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1939147689Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash" with "Those Were the Days" written in manuscript pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences as was customary for the period. Missing one page likely as used or issued.<br /> <br /> Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha William Holden Bonita Granville reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers front wrapper dated October 23 1939 rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1963152260London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Archive of production material from the 1965 British film including a Revised Draft screenplay three original character design illustrations and a hand drawn storyboard. <br /> <br /> A British newspaper offers a substantial prize to the winner of a cross-channel air race bringing aviators from around the world to compete for the chance at victory and grabbing the attentions of various women. A number of authentic airplanes from the 1900s were used during production including a 1910 Deperdussin Monoplane and a 1912 Blackburn Monoplane.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in England including at Book Airfield in Buckinghamshire. <br /> <br /> Fuchsia titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 1963 noted as REVISED SCRIPT with credits for director-screenwriter Ken Annakin and screenwriter Jack Davies. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Multilith duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly faded on the front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads.<br /> <br /> Storyboard and design illustrations varying sizes Near Fine overall housed in a manila folder. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967147624Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1967. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film here under the working title "Blast-Off." <br/><br/>Inspired by the Jules Verne's 1865 novel "From the Earth to the Moon" producer Harry Alan Towers wrote the story under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck which Dave Freeman adapted to a screenplay. Released in the UK as "Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon" and in the US as "Those Fantastic Flying Fools" to capitalize on the success of Ken Annakin's 1965 film "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines."<br/><br/>Set in Victorian England Phineas T. Barnum Burl Ives who arrives after his circus burns to the ground attempts to launch a rocket from a massive gun barrel as the project is beset with spies saboteurs and embezzlement.<br/><br/>Set in Wales shot on location in Ireland. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Olive Films OF1330. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1965140356Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Based on Paul Annixter's 1950 children's book "Swiftwater."<br/><br/>A sweet tale about a woodsman and his family who share a dream of environmental conservation. Cam Calloway the eccentric fur trapper works with his wife and son to establish a sanctuary for wild geese in a sprawling wetland adjacent to their homestead. <br/><br/>Set in Vermont shot on location in Vermont and Walt Disney Studios. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1974145245Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Vintage flyer for the 1974 film likely for a specific theatre as it advertises "Starts May 1" about three weeks after the film's initial release on April 10. <br /> <br /> A Blaxploitation Western take on Bonnie and Clyde about two Robin Hood-esque bank robbers in the American Southwest who long for a quiet life. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New Mexico. <br /> <br /> 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with vertical and horizontal folds and light edgewear. Manuscript annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> Parish and Hill Black Action Films 213. <br /> Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 210. Columbia Pictures unknown
1965159827Paris: UniFrance Film 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Georges Franju on the set of the 1965 French film arranging the coat of actress Emmanuele Riva. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with the stamp of UniFrance Film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1923 novel by Jean Cocteau about a teenager who is mistaken for the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy during World War I. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Paris and Oise. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. UniFrance Film unknown
1963127386N.p.: Continental Distributing 1963. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1963 British film.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1960 novel by screenwriter David Storey. One of the greatest films in British cinema and regarded by many to be Richard Harris' finest performance. A young and angry Yorkshire rugby footballer finds his romantic life to be as unsuccessful as his sporting life is rewarding. Lindsay Anderson's stunning feature film debut following years of documentary work. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palm d'Or.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Yorkshire England.<br /> <br /> 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a pinhole to each corner and a tiny chip to the top right margin. Bright and unfaded.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 417. Continental Distributing unknown
1963150563N.p.: National Screen Service 1963. Collection of eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1963 film. <br/><br/>An exploration of unusual people and behaviors throughout the world narrated by George Sanders. Includes a performance artist who sticks long needles into his body footage of the Grand Guignol theatre in Paris reindeer castrations and many more. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. National Screen Service unknown books
1963150563N.p.: National Screen Service 1963. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1963 film. <br /> <br /> An exploration of unusual people and behaviors throughout the world narrated by George Sanders. Includes a performance artist who sticks long needles into his body footage of the Grand Guignol theatre in Paris reindeer castrations and many more. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown
1969151671Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1969. Vintage press kit for the US release of the 1969 French film for use by distributors and the press containing four black and white photographs one pressbook a promotional pamphlet and a one sheet poster for the film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake. A man seduces a young actress as part of his plan to avenge the hit-and-run death of his son. The second of four films Claude Chabrol made with actor Jean Yanne following "Line of Demarcation" 1966 and preceding "Le Boucher" 1970 and "Madame Bovary" 1991.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Finistere Brittany and Paris. <br /> <br /> Poster photographs and promotional material Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Grant France. Allied Artists unknown
1942151348Santa Ana CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols inscribed by Nichols to Los Angeles Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols-with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in holograph pencil at the top right corner.<br/><br/>Renoir's second American feature an antifascist propaganda film following a meek schoolteacher in a German-occupied European country who is falsely accused of murder and forced to take a stand against the Nazis and their collaborators. <br/><br/>At the peak of his career Nichols worked with many key Golden Age directors including John Ford George Cukor Howard Hawks Fritz Lang and of course Jean Renoir. He was a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild and is best remembered for "The Informer" 1935 for which Nichols won an Academy Award "Bringing Up Baby" 1938 "Stagecoach" 1939 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1943 "Scarlet Street" 1945 "And Then There Were None" 1945 "The Bells of St. Mary's" 1945 and "The Tin Star" 1957. He continued to write prolifically for film up until the time of his death in 1960. <br/><br/>Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Pink titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 104 dated OCTOBER 2 1942 with credits for director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Dudley Nichols. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1942151348Santa Ana CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols inscribed by Nichols to Los Angeles Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols-with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in manuscript pencil at the top right corner.<br /> <br /> Renoir's second American feature an anti-fascist propaganda film following a meek schoolteacher in a German-occupied European country who is falsely accused of murder and forced to take a stand against the Nazis and their collaborators. <br /> <br /> At the peak of his career Nichols worked with many key Golden Age directors including John Ford George Cukor Howard Hawks Fritz Lang and of course Jean Renoir. He was a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild and is best remembered for "The Informer" 1935 for which Nichols won an Academy Award "Bringing Up Baby" 1938 "Stagecoach" 1939 "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1943 "Scarlet Street" 1945 "And Then There Were None" 1945 "The Bells of St. Mary's" 1945 and "The Tin Star" 1957. He continued to write prolifically for film up until the time of his death in 1960. <br /> <br /> Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. <br /> <br /> Pink titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 104 dated OCTOBER 2 1942 with credits for director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Dudley Nichols. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 169 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1944164361Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress Louise Allbritton behind a camera. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> A teenage orphan from New England receives an inheritance for education but instead uses it to travel to New York to pursue the object of her obsession an Army surgeon. <br /> <br /> From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1984155631N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage reference photograph of actors Tony Hendra Christopher Guest Lara Cody and Harry Shearer on the set between takes and a take that ostensibly was not in the film.<br /> <br /> Reiner's debut and a much-loved cult classic about a documentary filmmaker chronicling the American comeback tour of an aging heavy-metal band. <br /> <br /> Shot on location throughout California. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 12. Ebert II. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. N.p. unknown
1957146149Universal City: Universal-International 1957. Continuity & Dialogue script for the 1957 documentary.<br/><br/>An hour-long documentary exploring Soviet Russia giving curious Westerners a glimpse of life behind the Iron Curtain. Narrator Carey Wilson's final film.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Russia. <br/><br/>White titled self wrappers noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper noted as production No. 1862 dated NOVEMBER 13 1957 with credits for director Sid Feder and actor Carey Wilson. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Approximately 100 leaves. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal-International unknown books
1956167649Paris: Films Marceau 1956. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1956 French-Italian film showing actress Lucia Bosé. Films Marceau stamps and French release stamps on the versos.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1952 novel by Emmanuel Roblès. A small-town doctor helps hide one of his patients a farm worker after the worker commits murder in revenge for his wife's death. The first film in what critic Raymond Durgnat termed director Luis Buñuel's "revolutionary tryptich." followed by "La Mort en ce jardin" 1956 and "La fièvre monte à El Pao" 1959. <br /> <br /> 7.25 x 5.25 inches. About Near Fine. Films Marceau unknown
1957143037Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design with Hunter's name on the front board. <br/><br/>Veteran actor Curd Jurgens begins to have feelings for a young woman Debbie Reynolds much to the chagrin of his romantic partner Alexis Smith. Ultimately Reynolds chooses his younger neighbor John Saxon and Jurgens happily returns to Smith. Winner of a Golden Globe. <br/><br/>Set in Connecticut. <br/><br/>Title page present noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Blake Edwards. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered "135-A and 136." Mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/12/57 and 9/24/57. Pages Fine presentation binding about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958132722London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Based on a play by F. Hugh Herbert about a young woman who asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss. When her rescuer suggests that she get out of her wet clothes she escapes and finds safety in the home of a retired actor. <br/><br/>A story set in Connecticut shot at Universal Studios in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Unviersal International Pictures unknown books
1958132722London: Unviersal International Pictures 1958. Eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1958 US film. <br /> <br /> Based on a play by F. Hugh Herbert about a young woman who asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss. When her rescuer suggests that she get out of her wet clothes she escapes and finds safety in the home of a retired actor. <br /> <br /> A story set in Connecticut shot at Universal Studios in California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. Unviersal International Pictures unknown
1933145456Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1933. Collection of five vintage double weight internal studio photographs from the set of the 1933 pre-code film. Holograph annotations on the verso of each. <br/><br/>One photo shown. Please inquire to see others.<br/><br/>High school students unite against a ruthless gang leader. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1933145456Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1933. Five vintage double weight internal studio photographs from the set of the 1933 pre-code film. Manuscript annotations on the verso of each. <br /> <br /> One photo shown. Please inquire to see others.<br /> <br /> High school students unite against a ruthless gang leader. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1941WRCLIT76221Beverly Hills: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. 2159 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio binder. Title hand-lettered on spine light use to overlap wrapper edges check-out coupon clipped from first leaf. otherwise near fine. A "temporary" script of Sherriff's adaptation to the screen of Knight's 1941 novel of war- time London. The 1942 release directed by Anatole Litvak starred Tyrone Power Joan Fontaine Nigel Bruce et al. It was nominated by the Academy for four technical awards and won for best Interior Design. Sherriff best known for JOURNEY'S END was credited screenwriter of or contributor to a three decades long string of popular film successes. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1944168473Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1944. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1944 film showing director Mervyn LeRoy hosing down a plane prop on the set with Spencer Tracy making a goofy face from the pilot's seat. Printed mimeo snipe in French and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1943 book an eyewitness account of the first American retaliatory strike against Japan four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led by US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle. <br /> <br /> Set in Florida and shot on location in Florida and California. <br /> <br /> 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Faint discoloration on the top edge of the verso else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1949158691N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actress Eva Henning in a negligée. <br /> <br /> Ingmar Bergman's seventh film about the troubled romantic and sexual experiences of several Swedish adults. Based on the 1948 short story collection by Birgit Tengroth who also appeared as Viola in the film.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Hamburg Germany.<br /> <br /> 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown
1950142326N.p.: N.p. 1950. Synopsis script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. <br/><br/>The supposed memoir of a showgirl who begins who career simply as a beautiful woman who think she is untalented in all other areas and ends up embarrassing herself rather often at the start of her career. She eventually develops a camaraderie with her fellow performers and begins to accept her life with people who care about her. <br/><br/>Set in England. <br/><br/>Pink titled wrappers with typescript title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter G.E. Moore. 32 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 28. Ribbon copy typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with string binding. N.p. unknown books
