Search Results: Memorabilia from Walter Reuben, Inc. / WalterFilm

[Hollywood] MGM, 1941. Vintage original 9 x 12" (22 x 30 cm.) advertising pull-out on cardstock paper, FINE. Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, dir: Busby Berkeley, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For the industry publication The Lion's Roar, caricature artist supreme Jacques Kapralik created this art (originally in three dimensions using elements of yarn, fabric, paper, buttons, sequins and miniature creations) to highlight the themes and elements found in the film's story. The "let's put on a show" theme was presented at its most spectacular in this Busby Berkeley extravaganza produced by Arthur Freed. The Lion's Roar magazine cover, trimmed, on verso.

Ed Emshwiller. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles, ca. 1980] Original two page autograph signed letter, 11 x 8.5" (28 x 22 cm.), folded once for mailing, near fine. A letter from pioneering experimental filmmaker Emshwiller to Doug Edwards, who was at that time the leading figure in Los Angeles for the showing of avant-garde film. In this fascinating letter, he lists each of the four films which he has selected for Edwards to screen, with a succinct paragraph describing each one: LIFE LINES, 1960; THANATOPSIS, 1962; RELATIVITY, 1966; SCAPE-MATES, 1972.

Hotel Sahara. No binding. Near Fine. Las Vegas: Hotel Sahara, [1953]. Vintage original 9 1/2 x 8 1/8"" (24 x 21 cm.) die-cut promotional flyer. A holograph note indicates that someone attended this show on Monday, November 16, 1953. Near fine. ""A New York Daily News article in late '52 that brought instant notoriety to Christine Jorgensen, the first person in the US to become famous for having sex reassignment surgery. Celebrity agent Charles Yates teamed with Jorgensen to turn this notoriety into an unlikely nightclub act. The Sahara booked Jorgensen for a summer 1953 engagement with singer Marguerite Piazza and dancer Gene Nelson, but was fired when both Piazza and Nelson protested the co-billing. Piazza and Nelson's show opened in July as planned, and Jorgensen sued the hotel. ""Jorgensen was a… Read More

Migros. No binding. Fine. Zürich: Migros / Konzertsaal Volkshaus, 27 December 1968. Vintage original 4 x 8" (11 x 20 cm.) concert flyer, double sided, fine. Jimmy Smith was the preeminent mid-century jazz organist. This flyer is for a performance with Nathan Page and Donald Bailey (as the Jimmy Smith Trio) on November 27, 1968, in Switzerland.

Arapaho FIlms. No binding. Near Fine. Utica, New York: Arapaho Films, [1977]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) offset flyer printed on recto and verso, near fine. SEX STAR was the first film directed by documentarian Lech Kowalski. Following the lives of porn actors, writers and underground filmmakers including Georgina Spelvin, Marc Stevens, Andrea True, Honey Stevens, Shirley Clarke and Guy Talese; the film explores themes of censorship, sexuality, personal relationships, filmmaking, sex work, and the effects of pornography on society in the 1970s. From the flyer, "Sex Star is a very private film that uses the cinema verité technique to entertain and bring insight into the occupation of sex." Kowalski would go on to direct cult films such as DOA (1981) and Gringo: Story of a… Read More

S&M Productions. No binding. Near Fine. Minnie O. Pain (artwork) San Francisco: S&M Productions, [1979]. Vintage original 11 x 8 1/2" (29 x 21 cm.) flyer, near fine.Mixing pornography, rock and vicious satires on art and excess, the Tubes began playing in the mid-1970s, releasing their self-titled album in 1975. During the 1980s they would achieve more mainstream success with albums like The Completion Backward Principle (1981) and Outside Inside (1983).This flyer is for a show featuring a performance of The Tube's "Mondo Bondage" at The Village in San Francisco with the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, ex-Cockettes member Pristine Condition, Paula Pucker and the Pioneers. 375.00