N.p. Bernie Abramson, 1967. Vintage silver gelatin reference photograph from the brutal 1967 film, based on Truman Capote's nonfiction book. Stamped twice on the verso, once in red (Columbia Pictures) and once in black (ORIGINAL PRINT / Pictorial Press, Ltd., with contact information). This image shows Dick (Scott Wilson) taking a rifle from the back seat of his car, just...

N.p. N.p., circa 1958. Draft script for a play based on the classic 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Actress Mary Henry's copy, profusely annotated throughout. Ms. Henry played one of three "phantoms" in the play, who do not speak but who are generally present. Nothing is known about the production of this play, the playwright, or the actors involved...

N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Original dialogue notes for the 1933 Tod Browning film, "Fast Workers." Handwritten notes on two pages of legal-size notebook paper in holograph pencil, presumed to belong to one of the screenwriters for the film. The notes are as follows, with several lines marked through in various places:[First page]Spike: What'd you do to her, when you found.....

Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British film. Laid in are additional 18 pages on legal size blue, pink, and goldenrod stock, including call sheets, unit arrivals and agenda, movement order, schedule, revised schedule, Italian personnel accommodation list, and a cast list, About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist...

London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue, pink, and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines...

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 film. Both are reference photographs featuring director Frankenheimer on the set: one from a scene at the beach with his shooting crew, the other in a social setting with the film's star Rock Hudson. Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life...

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1965. Draft script for the 1965 BBC television movie "Tea Party," adapted by Pinter from his 1963 short story. The film first aired live on March 25, 1965 on the BBC program "The Largest Theatre in the World." INSCRIBED by screenwriter Pinter on that day: "March 25th 1965 / To Peter Colin Holder / Congratulations...

New York: Cinema 16, 1952. Original pamphlet distributed by Amos and Marcia Vogel's Cinema 16, "How to Solve the Mystery of Rashomon" (1952), an essay by novelist and film critic Parker Tyler. Few foreign language films have made such a lasting impact on American audiences as Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950), a revolutionary film in style and substance that challenged and...

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)...

Los Angeles: 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father figure of the avant-garde New American Cinema of the 1960s...

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1928. Original three-color herald for the 1928 silent film, with overprints in red ink on the verso added to promote the sound version, released shortly after the initial version, reading "The latest talking sensation!" and "Janet Gaynor / Talking for the first time on the screen."All of Murnau's American films are available except "4 Devils,"...

N.p. N.p., 1966. Vintage program from Otis Redding's 1966 tour, where he headlined the "Winter Carnival of Stars," which also included Aaron Neville, James and Bobby Purify, The Marvelettes, The Original Drafters, Lorraine Ellison, Sad Sam, and comedian Irwin C. Watson. With a full page photograph and biography of each artist, and several additional photos of Redding in performance. Saddle...

New York: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1968. Revised Draft script for the unreleased 1969 film, "Parachute to Paradise," with a single notation on the title page. Written for screen by Allan Gittler, the New York-based minimalist designer of electric guitars, and a virtuoso musician, who later changed his name to Avraham Bar Rashi. Gittler was a film editor in New...

London: Michael Powell (Theatre), circa 1960. Vintage borderless French press photograph from the 1961 British film. Shown are Austrian actor Carl Boehm, getting to know a prostitute (Pamela Green) who will be dead just as soon as she's been photographed. On the verso is a rubber stamped credit for photographer Nicole, with her Paris address, along with a few holograph...

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1978. First Edition. INSCRIBED in blue ink to novelist and film theorist William F. Van Wert: "pour Bill Van Wert/mon amical souvenir/Robbe-Grillet." The star of the Minuit logo on the front panel is hand-colored in the same ink, presumably by Robbe-Grillet. Text in French. Van Wert corresponded with Robbe-Grillet during his dissertation "The Theory and.....

Bloomington: N.p., circa 1974. Archive of research materials used by William F. Van Wert in preparing his dissertation "The Theory and Practice of the Cine-Roman" (Arno Press, 1978). Included are responses to a questionnaire and an album of film stills. Focusing on the filmmakers of the Rive Gauche movement, which slightly preceded the French New Wave and ran parallel through...

N.p. N.p., 1959. Hand tinted woodcut by Kurt Seligmann in 1959 as a Christmas card, titled "Moor," SIGNED and dated in pencil by Seligmann just below the image, and further INSCRIBED to Amos Vogel: "We loved your card - with Jean Durand! / Season's greetings / Arlette and Kurt."Kurt Leopold Seligmann (1900-1962) was a Swiss-American surrealist painter and engraver. He...

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...