Keybook Photographs from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Vintage keybook photograph of theatre and pre-Code film actress Wynne Gibson, circa 1930s. 11.25 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine, linen-backed.

Hollywood: Fox Movietone Studio, 1930. Three vintage keybook photographs of sets in Fox Movietone City, the filming lot that would eventually become the Twentieth Century-Fox studio lot. The Fox Studio, known historically as Movietone City, was the first complete facility created specifically for the production of motion pictures. First opened in October 1928, the studio was built… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers - First National / Warner Brothers, 1940. Two vintage internal studio still portrait photographs of Errol Flynn, both linen-backed and one with a keybook-style punch-hole tab at one margin, circa 1940. 8 x 10 inches. One Near Fine, with keybook extension removed. One Very Good plus with light splashing and scratching, with keybook… Read more about this item

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1963. Vintage black-and-white keybook photograph of director Nicholas Ray on the set of his 1963 film, "55 Days at Peking." Shot by still photographer Dennis Stock, and with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting Ray, screenwriter Philip Yordan, and actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, and with a stamp crediting producer Samuel… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills with annotations on the verso, one with an RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), at a celebration for the inauguration of his newspaper, "The Inquirer." The second still shows… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Two vintage borderless black-and-white double weight keybook photographs from the 1941 film. Both stills linen backed as issued, one still with a mimeo snipe on the verso, the other with the RKO Radio Pictures rubber stamp on the verso. The first still shows a young Kane (Orson Welles), smoking a… Read more about this item