New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. First Edition. Original film program for the 1966 screening of six Kenneth Anger films, being shown on the Spring Equinox (March 21, 1966). Screened at Jonas Mekas' Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom Kar Kommandos," "Fireworks," "Scorpio Rising," "Eaux d'artifice," and.....

Paris: Editions Lajeunesse, 1960. Original French program for the "30th Gala of the Union of Artists," here under the original French title. A lavish illustrated magazine bound in red faux suede with gilt embossed titles, featuring full-page color advertisements for motor car companies, cosmetics, alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, galleries, and florists, and event programs, produced to coincide with the gala.....

New York: Shubert Theatre, circa 1955. Original souvenir play program for the 1953 musical "Can-Can" composed by Cole Porter. This program likely from the mid-1950s touring company production of the play, starring Rita Dimitri, John Tyers, and Ronnie Cunningham. A self righteous judge threatens to shut down a Can-Can dance hall, but finds more trouble than he expected when he.....

London: Ealing Studios, 1947. Original British program for the 1947 film. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens, and starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sally Ann Howes. This Dickens adaptation has gone down in critical history as being truly one of the most Dickensian, with a dark mood and attention to the author's lowdown characters throughout. A colorful program, with.....

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-stitched, 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 (12 x 15 cm). Near Fine in in saddle stitched 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1975. Original program for the US release of the 1975 film, based on Anne Desclos' pseudonymously published 1954 novel. A classic tale of dominance and submission, a woman's lover takes her to a chateau where she is trained to be a sex slave in order to please him. Originally written as an attempt to write the.....

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.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940s. Archive of 27 original British "campaign sheets" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films distributed in England, circa 1940s. These "sheets," presumably for use by cinemas and press agencies, combine elements of film programs (film synopses, star biographies) with film pressbooks (ad mat samples, film review templates for media), each focusing on a different film and featuring film.....

Belgrade: Avala Film, 1967. Original program for the international release of the 1967 Yugoslav black wave film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film and reproductions of line illustrations. Wrappers text in French, with French, German, Russian, Spanish, and English text inside. Taking on the trappings of American crime and film noir, about a woman who is murdered by her lover.....

Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, 1961. Original French promotional book for the 1961 French film. Based on the 1952 novel by Beatrix Beck. With a small red rubber stamp from a French movie house at the top center of the front wrapper. A departure for both Melville and Belmondo, both turning from the crime films for which they were best known.....

England: Picturegoer, 1937. Collection of four original British magazine supplements. "Picturegoer" featured cinema's biggest stars and was sold at theaters throughout the United Kingdom, issuing supplements like these that were essentially mini film programs, each detailing several films. After WWII, the magazine depleted, after being outsold by periodicals from the Rank Organisation, Odeon Cinemas, and Associated British Cinemas. A revised.....

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 (19 x 28 cm), in self wrappers. Printed on newsprint. Near Fine with.....

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-stitched illustrated self wrappers, 7 x 9 inches (18 x 24 cm).....

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 coproduction "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.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1982. Original press kit and program for the 1982 film, adapted from both "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday" by John Steinbeck. The press kit contains a 15 page "Handbook of Production Information" containing an essay on the film and brief biographical details for the cast and crew, and 16 black and white studio stills housed.....

Paris: Gaumont, 1958. Original French program for the 1958 film. The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable "Monsieur Hulot." In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern, suburban one, where technological chaos reigns. A delightfully designed program, with four 5.5 x 4.25 inch color stills from the film tipped in amongst.....