Terence Fisher (director), Harry Spalding (screenwriter) THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (ca. 1964) UK film script

Shepperton: Lippert Films, ca. 1964. Vintage original 11 x 8 1/2″ (28 x 22 cm) British screenplay. This script belonged to art director George Provis, with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on thirteen pages. Laid in are seven sheets of pencil drawings, four pages of storyboards and three pages of drawings of the transmitter tower set from the film’s finale, with notes in Provis’ hand. Provenance available upon request. Red titled wrappers, mimeograph, 101 pp., 102 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Harry Spalding. Bound internally with two flat metal brads, near fine.

British science-fiction film featuring extraterrestrials attacking the United Kingdom with robots able to reanimate the dead, besieging the survivors with the walking corpses of friends and neighbors.

George Provis was a British art director and production designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain’s Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. (Wikipedia)