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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Collection of seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film documentary, including images of The Band, Emmylou Harris, and Bob Dylan. Included with the collection is a flyer for the French release of the film at the Cannes Film Festival on June 14, 1978. Frequently hailed as one of the greatest… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1980 documentary, showing director Wim Wenders and his subject, the director Nicholas Ray. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Wenders joins Ray, his friend and hero, in New York City to discuss Ray's dying wish to make a film about a painter with a terminal illness who… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1930 French silent short documentary film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 29, Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema, particularly the French New Wave, with François Truffaut in particular paying… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 French anthology film, showing actress Karen Blanguernon. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An antiwar anthology documentary film by seven prominent directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. Shot in New York City. 10 x 8 inches.… Read more about this item

Studio City, CA: Country Celebration Productions, 1979. Revised First Draft script for the 1979 television special, which originally aired in 1979 on CBS. Working copy belonging to crew member Selig "Pinky" Frank, with his manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Bound in before the script are several production documents, many with Frank's manuscript ink and pencil annotations, including several shooting schedules,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1961. Collection of five vintage borderless oversize reference photographs from the 1961 film. Printed labels affixed to the versos. Considered overly sympathetic to the newly formed communist government, the documentary was banned in France for two years. An early effort by director Chris Marker, one of the French New Wave's few film essayists. … Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Collection of seven vintage borderless reference photographs and a pressbook from the 1973 documentary film. A celebration of 1950s rock 'n' roll music, using both archival footage from the era and contemporary concert footage, and focusing largely on Black musicians from the era. Features performances by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats… Read more about this item

N.p.: Cinemas Associés, 1973. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the French release of the 1973 American documentary film. An early documentary film about Charles Manson and his followers ("The Family"), exploring the cult's origins and the famous Tate-LaBianca murders. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. 12… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1977 film, showing director Frederick Wiseman. A documentary about the inhabitants of the Panama Canal Zone, examining the operation of the canal from a variety of perspectives, and its impact on the people who work and live near it. Shot on location in central America. … Read more about this item

London: Preview Two, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 television episode, which originally aired on November 24, 1977 on BBC Two. An investigation of early diving practices, narrated by Belgian underwater archaeologist Robert Stenuit, who explored the underwater ruins of the Dutch merchant ship Slot Ter Hooge, which had previously been explored by English diver John Lethbridge… Read more about this item

N.p.: Davis-Royal Films, 1962. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 French-Italian film. A "nudie cutie" masquerading as a documentary about the universality of love. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: Fred Baker Films, 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the little-seen 1972 documentary. At 25 x 38 inches, a bit smaller than the standard one sheet poster size of 27 x 41 inches.. The second documentary to be produced on Bruce after his death in 1966, though the first, "Lenny Bruce in 'Lenny Bruce' (1967), was basically… Read more about this item

N.p.: Pot Heads Experimental Films, 1967. Vintage fluorescent one-sheet poster for a double bill of the 1967 film with the 1967 documentary short "Wild Hippie Orgy." Both semi-documentary sexploitation films were released by Pot Heads Experimental Films, with the directors and screenwriters uncredited, in an attempt at both appealing to the counterculture and exploiting it to attract the… Read more about this item

New York: Contemporary Films, 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Allen Ginsberg with Peter and Julius Orlovsky. Director Robert Frank's first feature film and Sam Shepard's screenwriting debut, following Frank as he accompanies poet Peter Orlovsky and Orlovsky's catatonic, mentally ill brother Julius through the late 1960s Beat scene. When Julius wanders off, he… Read more about this item

New York: Embassy Films, Inc, 1964. Vintage program for two May 20, 1964 screenings of the 1954 documentary at the Crystal Ballroom at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, preceded by an essay presented by historian, author, screenwriter, and president of Embassy Films, Inc., Alexandre Tarsaidze, included in the second half of the brochure. The screenings were presented as a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1988. Vintage reference photograph of director Errol Morris and crew members posing together on the set of the 1988 documentary. From the collection of production designer Shelley Houis. A groundbreaking film, investigating the conviction of drifter Randall Dale Adams in the murder of a Dallas police officer. Morris' masterpiece, today considered by many to be one… Read more about this item

N.p.: ABC Capital Cities Television Network, 1985. Vintage reference photographs from the 1985 television documentary film. With mimeo snipe affixed to verso advertising the film's rebroadcast on Tuesday April 30, 1985. A documentary exploring high school dropouts by following the lives of four high school students who are in programs to help support them to stay in… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of Berkeley Theatre, 1989. Vintage flyer for the premiere of "Wild Wheels!," "a mixed-media extravaganza" benefit to raise funds for the 1992 Art Car documentary by Harrod Blank, Saturday, April 8, 1989, at the U.C. Theatre in Berkeley, California. The flyer, which notes that it is "a benefit for Harrod Blank's next film, Wild Wheels," featuring… Read more about this item

Paris: Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, 1951. Vintage program for a 1951 showing of Alain Resnais' 1950 short documentary film at the prestigious Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Text in French. IDHEC was founded in Paris during World War II in order to offer training for virtually every aspect of film production. It counted a veritable… Read more about this item

New York: Overtime Films, 1979. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1979 film. Included with the poster is a small flyer advertising the film's screening on October 8 at the Unicorn Cinema in La Jolla, California. Rare. A documentary following the labor organizing efforts of the Industrial Workers of the World, commonly known as the Wobblies, who… Read more about this item