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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1931. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film, showing actor Edward G. Robinson surrounded by newsroom staff. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on the 1930 play by Louis Weitzenkorn. The beleaguered managing editor of a flagging tabloid newspaper attempts to resurrect the publication's readership by reinvestigating a decades-old murder case.....

Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Vault Copy Draft script for the 1929 film, stamped three times with "Vault Copy," and annotation of the name of uncredited crew member "Mr. Cohn" on front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on the 1928 novel by S.S. Van Dine, the fourth of twelve Philo Vance mystery novels. The body of man nicknamed "Cock.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage double weight internal studio photographs from the set of the 1933 pre-code film. Holograph annotations on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see others.High school students unite against a ruthless gang leader. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1934 film. The second Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller, with Jane famously portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. One of the best Tarzan films, and a landmark film in the history of film censorship. A big budget followup to MGM's first Tarzan film, "Tarzan and His Mate" featured a lengthy balletic.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1931 film, director Charles Reisner working with actresses Charlotte Greenwood and Leila Hyams. With a snipe printed on the verso noting same, along with a stamp stating "Country of origin USA." A romantic farce in which two philandering husbands are taught a lesson by their wives.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment (Dec. 15, 1931) in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931 novel by Crosbie [here spelled Crosby] Garstin, with Garstin and.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1922. Vintage portrait photograph of Erich von Stroheim, circa 1922. Stroheim is remembered as one of the greatest directors of the silent era, demanding, with uncompromising vision, his films sweeping, sultry, costly melodramas. An unfortunate series of events, including falling outs with multiple studios, the advent of the Talkie, and the outbreak of World War II in.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Dialogue Draft script for the 1929 film. With holograph pencil annotations on the front wrapper and throughout.Based on H.C. McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond." A former army captain bored with civilian life aids a young woman whose uncle has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric institution. The third Bulldog Drummond film to be released, following the.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1928. Vintage keybook reference photograph of director Frank Borzage and actor Guido Trento on the set of the 1928 film. Based on the 1922 play "The Lady Cristilinda" by Monckton Hoffe. A poor young woman, desperate for money for her ill mother's medicine, resorts to prostitution and theft, is caught and convicted, but escapes and.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film, 1933. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1933 film. Based on the Broadway play by John L. Balderston, an American (Howard) sails to England to marry his cousin, follow the American victory in the war of independence. 149 years later, his descendent with the same name, also played by Howard,inherits his house in England and finds.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Shooting Script for the 1934 pre-Code crime film. With a single holograph pencil notation on the front wrapper.Based on the 1933 novel by noted crime novelist Frederick Nebel. An ex-convict is escorted via train to a murder trial in New York, where her testimony is the only protection the defendant has from impending.....

Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1930. Draft script for the 1931 film, here under the working title "Lilli." Copy belonging to uncredited assistant director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his holograph pencil annotations throughout. Accompanying the script is a mechanically duplicated, folded "Day Out of Days" map with holograph ink annotations correlating actors, scenes, and days.A lowly flower girl agrees.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Post-production Continuity script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A comedy with angles on sports, gangsters, and higher education that demonstrates the timelessness of the interdependence of college football and the continued ability for a university to exist. Victor McLaglen plays hulking gangster Knucks McGloin, who founds a school called Canarsie College. (Canarsie being a......

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph, with snipe printed on the verso identifying director Harry Beaumont on the set with actresses Anita Page and Joan Marsh in the 1932 film, based on the 1932 J.P. McEvoy novel of the same name. With an additional stamp on the verso reading "Country of origin USA." Left jobless and about.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1930 pre-Code film. An early lead performance for Claudette Colbert. Nominated for an Academy Award. White brad-bound titled wrappers, dated April 16, 1930. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs, housed in a contemporary photo album, each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it, and distributed in three sections as follows: (1) 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" (Howard Hawks, 1930), an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots.....

Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Draft script for the 1931 Western film, here under the working title "Wyoming Wonder." Copy belonging to an unknown Fox Film Corporation employee, with her name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and a few brief annotations in pencil throughout.Based on the 1919 novel by Max Brand. The socialite son of a millionaire travels.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage portrait photograph of Josef von Sternberg, 1934. "Photoplay Magazine Library" and "FEB 14 1935" stamps obscured by label, and "FEB 13 1935" stamp, all on verso. One of Hollywood's premiere directors during the 1920s and 1930s, whose career spanned both the silent and the sound era. Sternberg was a master cinematographer with an unmistakable.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1929. Two vintage reference photographs on the set of the 1929 film. Mimeo snipes on verso of both, one with annotations in holograph pencil and Culver Picture stamp on verso, and one with "Menningen" and graphic stamps on verso. The first Black musical, and one of the first all-Black films by a major Hollywood.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Post-Production Release Dialogue script for the 1932 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Based on the 1931 novel. When the unfaithful boyfriend of a wealthy society girl grows sick and dies, she finds herself falling for the physician who treated him instead. Tall white titled self wrappers, noted as RELEASE DIALOGUE SCRIPT on the front.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Vintage sheet of 35 Empress Brand collectible color transfer stickers, made in a philatelic style, featuring illustrations of six scenes from the 1932 pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film. Noted on the top right corner as "Made in Japan." Very Good, lightly toned, with two rust marks and associated small tears from having been previously stapled, at.....

Los Angeles: Max Linder Productions, 1922. Vintage borderless promotional reference photograph of Max Linder, from the 1921 film, promoting the film's run at Los Angeles' California Theatre, in April, 1922. An image, which if it had been seen by David Lynch, seems likely to have been inspirational to his experimental 1977 film, "Eraserhead."Max Linder, the onscreen persona of French actor.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1931. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1931 pre-Code film. Complete, representing seven reels. Brad-bound self wrappers. Mimeograph duplication. Long tear to the first leaf (about 5.5 inches), else Near Fine.

N.p. N.p., circa 1934. Vintage photograph of a San Bernardino Ritz Theatre employee holding a sign to promote the 1934 film Circus Clown. This appears to have been taken at the intersection of 5th Street and North E Street, just north of the Ritz Theatre, which was located at 423 North E Street in San Bernardino, California. With the stamp.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Vintage keybook photograph of Loretta Young and Gene Raymond on the set of the 1933 Pre-Code film. With a printed snipe and studio stamp on the verso and two holes punched into the left edge.Zani (Gene Raymond), a young zoo keeper, has spent his life inside the zoo in Budapest where his only true.....

Universal City: Universal, 1930-1932. Archive of 19 draft scripts for comedy shorts produced by Universal Pictures between 1930-1932 and starring Slim Summerville. Eight scripts with holograph pencil annotations throughout. An actor and director whose career spanned both the silent and sound eras, Summerville got his start in Mack Sennett's Keystone Kop shorts. Contemporary to the scripts in the archive, Summerville.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film.Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler "Sanctuary." The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her and forces her into prostitution. Every bit as controversial as the source material, the film’s depiction of the assault was.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning, housed in a......

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Release Dialogue script (post-production) for the 1930 pre-Code film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. An early uncredited role for Carole Lombard, who performs the song "You Appeal to Me."A young man is set to inherit a large sum from his uncle on the caveat that he learn the ways of the world beforehand. As such.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film (though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script, as it was a rewrite issued during shooting). AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20, 1932 date on the script, revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23.....

New York: Western Electric Sound System, Circa 1928. Vintage small two-color bi-fold housing an early sample of sound film, promoting Western Electric's Portable Sound System, circa 1928. Likely unique, as we have been unable to locate another example.The front features "A Sample of Sound Film" in bold red font, with illustration of a projector and a screen atop support on.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1934 pre-Code film, showing actresses Toby Wing and Verna Hillie. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with a dealer label.Two lovers and Olympic athletes fall prey to con artists who want to use their images and good reputations to sell adult magazines. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.....