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N.p.: Cinerama, 2015. Vintage program for the 2015 film, distributed at Special Roadshow Engagement screenings in 70mm. In 1870s Wyoming, a stagecoach carrying two bounty hunters, three dead bounties, a prisoner, and a sheriff-to-be are forced to make an emergency stop at a remote cabin during a blizzard, where they encounter a variety of nefarious characters. The… Read more

London: The Rank Organization, 1948. Collection of 16 vintage reference photographs from the 1948 British film. Printed mimeo snipes adhered to the versos. Included with the photographs is a single leaf program frpm the original British release of the film. Loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, following an up-and-coming prima ballerina whose personal… Read more

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1930. Vintage program for the 1930 film. With the stamp of Beltonian Theatre in Belton, Texas on the verso of the final leaf, along with contemporary holograph pencil annotations noting showings on two Saturdays in October. Based on the 1919 play by Langdon McCormick, about a love triangle between two adventurers and a… Read more

New York: Chappell Music Company, 1975. Vintage "Special Film Folio" for the 1975 film, featuring 16 Cole Porter songs, 81 film still and on the set photographs, three articles on the film, one article on Cole Porter, and an interview with Peter Bogdanovich. Peter Bogdanovich's tribute to Cole Porter and the musicals of the 1930s. Shot using nearly… Read more

N.p.: MGM / EMI, 1971. Vintage film program for the 1971 film. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson, about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a low-budget musical revue after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straightforward pastiche of 1920s musicals, director Ken Russell's adaptation… Read more

N.p.: Walt Disney Productions, 1975. Vintage British program for the 1975 rerelease of the 1967 film. Based on the 1894 collection of "Mowgli" stories by Rudyard Kipling. One of Disney's classic animated films, and the last film Walt personally oversaw. 8.25 x 11 inches. 6 pages, side stapled. Near Fine with some light rubbing to the… Read more

N.p.: Lucasfilm, 1980. Vintage program for the 1980 film. The second entry in George Lucas' "Star Wars" trilogy, with the Rebel Alliance on the run from the Empire's minions after being defeated on the ice planet of Hoth. Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are persued by Darth… Read more

London: Juveniles Group of IPC Magazines, 1970. Vintage British program for the 1970 film, with color film still photographs throughout. A biographical account of the 17th century political and religious struggles taking place in England under the reign of King Charles (Alec Guinness). Director Ken Hughes' favorite of his own films. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated… Read more

Hollywood: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1971. Vintage four color brochure for the Academy Fall Film Series, "Intercut: An Anthology of Unique Motion Pictures," held October 4 through November 22, 1971 at the Academy Award Theatre for members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 6.25 x 8.75 inches, which unfolds to 25 x… Read more

London: Kinematograph Weekly, 1965. Vintage British program for the 1965 film, published as a supplement to the September 1965 issue of Kinematograph Weekly, with film still photographs throughout and a four page center fold out. Based on the 1954 memoir "Skis Against the Atom" by Norwegian resistance soldier Knut Haudelid, and the 1962 novel "But for These Men"… Read more

New York: Labor Film Service, 1922. Archive of six letters, subscriber and investment requests, subscription agreements, a stockholder meeting announcement, and a referral form from the Labor Film Service (LFS), 1920-1922, as well as an envelope with the LFS logo, postmarked 1921, and a film program from the LFS release, "The Contrast," 1921. Three of the letters and the… Read more

N.p.: Warner Brothers. Vintage British program for the 1964 film, with Ad Sales label on the top right corner of the front wrapper. Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe, itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Rex Harrison,… Read more

London: Playhouse Theatre, 1991. Vintage program for the 1991 Playhouse Theatre production of the 1891 play by Henrik Ibsen, which premiered on September 3 and ran through October 5, 1991. The production originally premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on June 17, 1991 and ran through August 3, 1991. The acclaimed production was filmed for Season 3,… Read more

New York: Chappell Music Company, 1975. Vintage Radio City Music Hall program for a series of Easter concerts and performances in conjunction with the showing of the 1975 film, from the week beginning Thursday, March 6, 1975. Peter Bogdanovich's tribute to Cole Porter and the musicals of the 1930s. Shot using nearly all black and white costumes and… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 film. Based on the 1942 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, about a Roman military tribune who commands the unit responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. The first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope, shot with Henri Chretien's original Hypergonar anamorphic lenses. 16 pages, saddle stitched,… Read more

London: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Vintage British program for the 1972 film, with black and white and color film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made, and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in… Read more

London: The Empire Theatre, 1929. Vintage program for the 1929 film screening at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, London, for the week beginning Saturday, May 18th, 1929, with a contemporary annotation of "May 1929" in holograph ink on top left of front wrapper. Two vaudeville sisters try to make it big on Broadway, but find romance comes quicker… Read more

N.p.: Walt Disney Productions, 1971. Vintage British program ("Souvenir Brochure") for the 1971 film, with color and black and white film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1943 novel "The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons" and the 1947 novel "Bonfires and Broomsticks" by Mary Norton. A standout Disney film… Read more

New York: Chappell Music Company, 1975. Vintage program for the 1975 film. Peter Bogdanovich's tribute to Cole Porter and the musicals of the 1930s. Shot using nearly all black and white costumes and sets, and featuring only occasional splashes of color, with musical sequences and songs performed live for the camera, the film was much maligned at the… Read more

Paris: Les Films Galatee, 1984. Vintage French program for the 1984 film, with color film still photographs throughout. Text in French. Barbet Schroeder's brutal, funny, and unsentimental character study of two degenerate gamblers and lovers, destined to lose despite the help of a third, who devised a system to cheat the casinos. Beautifully shot by choreographer Rubby Muller. … Read more