Lost Horizon

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Archive of four vintage oversize double weight photographs on location in the Cascade Mountains, WA for the 1973 film, with one photograph showing director Charles Jarrott and a cameraman on preparing to shoot a scene with featuring extras. Three photographs are borderless. From the archive of photographer Alan Pappe, with his stamp, signature, and holograph ink annotations on the verso of two photographs.

Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years, photographing a who's who of film and music stars, including iconic images of Sharon Tate, Jimi Hendrix, and Liza Minnelli, as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album, and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton, about the survivors of a plane crash in the Himalays, who are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. Previously filmed in 1937, directed by Frank Capra, and starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt.

Approximately 14 x 10 inches, irregularly trimmed. Near Fine.

[Book #149014]