Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 animated film. With a provenance stamp on the verso.A housecat from the French countryside heads to Paris to experience the excitement of the big city, but is soon seduced by a con artist cat who intends to sell her as a mail-order bride for a wealthy American cat.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1995. Shooting Script for the 1995 film, here under the working title "Me and My Shadow." Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew, including director Andy Tennant, screenwriter Rick Parks, and actors Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, and Steve Bosco.From the collection of costume.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Newspaper advertising mockup for the 1978 film. Based on the 1941 children's book by Walter Farley. One of the most visually striking family films ever made, in which a boy and a black stallion are the only two survivors of a ship wreck. On their shipwrecked island they form an unusual bond, and when.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1952. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1953 film, showing actress Gloria Grahame and actor Hansi.An intriguing, subtly played, and overlooked entry from director Elia Kazan about an embattled circus troupe attempting to flee the Communist-controlled Eastern Bloc, all the while dealing with interpersonal conflict. An interesting example of a 1950s film with anti-Communist sentiment that stays firmly.....

N.p. Taliafilm II, circa mid 1980s. Draft script for the 1987 film. An early draft written solely by the creator of the story, Menno Meyjes.Loosely based on the 13th Century Children's Crusade, we follow the knight Robert Nerra (Eric Stoltz) as he joins up with King Richard the Lionheart (Neil Dickson) to protect orphan children from the Black Prince (Gabriel.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Collection of eight vintage photographs from the 1951 film, two promotional headshots of Joe E. Brown and eight studio stills, two of which have "PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE" stamps and cropping annotations on the verso. Based on the 1927 musical, which was in turn based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel. A wildly popular MGM musical hit.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore, bound in full red leather, with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in, and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds, on the verso of the first leaf in holograph ink, is "Juanita, I Love.....

Los Angeles: Paramount / Famous Films, Circa 1954. Presumed complete set of approximately 140 vintage hand drawn storyboards for the 1954 animated short film. All executed in black graphite pencil, with about a third of the storyboards with additional embellishments in red and blue pencil.Loosely based on an earlier Popeye short film "Wimmin Is a Myskery," produced by Fleischer Studios.....

Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1970 film. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault, with numerous references to Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast."Upon the deathbed of his beautiful wife, the Blue Queen, the Blue King promises he would only marry someone more beautiful than her.....

Culver City, CA: Outlaw, 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film, here under the working title "Katie." Copy belonging to a crew member, with their holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout, both editorial and substantive in nature. Laid in with the script is a typed letter dated 16 May 1994, addressed to the crew member from producer Jeffrey Silver.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1982. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film. Based on the popular Broadway musical (which was based on Harold Gray's popular comic strip "Little Orphan Annie"), with music by Charles Stouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan.Directed by John Huston, the only musical in his 40-year directing career, and featuring.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1964 novel by Ian Fleming, about a down-on-his-luck inventor who transforms an old race car into a magical machine and sets off with his children on an adventure. Set in and shot on location in England and France. 10.....

Orem, Utah: Osmond Television, 1978. Rough Final Draft script for the 1978 television special, copy belonging to Haywood Nelson, his name printed on bottom right of binder housing the script, and written in holograph ink on top of two script pages. The variety show special aired on ABC on September 9, 1978, starring Kristy and Jimmy McNichol, and co-starring Donny.....

Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1926-1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank Thomas, Milt Kahl, Ollie Johnston, and Ward Kimball, all have.....

Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1964. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1964 film, a variant we have never before encountered.Considered one of the worst films of all time, as well as a legitimate so-bad-it's-good cult classic, which gained renewed notoriety after being shown in Season 3, Episode 21 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," a unimpeachable highlight of that show's original.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1945. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1945 animated film. A short film following the misadventures of the eponymous main characters, a group of river workers, including two animated African American characters in Blackface. The group is given control of a Mississippi steamboat (called "The Spook"), but must contend with a wily ghost onboard. Sequel.....

N.p. Amblin Entertainment, 1994. Rainbow Fourth Draft script for the 1994 film. Copy belonging to Still Photographer Melissa Mosely, with her name in holograph ink on top right margin of title page. Every page rubber stamped with "RASC 756." An unusual film, written and directed by noted female director Penelope Spheeris, best known for her "Decline of Western Civilization" documentary.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film.After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929, a millionaire (Etaix) finds happiness, his lost love (Auger), and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.Shot on location in Morbihan, Bas-Rhin, and Yvelines.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Each borderless except for a bottom margin (see image).After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929, a millionaire (Pierre Etaix) finds happiness, his lost love, and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.Shot on location in.....

Culver City, CA: Loew's Incorporated, 1952. Treatment script for the 1953 film on yellow paper, created by screenwriter Louis Morheim, who received a story credit in the final film. With a single annotation in holograph pencil, changing the revision date, on page five.Robert Aldrich's directorial debut, wherein a baseball scout at a New York Giants training camp in Florida evaluates.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Two vintage oversize, borderless, double weight photographs from the 1941 musical. Signed, struck, and mounted by MGM photographer Bert Lynch.Loosely based on Ferenc Molnar’s 1924 play Testor, which had previously been adapted to film in 1931 as The Guardsman, about husband who tests his wife's fidelity by disguising himself as another man, which she.....

Universal City: Universal, 1978. Vintage Variety Weekly advertising supplement for the 1978 film, full color, two-sided fold-out, five double sided panels with fifth panel extending out from bottom.Loosely based on the 1974 musical with book by William F. Brown, and music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, a contemporary African American reimagining of the 1900 L. Frank Baum children's novel "The.....

New York: Tony Lazzarino, 1975. Second draft script for an unproduced filmFrom the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996).An epic telling of the heroic outlaw Robin Hood, here Robert of Locksley, and his men from Sherwood Forest, fighting.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the 1939 film, showing actors Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley working to secure Frank Morgan's air balloon, moments before taking off from the Emerald City. With the stamps of Israel Film Archive on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on the 1900.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1978. Collection of five studio still photographs from the 1978 rerelease of the 1940 film. One with a printed snipe on verso and one with a "Silver Screen" stamp on verso. Laid in is an additional compilation photograph of three studio stills printed by The Disney Channel, circa early 1980s. Based on the 1883 Italian.....

Germany: Walt Disney Pictures, 1978. Original German A1 poster for the 1978 US film, "Mickey Mouse Jubilee Show," here under the original German release title, "Micky's Grosste Schau '78."Little seen compilation of Mickey Mouse short animation sequences, produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Disney's beloved mouse. 22.5 x 33 inches, folded as issued. Several pinholes, and title on verso.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney, 1951. Vintage publicity photograph of producer Walt Disney, writers Erdman Penner and Winston Hibler, and animator Ted Sears examining drawings and animation cels for the 1951 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1871) by Lewis Carroll. Disney's thirteenth animated.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1966. Collection of 108 vintage contact sheets from the 1966 film with approximately 1100 images. Stills as well as on the set shots.The only film in which Walt Disney received a story credit, as "Retlaw Yensid." Disney's take on Daniel Dafoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" features Dick Van Dyke as Naval Lieutenant Robin "Rob" Crusoe.....

Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions, Circa 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories, made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers.....