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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Rome: Albert and Charles Boni, 1951. Original Italian program for the 1951 film, based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. SIGNED by De Sica at the bottom of the title page. One of the director's classics, pure visual storytelling, made just after "Bicycle Thieves" (1948) and just before "Umberto D." (1952). A gorgeous, oversize program with a......

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.....

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA] / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1938. Original French program for the French and German film "Un fichu metier." Three-color wrappers, with black and white photos and color text headers throughout. Text in French. A comedy in which a wayward crown prince is causing trouble for his kingdom (Vodenia), so a minister decides to replace him with a......

Sacramento, CA: California Arts Commision, 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-stitched, 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.....

Rome: Lux Film, 1961. Original Italian program for the 1961 film, here under the original Italian title, "Divorzio all'italiana." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white still photos from the film, full-color front wrapper fold-out art, and the program details a synopsis and cast and crew credits. Notations throughout in holograph ink, mostly amending certain words of the synopsis.Ferdinando (Mastroianni) is bored with.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him.....

London: The Rank Organization, 1957. Original program for the UK release of the 1957 British film noir. A low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain (but represented as Mexico), "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's.....

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: 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, 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-stitched 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 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.....