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Tati, Jacques (director, starring)
Jour de fete
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Cady Films, 1949. Original French dialogue script for the 1949 Jacques Tati film, "Jour de Fete," the director's first feature-length movie, about a day in the life of a rural French postman.
The film was shot in both Thomson-Color and black-and-white, and due to processing difficulties with the former, only the black-and-white version was seen for decades, until 1995 when the color version was restored. An extremely literal script, with no cinematic direction (not uncommon for Western European scripts from this period), noting only changes in location.
Side-stitched wrappers, 31 pages, undated. Very Good, with toning to the edges, some tiny closed tears, and creasing to the top edge of the last leaf, and a small dampstain at the bottom edge of same. An old tape reinforcement is present over the staple prongs on the verso of the last leaf, which interestingly would seem to confirm that the script is complete (i.e., that none of the rear leaves were lost). French scripts of any kind from the 1950s are rare, much moreso for films of this importance. [Book #114990]
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