Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film. Based on the 1925 play by Samson Raphaelson. The first feature film with both a synchronized recorded score and lip-synchronized singing and dialogue, effectively signaling the end of the silent era. At the first Oscars, producer Daryl F. Zanuck received an Honorary Academy Award and the film was.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1938, 1939. Two early treatments for the 1940 film, consisting of (1) a Synopsis by Franclien Macconnell, dated October 10, 1938 and (2) a Chapter Breakdown by Mary Bowie, dated May 10, 1939. Both issued for the studio’s review of the novel’s content prior to it having been green-lit for adaptation to film. Macconnel was.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Collection of five vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1960 US film. With the stamps of a French distributor on the versos. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for four Academy awards, including Hitchcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key film in expanding allowable depictions.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, and Michael J. Pollard from the 1967 film. With a German address stamp to the verso. Perhaps the most significant film for the New Hollywood generation, with its mix of graphic violence, sex, and humor, and a glamourous take on disaffected youth. Its.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Vintage French press photograph of Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis on the set of the 1959 film. "Cinemondial," "19 Jul. 1984" stamps and cropping annotations in holograph pencil and ink on verso.Billy Wilder's masterful classic comedy, wherein Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon disguise as women and join an all-girl band, that includes Marilyn Monroe, to hide.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. One of the photographs with a sticker noting the photograph is from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller on the verso. The second photograph is from a later Paramount rerelease of the film. Based.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1949. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1950 film, showing director Billy Wilder and a camera crew capturing a scene with actor Erich von Stroheim playing the organ, while actor William Holden looks on. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgotten silent film star, quickly becoming enmeshed in her deranged.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1982. Vintage reference photograph of Amy Heckerling and Judge Reinhold from the set of the 1982 film. Based on the 1981 book "Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story" by Cameron Crowe.Filmed in five weeks, Crowe's mostly autobiographical account of high school life not only jump-started the careers of over half a dozen actors who.....

N.p. N.p., Unknown. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 re-release of the 1925 film, showing actors Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain in a tense moment. With holograph ink annotations to the verso, along with a stamp indicating that the photo came from the library of noted film historian and tastemaker Maurice Bessy.A bravely optimistic gold prospector (Chaplin) struggles to survive.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Charles Laughton being playful with child actor Cheryl Callaway on the set of the 1955 film. Cheryl Callaway played Mary, one of the children living at the home of Rachel Cooper (Lilian Gish).Based on the 1953 novel by David Grubb. Charles Laughton's only directorial credit, with tremendous performances.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Newmarket, 2000. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs for the Canadian release of the 2000 US film. The film the introduced Christopher Nolan to the world. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. Based on a short story "Momento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan, who would not only continue to collaborate with his brother, but also.....

New York: Leacock-Pennebaker, 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1968 concert documentary, showing Janis Joplin performing onstage with Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. With the stamp of Leacock-Pennebaker photograph agency on the verso, along with holograph ink annotations identifying photographer Don MacSorley and the date "June 1967". Featured performers at the.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1958. Vintage reference photograph, with wide bottom margin, of David Lean on the set of the 1957 film.Based on the 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai" by Pierre Boulle.Allied POWs of a Japanese prison camp are forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage program for the Royal Premiere of the 1962 film at the Odeon Leicester Square on Monday, December 10. Laid in with the program is a small invitation to a party at the ballroom at Grosvenor House following the film. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer, who was production manager.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, Circa 1926. Vintage program for the 1926 silent film. Included with the program is a seven-page booklet credited to story writer "Elton Thomas" (the nom de plume of actor Douglas Fairbanks), summarizing the plot of the film. After the death of his father at the hands of a bloody pirate gang, a nobleman infiltrates the.....

Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage photograph of Otto Preminger, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on the set of the 1959 film. Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score, composed by Ellington and Strayhorn (uncredited), and performed by Ellington's Orchestra, won three Grammy Awards.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Vintage photograph from the 1945 film, showing the crew and equipment used to create rain for a scene featuring Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson. Mimeo snipe on the verso describing the scene in detail. Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay, and James Dunn won for Best.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Vintage press kit for the 1954 film, containing one full-color illustrated promotional pamphlet, three black-and-white photographs of cast and crew members holding Academy Awards, and one page of promotional reading material introducing the photographs. Based on screenwriter Budd Schulberg's 1955 novel "Waterfront." A dockworker and would-be prizefighter witnesses a murder at the hands of.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Vintage reference photograph of Marlon Brando and Elia Kazan on the set of the 1954 film. Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. Terry Malloy (Brando), who dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands for the corrupt boss of the local union Johnny (Lee J......

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialogue director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic.....

N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film, struck circa 1950 from the original negative, showing actors Erich von Stroheim and Fay Wray. With a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso, along with a few holograph ink annotations.From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Stroheim's runaway production was halted after nine.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1928. Vintage reference studio still photograph of Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, and Erich von Stroheim from the second half of the 1928 film "The Wedding March," titled "The Honeymoon." Mimeo snipe and provenance stamp from prominent early film collector "I.K. MEGINNIS" on verso. Stroheim's runaway production which was halted after nine months of shooting by producer Pat.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1941. Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. Remade in 1983, directed by Alan Johnson, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film, having died in an airplane accident during post-production.Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura, husband and wife.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Archive of 41 vintage photographs from the 1972 film. Represented in the collection are 24 keybook photographs, four keybook contact photograph sheets, six color reference photographs of actor Marlon Brando, and eleven headshots of Brando in makeup as Don Vito Corleone.Included among the keybook photographs are four color contact sheets, including two sheets with 12 images.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1939. Vintage tinted hand tinted color studio still photograph from the 1939 film, showing actors James Stewart and Jean Arthur walking together on the Columbia Pictures lot.Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its (accurate, then and now) depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional, shallow egotists, the film was.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1952. Vintage oversize borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1952 film, showing director-actor Gene Kelly and the cast during the "Broadway Melody Ballet" dance. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's exuberant Hollywood tale, widely considered one of the greatest American musical films, following the adventures and difficulties of a......

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1977 film, showing director George Lucas sitting with actor Alec Guinness while shooting on location. A breakaway, blockbuster space epic, the first entry in what would eventually become an ongoing series of films and an even larger, monolithic franchise. Winner of six Academy Awards, and nominated.....

N.p. N.p., 1960s-1980s. Archive of material belonging to director George Roy Hill, including an AFI Award for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a brass plaque dated May 22, 1976 declaring Hill an Honorary Lugan of Johnstown, one alumni achievement award dated 1985 and presented to Hill from The Blake School, and an International Award from the Academie du Cinema.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of director Hal Ashby and actors Charles Tyner, Ruth Gordon, and Bud Cort, along with an unknown crew member, on the set of the 1971 film. With a handwritten snipe affixed to the verso, along with holograph pencil and ink annotations identifying the figures and film title. Hal Ashby's idiosyncratic.....

N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others.Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hawks, and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937.Zoologist David.....

New York: Viking Press, 1935. First Edition. Second issue jacket, with reviews for the book printed on the jacket verso.The author's only book, basis for director Stanley Kubrick's classic 1957 film starring Kirk Douglas and Ralph Meeker. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Very Good or better in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has a slight lean with.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film, showing actors (L-R) Corey Allen, Natalie Wood, and Dennis Hopper. in the background are James Dean and Sal Mineo.Nicholas Ray's searing study of juvenile delinquency, generational divide, and moral decay in suburban America, loosely based on Robert Lindner's 1944 book "Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal.....

Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage reference photograph from the 1984 film, showing actors John Lurie and the mystical Eszter Balint. With a printed xerographically duplicated label affixed to the bottom right corner of the verso. Director Jim Jarmusch's first effort, "Permanent Vacation" (1980), was his final thesis at New York University's film school. As with the earliest films.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Vintage borderless portrait photograph from the 1939 film, showing actor Henry Fonda in costume as a young Abraham Lincoln. A dramatization of the early years of future president Abraham Lincoln, following his upbringing in a log cabin, to his first loves, to his establishment of a law practice in Springfield, Illinois. 7 x 9 inches. Very.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the.....

New York: Harvey Hutter & Co., Inc., 1978. Vintage "US Senator Blutarsky" poster, used as an ultimately little known, bizarre futuristic advertisement for the 1978 film. National Lampoon was a huge success as an alternative magazine in the early 1970s, and irrevocably altered its future in 1978 with the production of this film, an irreverent, sharp, and now classic comedy.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn lounging on the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp, dated "Sep 9 1949" on verso.For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1925. Vintage program for the 1925 silent film. With the stamp of Grauman's Hollywood Egyptian Theatre on the rear wrapper.During World War I, a wealthy, idle young man joins the US Army's Rainbow Division, and is sent to France to fight, where he befriends two working class men, is hardened by the horrors of.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1979 film, showing director Martin Ritt discussing a scene with star Sally Field. With the stamps of photographer Jacques Moreau and Twentieth Century-Fox on the verso. Inspired by the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton, about a woman who fights to unionize a textile company. Field.....

Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare, this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart, "Film-Kurier," each issue focused.....

N.p. Warner Brothers, 1969. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1970 film. director Michael Wadleigh with an unidentified crew member.The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an audience of more than 300,000 people. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and nominated for two more.Shot on location in.....

N.p. Warner Brothers, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph on the set of the 1970 film showing director Michael Wadleigh, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographer Richard Pearce and a young Martin Scorcese working in the editing room. With a French language Warner Brothers stamp on verso. The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1966. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1966 film, one borderless, showing director Mike Nichols and a camera crew filming a scene between actors Sandy Dennis and Richard Burton, the other bordered, showing Burton in conversation with Nichols. Based on the 1963 Tony Award-winning play by Edward Albee, which follows one bitter night of domestic unrest.....

Los Angeles: The Mirisch Corporation, 1966. Revised First Draft script for the 1967 film. Laid in is a Call Sheet from the production, dated Tuesday, November 29, 1966. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small, bigoted Mississippi town. Winner of five Academy Awards including.....

Hollywood: Mercury, 1942. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Orson Welles, cinematographer Stanley Cortez, and members of the cast, including Joseph Cotton, Anges Moorehead, and Anne Baxter, conferring during a lunch break. Mimeo snipe promoting Welles' Mercury Players, and "APR 13 1942" stamp on verso. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington.Welles'.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 film. Loosely based on the 1943 musical, an all-black stage adaptation of Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen," which was in turn based on Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy's 1845 novella. A parachute factory worker has a reputation for promiscuous behavior, but finds herself obsessed with the one man she.....

Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker, under the pseudonym Robert Traver, which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed.....

US: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Vintage photograph from the 1921 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1916 anti-war novel by Vincent Basco Ibanez, about a French and German family on both sides of World War I. Along with "The Sheik" later the same year, the film the catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and helped create.....