Call from Space

N.p. Showscan Film Corporation, 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 joint French-US short film. Attached by staple to the top corner of the title page is a small hand-written note, "Vicki," a phone number, and "Call from Space office." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Nick Dimitri, with two copies of a January 16, 1989 call sheet laid in.

The 29-minute short film was the first film shot using the "Showscan" process developed by Douglas Trumbull , which is photographed and projected on 70mm film at 60 frames per second (2.5 times the standard film speed), and was only screened twice in 1989, once at the "Big Bang Schtroumpf" amusement park, now "Walygator Parc," in Maizières-les-Metz, France, and once at the Omnimax Theatre at Ceasars Palace, Las Vegas.

A film director (Richard Brestoff) and his nephew (Bill Campbell), an aspiring actor and eccentric inventor, make a low-budget science fiction film, when one of the nephew's inventions begins to bring visitors from the past and future into the present, including Napoleon, Archimedes, and cavemen, making what they believe may be one of the greatest movies ever made. Featuring a cameo from James Coburn as an irate studio head, and the voice of Charlton Heston as an alien visitor. Director Richard Fleischer's final film.

Shot on location in Simi Valley, California.

Front wrapper integral with the title page, dated 1-6-89, noted as revised, with credits for screenwriter Sarah Paris and story by Peter Beal and Sarah Paris. 29 leaves, with last page of text numbered 26. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with yellow, green, and goldenrod revision pages throughout, dated variously between 12/22/88 and 1/6/89. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #166941]