L'Atalante [The Atlantic]

London: Contemporary Films, Circa 1960s. Collection of eight vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1960s UK re-release of the 1934 French film. Manuscript ink annotations identifying scenes on the versos.

From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.

A classic of French cinema, Jean Vigo's only theatrical feature, a film that in the minds of many (including Francois Truffaut) predicted and even helped define the French New Wave that would come 20 years later.

Shot on location in Paris, Yvelines, and Seine-Maritime, France.

10 x 8 inches. Four Near Fine, four Very Good plus, with faint dampstains to the bottom edges.

Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #153973]