Day for Night [La Nuit Americaine] (Two original photographs from the 1973 French film) by François Truffaut (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman (screenwriters); Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani (starring) - 1973

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Press kit blue-tone photograph, two-sided from the 1973 film. The recto (front side) shows Truffaut directing the film's star, Jacqueline Bisset, and the verso (rear side) shows a montage of 10 images from the film, along with a brief synopsis. Truffaut's homage to the drama behind the fourth wall. "Day for Night" chronicles the production of "Je Vous Presente Pamela," a cliched melodrama starring aging screen icon, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), former diva Severine (Valentina Cortese), young heart-throb Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and a British actress, Julie Baker (Jacqueline Bisset) who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy leading to her marriage with her much older doctor. In between are several small vignettes chronicling the stories of the crew members and the director; Ferrand (Truffaut himself) who tangles with the practical problems one deals with when making a movie. Behind the camera, the actors and crew go through… Read More

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph of actor Jean-Pierre Léaud released as promotion for the 1973 film. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of shooting a fictional film. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1973 French film. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1973 French film. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / PECF / Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica [PIC], 1973. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1973 film. Director François Truffaut positions Jacqueline Bisset for a shot, while a crew member measures for focus in the background. With stamps from the French magazine "Telerama" on the verso. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of shooting a fictional film. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffault and crew at a woodsy shooting location the 1973 film. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of shooting a fictional film. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. image: 9.5 x 3.75 inches. Light edgewear and soiling on verso, else Near Fine Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 French film, two showing actress Alexandra Stewart, and one showing Stewart and Jean-Pierre Leaud. With provenance stamps and manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased, with pinholes to the corners. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film, four showing actors Dani, Jacqueline Bisset, and Jean-Pierre Leaud, and one showing director François Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title, "Nuit Americain," on the verso, along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in France. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. A couple lightly edgeworn, else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 769. Ebert IV.