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1979132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. <br/><br/>Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. <br/><br/>At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. <br/><br/>Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a holograph notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with holograph annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown books
1956147925Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 television movie. Disney re-edited the 1954 film Rob Roy the Highland Rogue into a two part movie for The Magical World of Disney which aired on ABC on October 3 and 10 1956.<br/><br/>Wartime adventures of Scottish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor Richard Todd outlawed and hunted by the forces of King George I Eric Pohlmann.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Scotland. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing in corner margins. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1954WRCLIT33899Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs Inc. 1954. 4354 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only with dated revises on blue paper. Bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. With a handful of pencil revisions and annotations else very good. A "Final Master Script" of this adaptation of Stockton's story of stage illusions prepared as #63b of the FAVORITE STORY series. ZIV Television Programs, Inc. unknown books
1968135672London: Grand Films 1968. Complete set of vintage double weight color still photographs from the 1968 film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grand Films unknown books
1915144596France: Le Film d'Art 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film struck from the original negative circa 1936. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself a dog and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special effects that mimic an altered state of consciousness. <br/><br/>7 x 5 inches. Near fine. Le Film d'Art unknown books
1973139749Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1973. Vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1973 film. <br/><br/>The film follows the blunders of an antisemitic Frenchman a Rabbi and an Arab revolutionary. After a merry mixup the Frenchman must disguise himself as the Rabbi who is subsequently confused for the revolutionary. Audiences were initially turned off by the title believing it to be a religious film. The filmmakers added "mad" to emphasize its satirical nature. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Various locations around the US and France. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965138325Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov 1965. Original program for the 1965 film with text in both French and English made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with images from the film and line drawings. <br/><br/>One of the best known films from the Czechoslovak New Wave nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and bringing Forman to international attention. <br/><br/>11.25 x 8.25 inches 6 pages saddle stapled in self wrappers. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 144. Second Run 54. Filmove studio Barrandov unknown books
1958146999Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films 1958. French language draft script for the 1958 film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1777 erotic novel "Point de Lendemain" by Dominique Vivant released in the US as "The Lovers." <br/><br/>Louis Malle's second film about a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover and abruptly leaves them both to take up with a younger man she just met. After its released in the US the film became the subject of a landmark First Amendment case before the Supreme Court where Justice Potter Stewart in declaring the film not obscene issued the immortal phrase "I know it when I see it" in regards to what constitutes pornographic material. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris Dijon Burgundy and the Cote-d'Or all in France. <br/><br/>Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Louis Malle and screenwriter Louise de Vilmorin. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine with faint toning at the edges wrapper Very Good front wrapper detached and held by binding tape along spine brittle with some chipping and closed tears staple bound.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 429. Nouvelles Editions de Films unknown books
1958132901Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films NEF 1958. Collection of twelve vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 French film. <br/><br/>The great French director's second film about a wealthy woman who has become bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover and abruptly leaves them both to take up with a younger man she just met. After it was released in the US the film became the subject of a landmark First Amendment case before the Supreme Court where Justice Potter Stewart in declaring the film not obscene issued the immortal phrase "I know it when I see it" in regards to what constitutes pornographic material. <br/><br/>A story set and shot on location in France including Paris Dijon Burgundy and the Cote-d'Or. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine or better with light toning to a few of the photographs. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 58. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Nouvelles Editions de Films [NEF] unknown books
1964131051Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Deluxe working script belonging to uncredited crew member William Todd Mason with his name and phone number in holograph ink on the title page and some brief penciled annotations on three pages. Laid in is a corner stapled three page Staff and Crew list with two name additions in holograph red ink on the second page. <br/><br/>Included is a vintage studio still photograph from the film. <br/><br/>An early draft issued nearly two years prior to the film's October 1965 release with substantial differences from the finished film. <br/><br/>The sister film to "Dr. Strangelove" and in the eyes of many just as much a masterpiece of exquisitely wrought black humor. Made in the US but in a dense British-American style. Ostensibly a satire on the funeral business in which a young British poet winds up in a Hollywood cemetery as part of an inheritance arrangement-but in reality a satire of Hollywood itself as well as the Western malaise of the mid 1960s. <br/><br/>Script: Self wrappers presumably as this draft was issued. Title page present rubber stamped copy No. 70 dated July 21 1964 with credits for screenwriters Southern and Isherwood. 158 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7-22-64. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Staff and Crew listing: two leaves slightly worn with annotations on the second page. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1985139724Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1985. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the US release of the 1985 episode. Season 8 episode 8. <br/><br/>Popular hour-long sit-com that ran from 1977-1986. "The Love Boat" uniquely showed multiple subplots within each episode all written by a different set of writers. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>9 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with soiling to the verso. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1947149135Universal City: Universal Pictures 1947. Vintage reference photograph of Agnes Moorehead being made to look 105 by makeup artist Bud Westmore on the set of the 1947 film noir. Mimeo snipe on verso. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Henry James' 1888 novella "The Aspern Papers." <br/><br/>A young publisher Robert Cummings attempts to obtain a famous writer's long-lost love letters which are kept hidden by the poet's former mistress Agnes Moorehead now an elderly recluse living in a decaying Venetian mansion. The old woman's niece Susan Hayward who acts as her live-in caretaker agrees to help the publisher find the poems discovering in the process the house holds far darker secrets. <br/><br/>The first and only film directed by Martin Gabel.<br/><br/>Set in Venice.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1953WRCLIT40364Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs Inc. 1953. 150 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. Ink name on upper cover. Heavily annotated throughout in pencil and colored pencils see below with dozens of colored revises inserted. Light soiling and use to wraps else very good. A "Final Master Script" of this story by Robert Yale Libott prepared as #31B of the MY FAVORITE STORY series. This script was utilized in the production and is extensively annotated throughout with camera angles revisions in dialogue and stage directions etc. The versos of the majority of leaves bear annotations pertaining to camera p.o.v. and similar data keyed to the facing recto. ZIV Television Programs, Inc. paperback books
1968142606London: Hammer Films 1968. Vintage press photograph from the 1968 film. With stamp and mimeograph snipe from the Associated Press on the verso identifying actress Dana Gillespie here posed with a giant scorpion as a champion junior water skier. <br/><br/>Based on the 1938 novel "Uncharted Sea" by Dennis Wheatley about the passengers and crew of a steamer run aground on an island in the Saragasso Sea filled as one would expect with man-eating seaweed giant crabs even more giant scorpions pirates and the descendants of Spanish Conquistadors who believe the Inquisition is still on. <br/><br/>6 x 8 inches with a wide bottom margin. Near Fine. Hammer Films unknown books
1962149644Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing a group of Allied troops storming Pegasus Bridge with a camera crew in the foreground. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout along with the stamp of Marine films.<br/><br/>Based on screenwriter Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book. A star-studded dramatization of the events of D-Day from both the Allied and Axis perspectives with many scenes such as the aforementioned storming of Pegasus Bridge filmed at their corresponding real-life French locations. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in France.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1940140028Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1940. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1940 film. <br/><br/>Based on O'Neill's plays "The Moon of the Caribbees" "In the Zone" "Bound East for Cardiff" and "The Long Voyage Home" set during WWI Ford adapted the plays to be set during WWII. Ole Wayne and his comrades smuggle drink and dames aboard their ship SS Glencairn and tensions mount between the crew. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Good with toning and several tears. United Artists unknown books
1971147168Beverly Hills CA: E-K-Corporation / United Artists 1971. First draft script for the 1973 film written nine months before the production began.<br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>Based on Chandler's 1953 novel the sixth and penultimate Philip Marlowe book. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett who also co-wrote the screenplay for "The Big Sleep" 1946 updated not just the setting from the 1950s to the 1970s but the attitudes themes and relationships as well. The result was less of a straight adaptation than it was a satire of the traditional detective story a New Hollywood classic. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles Malibu Hollywood and Mexico<br/><br/>Black titled Studio Duplicating Service Inc. wrappers. Title page present dated September 1971 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Leigh Brackett. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy BFI Companion to Crime. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. E-K-Corporation / United Artists unknown books
1960131701London: Continental Distributing / Michael Balcon Productions 1960. Draft British script for the 1961 UK film "The Long and the Short and the Tall" released in the US as "Jungle Fighters." Actor Richard Todd's copy with his name written in red holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Based on a play by Willis Hall. <br/><br/>On a mission in the Burmese jungle during World War II to record sounds to be used in sonic warfare a small platoon of seven men capture a solitary Japanese soldier. Tensions result within the group as they begin to differ on what to do with their prisoner. <br/><br/>Gray wrappers with title and credits label affixed at the top right corner. Marked copy No. 123 dated 6th May 1960 with credits for screenwriter Mankowitz and playwright Hall. Title page present dated 1st February 1960 with credits for screenwriter Mankowitz and playwright Hall. 187 leaves mimeograph duplication with white revision pages and blue "American Version" pages throughout dated either 26.2.60 or 6.5.60. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Continental Distributing / Michael Balcon Productions unknown books
1987145894London: HandMade Films 1987. Revised Draft script for the 1987 film. Single holograph notation in ink on page 62 a scene deletion.<br/><br/>Based on the 1955 novel by Brian Moore. A pious spinster living in a boardinghouse begins an ersatz romance with a fellow resident looking to bankroll his next business venture. Novelist Moore born and raised in Belfast was highly acclaimed for his vivid descriptions of life in Ireland after the Second World War in particular for his exploration of The Troubles.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Dublin Ireland.<br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated February 1987 noted as Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Peter Nelson and novelist Brian Moore. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with white Velo binding partially loose.<br/><br/>Indicator 123. HandMade Films unknown books
1953149681Burbank CA: Walt Disney 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film showing sound effects specialists Jim McDonald "Rusty" Jones and Earl Hatch in the studio using a variety of instruments several appearing makeshift to create musical accompaniment for the film.<br/><br/>A documentary following the everyday behaviors of the desert-dwelling animals of the southwestern US. The first feature-length film in Walt Disney Productions' "True-Life Adventures" film series which focused on animal behavior and zoology. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Tucson Arizona.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Walt Disney unknown books
1994149760N.p.: Amblin Entertainment 1994. Rainbow Fourth Draft script for the 1994 film. Copy belonging to Still Photographer Melissa Mosely with her name in holograph ink on top right margin of title page. Every page rubber stamped with "RASC 756." <br/><br/>An unusual film written and directed by noted female director Penelope Spheeris best known for her "Decline of Western Civilization" documentary trilogy and the 1983 cult film "Suburbia."<br/><br/>Based on the "Our Gang" short comedy films produced by Hal Roach from 1922 to 1938 and by MGM from 1938 to 1944.<br/><br/>Alfalfa Bug Hall threatens the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" which he helped build with "president" Spanky Travis Tedford when he starts to fall for Darla Brittany Ashton.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Pasadena and Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>Pink self-wrappers integral with title page dated 03/07/94 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Guay Stephen Mazur and Penelope Sphheris. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow green and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/1/94 and 03/07/94. Pages Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Amblin Entertainment unknown books
1933131639Burbank CA: First National Pictures / Warner Brothers 1933. Vvintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1933 film. With a typewritten snipe affixed to the verso as issued. <br/><br/>Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. First National Pictures / Warner Brothers unknown books
1963145423Universal City: Universal Pictures 1963. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs from the set of the 1963 film. <br/><br/>Based on Philip MacDonald's 1959 novel. A star-studded film about a former intelligence officer who receives a list of eleven names all people who have died under mysterious circumstances. <br/><br/>Set in London shot on location in Ireland and England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1963140583N.p.: Joel Productions 1963. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film. <br/><br/>A former intelligence investigates a string of unusual deaths occurring in and around the Gleneyre estate. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Ireland and England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light toning overall pin holes and a small closed tear to the bottom margin. Joel Productions unknown books
1988140360Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO 1988. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1988 television movie. <br/><br/>A television drama about a young doctor who persuades a truck driver to transport medical supplies aiding a cholera-stricken African community. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
