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.....

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.....

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], 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: 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.....

Culver City, CA: 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).....

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.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1930s. Vintage double weight photograph of director Robert J. Flaherty with a camera, circa the 1930s. With holograph pencil annotations 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], 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 annotations throughout. Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore stars as Jenny Lind, the 1850's Swedish opera sensation whose exceptional.....

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.....

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.....

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., 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Draft script for the 1929 silent film. Holograph pencil annotations 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.....

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.....

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, 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....