New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. 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 a prelude... (read more) about Magick Lantern Cycle (Original film program for the Spring Equinox 1966 screening)

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... (read more) about 30th Gala of the Union of Artists [XXXe Gala de l'Union des Artistes] (Original French program...

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... (read more) about Can-Can (Original souvenir play program)

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... (read more) about The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Original French Film Program)

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... (read more) about Limelight (Original Film Program)

N.p. Rene Clair Productions, 1942. Vintage French film program from the 1942 film. On the heels of his success as the screenwriter for the Marx Brothers' "A Day at the Races" and "A Night at the Opera," Robert Pirosh and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Marc Connelly collaborated on this adaptation of Thorne Smith's posthumously published 1942 novel, "The Passionate Witch," for... (read more) about I Married a Witch [Ma Femme est une Sorciere] (Original film program from the 1942 film)

Nice: Gaumont-Palace, 1961. Vintage French program, and two invitations, for the 1961 film, here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1, 1961, generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP, for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, a Southwest France commune with the... (read more) about Tout l'or du monde (Original French program and invitations for the 1961 film)

Paris: Filmsonor, 1955. Original French program for the classic 1955 French film noir. This program produced by the film's distributor, Cinedis. With a stunning illustrated and textured front wrapper, making dazzling use of a two-color process in green-gray. Laid in are credits leaves featuring biographies on Henri-Georges Clouzot, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret, and Paul Meurisse. French text. Based on the... (read more) about Les diaboliques [Diabolique] (Original French program for the 1955 film)

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... (read more) about King Kong (Original program for the 1933 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)... (read more) about Astataion ou Le festin des morts (Original Canadian Souvenir Program for the 1965 film)

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. (read more) about The Ten Commandments (Original Film Program)

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.... (read more) about The Gaucho (Original Film Program)

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. (read more) about Gertrud (Original program for the 1964 film)

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... (read more) about The Devil and the Ten Commandments [Le diable et les 10 commandements] (Original French...

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... (read more) about The Loves of a Blonde [Lasky jedne plavovlasky] (Original program for the 1965 film)

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... (read more) about Napoleon (Original program for the 1927 film)

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... (read more) about Mother (Original Program for the 1926 silent 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... (read more) about The Story of O [Histoire d'O] (Original Film Pressbook)

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... (read more) about Long Live the Republic [At ije republika] (Original program for the 1965 film)

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... (read more) about Archive of production photographs and ephemera from "2001: A Space Odyssey," from 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... (read more) about Metropolis (Original UK Program for the 1927 film)

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... (read more) about Die Nibelungen: Siegried and Kriemhild's Revenge (Original program for the 1924 film)

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... (read more) about Spies [Spione, The Spy] (Original UK Film Program)

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 (21 x 30 cm). 10 pages. Very Good plus in saddle stitched wrappers. Lightly soiled overall, with... (read more) about The Gypsy and the Gentlemen (Original program for the 1958 film)

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... (read more) about The Fire Within [Le feu follet] (Original French Film Program)

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 theatres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio... (read more) about Russ Meyer's Lorna [Lorna] (Original program from the 1964 film)

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... (read more) about Archive of 29 London National Film Theatre monthly screening programs,

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... (read more) about The Sorrow and the Pity (Original program for the 1969 film)

London: The Archers / Eagle-Lion, 1946. Original UK Program for the 1946 film, released in the US as "Stairway to Heaven." SIGNED by director Michael Powell on page 12, just above the photo next to his biographical sketch. While it is certainly arguable that the greatest Powell-Pressburger film is a 10-way tie for first place, "A Matter of Life and... (read more) about A Matter of Life and Death (Original UK Film Program, signed by Michael Powell)

Paris: Franco London Film S.A, 1956. Original program for the 1956 English language release of the 1955 French-Italian film. Deluxe program in English text, illustrated throughout in black-and-white stills from the film, detailing the film synopsis. Also includes 8 full-color borderless film stills, akin to lobby cards, a brief filmography of director Renoir and transcript of an interview between Renoir... (read more) about French Cancan [French-Cancan] (Original program for the 1955 film)

Paris: Gaumont, 1961. Original program for the 1961 French film, here under the original French title. Illustrated in red, black, and white, and stills from the film, with laid-in synopsis sheets featuring the "Fenouillard" family and oversize umbrella illustration on the rectos. Based on the 19th century French comic by Marie Louis Georges Colomb (Christophe), one of the earliest in... (read more) about The Fenouillard Family [La famille Fenouillard] (Original program for the 1961 film)

London: Russflix / MGM, 1971. Original full-color film program for the 1971 film "The Boy Friend." Though not noted in any way, this copy belonged to screenwriter, director, and film ephemera collector Leonard Schrader. Hal Erickson: "The Boy Friend" began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was brought to America... (read more) about The Boy Friend [Boyfriend] (Original film program from the 1971 film)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. The film was loosely based on the real-life scandal between torch singer Libby Holman and her tobacco heir husband. Dorothy Malone stars as the self-destructive nymphomaniac, Marylee, next to Robert Stack as her playboy brother... (read more) about Written on the Wind [Ecrit sur du Vent] (Vintage French film program from the 1956 film)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1970. Original Program for the 1970 film. Black comedy from the early New Hollywood era, a revisionist Western wherein Keach travels and executes the low-down at one hundred dollars a head. The third of Keach's films, and second starring role. 4 pages, folded, 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine, with a hint of rubbing at the fold. (read more) about The Traveling Executioner (Original Film Program)

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, with creasing to one corner. (read more) about Agent 3/S3 passeport pour l'enfer [Agent 3/S3: Passport to Hell] (Original French Film Program)

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... (read more) about Jour de fete (Original French Film Program)

Hollywood: 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 full production... (read more) about Orson Welles' Citizen Kane: Souvenir Program (Original Film Program)