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...
![Sylvie et le fantome [Sylvia and the Phantom, Sylvia and the Ghost] (Original Program for the...](/pictures/thumb/138606.jpg?v=1492980031)
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...
![30th Gala of the Union of Artists [XXXe Gala de l'Union des Artistes] (Original French program...](/pictures/thumb/143941.jpg?v=1532553819)
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...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original international program for the English language release of the 1960 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman, printed by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden. Adapted from the thirteenth century Swedish ballad, "Tores dottrar i Wange." Photo illustrated throughout. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, with director Bergman receiving...
Paris: Cinémato, 1959. Original French program for the 1959 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Nuits d'Europe." Lavish and compact, the program fits in a shirt pocket and unfolds to reveal four panels of bright primary colors, showcasing various performers seen in the film. An early "mondo" film, in keeping with what would become a predominantly Italian genre...
London: Touchstone Pictures, 1992. Original British program for the 1992 US film. Based on Michael Frayn's 1982 play. A play within a play, with doors continuously opening and closing, with Dotty (Burnett), a fading star, Garry (Ritter), a scatterbrained actor, Frederick (Reeve), handsome and insecure, alcoholic Selsdon (Denholm Elliott), and leading lady Brooke (Sheridan). 7.5 x 10 inches (19 x 25.25 cm), 1 stiff, folded leaf. Near Fine.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original US program for the 1975 film, with a tipped-in British programme, four leaves, for the Variety Club of Great Britain charity premiere on March 20, 1975. Also included is a second US program for an invitation screening at TCF studios on March 1, 1975. Directed and written for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, featuring...
Los Angeles: Joseph M. Schenck Productions / Associated First National Pictures, 1924. Original program for the 1924 silent film, customized for the film's premiere at the Astor Theatre, a long-standing showplace that was converted the same year from a playhouse to a cinema. A partially lost silent film, with only two-thirds of the footage surviving today. Based on the play...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage program for the 1967 film. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book, and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Saddle stitched wrappers. 11 x 8.5 inches (28 x 21.5 cm). Just about Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 781. Ebert II. Penzler 101.
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...
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...
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, 1940. Original American program for the 1940 film, with original illustrations by Al Hirschfeld. For his follow-up to the classic "Modern Times," Chaplin chose to do what only a handful of other films dared to do in 1940--make fun of Hitler. Though several of Chaplin's films prior to this had music and sound effects, and...
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...
![I Married a Witch [Ma Femme est une Sorciere] (Original film program from the 1942 film). Rene...](/pictures/thumb/140921.jpg?v=1530309466)
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...
![Les Belles de Nuit [The Beauties of the Night] (Original French program for the 1952 film). Rene...](/pictures/thumb/114995.jpg?v=1418056869)
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...
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...
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...
![Les diaboliques [Diabolique] (Original French program for the 1955 film). H. G. Clouzot, Pierre...](/pictures/thumb/141960.jpg?v=1501877880)
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...
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...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Original American program for the 1933 film, with an original illustration by Hirschfeld and a striking photo of Jean Harlow on the front wrapper. Rarely in the 1930s was such excellent source material successfully combined with such stellar screenwriting, directing, and acting talent. Today the film plays equally well as both comedy and drama...
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)...
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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....
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...
New York: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1983. Original full-color program for the 1983 Broadway play. Laid in is another program, detailing a song list and brief biography. Performances by Charles Aznavour, the French-Armenian singer-songwriter, actor, and public activist. The play opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 3/14/83 and ran for fourteen performances, closing on 3/26/83. Other performers included Peter Lee (piano), Bob...
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.
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...
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....
Copenhagen: Danish Government Film Foundation, 1964. Original promotional program about Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, published by the Danish government to promote his work. With an essay on Dreyer's life and work by the then-director of the Danish Filmmuseum, and photo-illustrations from each of Dreyer's 14 feature films. Text in English. 12 x 8 inches (30 x 20 cm) in...
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.
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....
![The Devil and the Ten Commandments [Le diable et les 10 commandements] (Original French program...](/pictures/thumb/143284.jpg?v=1529008204)
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 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, plain white wrappers...
![The Loves of a Blonde [Lasky jedne plavovlasky] (Original program for the 1965 film). Milos...](/pictures/thumb/138325.jpg?v=1492979933)
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...
![The Affairs of Messalina [Messalina] (Original Italian Souvenir Program for the 1951 film)....](/pictures/thumb/140476.jpg?v=1492980536)
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...
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...
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...
London: Movie Publishing Ltd. / 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...
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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...
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...
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...
London: Self published, Circa 1922. Original souvenir program, printed in the UK, for the 1922 play, "Rockets," showing at the Palladium Theatre in London in 1922. Price sticker seal present at the lower fore-edge, with seal neatly broken for reading. The London Palladium was designed by Frank Matcham, and opened in 1910 with a variety show and a one-act play...
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...
![The Story of O [Histoire d'O] (Original Film Pressbook). Just Jaeckin, Anne Desclos, Sebastien...](/pictures/thumb/138183.jpg?v=1492979872)
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...
![The Red and the White [Csillagosok, katonak] (Original program for the 1967 film). Miklos Jancso,...](/pictures/thumb/141810.jpg?v=1497555106)
Budapest: Mafilm, 1967. Vintage Hungarian program for the 1967 film. Photo-illustrated with scenes from the film, including one large image on the entirety of the verso. Text in Hungarian. One of the masterpieces of Hungarian cinema. A Russian-Hungarian co-production, "The Red and the White" was originally commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in which...
![Long Live the Republic [At ije republika] (Original program for the 1965 film). Karel Kachnya,...](/pictures/thumb/138324.jpg?v=1492979932)
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...
Paris: W. Fischer, 1951. Original theatre program for the French play, "Guillaume le Confident" circa 1951. The play premiered at the Theatre de Paris, but little is written of the play or its synopsis, and is presumed to have been a comedy about former lovers. Most of the cast and crew were already featured in French films, notably Dux, screenwriter...
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...
![Le Saut de L'ange [Angel's Leap] (Original French Film Program). Bernard-Paul Lallier, Yves...](/pictures/thumb/127423.jpg?v=1418080216)
France: Lira Films / European Trash Cinema, 1971. Original Program for the 1971 French film. A French detective thriller with noirish overtones, and Boisset's trademark violence. He would have his heyday in the 1970s, with "The Assassination" (1972), "The Common Man" (1975), and "The Purple Taxi" (1977). 4 pages, folded once, 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Very Good plus, with light...
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...
Germany: Decla-Bioscop / UFA, 1924. Original program for the German premiere of the films "Die Nibelungen: Sigfried" and "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge" on February 14, 1924, based on the thirteenth century epic poem "Nibelungenlied." Also included is a supplemental program for UFA theatres, featuring another brief essay on the film, information on the theatres, and advertisements. Text of both in...
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...
![Spies [Spione, The Spy] (Original UK Film Program). Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, screenwriter...](/pictures/thumb/132454.jpg?v=1436555827)
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...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Two original souvenir film program variants for the 1960 film "Can-Can." Loosely based on the 1953 musical by Abe Burrows and composed by Cole Porter. This listing contains both a larger folio and a smaller quarto variant for the film, both very different programs. The larger program is quite uncommon, in stiff, color illustrated wrappers...
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...
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...
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...
![The Fire Within [Le feu follet] (Original French Film Program). Louis Malle, Drieu La Rochelle,...](/pictures/thumb/118366.jpg?v=1434404389)
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...
![Leon Morin, pretre [priest] (Original French promotional book 1961 film). Jean-Pierre Melville,...](/pictures/thumb/134750.jpg?v=1492979003)
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...
![Russ Meyer's Lorna [Lorna] (Original program from the 1964 film). Russ Meyer, James Griffith,...](/pictures/thumb/139221.jpg?v=1492980211)
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...
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...
N.p. N.p., 1972-1974. Japanese program for the 1970 Danish film. Illustrated wrappers with photos from the film throughout, and with essays by director Jens Jorgen Thorsen and Country Joe (of Country Joe and the Fish), as well as a profile of Henry Miller, upon whose book the film is based. Text in Japanese (apart from the film title, which is.....
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: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Original Program for the classic 1979 science fiction film. A striking program for what can easily be described as an essential Scott film, if not his finest. This deluxe program reflects Scott's use of H. R. Giger's alien designs throughout the film, with landscapes just as seemingly cold as the creatures that inhabit them, evolving...
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...
![Pandora's Box [Die Buchse der Pandora] (Original German program for the 1929 film). George...](/pictures/thumb/138308.jpg?v=1492979918)
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...
Filmhaus, 1979. Original program booklet for the 1979 film, "Heartland," directed by Richard Pearce and starring Rip Torn, shot entirely in the state of Montana. Very Good plus in card wrappers (single fold, no pages), lightly foxed, 9 x 12 inches.
Copenhagen, Denmark: Various Film Studios, 1931-1971. Collection of 37 Danish film programs for films released 1931-1971. Nearly all were printed in Copenhagen, by printers Petersen, Testman, Andreassens, Reklame, and others, upon the Danish release of international films. Most are for American films, many Walt Disney productions, and notable others include Fellini's "8 1/2" (1963), Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)...
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...
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)...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1956. Original British black-and-white premiere program for the 1956 US film. Printed and distributed to coordinate with a European gala premiere of the film at the Odeon Theatre, June 26, 1956, as a charity fundraiser to benefit the Actors' Orphanage and the Variety Club Heart Fun for Under-Priveleged Children. Based on Max Catto's (often wrote...
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...
London: Walt Disney Pictures, 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 US film. Robin Hood (Bedford) and his pal Little John (Harris) rob the rich (Ustinov) and feed the poor , all the while Hood is trying to win the heart of Maid Marian (Monica Evans). One of the better 1970s Disney productions, nominated for an Academy Award, with...
![Elena et les Hommes [Paris Does Strange Things, Elena and Her Men] (Original French Film...](/pictures/thumb/114996.jpg?v=1418056869)
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...
![French Cancan [French-Cancan] (Original program for the 1955 film). Jean Renoir, Francoise Arnoul...](/pictures/thumb/143992.jpg?v=1532553905)
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...
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...
![The Fenouillard Family [La famille Fenouillard] (Original program for the 1961 film). Yves...](/pictures/thumb/143998.jpg?v=1532553913)
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...
![Jeanne au bucher [Giovanna d'Arco al rogo] (Original French Film Program). Roberto Rossellini,...](/pictures/thumb/114987.jpg?v=1434404379)
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...
![The Boy Friend [Boyfriend] (Original film program from the 1971 film). Ken Russell, Sandy Wilson,...](/pictures/thumb/137054.jpg?v=1492979432)
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...
London: Allied Artists, 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 French-American film. Based on Henri Charriere's 1969 book. Papillon (McQueen) is sentenced to life in prison in French Guyana. On the ship, he meets Louis (Hoffman), a forger, and they become friends, together attempting the ultimate escape. Nominated for an Academy Award. Shot on location in Venezuela, Spain, Jamaica...
![Written on the Wind [Ecrit sur du Vent] (Vintage French film program from the 1956 film). Douglas...](/pictures/thumb/140927.jpg?v=1499437032)
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. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder, itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, Zachary Smith Reynolds, heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy...
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], 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.
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...
![Agent 3/S3 passeport pour l'enfer [Agent 3/S3: Passport to Hell] (Original French Film Program)....](/pictures/thumb/127424.jpg?v=1418080216)
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.
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...
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...
London: Walt Disney Pictures, 1973. Original British full-color program for the 1973 release of the 1964 US film. Printed by Sackville Smeets Limited. Based on Travers' 1934 novel and subsequent books. Julie Andrews is a magical nanny briefly employed by a dysfunctional Edwardian London family in this classic Disney feature that combines both live action and animated sequences. The film...
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...
Buenos Aires: Argentina Sono Film, 1952. Original program for the 1952 Danish release of the film. Based on Richard Wright's 1940 novel, and with numerous images of the author, who plays the lead role in the film. Text in Danish. In a move that placed him in a category with Mickey Spillane, Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as leading...