder of an industrialist so that his family can receive the reward money. It seems like a good plan. until he is cured of his ailment. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Tiny corner creases light rubbing overall else Near Fine. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1988129772N.p.: N.p. 1988. Two Draft scripts from 1987 and 1988 for an unproduced film. Both drafts SIGNED by screenwriter David Henderson in holograph ink on the title page in 1992 and each has a lengthy inscription about the development of the script noting "Michael L. Parker" and his investment in the film the script's general plot and characters a proposed directorial role for Robert N. Zagone "San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog" 1970 television movie and revisions Henderson made in order to "make the film roughly a page a minute." <br/><br/>A cursory look at the script leads us to believe the story is set in a desolate perhaps post-apocalyptic Southwest landscape and the overall theme seems to have crime/thriller elements i.e. murder guns swords. <br/><br/>1987 draft:<br/><br/>Blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1987 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 138 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. <br/><br/>1988 draft:<br/><br/>Light blue stiff titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Henderson and Zagone. 111 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1933139665Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. <br/><br/>Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." <br/><br/>8.75 x 6.5 inches. A few tiny pinholes at the right edge else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis / Argui-Film unknown books
1933142664Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film 1933. Collection of three vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso two with holograph annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." <br/><br/>11.75 x 9.75 inches with wide bottom margins. Very Good plus. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis / Argui-Film unknown books
1933146133Paris: Franfilmdis 1933. Collection of 3 vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo.<br/><br/>Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with Truffaut in particular paying homage to the anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in "The 400 Blows." <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus corner pinholes. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis unknown books
1977146559Munich: Terrafilm 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk with holograph ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the script. Text in German. <br/><br/>A young woman arrives at a dilapidated hospital searching for answers to her past. Academy Award-winning Hungarian director Karoly Makk garnered accolades for his incisive political films during Hungarian cinema's renaissance in the postwar period most notably "Love" 1971 "Cats' Play" 1972 and "Another Way" 1982.<br/><br/>Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Karoly Makk and screenwriter Gunther Heller. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and light soil bound with a gold prong. Terrafilm unknown books
1987141451Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The greatest pimp in all of Japanese history Iheji Muraoka also known as Zegen or the "Boss of the South Seas" grew in power as Japan grew. Not only were his achievements contributing to his mantle of success but he believed they advanced the global ambitions of his nation promoting patriotic interests. <br/><br/>Blue titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Imamura Productions unknown books
1960132925Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films NEF 1960. Collection of three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1960 French film. <br/><br/>An anarchic Louis Malle comedy one of his finest films where ten-year-old Zazie from a provincial town escapes the custody of her cross-dressing Uncle George and sets out to explore Paris on her own-all while her mother is off spending time with a lover. <br/><br/>Story set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with very light toning. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 570. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Nouvelles Editions de Films [NEF] unknown books
1970143238Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a xerographically duplicated character list laid in with single holograph ink notation. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one of the screen's great heroes the character of Zatoichi a blind masseur and swordmaster was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa first appearing on film in 1962. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. "Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival" is the 21st film of the series where Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. <br/><br/>Set in the Japanese Edo period. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered c-50. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on papers edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 679. Daiei Studios unknown books
1974145967N.p.: John Boorman Productions 1974. Vintage borderless double weight photograph from the 1974 film. Rubber stamp crediting Michel Ciment on the verso. <br/><br/>After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance" director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery in only his second post-Bond film in red briefs and suspenders thigh-high boots a handlebar mustache and a long braid and setting him loose in a utopian city of nearly catatonically bored immortals as a ruthless killer doing the violent bidding of a giant floating talking stone head. In his spare time he mates and has a child with Charlotte Rampling. Somewhat obviously the film has since become a cult classic. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Ireland. <br/><br/>9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine some light edgewear. <br/><br/> Arrow 1147. John Boorman Productions unknown books
1957150605Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Collection of 13 vintage photographs from the 1957 US-UK co-production. Seven photographs with mimeo snipes on the verso crediting photographer Bert Cann. <br/><br/>Very loosely based on the 1950 nonfiction book "The Story of Zarak Khan" by A.J. Bevans about an outlaw fighting against British occupation in 19th century Afghanistan pursued by a British officer with whom he develops a mutual respect. <br/><br/>Set on the border between Afghanistan and India shot on location in England Morocco India and Burma. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1973149156Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. Laid in are six blue revision pages dated 2/26/73.<br/><br/>Based on the 1942 novel "The Stranger" by Lillian Bos Ross. Later re-released under the title "For Better For Worse." Gene Hackman stars as a rural rancher who sends away for a mail-order bride looking for an extra ranch hand. His headstrong bride played by Liv Ullman is a tough bargain and the two eventually fall in love through shared hardship and growing respect. An early effort of screenwriter Marc Norman twenty-five years before he would receive an Oscar for his work on "Shakespeare in Love."<br/><br/>Set in a remote region of the American West shot on location in Big Sur California. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper dated February 26 1973. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 2/26/73 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Marc Norman. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1970148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970144408Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage double weight photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and members of the cast and crew on location in the Mojave Desert shooting the 1970 film. Shot by noted photographer Bruce Davidson. With holograph annotations in pencil and blue pen on the verso.<br/><br/>Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970144970Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1991141425N.p.: Genjiro Amato 1991. Draft script for the 1991 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A semi-fictional account of Japanese artists Yumeji Takehisa who falls in love with a widow and then becomes a rival with the ghost of her dead husband and her husband's murderer. <br/><br/>Purple titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Genjiro Amato unknown books
1965149484N.p.: N.p. 1965. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Each borderless except for a bottom margin see image.<br/><br/>After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Pierre Etaix finds happiness his lost love and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. <br/><br/>Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. <br/><br/>4.75 x 3.75 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. <br/><br/><br/>Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown books
1965151530Lausanne: Majestic Films 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix on the set of the 1965 film. "Majestic Films S.A." and "Yoyo" stamps on verso.<br/><br/>After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 655. Majestic Films unknown books
1965149858N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film.<br/><br/>After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. <br/><br/>Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. <br/><br/>9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown books
1965135644Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1965. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph from the French release of the 1965 film. With stamp on the verso referencing both the film and the director. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown books
1966132242Germany: Obpacher Aktiengesellschaft / Atlas Films 1966. Original 1966 German A1 poster for the 1965 French film. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>23 x 33.25 inches rolled. Near Fine. Obpacher Aktiengesellschaft / Atlas Films unknown books
