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NP, n/d.
8vo. (21pp). Reprinted from Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Vol. XI, Number 31, 1927, pp. 522-541. "When freshly developed or so-called "green" motion picture film is passed through a projector, there is a tendency for an incrustation to accumulate on the aperture plate or tension springs which retards the free passage of the film through the machine. Chemical analysis has shown that this incrustation consists largely of gelatin with more or less silver, dirt, and oil, but it contains usually only a trace of the metal or alloy of which the gate is composed. It is the... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
Post-production Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1950 film noir, "Panic in the Streets," directed by Elia Kazan, based on a story by Edna and Edward Anhalt, adapted for the screen by Daniel Fuchs, and written for the screen by Richard Murphy, and starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, and Barbara Bel Geddes. Richard Widmark plays a physician with the US Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague in New Orleans. many of the actors in te film were local non-professionals, selected by director Kazan, who also shot much of the film on location in New Orleans, making... more information
Price: 300.00 USD
American International Pictures [AIP], 1963.
Combined Continuity Script for the 1964 American edit of the 1963 Italian film, "Black Sabbath," directed by Mario Bava, an anthology of three horror stories. Bava's second feature for AIP after "Black Sunday" was first released in Italy with the stories in this order: (1) "Il Telefono [The Telephone]," falsely credited to Guy de Maupassant, concerning a woman (Michele Mercier) receiving telephone calls from beyond the grave. This short sequence is famously the first Italian horror film to have been shot in color. The second and best of the three stories, "Wurdulak", by Aleksei Tolstoi, stars Boris Karloff as an... more information
Price: 187.50 USD
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Berlin: Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), 1949.
Draft script (English translation) for the 1950 German film noir. Likely a translation produced by the German film production company responsible for the film for purposes of US distribution and promotion, made well prior to the commencement of film production. Blue studio wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Käutner and Stemmle. 136 leaves, carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, internally bound with three gold brads. Spicer, p. 459. more information
Price: 375.00 USD
New York: New Yorker Films / JLG Films, 1986.
Original US one sheet poster advertising the 1986 US re-release of Godard's "Hail Mary" (1985) in a double bill with Anne-Marie Neville's "The Book of Mary." Both films were France-Switzerland co-productions under Godard's "JLG Films" moniker, and Neville's film was released in France a year after Godard's. Both debuted in the US in 1986, where Godard's film was a magnet for controversy, condemned by Pope John Paul II, and drawing out the usual fundamentalist protesters at cinema houses. Conversely, "Time Out" magazine praised the film, and John Waters called it one of the great art film of the 1980s, in... more information
Price: 275.00 USD
Los Angeles: Island Pictures, 1986.
Set of 20 still photographs from the 1987 film. Not a set released by the studio, but a raw set of prints likely used by the filmmakers for assessment during the production and ultimately the editing process. Represented here is every essential scene from the film, from the separate stories of the three protagonists at the film's beginning, to their meeting in prison, and finally to the events following their escape. Several of the photos have numeric notations in pencil and ink on the verso, and one photograph has a tipped-on credit at the recto for Otto Grokenberger, one of the... more information
Price: 1850.00 USD
N.p: Advent Film Productions, 1963.
Original lobby card for the 1963 film. One of only two productions from the Advent Film company, the other being another "nudie," Arnold Louis Miller's 1962 romp, "Nudes of All Nations." Before the advent of sex exploitation films of the late 1960s, the "nudie" film was produced, featuring documentary-style directing, with scenes shot at various nude camps around the world, primarily in Europe and the US. 11 x 14 inches. Very Good plus, with a tiny closed tear and a few light creases at the edges. more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975.
An archive of 3 scripts from the 1976 film, First Draft, Second Draft, and Final Draft. Ryan O'Neal portrays lawyer turned writer turned film director Leo Harrigan, hopelessly drifting from one career to the next, and also hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock). Kathleen elects to torture Leo by becoming engaged to her vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway (Burt Reynolds). According to Bogdanovich, a film based on stories told to him by Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan about true events during their time as young directors during the Silent film era. First Draft: Orange studio wrappers. Title page present,... more information
Price: 450.00 USD
Los Angeles: Paramount, 1951.
Original pressbook for the classic 1951 film noir, "Detective Story," directed by William Wyler, based on the play by Sidney Kingsley. Written for the screen by Philip Yordan and Robert Wilder, and starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Lee Grant, and George Macready. A day in the life at the 21st Precinct, centering on the hard-boiled, moralistic Jim McLeod (Kirk Douglas). 20 pages, saddle stitched, 12 1/4 x 15 inches. Very Good condition. Separation to the hinge fold and a light amount of soiling to the wrappers. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Nominated for... more information
Price: 680.00 USD
Los Angeles, CA: United Artists, 1978.
Original US insert poster for the 1978 film. A rare example of a remake that not only retains the quality of the original, but attains its own identity. Director Kaufman took the paranoia at the heart of Don Siegel's 1956 version, and capped it with a darkness (literally, as most of the film takes place at night), transforming paranoia into sheer blood-chilling horror. A 1970s classic, and an uncommon poster format for the film. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good with two horizontal creases from having been folded. Otherwise bright and colorful. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1942.
Original script for the 1944 film. The sixth of Preston Sturges' legendary film comedies made for Paramount, all of which he wrote and directed. One of only two films by Sturges to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Lacking the front wrapper and the Cast of Characters page, the first leaf being the first page of the script. 163 leaves, mimeograph, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 10-16-42 and 11-23-42. Pages Very Good, bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Full collation available upon request. more information
Price: 1500.00 USD
New York: Peppercorn-Wormser Film Enterprises, 1966.
Original Pressbook for the 1967 film (first released in Denmark in 1965). Based on Soya's semi-autobiographical novel, "Sytten: I-III" (1953), the film was one of Denmark's first mainstream features dealing explicitly with nudity and sexual situations (the other two being "I, a Woman" and "Halloj i himmelsengen," both in 1965). 4 pages, folded, 11 x 17 inches. Black-and-white throughout. Very Good plus, with a horizontal fold at the middle, and a faint vertical crease, with slight toning, and a distributor stamp on the front panel. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Los Angeles, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977.
Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the US release of the 1977 film. Based on the 1973 novel by Dean R. Koontz. British director Donald Cammell's most conventional film, which is not to say it is not incredibly strange and distrurbing. A super-computer named Proteus IV traps Julie Christie in her own home, with the intention of impregnating her with its seed to create a new life form. Cavett Binion of Rovi notes: "The film's theme of the computer's ominously pervasive role in human affairs--in this case forcing its way into our bodies as well as our lives--seems oddly... more information
Price: 85.00 USD
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1971.
Original 1972 Pressbook for the 1971 film. For Cassavetes, this is a stand-alone film, closer to a mainstream romantic comedy, nearly in the style of Woody Allen. An adored film from the unorthodox independent. 16 pages, saddle-stitched, 9 X 13.75 inches. Black-and-white throughout. Very Good plus, with a four-inch split at the heel. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Los Angeles, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974.
Final Draft script for the 1975 film. With an internal pink memorandum regarding revision pages attached to the front wrapper. Directed and written for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, featuring a score that consists entirely of songs composed by Cole Porter, and starring Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, and Madeline Kahn. The eclectic director's tribute to the musicals of Hollywood from the 1930s and 1940s, which utilized an inventive style that involved non-professional actors singing their lines live rather than the very established use of overdubs. The reception to the film was so poor upon its release that Bogdanovich released a public... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1980.
Shooting script for the 1981 film comedy An ambitious, sprawling historical farce made by Mel Brooks in the heat of his success as a film director. In the film Brooks plays Moses, Tomás de Torquemada, King Louis XVI, and Jacques, "Jacques, le garçon de pisse." Part I begins, of course, with the Dawn of Man, and covers The Old Testament, The Roman Empire, The Spanish Inquisition, and The French Revolution, ending with a "preview" of Part II (never made, in keeping with Sir Walter Raleigh, who was beheaded before he could write his Part II). The preview includes, Hitler on Ice,... more information
Price: 325.00 USD
Beverly Hills, CA: Associated Film Releasing Corporation, 1956.
Original Pressbook for the 1956 film noir. An interesting B-noir from the Poverty Row canon. Associated Film Releasing re-edited "Women Without Men," a 1956 Hammer Films production, with Beverly Michaels as a prison stool pigeon, but edited in Jim Davis as a murderous traitor (Paul Carpenter held the same role for its release in the UK). One sheet folded twice as issued, 12 x 14 inches. Very Good plus, with several short tears at one edge, and light stressing to the folds. more information
Price: 425.00 USD
RKO, 1952.
Original pressbook for the 1952 film, "Sudden Fear," directed by David Miller, based on the 1948 novel by Edna Sherry. Written for the screen by Lenore Coffee and Robert Smith and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame. When a wealthy playwright (Joan Crawford) discovers a plot by her new husband (Jack Palance) and his former lover (Gloria Grahame) to murder her for her inheritance, she quickly hatches her own plan to kill them first. 20 pages, saddle-stitched, 12 x 18 inches. Very Good plus condition, starting at the crown, tiny chip at the top front corner and a... more information
Price: 720.00 USD
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940.
Post-production Continuity and Dialogue Script for the 1940 film musical,"Tin Pan Alley," directed by Walter Lang, based on the story "Life is a Song" by Pamela Harris, written for the screen by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, and starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, and John Payne. In a pairing that would a few years later been nearly impossible to pull off, Faye and Grable play a singing-sister act on the vaudeville circuit. Ambitious singer-songwriter Skeets Harrigan (John Payne) sense star potential in Faye, resulting in a great deal of ill will prior to the inevitable happy ending (Hal... more information
Price: 225.00 USD
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1940.
Cutting and Continuity script, dated for a re-release of the film in 1957, for the 1940 film classic, "Rebecca," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, written for the screen by Philip MacDonald and starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Judith Anderson. Credits on the title page for producer Selznick, dated December 15, 1957. 48 pages, long sheets, saddle-stitched at the top edge. Near Fine. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
