Prague: Barrandov, 1966. First Edition, one of 1000 copies issued in English. A promotional book produced by Czechoslovakian Barrandov Studios to advertise their services to the wider professional filmmaking world. With a presentation slip from the studio and a business card belonging to the studio's press secretary laid in. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs of the studio's facilities, stills from...
![The Loves of a Blonde [Lasky jedne plavovlasky] (Original program for the 1965 film). Milos...](/pictures/thumb/138325.jpg?v=1492979933)
Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with images from the film and line drawings. One of the best known films from the Czechoslovak New Wave, nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and bringing Forman to international attention. 11.25...
![Long Live the Republic [At ije republika] (Original program for the 1965 film). Karel Kachnya,...](/pictures/thumb/138324.jpg?v=1492979932)
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...
![The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] (Original herald for the 1965 film). Jan Kadar, Elmar...](/pictures/thumb/138323.jpg?v=1492979932)
Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street," with four image from the film, and text in both Czech and English. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman, and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the...
Czechoslovakia: N.p., 1957. Vintage keybook, likely unique, for the 1957 film comedy, containing 119 vintage double weight photographs, featuring both scenes from the film and candid photographs from the set. The photos are tipped in two to a page in a contemporary photo album with a title page credits in holograph white paint, including the director, cinematographer, producer, and still...
N.p. Sigma III Corporation, 1968. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1968 US release of the 1966 Czechoslovakian film. Based on Bohumil Hrabal's 1965 novel, about a young man working at a German-occupied train station in Czechoslovakia during WWII. A key entry in Czechoslovak New Wave film, poignantly asserting that the Czech people were part of an oppressive system during...
Prague: Barrandov Studios, 1966-67. Collection of 16 vintage borderless photographs for the international releases of 12 Czechoslovakian films by Barrandov Studios from 1966-1967. Each photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. One photograph with the stamp of photographer Miloslav Mirvald on the verso. Included in the collection are photographs for several Czechoslovak New Wave films, including Jan Nemec's "Martyrs...
Prague: Czechoslovakian Film Export, 1965. First Edition. Annual detailing the state of Czechoslovakian film in 1964, with synopses of films released that year, including such Czechoslovak New Wave highlights as "The Shop on Main Street," "Pearls of the Deep," and "Diamonds of the Night," with a list of awards won by by Czechoslovakian films. Profusely photo-illustrated throughout. Text in Czech...
London: British Film Institute, Circa 1963. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1963 UK release of the 1963 Czechoslovakian film. Distributors rubber-stamp on the verso. Based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, "Oblok Magellana" (1955, "The Magellanic Cloud"), about a spaceship carrying colonists to a new planet, and the journey that includes encounters with abandoned alien craft. 7 x 9.25 inches, with...
Prague: Elektafilm, 1940. Collection of 44 vintage oversize, double weight photographs from the 1940 film, based on the 1897 novel by Vilem Mrstik. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album with a title page executed in holograph paint, and tissue paper between each page. The sweet and shy Helen, daughter of a game warden, lives with her...
Paris: Gaumont, 1983. Two vintage borderless photographs of director Andrzej Wajda on the set of the 1983 Polish-French film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1929 play "The Danton Case" by Polish writer Stanislawa Przybyszewska. Set in 1793, Georges Danton has returned to Paris from his solitary residence in the countryside just as the Committee for Public...