Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film featuring the Wright Brothers, and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1925. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1925 silent film. Bumbling newspaper clerk Henry Baxter is helplessly in love with a coworker in this silent-era comedy. The subject of his longing barely acknowledges his existence. His unrequited love coupled with his manager's devious daily taunts makes work tortuous for the poor clerk. He begins...
Budapest: Singer es Wolfner Irodalmi Intezet, 1927. First Hungarian Edition. Screenplay for the 1927 silent film, a photoplay edition with a photographic image of the film's star, Pola Negri, on the front wrapper. With the logo of the film's Hungarian distributor, Royal Apollo, on the front wrapper at the bottom right corner. Biro wrote the 1917 play, "Szinmu negy felvonasban,"...
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2017. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes items for early cinema films, including appearances by Charlie Chaplin, Katharine Hepburn, Clara Bow, Mae West, and many more.
Los Angeles: Joseph M. Schenck Productions / Associated First National Pictures, 1924. Original program for the 1924 silent film, customized for the film's premiere at the Astor Theatre, a long-standing showplace that was converted the same year from a playhouse to a cinema. A partially lost silent film, with only two-thirds of the footage surviving today. Based on the play...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. French pressbooks for two 1927 American silent films dealing with American sports: "Rough House Rosie" with Clara Bow (women's boxing) and "Casey at the Bat" (baseball). "Rough House Rosie" was made at the height of Clara Bow's reign as queen at Paramount, and is today a lost film. "Casey at the Bat" is based on the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil notations on the front wrapper, noting starring performers, draft type, and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few notations in holograph pencil throughout. Based on the 1923 Broadway play by David Belasco...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. Vintage hand color tinted lobby card for the 1927 silent film. Pictured are a curly haired Louise Brooks, looking past an oblivious Wallace Beery and toward a typically sly Adolphe Menjou. Based on the French play "L'homme en habit" ("The Man in Evening Clothes) by Andre Picard and Yves Mirand. Today considered a lost film. 11...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1925. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph of Rudolph Valentino from the 1925 film. Typed mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Pushkin's 1841 novel "Dubrovsky." Dubrovsky (Valentino) is a Cossack in the Russian army who becomes a masked vigilante, and attempts to save his family from an evil carpetbagger. Unfortunately, he falls in love with...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1926 film, showing actor John Gilbert applying makeup from a portable makeup case. With a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the 1894 German novel "The Undying Past" by Hermann Sundermann. The first of many pairings of legendary on-screen (and real life) couple Gilbert and...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel, a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Lon Chaney plays a (heavily-scarred) wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney, and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance, thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird," seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces," here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a....
![Finger Prints [Fingerprints] (Original advertising flyer for the 1914 film). Francis X. Bushman,...](/pictures/thumb/143447.jpg?v=1529008069)
Chicago: Essanay Studios, 1914. Original advertising flyer for the 1914 silent short film, showing a sample newspaper herald, along with ordering information for theatres, on the recto, and a cast list and plot synopsis on the verso. The third and final adventure of Richard Neal, private investigator, who sets out to recover both stolen jewels and his kidnapped girlfriend from...
N.p. N.p. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Christy Cabanne was one of the most prolific directors in the history of American cinema, beginning in the silent era and eventually directing low-budget movies all throughout the 1930s and 1940s with Universal. A recently paroled man gets out of prison and immediately murders someone else, resulting in a political.....
N.p. Harry Langdon Corporation, 1926. Vintage photographic proof trial poster from the 1926 film. Harry Langdon plays Paul Bergot, a Belgian immigrant who has fallen in love with Mary Brown, a blind woman. Paul desperately searches for Mary, accidentally rescuing her town from crooks and bootleggers in the process. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Holograph ink notation...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery," seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess (Bedford) safely home. He does so, despite becoming caught up in the Bolshevik revolution...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Two vintage reference photographs for the 1927 film. Each with a printed snipe on the verso. Set during the Russian Revolution, Chaney plays a peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he safely escorts a Countess (Bedford) home. He does so, despite being captured and tortured by Bolsheviks. Later he...
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1916. Vintage lobby card for the 1922 Republic Pictures re-release of the 1916 film short. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 35.5 cm). Matte finish. Easily Near Fine, with one faint stain at the right margin, no pinholes.
New York: Various Publishers, circa 1916-1935. A collection of five children's books featuring the legendary silent movie star and humorist Charlie Chaplin as his inimitable Tramp character. The collection includes a picture book tie-in for his film "Easy Street," as well as a coloring book, an oversized comic book-style depiction of some of his stunts, and both an original copy...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Original lobby card for the 1959 film "The Chaplin Revue," a re-release of three of Charlie Chaplin's earlier films: "A Dog's Life" and "Shoulder Arms" (both from 1918), and his final short film, "The Pilgrim" (1923). Lobby card No. 7 in the set depicts a scene from "Shoulder Arms," where the Tramp is a....
Various cities: Various Publishers, circa 1957 - 1967. A collection of 10 original lobby cards for the Mexican releases of nine films directed by or featuring Charlie Chaplin. Highlights of this bright, charming collection include lobby cards for the Mexican releases of Chaplin's "Limelight," "King of New York," and "The Circus," as well as two variants for "The Chaplin Revue,"...
New York, London: Various Publishers, 1915-1957. A collection of nine sheet music scores for eight songs written by or about silent film star Charlie Chaplin, and spanning from some of the earliest appearances of his Tramp character through to the 1957 release of "A King in New York." Songs included range from ones inspired by Chaplin, like "Charlie Chaplin Walk," and...
Chicago, IL: Time, Inc., 1972. An issue of LIFE magazine from April 21, 1972, featuring a 5 page cover story on Charlie Chaplin's first return to the United States after having renounced his citizenship in 1953. Universally acclaimed as an actor, director, and producer, Chaplin and his iconic Tramp character especially captured the hearts of the filmgoing population, and to...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked...
N.p. N.p., 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster, made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich, during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie, likely meant to represent a US import. During this period there was...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Elton Corporation, 1927. Original program for the 1927 silent film, one of the last great period adventures of the silent era. It was to be Fairbanks' last silent film (his next would be his sound debut in the 1929 Three Musketeers film, "The Iron Mask"), and was the film debut of Lupe Velez. A....
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Paris: Studio Soulat-Boussus, 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shot by Jean Soulat and Mauric Boussus of Studio Soulat-Boussus in Paris, with respective stamps on the verso. An excessively rare photograph from Dreyer's masterpiece, capturing Maria Falconetti in what one could accurately described as "in character." Franconetti became a stage actress in Paris in...
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N.p. N.p., 1928. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1928 film. Shown are Dreyer and his crew, including cinematographer Rudolph Mate, setting up a ground shot of one of the film's French clergymen. A rare photograph of the director at work on his masterpiece. The film was shot on one huge concrete set modeled on medieval architecture...
N.p. N.p., 1944, 1946, 1949. Archive of four letters between Carl Theodore Dreyer and film historian and eventual "Cahiers du Cinema" co-founder Joseph-Marie Lo Duca primarily regarding Lo Duca's proposed sound-added release of Dreyer's 1927 silent masterpiece "The Passion of Joan of Arc," and the French release of Dreyer's 1943 film "Day of Wrath." Included in the archive are carbon...
![S.M. [Sergei] Eisenstein: Complete Works (120 slides from films). Sergei Eisenstein](/pictures/thumb/123356.jpg?v=1488554630)
New York: L'Avant Scene Cinema / Grove Press, 1969. First American Edition, a collection of 120 35mm slides featuring images from Eisenstein's films, including 12 slides from his incomplete, lost 1937 film "Bezhin Meadow." Issued as part of a series by "L'Avant Scene Cinema" magazine and distributed by Grove Press in the United States. Slides Near Fine. Housed in Very...
![The Off-Shore Pirate [The Offshore Pirate] (Collection of 6 original photographs from the 1921...](/pictures/thumb/142805.jpg?v=1516296131)
Los Angeles: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Collection of six vintage production photographs from the lost 1921 film. Based on the short story "The Offshore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on May 29, 1920. Actress Viola Dana's second film based on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story (the first being the 1920 film "A Chorus...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1913. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph from the legendary 1913 silent film serial. Printed onto heavy card stock for use as the equivalent of a modern day lobby card. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The first of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, followed by "Les Vampires" (1915) and "Judex" (1916). Feuillade took...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1915. Original double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1915 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. Shown here is Musidora as Irma Vep conferring with another member of The Vampires, an anarchist criminal gang at the center of the story. The director's magnum opus, "Les vampires" is one of...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1916. Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1916 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The last of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, preceded by "Fantomas" (1913) and "Les Vampires" (1915), combining elements of both its predecessors. In Judex (Latin for "judge"), Feuillade furthered his vision of the...
Hollywood: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation / Paramount Pictures, 1926, 1927, 1928. Original French pressbooks for three early silent comedies starring W.C. Fields, two of which ("Running Wild" and "Fools for Luck") are today lost, and one ("It's an Old Army Game") starring a young and vibrant Louise Brooks. Each printed in single-color wrappers, but with creative use of alternate-colored stock and/or...
N.p. N.p., 1915-1916. Two vintage borderless photographs of actress Pauline Frederick from two of her earliest starring roles, "Bella Donna" (1915) and "The Spider" (1916), both of which are now considered lost. Already an established star of the stage, Frederick was in her thirties when she made her film debut, and her commanding presence and dramatic looks contrasted with the...
![The Madness of Dr. Tube [La Folie du Docteur Tube] (Two original photographs from the 1915 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144596.jpg?v=1544116790)
France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck circa 1936. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself, a dog, and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special...
France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and invasion of Italy, one of six films director Abel Gance...
Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film, with a mimeo snipe on the verso, showing a film crew at work constructing a derailed train inside a studio. Adapted for the screen by Rupert Hughes, based on his 1911 stage play, previously filmed in 1915 in a version that is now lost...
New York: Exhibitor's Trade Review, 1920. First Edition. Magazine-style format featuring biographical essays by Hastings, profusely illustrated with reproduced images from Griffith's films and newspaper articles about the director. One of the best and earliest overviews of the legendary director. 9.5 x 12 inches (24 x 30.25 cm), printed saddle-stitched wrappers. Good lacking the dust jacket, folded horizontally, several cello...
Los Angeles: David W. Griffith, 1918. Vintage herald for a revival showing of the landmark 1915 film at the Opera House in Suffern, NY on May 15 and 16, 1918. 16.5 x 5.5 inches (42 x 14 cm), accordion folded to 4.25 x 5.5 inches (11 x 14 cm), with four panels on each side. Near Fine, with a small separation to one of the folds and some light edgewear. National Film Registry.
Newark: Newark Theatre, Circa 1915. Original handbill for a theatrical run of D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" (1915) at the Newark Theatre in Newark, New Jersey. Noted on the bill are cast members Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp, and Raoul Walsh (here spelled "Raul Walsh"), who played John Wilkes Booth. Also noted on the bill is that the...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1928. Original oversize tabloid style pressbook for the 1928 silent film. With many images of the iconic Louise Brooks, both illustrated and photographed, and replete with many essays on the making of the film. Included as well is an illustrated section showing some of the various available poster styles and other advertising accessories. A key film for...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1922. Draft script for the 1922 film. The film is now considered lost. Tess (Wanda Hawley) is a social climber who is neglected by her hardworking husband, David (Edward Hearn). She decides to go on a date with ex-suitor Arthur Sinclair (Casson Ferguson) to a casino, which is robbed while they are there. Her rings are...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film, the first film released by the newly minted United Artists, co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy, only to find he is secretly the heir to...
Chicago: Essanay Studios, 1914. Original advertising flyer for the 1914 silent short film, showing a sample newspaper herald, along with ordering information for theatres, on the recto, and a cast list and plot synopsis on the verso. In colonial America, a young man seeks to free the woman he loves from an engagement to the lazy drunk her father has...
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...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1920s. Vintage photograph of actor Emil Jannings, fishing from his balcony while on vacation in the Austrian town of St. Wolfgang, circa 1920s. With a French language mimeo snipe and photo agency stamp on the verso. In 1929, Jannings became the first person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, for his roles in both "The.....
Topagna, CA: Karyx Corporation, 1992. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Bound in is a letter from Peter S. Traynor, who planned to direct, to producer Al Checco, regarding the revised draft script. Holograph pencil notations regarding casting questions, presumably by Checco, on the verso of the letter. A project that lapsed into obscurity, but one that was once envisioned...
London: Wardour Films / Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Original program for the London premiere of the film on March 21st, 1927 at the Marble Arch Pavilion, preceded in English by the US release earlier that month but with different title cards. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of...
Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the original German release of the 1927 film. With the UFA logo at the bottom right corner. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of the most enduring and influential films of the silent era. Still photographs from the...
Hollywood: Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures, 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film, a shortened 115 minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock, who is credited on the herald. Interestingly, the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA, apparently just prior to the formation of the larger umbrella production...
Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Original program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Sigfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924, based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Also included is a supplemental program for UFA theatres, featuring another brief essay on the film, information on the theatres, and advertisements. Text of both in...
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because...
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Berlin: Fritz Lang Film / UFA, 1929. Original German program for the 1929 film. "Woman in the Moon" is generally recognized as the first serious film to portray space travel. It was also the first to introduce the basics of rocket travel to a mass audience, including the use of a multi-stage rocket and a "countdown to zero" being used...
![Spies [Spione, The Spy] (Original UK Film Program). Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, screenwriter...](/pictures/thumb/132454.jpg?v=1436555827)
London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F, 1928. Original UK program for the 1928 German film, released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis," and penultimate silent film, an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career, including a spectacular train crash at the film's...
![Frau im Mond [Woman in the Moon] (First Edition). Fritz Lang, Thea Von Harbou](/pictures/thumb/143446.jpg?v=1522340728)
Berlin: August Scherl, 1928. First Edition, preceding all others, including the movie tie-in edition, published later the same year by Scherl. Rare in dust jacket. Basis for the German silent film classic by Fritz Lang, with a screenplay adapted by von Harbou from her novel. Released in the US as "Woman in the Moon." Like "Metropolis," a novel that was...
Berlin: Druck Gebr. Wolffsohn, 1927. Original pamphlet on early Hollywood cinema, written for German audiences by German film pioneers Ernst Lubitsch and E.A. DuPont. Seemingly an extended primer on early American films and filmmaking, with details on Hollywood's organized production methods, budgets, editing procedures, and actors, including Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Buster...
Chicago: N.p., 1921. Collection of fourteen vintage still photographs of turn signals produced by the Moore Signal Company based in Chicago, IL. Unobtrusive red typescript or red holograph captions to the front of each photo. Photos in this archive depict a demonstration of the early semaphore-like turn signals sold by the Moore Signal Company, which affixed to the car near...
Munich: Universum Film [UFA], 1926. Vintage photograph from the 1926 silent film. With the UFA logo at the bottom left corner of the recto, and a few holograph notations on the verso. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece Sunrise. 7.5 x 10.5...
Los Angeles: William Fox, 1927. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1927 film. Portrayed are star-crossed lovers Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien, in the midst of their romantic city adventure, boarding a trolley. Murnau's first film to be made in the US, a rare and poignant studio photograph from what many consider to be the finest silent film ever...
Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece "Sunrise." 10 x 8 (25 x 20 cm) inches. Very Good plus.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Holograph pencil notations throughout by an unknown editor, with an unsigned typescript note of revisions to producer Hunt Stromberg bound in at the front of the script. Lon Chaney's penultimate film appearance, and his last silent film, as he would develop walking pneumonia during the film's production...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Draft script for the 1927 Silent film. Based on the 1913 yellow peril play by Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen, and previously adapted for the screen in 1919, directed by Maurice Elvey, and starring Matheson Lang. Lon Chaney, in full yellowface, murders his daughter after discovering she loves the son of a British...
![Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen] (Original German program for the 1929 film)....](/pictures/thumb/137129.jpg?v=1492979513)
Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, including a stunning deep focus shot on the rear panel from a party scene in the film, with Louise Brooks at the center of attention. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933...
![Fools for Luck [Quick Lunch] (Original screenplay for the 1928 film). Charles Reisner, George...](/pictures/thumb/141789.jpg?v=1503674228)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin) is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead (Fields) about investing in...
![Film: Gegner von Heute - Freunde von Morgen [Enemy of Film Today - Friend of Film Tomorrow]...](/pictures/thumb/125348.jpg?v=1436555825)
Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G.M.B.H., 1929. First Edition. Small quarto. A companion volume to Werner Graff's "Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf," an early and highly influential study of experimental film published to coincide with the 1929 Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart. Illustrated with numerous photographs, film stills, and film strips, with photographic reproductions by many of the important avant-garde.....
![Exquisite Sinner [The Exquisite Sinner] (Original screenplay for the 1926 film). Phil Rosen,...](/pictures/thumb/143899.jpg?v=1560895251)
Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1925. Draft script for the 1926 film. Based on the 1924 novel "Escape" by Alden Brooks. File copy rubber stamp to the front wrapper. Conrad Nagel and Renée Adoree star in this Silent film, today lost, originally directed by Josef von Sternberg. Midway into shooting Von Sternberg was fired by MGM and replaced by Phil Rosen...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Vintage publicity photograph for the 1924 film showing star John Gilbert relaxing with a book at his home. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1914 Russian play by Leonid Andreyev, first published in English in 1922. The first film put into production under the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the first...
US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company, 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying holograph notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, about a young socialite and a millionaire, who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand, respectively. No known prints of...
N.p. Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, 1918. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1918 film. Based on Harley Granville-Barker and Laurence Housman's 1906 play, "Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden." A delightful romantic fantasy, now almost entirely lost, in which Margierite Clark plays a young woman living in a garden with her three aunts, completely shielded from the exterior world. One day...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film, with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses, a well known figure in Hollywood because of...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue, who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script, here under the working title “Southern Skies,” four vintage photographs, each with a mimeo snipe on the verso, one with a press stamp as well...
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A biopic about the silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, who died of a heart attack in 1933 at age 46. Considered an important figure in the early development of film studios, he mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. In 1920 he was one of the highest paid...
Various cities: Various Film Studios, 1918-1961. A collection of 153 black and white photographs from 88 films featuring images of women being bound or restrained, dating from 1918 to 1961. An impressive set of mild bondage and domination film stills, amassed by a Southern Californian amateur collector, all featuring images of women (plus the occasional man) who are bound, gagged...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Vintage candid photograph from the set of the 1924 film, with a mimeo snipe on the verso identifying all the subjects. Based on the 1923 best seller, "Mrs. Paramor," by Louis Jack Vance. The film is now considered lost. The photograph shows a cameraman setting up for a dinner party shot, which featured John...
![Zero for Conduct [Zero de conduite] (Collection of four photographs from the 1933 film). Jean...](/pictures/thumb/142664.jpg?v=1510245759)
Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso, two with holograph notations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come...
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Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. With the stamp of photographer Mars Marstrich on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema, particularly the French New...
Weimer: Verlag der Hofbuchhandlung Alexander Buschke Nachf, 1908. First Edition. A very early work by writer, actress and film maker Thea von Harbou, best known for writing and co-directing "Metropolis" (1927) in collaboration with her then-husband Fritz Lang. The only recorded presentation copy, INSCRIBED by both Thea and her brother Horst (who would go on to be the still photographer...
Paris: N.p., 1954. Vintage borderless black-and-white French press photograph. With a French mimeo snipe and a stamp for the French press agency Eclair-Mondial. Shown are Erich von Stroheim and actress Corinne Calvet ostensibly dancing on the remnants of a burning fire at what can only have been one of the better book release parties of 1954. The book release in...
Berlin: Decla-Bioscop AG, 1921 [1920]. Vintage double weight matte finish reference photograph from the seminal 1920 silent film. Samuel Goldwyn discovered "Caligari" on a trip abroad, and released this film in the US in 1921, at which time 11 x 14 inch photos such as this one were printed on matte paper. Reference number "4" noted in holograph pencil at...
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Zanuck in the year of publication to silent film actor Harry Fox: "To Harry Fox / If you enjoyed this effort one-tenth as much as I have often enjoyed you, I'm satisfied / Darryl Francis Zanuck / '23." A collection of lighthearted stories by Zanuck, published at a point...