![The Sword and the Rose [When Knighthood was in Flower] (Three original keybook photographs from...](/pictures/thumb/147668.jpg?v=1614207194)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1953. Three vintage keybook studio still photographs from the 1953 film. Two with mimeo snipes on the verso and a small check in holograph ink on the lower right margin. Based on Charles Major's 1898 novel "When Knighthood was in Flower," which had been adapted to film twice before in the silent era, once in.....
![The Gendarme of Champignol [Le gendarme de Champignol] (Archive of photographs and keybook...](/pictures/thumb/144110.jpg?v=1534366297)
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.....
![La Parisienne [une Parisienne] (Collection of 150 original keybook contact sheets and other...](/pictures/thumb/144104.jpg?v=1534366295)
Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 150 vintage black-and-white keybook contact sheet photographs and 8 loose photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film. The film is represented in test shots, set design shots, and many candid moments from the set, including dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors, Bardot amply represented in the collection and seen in nearly every image, off-camera with 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.....
![The Grand Maneuver [Les grandes manoeuvres] (Collection of 867 original keybook photographs for...](/pictures/thumb/144602.jpg?v=1566850707)
Paris: Cinedis, 1955. Collection of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film, 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 border on the recto.....
Paris: Les Films 13, 1969. Collection of 38 original keybook contact print photographs from the 1969 French film. Color and black-and-white contact prints of small and medium format transparencies, several printed in Agfa photo paper, most with 36 images per print, amounting to over 1300 images of starring actors Girardot and Kalfon, child actors, and a few of the film.....
![Rue de Paris [Rue des Prairies] (Collection of 322 original photographs for the 1959 film). Denys...](/pictures/thumb/144663.jpg?v=1560892603)
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.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1929. Vintage linen-backed keybook photograph of the famous nightclub set of the 1929 film. The photograph highlights not only the spectacular production design, but the camera crane developed by director Paul Fejos, which enabled the cumbersome cameras at the time to fluidly move at nearly every conceivable angle, and at the speed of 600 feet per.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Collection of 37 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1942 film. Original brown front wrapper present, with film title printed on the wrapper. Nominated for an Academy Award. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Congress reestablishes a military academy at West Point, lead by a strict commander (Cregar) who pushes the young.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Collection of four vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1939 film, with keybook tab extension removed at the left margin but with linen tape remaining on the verso of same. A strange and underappreciated adventure story, set at a remote sea trading port, sort of a South American version of "Casablanca"—but rather than World War II.....
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 dialogue director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Alec Guinness, Sam Spiegel, Jack Hawkins, and David Lean on the set of the 1962 film. Based on the 1926 autobiography "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence. An incomparable film. Opening in 1935 with the death of Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in a motorcycle accident at the age of 46.....
London: National General Pictures, 1967. Vintage black-and-white double weight linen-backed keybook photograph from the 1967 film. With a three-hole punch at the left margin as called for, and a mimeo snipe on the verso noting actors White and Bindon (pictured), as well as actor Terence Stamp, novelist and screenwriter Nell Dunn, director Ken Loach, and producer Joseph Janni. Set in.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1923. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford on the United Artists lot, circa 1923. Mimeo snipe on verso describes Lubitsch preparing to direct Pickford in an upcoming production of "Faust," with Fairbanks dressed as Mephistopheles (likely just donning a hat from his production of "Robin Hood" the year before). Lubitsch left.....
N.p. Vitagraph, Circa 1940. Vintage keybook photograph of L-to-R Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson (back to camera), director William Wyler, and Bette Davis lunching at the Warner Brothers commissary during the filming of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Claiming self defense after shooting a man (David Newell) she was secretly having an affair with, Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) is.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1953. Vintage single weight linen-backed keybook still photograph from the 1953 film. Seen are Leif Erickson and Marie Wilson hanging out at a window. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on a story by Frederick Kohner and Fred Brady, about a group of women in the Army testing new military equipment. This was.....
![The Battle of Algiers [La battaglia di Algeri] (Two oversize double weight photographs from the...](/pictures/thumb/134906.jpg?v=1492979028)
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.....
Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker, under the pseudonym Robert Traver, which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed.....
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.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1938. Two vintage black-and-white keybook photographs from the 1938. Mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Latimer's Bill Crane and Doc Williams characters, from his books "Headed for a Hearse," "The Lady in the Morgue," "Murder in the Madhouse," "The Dead Don't Care," and "Red Gardenias." The last of three Bill Crane films, the.....
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.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Collection of seven vintage keybook photographs from the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe and "Approved Advertising Advisory Council Apr 21 1942 Hollywood" stamp on verso of each. Political activist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant) is framed when a lumber mill burns down and a man is killed. Escaping prison, he hides out in former schoolmate (and.....
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.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills linen backed as issued, one still with a mimeo snipe on the verso, the other with the RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp on the verso. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), smoking a pipe and smiing.....
Culver City, CA: 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.....