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N.p.: N.p., 1927. Vintage matte finish test photograph of actress, dancer, and Jazz Age icon Louise Brooks, sporting a striped, pleated skirt and a patterned shawl, circa 1927. Brooks first began to rise to fame in Europe in 1928, following her appearance in Howard Hawks' 1928 film "A Girl in Every Port." She would reach the peak of… Read more about this item

Berlin: N.p., 1921. Vintage borderless double weight publicity photograph from the lost 1921 German film, showing actress Ursel Renate Hirt slouched in a chair. Insignia of photographer Alexander Binder from the negative at the bottom right corner the recto, with Binder's stamp and a printed mimeo snipe on the verso. Noted portrait and film photographer Alexander Binder… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1927. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1927 silent film, showing actor Emil Jannings enjoying a large cracker and a glass of milk. While transporting $1000 in securities, a bank clerk from Milwaukee falls for a blonde seductress, who proceeds to rob him of his valuables, ruining his life. Winner of the first Academy Award for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1930 French silent short documentary film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 29, Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema, particularly the French New Wave, with François Truffaut in particular paying… Read more about this item

New York: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, 1924. Vintage reference photograph of director Ernst Lubitsch talking with actress Pola Negri on the set of the 1924 silent film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Edward Sheldon's 1922 play "The Czarina," in turn based on a Hungarian book by Melchior Lengyel and Lajos Biró. The final film collaboration of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A recently paroled ex-con gets out of prison and immediately murders someone, leading to a large-scale media scandal. Screenwriter Christy Cabanne was one of the most prolific directors in the history of early American film, beginning in the silent era, later working with Universal on a string of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film, most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary, holding bouquets of flowers, ostensibly at the end of the shoot. Laid in… Read more about this item

Paris: Franfilmdis, 1933. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 29, Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema, particularly the French New Wave, with François Truffaut in… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1956. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1956 film. Director Cecil B. DeMille's wildly popular two-part Christian epic, beginning with a dramatization of the Book of Exodus, and closing with a modern story of two brothers in the 1920s and their relationship to the Ten Commandments. Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. … Read more about this item

Los Angeles: California Theatre, 1921. Archive of 41 vintage photographs of the elaborate stage sets and live performers which supported silent film screenings at the California Theatre in Los Angeles, taken during the theatre's first three years in operation, 1919-1921. 20 photographs with blindstamps crediting photographer Dick Stagg, and 14 with blindstamps crediting photographer J.C. Milligan. Photographs housed… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the 1926 film, showing actors Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton from behind. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Two adversaries gradually become best friends as they stumble through World War I together. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn, with paper tape reinforcements… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1920. Vintage reference photograph from the 1920 film, showing director Maurice Tourneur on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the classic 1883 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The fifth and (at that time) most lavish adaptation of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1926. Vintage two-color promotional flyer for the 1926 film, with the blank verso stamped "Princess Theatre / Today Monday Tuesday." The first of a string of adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, now lost save for its trailer, and the only adaptation of his novel to be created during his lifetime. Based in part… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 British film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A group of silent film actors struggling to survive the transition to sound film decide to start making adult films. John Bynum's directorial debut, filmed entirely in real time on a single set. 8 x 10… Read more about this item

Chicago: Wilding Picture Productions, 1940. First Edition. First Edition. A volume produced by Wilding Picture Productions (also known as Wilding Studios), advertising their audiovisual communications services for industrial use. Wilding was founded in Detroit in 1914, moving into the Essanay Building in Chicago in 1937. The company would become one of the largest producers of industrial films… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1932. Three vintage photograms from the 1932 silent film, all three showing actress Seena Owen. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Although initial work on the film began in 1928, production was shut down after actress Gloria Swanson complained about the film's grim, sexually suggestive ending, wherein her character becomes… Read more about this item

New York: World Film Corporation, 1914. Vintage program for the 1914 lost silent film, printed for the Grand Theatre of Butler, Pennsylvania, printed on the verso, with a dramatic pictorial center spread featuring two World Film Corporation elephant logos. Silent film star Clara Kimball Young's first film with World Film Corporation, re-released in 1916 with new intertitles under… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1920. Vintage advertising card for a performance of the comedy skit "Johnny Comes Marching Home," by actor Jack Mulhall, "ably supported by" actor Emmett Lynn, INSCRIBED by Mulhall on the lower right blank, "To Velma, Yours to Command, Jack Mulhall," lavishly illustrated by Bud McCabe, circa 1920s, with a faint manuscript pencil annotation on the verso "One… Read more about this item

N.p.: British American Tobacco Comany, 1925. Vintage British American Tobacco Company (BAT) "Cinema Stars" cigarette card, number 1, featuring Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan, circa 1925. The first of 50 "Cinema Stars" cigarette cards released by BAT, circa 1925, which featured Hollywood stars such as Norma Shearer, Jackie Coogan, Marion Davies, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, and others, including… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1922. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1922 film, showing director and actor Erich von Stroheim. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The legendary von Stroheim's third film as a director, at time the most expensive film ever made, and the first to cost over one million dollars, although… Read more about this item