EXCITEMENT IN ENTERTAINMENT: Columbia's Theme Song for 1940-1941
Lavish promotional book of full-bleed and -color lithographed illustrations advertising upcoming programs for Columbia Pictures' 1940-1941 season.
Lavish promotional book of full-bleed and -color lithographed illustrations advertising upcoming programs for Columbia Pictures' 1940-1941 season.
Originally developed as a TV movie, CHAMBER OF HORRORS was spiced up for the big screen with additional gore and violence and a marketing campaign focusing on two technical "innovations" — the "Fear Flasher" and the "Horror Horn," both designed to warn the audience of impending violence.
Collects seventeen plays by the American author and screenwriter.
Collects 27 of Galsworthy's plays.
A thoroughly illustrated look at the best ballet during the decade of 1945-1955. Consists primarily of articles from THE BALLET ANNUAL.
Program booklet for Havel's first play, performed for the first time at the opening of the 1963-64 season at the Balustrade Theater (Divadlo na zabradli).
Radio play script by Higgins, with photographic illustrations by frequent collaborator Bern Porter.
Diary of Olive Grismer, daughter of eminent playwright-producer-director Joseph R.
John Houseman, a frequent collaborator of Orson Welles, tells the story (with his colleague Landau) of Stratford, Connecticut's Shakespeare Theatre, which the authors helped found; the theatre was modeled on London's Globe Theatre with a mission of popularizing Shakespeare in America.
An illustrated overview of each of Welles's films, with sections on cast, synopsis, notes and reviews.
A lovely presentation copy with, perhaps, an unfortunate inscription given the author's treatment of venereal disease in the text.
Memoirs of this early British film director, whose first film appeared in 1929.
Undated, though the program notes mention Warhol's 25-hour "****" as having been recently released (it first screened in December 1967) and dates one quoted article as being from March 1968, which would place this event in early-mid 1968.
An uncommonly well-preserved and beautiful collection of silent-era movie-house marketing slides, ca.
Second issue (of three, all dual-numbered) of one of the earliest American journals devoted to experimental and avant garde film and filmmakers, begun when editor Sitney was just 16 years old.
Experimental film themed issue, with excerpts from a symposium "on the nature and function of the experimental (poetic) film.
First edition of this scarce monograph on the film and theatrical sets of noted Czech designer Anton Krajcovic.
A play by Perlman, originally printed 1962 by Perlman on the "General Strike for Peace Offset Press" at the Living Theatre, New York, where the play was performed. Perlman was a noted anarchist author and publisher; this edition from his own Black & Red press.
Illustrated throughout with photographs of Hollywood productions.
Lovely hardcover, signed edition of this collaborative work about a black family living in a white Boston neighborhood during the introduction of bussing.
A chronicle of American indie fillmmakers, looking at the early careers of Spike Lee, Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Kevin Smith, and more.
A small archive of 21 original black and white photographs, with clippings and ephemera, belonging to Farewell Pope, owner of the Pal-O-Mine Novelty Co.
From an edition of 50 copies (specially bound, signed and numbered, out of a total edition of 300).
Press kit for the influential documentary distributed around the time of its Los Angeles premiere. Includes credits, biographical notes on Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke, and photocopies of several early reviews.
A warm and revealing inscription from the Nobel winning playwright to Alfred G. Arvold, who was instrumental in the US for the development and spread of the "little theater" movement.