Beverly Hills, CA: Crown International Pictures, 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films, worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Fantastic Plastic Machine".....

New York: Talk Normal / Cinecom Pictures, 1986. Two vintage photographs of Laurie Anderson from the 1986 concert film, released concurrently with her album of the same name, and featuring selections from her 1984 album "Mister Heartbreak," her 1983 multimedia show "United States," and original material. Filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, NJ during her 1985 tour in.....

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.....

New York: Royal Films International, 1962. Original 1963 US Pressbook for the 1962 Finnish documentary film. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis, and filmed throughout Europe, the film is an expose of affection and its various means of display the world over. Nadia Lara's final film credit. 4 pages, folded, 9.75 x 13.75 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal fold at the.....

Vintage US poster for the 1981 documentary film.Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A compelling history of the great bridge that includes interviews with personalities such as New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger, playwright Arthur Miller, and Frank Sinatra. Narrated by historian David McCullough who wrote the nonfiction book the film was based on.23 x 29.....

Los Angeles: Films Inc., 1975. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1976 autobiographical docudrama. Director Martha Coolidge's debut feature film, after having worked as a documentary filmmaker since the early 1970s. The film follows Coolidge's retelling of the aftermath following her high school date rape, and analyzes the motives and ramifications of the action. An unusual film for its.....

Universal City: Universal-International, 1957. Continuity & Dialogue script for the 1957 documentary.An hour-long documentary exploring Soviet Russia, giving curious Westerners a glimpse of life behind the Iron Curtain. Narrator Carey Wilson's final film.Set and shot on location in Russia. White titled self wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper, noted as production No. 1862, dated NOVEMBER 13.....

New York: Two Faces / New Yorker Films, 1969. Vintage poster for the 1969 film, an experimental mix of documentary and fiction. Poster designed by Robert Frank. Director Robert Frank's first feature film, in which he follows poet Peter Orlvosky and his mentally ill brother Julius as they move through the late 1960s Beat scene, while Peter tries to care.....

N.p. N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless press photograph of Mick Jagger in the studio, from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With a few penciled annotations on the verso indicating placement. An image of Mick Jagger in the studio, from one of the many sequences relating to the band's creation of.....

Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1969. Working post-production script for the 1969 film. Combination of typescript and carbon typescript, with annotations in red holograph ink throughout. Laid in is a vintage borderless reference photograph from the film. An unusual internal script from the production of the Soviet-Italian co-production that was ultimately distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures. Not a post-production script in the.....

Los Altos, CA: National General Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Rare. Obscure documentary about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, exploring the possibility of a second gunman having been involved. Folded as issued. Near Fine.

N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein received unprecedented access to student leaders, activists, various committee meetings.....

N.p. Trans American Films, 1966. Original pressbook for the 1966 Italian film. An early "mondo" documentary, ("shockumentary"), featuring shockingly real customs throughout the world, predating many similar films that would make the "video nasties" list, a list of films banned in England in the 1980s. Not to be confused with the 1980 Lamberto Bava film of the same name. The.....

N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. An exploration of Johnstown, Philadelphia, following its history as a steel mining town, surviving three major floods within 94 years, and its gradual economic decline as representative of the fate of industrial cities in the US. Bound in after the script are a series of interviews with historians Robert H. Wiebe.....

New York: Cinema 5, Circa 1972. Original American program for the 1969 French documentary film. A two-part film exploring collaboration and resistance to the Vichy government and Nazi Germany in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand. Nominated for an Academy Awards for Best Documentary. 7.5 x 11 inches, in self wrappers. Printed on newsprint. Near Fine with a shallow horizontal fold.....

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.....

New York: Excelsior Pictures, 1938. Three vintage black and white second generation photographs from the groundbreaking 1938 film documenting the 1936 Summer Olympipcs, held in Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Released in two parts, "Olympia: Festival of Nations" and "Olympia: Festival of Beauty." From the archive of Maurice Bessy, with his rubber stamp and light holograph annotations on the verso. Based.....

N.p. N.p., 1922-1927. and the photographs here, mostly of native islanders, are likely from the first of those journeys. The fourth and fifth volumes contain photographs of the Middle East. The fourth features numerous photographs of French Foreign Legionnaires, in addition to locals, and are taken in Saudi Arabia, primarily in and around the city of Jeddah. The fifth is.....

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. N.p., 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film. Written and directed by acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, "Medium Cool" combines fact and fiction, feature film footage, stock footage and cinema verite documentary techniques. We follow Forster, as John Catselas, a television news cameraman, in the center of the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention.Set in and shot.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Set of five vintage black and white promotional photographs made to publicize the 1973 film documentary in Europe. Each photograph is rubber stamped on the verso: "JUVENILE COURT / Frederick Wiseman / USA 1973." A rare set of photos,the only photographic ephemera advertising a Frederick Wiseman documentary we have ever handled. Wiseman's sixth documentary, typically unsentimental and.....