Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image, and credits...

Paris: Cinedis, 1955. Collection of 867 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film. Small snapshot photos pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in holograph ink inside a small white...

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Collection of 103 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1937 film. Original brown card wrappers present, with film title printed on the front cover. In British India, a young girl, played by Shirley Temple, is beloved by the soldiers and their leader Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen). A rebel group kidnaps the girl and the...

Paris: Intermondia Films, 1959. Archive of 69 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets, amounting to nearly 800 numbered images, for the 1959 French-Italian film, here under a working title, "Le clochard." Much of the film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many candid off-camera shots from the set. Housed in an orange...

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialog director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Collection of 57 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1941 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with film title printed on the wrapper. An elderly school teacher (Colbert) is attending the banquet of a presidential nominee (Sheppard) who was her former student. Throughout the movie, she reflects back on her relationship with her...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Collection of 84 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1938 film. Original brown card front wrapper present, with film title written on the wrapper Margot Weston (Stanwyck) is left heartbroken and pregnant as her husband dies speeding to their wedding. The newborn is given to a different couple with the insistence that the boy...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Archive of 70 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. With original manila fronting card, with the following in manual type on the recto: "SET STILLS / BLUE, WHITE AND PERFECT / (KEY SET)."The fourth Michael Shayne film in Twentieth Century-Fox's long running series, this one starring Lloyd Nolan as detective Shayne, and...

Rome: Igor Film, 1966. Two oversize borderless double weight black and white photographs from the 1966 film. With a few identifying annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the verso. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on the historical, titular battle. A landmark achievement in world cinema...

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph of director Nicholas Ray on the set of his 1963 film, "55 Days at Peking." Shot by still photographer Dennis Stock, and with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting Ray, screenwriter Philip Yordan, and actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, and with a stamp crediting producer Samuel Bronston...

Beverly Hills, CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, 1976. Set of 30 vintage keybook contact sheets (20 large and 10 cut), comprising over 1000 images from the 1977 film. A working document in the film's development, with various photos marked through, circled, and notated. Credited on two of the cut contact sheets are photographers Bruce McBroom and Elliott Marks, with dates of October...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Collection of 34 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown card front wrapper present with film title printed on the wrapper. Based on the 1937 Austrian play, co-written by Hungarian playwright Landislas Fodor and Austrian writer Gina Kaus, based on her 1932 novel "Morgen um Neun." George Nordyke (Allen) is dismayed...

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952. Vintage black-and-white linen-backed keybook still photograph from the 1952 film. Ownership rubber stamp (Christopher C. Geest) on the verso. Two hole punches at the top margin, as issued. Pictured is Jennifer Jones cold-cocking Charlton Heston at the beach. Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in "Duel in the Sun" as the...

Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with annotations on the verso, one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), at a celebration for the inauguration of his newspaper, "The Inquirer." The second still shows Kane as an older man...