Burbank, CA: Walt Disney, 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film, showing sound effects specialists Jim McDonald, "Rusty" Jones, and Earl Hatch in the studio, using a variety of instruments (several appearing makeshift) to create musical accompaniment for the film.A documentary following the everyday behaviors of the desert-dwelling animals of the southwestern US. The first feature-length film in Walt.....

London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1984. Vintage photograph of director Nestor Almendros and writer Susan Sontag, taken in 1984. With three printed Institute of Contemporary Arts labels affixed to the verso.A searing documentary, focusing on the Castro regime's persecution of Cuba's lesbian and gay population. The film interviews members of the American Left who initially voiced support for the revolution.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 documentary film, showing jazz great Louis Armstrong and reporter Edward R. Murrow. A biography following Armstrong and his band as they embark on a world tour. Shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa, in London, England, and in Memphis, New Orleans, and New York in the.....

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.....

New York: Grove Press, 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 documentary film. Canadian filmmaker Bill Brodie's directorial debut, an incisive look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of Terry Whitmore, an African American US Marine who sought asylum in Sweden after being wounded in action near Con Thien. Whitmore became one of the few African American veterans.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971. Vintage press kit for the French release of the 1971 documentary film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing five black and white photographs, and three pages of promotional reading material.A documentary following the star-studded 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, which featured Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and many others. Shot on location.....

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.....

Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967, and like.....

Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing, 1972. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 documentary film. A documentary capturing the first performance of an all-black rodeo in Harlem and the varied audience reactions to seeing African Americans participating in what was widely considered a white sport. Featuring appearances by Muhammad Ali, who rides a horse down 125th Street, and.....

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.....

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1935. Collection of seven vintage black-and-white still photographs and two double weight sepia photographs from the UK release of the 1935 British documentary film. Included is the original trasmittal envelope, with the printed label, "On His Majesty's Service." Featured in two of the photographs are Henry Hall and his Orchestra (a.k.a., the BBC Symphony Orchestra).....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1965 French mondo film. With a stamp specific to the film's UK release on the verso.A cavalcade of unusual people and practices, including strippers, voodoo priests and priestesses, cross-dressers, bee fetishists, and more. Set and shot on location in Paris.10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased.....

London: The Other Cinema, 1983. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1983 French documentary film. With printed label snipes on the verso specific to the film's UK release.A loose, experimental meditation on memory, told through the stream of consciousness of a world traveler. Shot in Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Pier Paolo Pasolini and unidentified crew member, with author Alberto Moravia in the background, during the filming of the 1971 short documentary film. On the final day of shooting his 1971 film "The Decameron" in Sana'a, Yemen, Pasolini began shooting the 16 minute documentary of the historic 2500-year-old city center.....

London: Mainline, Circa 1982. Collection of ten photographs, comprised of five vintage studio still photographs and five vintage reference photographs, from the UK release of the 1982 documentary. Five photographs with a label from the film's UK distributor, Mainline Pictures, on the verso. A black satire documentary, presented without narration, tracking the beginning of the nuclear warfare era, compiling a......

Germany: R.v. Hirschberg / Rudolf Kalmowicz Filmproduktion, 1977. Original French grande poster for the 1976 West German film. Cool spaceship artwork by Landi. Based on Erich von Daniken's 1968 book, "Chariots of the Gods?," a look at early human history and the possibility of extraterrestrial influences. Sequel to Reinl's previous alien documentary, "Chariots of the Gods" (1970), a film that.....

Paris: Belga Films, 1969. Original French moyenne (medium) poster for the 1969 Belgian-French film. Little known film capitalizing on the exploitation genre of the late 1950s that extended into international success as the "Mondo" film, a subgenre of the many "shockumentaries" (documentaries produced largely to shock the audience) of the era. This color film covers juvenile delinquents in Paris, and.....

New York: Grove Press, 1969. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 US release of the 1967 Swedish film. Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama, utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques, stars Sjoman's then lover, actress Lena Nyman, as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden, and her own sexuality. Parallel.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1964. Original Pressbook for the 1964 documentary film. From the director of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," a memorial to president John F. Kennedy, and a look at the events surrounding his assassination. 8 pages, saddle-stapled, with one ad supplement, 11 x 17 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal fold at the middle, else Near.....

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.....

Berlin: Road Movies Filmproduktion, 1980. Vintage oversize borderless reference color photograph from the 1980 film. With holograph ink annotations to the verso noting the film's title. An image and a film that was "meta" before the term was coined, let alone culturally over-saturated. Wim Wenders joins his friend and hero, director Nicholas Ray, in New York City to discuss Ray's.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A semi-documentary dramatization of the violence that surrounded the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and a film that questions the politics inherent in journalism and image-making, "Medium Cool" is a remarkable directorial accomplishment, highlighting the political unrest of the late 1960s, in part by using real.....