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: Maysles Films, 1970. Archive including the paste-up maquette, proof, and final print of a photo-montage variant poster for the 1970 film, made for its premiere in New York City, and posted strictly on walls around the city. A poster design that, unlike the final one used, conveys the chaos, bleakness, and ultimately depressive air of the documentary, and...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 film. Paper snipe taped to the verso. Won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. A documentary about the pristine American Prairie. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Very Good plus with a holograph notation, toned tape, and a stamp to the verso. Complete collation details available on request.
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...
London: Associated British-Pathe Ltd., 1953. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1953 UK film. Sir Adrian Boult and Doreen Carwithen, the film's music arrangers, are seen next to director Terry Ashwood and his associate, Howard Thomas. Distributor's rubber-stamp on the verso. Documents the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ashwood, Boult, and Thomas would collaborate again in the 1954 documentary, "Welcome...
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...
Paris: Cinémato, 1959. Original French program for the 1959 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Nuits d'Europe." Lavish and compact, the program fits in a shirt pocket and unfolds to reveal four panels of bright primary colors, showcasing various performers seen in the film. An early "mondo" film, in keeping with what would become a predominantly Italian genre...
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: Fred Baker Films, 1972. Original one sheet poster for the little-seen 1972 documentary. The second documentary to be produced on Bruce after his death in 1966, though the first, "Lenny Bruce in 'Lenny Bruce' (1967), was basically a film of a single performance. Baker's film combines footage of Bruce from "The Steve Allen Show," audio-only clips, an interview...
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...
Cannes, France: N.p., 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival, the seventeenth one to be held, that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the name used until 1974 when it returned to...
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...
New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film, released the same year. Scarce to find in jacket or...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. Known as the father of documentary, Flaherty mixed real life footage with staged events to capture portraits of people surviving in extreme environments in films such as "Nanook of the North" (1922), "Moana" (1926)...
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...
Los Angeles: National Screen Service Corporation, 1971. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1971 documentary film. Documents the hunt for a great white shark, covering thousands of miles of the Earth's oceans, and finally culminating in a sighting near Australia. Marks the first time a great white shark was ever captured on 35mm film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x....
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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...
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...
New York: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1962. Draft script for the 1962 television documentary. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who narrated the film, with his holograph name on the title page and holograph annotations throughout. An hour long documentary about US Route 1, which runs from Maine to Florida. Nominated for an Emmy Award. Script is as issued with...
Hong Kong: Golden Harvest Company, 1984. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1984 Hong Kong film. Golden Harvest created this documentary tribute to the legendary Bruce Lee, featuring archival footage of Lee, as well as costars and contemporaries such as Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jim Kelly, and Chuck Norris. 26 x 40 inches (66 x 102 cm). Near Fine.
New York: October Films, 1997. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1997 film. With the sticker of photographer on the verso. A documentary following Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1996 tour, featuring concert footage, interviews by director Jim Jarmusch, and archival footage. Followed by the release of a live album with the same name, but featuring a different track...
London: National Screen Service Ltd., 1972. Vintage full-color still photograph from the UK release of the 1972 French film. A portrayal of dancers and their dedication rather than the glamour of performance itself. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with pinholes at the corners, with a few light creases.
London: Cinevision Films, 1972. Collection of 6 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1972 British-French film. Each card with film credit square, lacking the actual printed credits. A biopic of famed Russian dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, effectively the first to document his life and works from four different ballet styles. The first sequence is from "La Sylphide," next is a....
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1976. Original British quad poster for the 1976 US film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry, featuring artwork nearly identical to its US variants. Second installment of the compilation documentary series that highlights footage from the MGM vault, including comedy and musical numbers. Astaire and Kelly dance together, in their second and final collaboration, 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.
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1957. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Based on Felix Salten's 1938 novel, "Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel." Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of image PERRI- 725, identifying the cinematographer as Joel Colman. Included in the collection is a shot of cinematographer Joel Colman as he takes footage...
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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. 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...
Washington, D.C. The Film Company / Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 1985. Original Press Kit for the 1985 documentary. With a transcript of the program, and a 32-page companion guide featuring facts about Herman Melville's life and work, articles on Melville, and a selected bibliography. This documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville. Narrated by John Huston, the...
New York: Sony Picutres Classics / American Playhouse, 1997. Original Press Kit for the 1997 film documentary. A rare press kit for one of Errol Morris' least-seen and most fascinating documentaries. Conceptually intensive even for this director, "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control" documents the present-day lives of four utterly different subjects: a robot designer, a topiary gardener, a wild...
Los Altos, CA: National General Pictures, 1973. Vintage US one sheet poster, silkscreen, for the 1946 film documentary short. An entry in the 1946-1947 RKO series that focused on various hardscrabble aspects of life in the United States, a follow on to the "March of Time" series. This entry focused on New York City's Bowery, which existed "in the shadows"...
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 (19 x 28 cm), in self wrappers. Printed on newsprint. Near Fine with...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983. Original press kit for the 1973 music documentary chronicling David Bowie's final live performance as Ziggy Stardust. Included in the press kit are four vintage black and white film still photographs and 21 pages of production information. Shot on location with only four cameras in London's Odeon theater on July 3, 1973, the film witnesses...
Los Angeles: The Foundation / Leacock-Pennebaker, 1968. Collection of five vintage black and white photographs from the seminal 1968 film, most with printed snipes on the verso specific to the photos and even the cinemas in Pennsylvania and New Jersey where the film was to premiere. Featured in the photographs are Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, and The Mamas and the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Kaleidoscope Films, 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film. Includes seven pages laid in, including editing notes, ad sketches, and a letter regarding the health of a college. A 1984 documentary about the horror genre, featuring clips from numerous classics, including "Friday the 13th," "The Texas Chansaw Massacre," "Suspiria," "Jaws," and "Psycho." The script includes laid in...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1922-1927. Archive 163 vintage photographs by Ernest B. Schoedsack detailing expeditions taken by him and filmmaking partner Merian C. Cooper between 1922 and 1927, while the pair were also filming their groundbreaking documentary films "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life" (1925) and "Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness" (1927). With handwritten captions identifying most of the photographs. Also...
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-stitched, with one ad supplement, 11 x 17 inches. Black-and-white throughout. A horizontal fold at the middle, else Near Fine.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the 1972 film, featuring a wailing George Harrison playing his guitar. Harrison arranged a concert to benefit the people of Bangladesh (at the behest of Ravi Shankar), and staged the show in New York's Madison Square Garden in 1971. Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar, and many others...
London: Nation Screen Service Ltd., 1971. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1971 UK film. A documentary following a two men who are reunited with a lion that they had purchased as a cub and which had subsequently been reintroduced to the wild by conservationist George Adamson. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Slight toning, else Near Fine.
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...
France: Les Films de l'Astrophore, 1973. Vintage photograph of filmmaker Orson Welles from 1973 film. Large mimeo snipe on the verso. A docudrama investigating the nature of authorship and authenticity, focusing on the experiences of Elmyr de Hory, an infamous painting forger, and Clifford Irving, known for writing a fake documentary of Howard Hughes. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x....
N.p. H & J, 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...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of five vintage black-and-white 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...
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...
London: Eros Films, 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. Compilation of scenes from classic silent films from the Mack Sennet and Hal Roach studios, with narration written by filmmaker Rene Clair (in cooperation with Youngson). The still features actor Harry Langdon with his iconic painted face and eyeliner. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Light...
London: Eros Films, 1957. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the British release of the 1957 US film. Compilation of scenes from classic silent films from the Mack Sennet and Hal Roach studios, with narration written by filmmaker Rene Clair (in cooperation with Youngson). 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). About Near Fine.