Wisconsin: Walter Barnsdale, 1901. Vintage US one sheet lithographic poster for the 1901 documentary film short. One of the earliest silent documentary film shorts, created by early Wisconsin film pioneer Walter Barnsdale, who traveled around the state screening some of the first films ever made, including "Prison Bars," a film featuring the Wright Brothers, and a Western starring sharpshooter Buffalo...
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Various cities: Various Publishers, 1933-1934. Archive of 89 photographs belonging to actress Julie Bishop, featuring film still and publicity photographs from five pre-Code films made in 1933 and 1934 while she was still being credited under her birth name, Jacqueline Wells. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album, with the exception of three photographs, which are laid...
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A drama about the extreme hazards of marrying for money, featuring early performances by Joan Bennett and Spencer Tracy. Bennett begins as a poor girl from Missouri, the daughter of a railway brakeman. Tracy works for the same railway line as an engine driver, who loves Bennett but...
Los Angeles: Joseph M. Schenck Productions / Associated First National Pictures, 1924. Original program for the 1924 silent film, customized for the film's premiere at the Astor Theatre, a long-standing showplace that was converted the same year from a playhouse to a cinema. A partially lost silent film, with only two-thirds of the footage surviving today. Based on the play...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Shooting script for the 1928 film. Original typescript with descriptive text in black type and intertitles in red type. Holograph ink and pencil notations on the front wrapper, noting starring performers, draft type, and crediting screenwriter Meehan. With a few notations in holograph pencil throughout. Based on the 1923 Broadway play by David Belasco...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Collection of six vintage photographs from the 1930 film. All but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon, about an aristocratic young man who falls in love with an opera star. Nominated for Best Director for Clarence Brown and Best Actress for Greta Garbo, who...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning, housed in a....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Lon Chaney plays a (heavily-scarred) wild animal trapper whose daughter's upcoming marriage is threatened by the return of her femme fatale mother. The mother harbors bitterness to Chaney, and seeks revenge on him by attempting to woo her daughter's fiance, thwarted by a gorilla Chaney releases from...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery," seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess (Bedford) safely home. He does so, despite becoming caught up in the Bolshevik revolution...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1935. Vintage photograph of director Rene Clair on the set of the 1935 film. With the stamp of Pathe-RKO on the verso. Based on the 1935 short story "Sir Tristram Goes West" by Eric Keown, first published in "Punch" magazine, about an American who buys a Scottish castle and has it moved to Florida, unaware...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Pre-production Dialogue Continuity Draft script for the 1933 film "Hell Below," here under the working title "Pigboats." Copy belonging to Felix Feist, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notations in holograph pencil throughout. Based on...
New York: Putnam, 1925. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author: "To: Sidney Williams - who ushered 'Grass' into Philadelphia / and made it grow / and to whom the author of this book owes a very real debt of gratitude / Merian C. Cooper." Based on the silent documentary film, released the same year. Scarce to find in jacket or...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932-1933. Archive of four rare production photographs from the set of the 1933 film. One 13.5 x 10.75 inch (34 x 27 cm) oversize, double weight photograph and three 8 x 10 (20 x 25 cm) photographs. The oversize photograph and one of the others depict scenes from the miniature setups in the film, with Kong...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film. A rare glimpse behind the scenes of a film that was a triumph of design, practical effects, and cinematography. Fay Wray, the actors playing the natives of Kong Island, and the crew prepare for one of the film's most memorable scenes: Ann Darrow (Wray) being brought...
Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare, this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart, "Film-Kurier," each issue focused...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Original American program for the 1933 film, with an original illustration by Hirschfeld and a striking photo of Jean Harlow on the front wrapper. Rarely in the 1930s was such excellent source material successfully combined with such stellar screenwriting, directing, and acting talent. Today the film plays equally well as both comedy and drama...
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Paris: Les Grands Films Classiques, 1968. Vintage 1968 French half grande poster for the 1929 French film. Luis Bunuel's debut as a filmmaker, a legendary short film co-created by Salvador Dali, was originally screened at a cine-club, with no posters or advertisement created. This poster, a montage of archival images from the film (including the legendary image of the woman's...
Various cities: Various. An archive of books and personal material belonging to Arline de Haas, noted author of the photoplay edition for the first talking film, “The Jazz Singer” (1927). Included is her leather-bound presentation copy of her novelization of the film, a work that caused a fundamental and multi-level shift in the world’s conception of cinema and dramatic storytelling.....
N.p. N.p., 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster, made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich, during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie, likely meant to represent a US import. During this period there was...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original film program for the 1933 film. With a striking image of Dietrich on the front wrapper, and much detail throughout regarding the production. Based on the novel by Hermann Suermann and the play by Edward Sheldon, about a country orphan who goes to Berlin to live with her aunt and who becomes the model for...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Elton Corporation, 1927. Original program for the 1927 silent film, one of the last great period adventures of the silent era. It was to be Fairbanks' last silent film (his next would be his sound debut in the 1929 Three Musketeers film, "The Iron Mask"), and was the film debut of Lupe Velez. A....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Early Treatment script for the 1929 film, the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound, and the first to include the Holmes utterance, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (a phrase never used by Doyle), though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. The first known treatment was written by Oliver P. Garrett...
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Los Angeles: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Collection of six vintage production photographs from the lost 1921 film. Based on the short story "The Offshore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in the "Saturday Evening Post" on May 29, 1920. Actress Viola Dana's second film based on a F. Scott Fitzgerald story (the first being the 1920 film "A Chorus...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original lobby card for the 1933 pre-Code film, based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel, "Sanctuary." An interesting image from the film’s final dramatic courtroom scene. The film has a relatively upbeat ending, in which Temple tells the truth and is disgraced. This in marked contrast to the ending of Faulkner’s novel, in which Temple perjures herself.....
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1913. Vintage double weight matte finish photograph from the legendary 1913 silent film serial. Printed onto heavy card stock for use as the equivalent of a modern day lobby card. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The first of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, followed by "Les Vampires" (1915) and "Judex" (1916). Feuillade took...
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Gaumont, 1916. Vintage double weight matte finish still photograph from the legendary 1916 silent film serial. With the Gaumont logo at the lower right corner. The last of Feuillade's three film serial masterpieces, preceded by "Fantomas" (1913) and "Les Vampires" (1915), combining elements of both its predecessors. In Judex (Latin for "judge"), Feuillade furthered his vision of the...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil notations on the verso. Known as the father of documentary, Flaherty mixed real life footage with staged events to capture portraits of people surviving in extreme environments in films such as "Nanook of the North" (1922), "Moana" (1926)...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. First Temporary Draft script for the 1930 film "A Lady's Morals," seen here under the title "Jenny Lind." Copy belonging to musical director Arthur Freed, with his holograph pencil name to the front wrapper and his notations throughout. Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore stars as Jenny Lind, the 1850's Swedish opera sensation whose exceptional...
France: Cine France, 1927. Original French program for the 1927 film, with a flyer for the world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris laid in. One of the late masterpieces of the silent era, following Napoleon’s early life through his appointment as Commander in Chief of the Army and invasion of Italy, one of six films director Abel Gance...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1934 film. The second Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller, with Jane famously portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. One of the best Tarzan films, and a landmark film in the history of film censorship. A big budget followup to MGM's first Tarzan film, "Tarzan and His Mate" featured a lengthy balletic...
Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1931 pre-Code film, and the first adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's classic hard boiled novel. All but two images with the Warner Brothers / Vitaphone logo at the bottom margin. This first adaptation, made well prior to the establishment of the Hayes Code, carries a set of...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1933 film. Based on William Faulkner's 1932 short story, "Turnabout." The film follows two officers during World War I who compete for the affections of the lovely Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford). It stands as the only film costarring Hollywood icons Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper. The...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1922. Draft script for the 1922 film. The film is now considered lost. Tess (Wanda Hawley) is a social climber who is neglected by her hardworking husband, David (Edward Hearn). She decides to go on a date with ex-suitor Arthur Sinclair (Casson Ferguson) to a casino, which is robbed while they are there. Her rings are...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film, the first film released by the newly minted United Artists, co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy, only to find he is secretly the heir to...
N.p. N.p., 1926. Vintage double weight press photograph from Hollywood beach house party, held on June 19, 1926, attended by the movie's industry elite of the day. Dated snipe on the verso notes that among those in the photo are Rudolph Valentino (who would die two months later in New York City), Pola Negri, Fatty Arbuckle, Norma Talmadge, Louella Parsons...
US: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Vintage photograph from the 1921 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1916 anti-war novel by Vincent Basco Ibanez, about a French and German family on both sides of World War I. Along with "The Sheik" later the same year, the film the catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and helped create...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1920s. Vintage photograph of actor Emil Jannings, fishing from his balcony while on vacation in the Austrian town of St. Wolfgang, circa 1920s. With a French language mimeo snipe and photo agency stamp on the verso. In 1929, Jannings became the first person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, for his roles in both "The.....
London: Wardour Films / Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Original program for the London premiere of the film on March 21st, 1927 at the Marble Arch Pavilion, preceded in English by the US release earlier that month but with different title cards. Director Lang's expressionist masterpiece, based on the novel and written for the screen by then-wife von Harbou, one of...
Hollywood: Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures, 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film, a shortened 115 minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock, who is credited on the herald. Interestingly, the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA, apparently just prior to the formation of the larger umbrella production...
Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Original program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Sigfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924, based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Also included is a supplemental program for UFA theatres, featuring another brief essay on the film, information on the theatres, and advertisements. Text of both in...
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London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F, 1928. Original UK program for the 1928 German film, released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis," and penultimate silent film, an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career, including a spectacular train crash at the film's...
Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film, Peter Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece--an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of...
Berlin: Nero-Film AG, 1931. Vintage oversize double weight photograph from the 1931 film. Based on the true story of psychopathic serial killer Hans Beckert, nicknamed the "Vampire of Dusseldorf," here played by Peter Lorre. A brilliant image from this crime thriller classic in which the search is on for Lorre. Lang's first sound film, Lorre's breakthrough role, and the film...
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Berlin: August Scherl, 1928. First Edition, preceding all others, including the movie tie-in edition, published later the same year by Scherl. Rare in dust jacket. Basis for the German silent film classic by Fritz Lang, with a screenplay adapted by von Harbou from her novel. Released in the US as "Woman in the Moon." Like "Metropolis," a novel that was...
London: Jarrolds, Circa 1930s. First UK Edition, and first printing in English. An edition of this title so rare that we had been heretofore unaware of its existence, issued under the publisher's Jay Library series, at a price of 7/6. Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings and a very young Marlene Dietrich, filmed...
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Fox Film Corporation, 1930. Early Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film, "Wild Company," here under the working title, "Roadhouse." An early example of a film about "rebellious youth," set during Prohibition, about the exploits of a spoiled young man who squanders his parents' money in an illicit speak-easy, and ultimately gets involved in murder. Featuring Bela Lugosi in a....
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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,"...
Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece "Sunrise." 10 x 8 (25 x 20 cm) inches. Very Good plus.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Holograph pencil notations throughout by an unknown editor, with an unsigned typescript note of revisions to producer Hunt Stromberg bound in at the front of the script. Lon Chaney's penultimate film appearance, and his last silent film, as he would develop walking pneumonia during the film's production...
Germany: Nero-Film AG, 1932. Collection of 10 vintage photographs from the three 1932 films, showing all three actors portraying the character of St. Avit on the set, interacting with each other and locals in the Sahara Desert setting. With holograph notations on either the recto or verso of some of the photographs. Based on the 1919 novel "L'Atlantide" by Pierre...
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Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, many unique to this publication. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because of his Jewish origins. The issues from this era remain...
N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes...
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin) is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead (Fields) about investing in...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film, including three double weight and two single weight photographs. With stamps or holograph notations to most of the photographs. Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler, "Sanctuary." The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film (though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script, as it was a rewrite issued during shooting). AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20, 1932 date on the script, revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23...
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Final Shooting script for the 1931 film. Holograph notations in colored pencil on the front wrapper. Based on Mildred Gilman's 1931 novel, about Jane Ray (Linda Watkins), a reporter whose great rival is news-hound Garry Webster (James Dunn) who never lets his love for her get in the way of landing a story. Jane...
N.p. N.p., 1922-1927. Archive 163 vintage photographs by Ernest B. Schoedsack detailing expeditions taken by him and filmmaking partner Merian C. Cooper between 1922 and 1927, while the pair were also filming their groundbreaking documentary films "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life" (1925) and "Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness" (1927). With handwritten captions identifying most of the photographs. Also...
US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company, 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying holograph notation on the verso. Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, about a young socialite and a millionaire, who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand, respectively. No known prints of...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue, who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script, here under the working title “Southern Skies,” four vintage photographs, each with a mimeo snipe on the verso, one with a press stamp as well...
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Paris: Franfilmdis / Argui-Film, 1933. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight studio still photographs for the landmark 1933 silent film by Jean Vigo. Each with the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" on verso, two with holograph notations regarding layout. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age 29, Jean Vigo would come...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage sepia reference photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Shown are director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich in full regalia, visiting with noted Mexican toreador Pepe Ortiz and a member of the Mexican Counsul in Los Angeles. Typescript snipe on the verso indicating same, along with an ink notation of the photo date...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1924. Vintage herald (or broadside) for the 1924 film. A clever and excessively rare bit of advertisement, designed as a "Wanted" poster, pulling together the main character from Frank Norris' novel (John "Doc" McTeague) a photo of "McTeague" (Gibson Gowland), and mention of a specific screening at San Francisco's Imperial Theatre on Market Street (today...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1920. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of director Raoul Walsh, shot when he was still working as an actor, notable in that he does not yet have the eyepatch that he would later become known for. Walsh suffered the loss of an eye while in a car accident on location for a film in 1928, after which...
Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond, playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place, a radical element even in a pre-Code film. A film that has...
Edinburgh, Scotland: Cinema Quarterly, 1932-1935. First Edition. Volumes One through Three, including the first issue, of the UK film review magazine, focusing on documentary and international cinema. The highly influential magazine lit a flame as an important European literary and film quarterly, generally considered the first English-language journal devoted to film as art, specifically documentary film. The editors were Norman...