Vintage original press kit, 12 x 9″ (31 x 23 cm.), USA. Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, dir: Martin Scorsese; Columbia. Quarto, printed folder, 17, 2 pp. with thirteen (13) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white photos. NEAR FINE.
Taxi Driver is one of the acknowledged classics of modern American film. This press kit is exceedingly scarce.
Vintage original presskit, USA. Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Jr., dir: L.Q. Jones; L. Q. Jaf. Quarto, 12 x 9” (31 x 23 cm.), pictorial folder,17 leaves of text, plus 7 8 x 10” (20 x 25 cm.) photos, of which 5 have long quibs attached (of which some are single page, and others multi-page). Folder shows moderate rubbing and edgewear, NEAR FINE.
Writer-director chose to release this film himself, rather than go through a normal distribution route. The result was that, although it had received acclaim at various film festivals, it got very minimal theatrical release, and, hence, original ephemera from it are seldom seen.
Harlan Ellison (of whom there is a portrait included in the folder) stated that this post-apocalyptic movie was one of the few adaptations of his work which was true to it. It was adapted from his 1969 novella, first published in NEW WORLDS.
Printed folder, 12 x 9” (30 x 23 cm.),18 supplements, 9, 20, 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, ,3, 2, 3, 5, 2, 6, 2, 3, 3, 2 pp. (78 pp. in all, stapled together), with 21 photos, which vary from 6 ¼ x 10” (16 x 26 cm.) to 7 ¾ x 10” (20 x 26 cm.), includes the original printed studio envelope in which the presskit was mailed (folded once). Just about fine.
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, dir: Ridley Scott; Warner Brothers.
The most complete example (and in the nicest condition!) of this scarce ephemeral portfolio which I have ever seen, both as to the total number of photos included (I have previously, but only once, had one with 18 photos, and not 21), and the completeness of the printed supplements included.
Vintage original press kit, USA. Forest Whitaker, Samuel E. Wright, dir: Clint Eastwood; Warner Brothers. Quarto, 12 x 9″ (30 x 23 cm.), pictorial wrappers, 20 pp., with twenty-seven (27) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) photos laid in, minor creasing to booklet, overall just about fine.
Eastwood’s searing biography of bebop jazz legend Charlie Parker, graced by Whitaker’s intense performance, remains one of the few classic movies about jazz.
Vintage original 11 ½ x 9″(29 x 23 cm.) press kit, USA. Richard Roundtree, dir: Gordon Parks; MGM. Quarto, printed folder with die-cut window, twenty-three (23) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, 11, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3 pp., slight bumping to outer edges of folder, overall fine in near fine covers.
SHAFT remains one of the defining films of the Blaxploitation movement. The printed text appropriately talks about “NEW MARKET FOR FILMS”, as this film emerges precisely at the moment when African American cinema is beginning to emerge.
The set of photos is a very extensive archive of images from this classic film, and it contains a portrait of director Gordon Parks. This press kit is exceedingly scarce.
Vintage original press kit, USA. Printed folder, with twenty-five (25) 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) photos, with affixed printed captions, and with 141 pp. of promotional text. Al Pacino, Talia Shire, Robert De Niro, dir: Francis Ford Coppola; Paramount. This press kit is an unusually scarce one; most of them were long ago broken up and sold for their individual photos.
There is some wear to the printed folder, overall NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD folder.
WOMEN IN FILM, THEATER & MUSIC As the photograph of Katharine Hepburn above signifies, this is a collection of lesbian and bisexual women in film, theater and music. It spans a full century, starting with Maud Adams in 1901 and working its way up through a Chantal Akerman film[…]
New York: Warner Brothers, [1945]. Set of three (3) vintage original borderless 7 1/2 x 9 1/2″ (19 x 24 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, all with studio printed text affixed, JUST ABOUT FINE.
Joan Crawford as Mildred is in all three photos. Her co-stars Ann Blyth and Zachary Scott are each in two of them. One of them is the crucial scene at the police station at the film’s climax. Crawford won the Best Actress Oscar, and the film garnered five additional Oscar nominations.
These three photos are from a scarce set that would have been part of the film’s press kit, and are numbered “7(638-85)”, “8(638-100)” and “12(638-187)”.
The first half of the 20th Century these eight, great black jazz musicians, who helped to create one of America’s unique contributions to the musical canon, come alive in the wonderful posters, photographs and promotional pieces that are part of Walter Films’ collection of African Americana.