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,".....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full color wrappers, with black and white text and black and white and full color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and.....

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA] / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1938. Original French program for the French and German film "Un fichu metier." Three-color wrappers, with black and white photos and color text headers throughout. Text in French. A comedy in which a wayward crown prince is causing trouble for his kingdom (Vodenia), so a minister decides to replace him with a......

New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a......

N.p. N.p., 1996. Two vintage Hong Kong posters, designed to be displayed side by side, for the 1996 film. A comedy set to the backdrop of a Chinese driving school. Shot on location in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. 27 x 31 inches each. Fine.

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. Black titled perfect bound wrappers. Title.....

Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp). White.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now, whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One.....

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect bound wrappers, rubber stamped production number 133, dated.....

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA] / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1937. Vintage French pressbook for the 1937 film "Die Kronzeugin," seen here as "L'affaire Cabano." A detective mystery in which a noted singer is found dead in his apartment, and the police must decide whether it was suicide, or whether he has been killed. Two pages, saddle stitched, 9.5 x 12 inches.....

N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes.....

Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 Czechoslovak new wave film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with both still images from the film and impressionistic illustrations. The end of WWII from the perspective on a boy in a rural farming village, equally worried about retreating German soldiers.....

New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Shakespeare's play, "King Lear." An elderly warlord in Medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa.....

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA], 1937. Vintage French pressbook for the 1937 German film "Vor Liebe wird gewarnt," seen here as "Onny a le Beguin." Anny Ondra plays a woman, the youngest in a family of three sisters, who can't seem to find romance, and whose boss attempts to set her up. An unusual look at women's roles under the Nazi.....

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.....

Tokyo: Shintoho Film, 1950. Two Draft scripts for the 1950 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Selichi Funabashi . A young servant girl Hamako has recently begun working for her hero, Madame Yuki, who quickly disillusioned her to her dream when she is presented with a list of the Madame's personal problems. First draft:White illustrated titled perfect.....

N.p. N.p., 1976. Original Treatment script for the 1977 Italian giallo film. Director John Huston's copy. Laid in is a typed letter signed, dated January 28, 1977, from noted agent Paul Kohner on Kohner's stationery, encouraging Huston to read the script and consider directing the film: "Dear John, / Please find enclosed copy of the screenplay of PYJAMA GIRL /.....

Tokyo: Shockiku Ofuna, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. A young woman is hitchhiking when the driver who picks her up attempts to molest her. A young gangster comes to her aid and then leads her on a wild relationship through the Japanese underground towards the eventual destruction of both of them. White titled perfect bound.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Text in Japanese. An experimental, absurdist, pop art satire of yakuza films and film noir, Suzuki’s film was a failure on release, leading him to be fired and then blackballed by the studio for making films that made neither sense nor profit. The film rightly became a cult classic with its.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. Based on the novel by Haruhiko Oyabu. A police detective tracking down stolen weapons, stumbles upon an underworld feud and turns the tide of the conflict into a full scale massacre. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 37 leaves, with last page of text numbered 36.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. Obsessed with the teenage trends of the time including going to the beach, jazz music and progressive attitudes toward sex, this film features a gang of high school students having fun at an amusement park, including one harrassing a young woman. He then returns home to his single.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name, a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves, with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical.....

Tokyo: Toei Animation, circa 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun," also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. A milestone in the history of Japanese animation, heralded as the first animated feature to successfully disrupt the Walt Disney.....

Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio, 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story, reviews, quotes, and critical essays. Text in Hungarian.Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued, with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr describes his intentions for his first film. It would be.....

Spain: Various, 1961-1976. Collection of 30 vintage posters for Spanish or Spanish co-productions released between 1961-1976. The posters predominantly feature full color illustrations but also include photo-illustrations and other techniques, showcasing the variety of graphic design techniques which evolved over the decade-plus covered by the collection. Even among the illustrated posters, a variety of styles can be found, as the.....