Paris: Ecran Francais, 1946. Original program for the 1946 French film, based on the play by Alfred Adam. On the eve of his daughter's 16th birthday, a father hires a man to dress as the ghost of the figure in her favorite painting, which he just sold. Two suitors also dress as ghosts to vie for her attention. All this.....

Cannes, France: N.p., 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival, the seventeenth one to be held, that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the name used until 1974 when it returned to.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first.....

Paris: Franco London Films, 1952. Original French program for the 1953 film, starring Gina Lollobrigida. A typically artful Rene Clair production, which like the director's earlier "Le Silence est d'Or" presents a highly stylized (and lushly romanticized) vision of a bygone France. A young composer, bored and irritated with the world of the present, gives himself over completely to daydreams.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full color wrappers, with black and white text and black and white and full color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and.....

Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly" (1954, Carmine Gallone), "Les Diaboliques" (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot), US film.....

Canada: National Film Board of Canada, 1965. Original souvenir program, printed in Canada, for the 1965 Canadian film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example is French language, square in shape (versus the normal rectangular).....

Rome: Cineriz, 1962. Original program for the Italian-French film, undated but issued upon the 1962 premiere. Unfolds to three panels of film synopsis and credits, and full-color film stills of Loren, Ekberg, Schneider and others. A four episode anthology exploring morality and love. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana in a secret marriage (Solinas, Gilioli), a billboard of a blonde woman.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1956. Original Program for the 1956 film epic by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baster, Edward G. Robinson, Vincent Price, and Yvonne De Carlo. With full-color illustrations and photos throughout. Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Cinematography. Oblong self-wrappers, saddle-stapled, 26 pages, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Fine.

Copenhagen: Palladium Films, 1965. Original English language program for the 1964 Danish film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. The great Danish director's final film, an adaptation of the 1906 play by Hjalmar Soderberg. 4.75 x 6 inches. Near Fine in in saddle stapled self wrappers. BFI 667. Criterion Collection 127. Rosenbaum 1000.

Paris: Filmsonor / Mondex / Procinex, 1962. Original French program for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Le diable et les 10 commandements." Illustrated wrappers featuring esoteric cartoons by Vaissier, with original glassine. Contents of the program include film credits, synopsis, actor biographies, and advertisement campaigns; often these programs are illustrated throughout with still photographs from.....

Sacramento, CA: California Arts Commission, 1971. First Edition. Original program published to coincide with the California Arts Commission's (partnering with the American Film Institute) release of Peter Bogdanovich's film, "Directed by John Ford." Black-and-white photographs throughout, including many stills from Ford films, and essays on the AFI and the California Arts Commison. 7 x 10 inches, saddle-stapled, white wrappers in.....

Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and.....

London: Movie Publishing / Danjaq, 1983. Original souvenir program, printed in the UK, for the 1983 British-America film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages, on-the-set images, and biographies of the.....

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.....

New York: Vestron Pictures, 1987. Original program, printed in the US, for the 1987 British-American-Irish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the 1980s, and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color pages, on-the-set images, and biographies of the cast and crew.....

Prague: Filmove studio 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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs, a trade advertisement, a film program, and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III, with images prominently featuring Ordway, production designer Harry Lange, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, and others. One photograph.....

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.....

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1924. Original German programs for duology "Die Nibelungen," one each for "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge." Based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Text in German. 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.....

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.....

Hong Kong: Golden Harvest, 1971. Vintage program for the 1971 film, with a one page English language synopsis of the film, and rest of the text in Chinese. Photo-illustrated throughout in both color and black-and-white. Bruce Lee's first major film role, which instantly rocketed him to stardom throughout Southeast Asia, and one where he was originally to play a supporting.....

London: Maurice Cowan / Rank Productions, 1958. Original program for the 1958 UK film. Illustrated throughout with both black and white and color stills from the film, as well as reproductions of watercolor illustrations showing scenes from the film. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. 10 pages. Very Good plus in saddle stapled wrappers. Lightly soiled overall, with a faint diagonal crease.....

Paris: Nouvelles editions de films, 1963. Vintage Program for the international release of the 1963 film, here under the alternate title "The Will-O-The-Whisp," a perhaps more literal translation of the original French title "Le feu follet." The film would be released as "The Fire Within" in the US and "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" in the.....

California: Art Theatre Guild / Eve Productions, 1964. Original black-and-white program for the 1964 film, printed for the Art Theatre Guild. The Art Theatre Guild (ATG) began in 1961 as an independent agency distributing films (mostly Japanese) rejected by major studios. The company operated until the 1980s, with theaters in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio.....

London: National Film Theatre, 1957-1963. Collection of 29 monthly film programs from the London National Film Theatre, dating between 1957 and 1963. A large collection of programs from the early days of Britain's leading repertory cinema, including critical essays, synopses, and film schedules for varying seasons at the theatre, each program generally comprising a period of between one and three.....

New York: Cinema 5, Circa 1972. Original American program for the 1969 French documentary film. A two-part film exploring collaboration and resistance to the Vichy government and Nazi Germany in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand. Nominated for an Academy Awards for Best Documentary. 7.5 x 11 inches, in self wrappers. Printed on newsprint. Near Fine with a shallow horizontal fold.....

London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated self wrappers, 7 x 9 inches, 32 pages. Very Good.....

Vichy, France: Self published, 1957. Original souvenir program, printed in France, for the June 1-15, 1957 film festival, the VIII Referendum Cinematographique International. The festival began in 1949 and was in essence a two weeks of filmgoing, with French-dubbed Italian, American, Russian and other international films, each reserved to its own day of screening and retrospection. Films listed in the.....

Franco London Films, 1956. Original French program for the 1956 film, the third entry in a trilogy, directed by Jean Renoir (the others being "The Golden Coach" and "French Cancan"), starring Ingrid Bergman at the peak of her career, in which the director envisioned a very lush and stylized version of eighteenth-century France. A rare program from Jean Renoir's brief.....

Paris: Theatre Marigny, 1965. Original French program for the "20th Night of Cinema," here under the original French title. A lavish illustrated magazine, with blue cord marker, featuring full-page advertisements for motor car companies, cosmetics (notably the Coty line of perfume, Imprevu), alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, galleries, televisions, salons, and refrigerators, produced to coincide with the gala held at the.....

Rome: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate, 1954. Original French program for the rarely seen 1954 Italian / French co-production "Giovanni d'Arco al rogo," here under the French titled "Jeanne au bucher." Presumably programs were made for both French and Italian audiences. In a rather bold film experiment for its time, Rossellini filmed a French stage production of the Joan of Arc story.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1935. Original British film program for the seminal 1954 film. Photo-illustrated throughout. A program that reflects the completely surreal aura of what many consider to be Sirk's masterpiece of technicolor melodramatic fantasy. Self wrappers, 8 pages not inclusive of wrapper. Near Fine, with some rubbing at the fore-edge of the wrapper. Criterion Collection 457.

France: Balcazar Producciones Cinematograficas / Four Star Television, 1965. Original Program for the 1965 French film. Italy's answer to the James Bond saga, this is the first of Giorgio (George) Ardisson's spy thrillers, two notables being "Agent 3/S3: Massacre in the Sun" (1966) and "Countdown to Doomsday" (1966). Two pages (front and back), 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Very Good plus.....

Paris: Cady Films, 1949. Original French program for the 1949 Jacques Tati film, "Jour de Fete," the director's first feature-length movie, about a day in the life of a rural French postman, illustrated throughout in color by Rene Peron. Rather than being a typical program with biographies, photographs, film stills, and essays, Tati's approach is to introduce the film's cast.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures / Winkler and Ramen, 1941. Original American program for Welles' 1941 masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," sold only at the 1941 first-run screenings of the film in the United States. The program begins with references to Welles' then-well-known productions of Shakespeare with the Mercury Theatre, followed by a guide to the making of "Citizen Kane," a......