Original Maysles Brothers Productions, Inc. premiere poster (25×35) for the Albert and David Maysles rock concert documentary, GIMME SHELTER (1971) starring the Rolling Stones, the Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. This film is a documentary of the 1969 Rolling Stones Tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont Speedway in December of 1969—only four months after the iconic Woodstock Festival. About 300,000 people came to the concert, and the organizers put the Hell’s Angels in charge of security.  The Angels spent most of their time beating up spectators and killing at least one.  This event was construed by the media to herald the end of halcyon hippie days of rock.   This original poster was created by the Maysles Brothers for the New York City Premiere at the Plaza Theater.  The poster is unusual not only because the premiere poster is very rare, but also because of the anachronistic photo of the Stones circa 1965 – four years before the fateful venue at Altamont.  GIMME SHELTER was subsequently distributed by 20th Century Fox, but this poster is not a Fox one sheet.

Original United Artists Half Sheet Poster (22×28) for the music biography, SATCHMO THE GREAT (1957). Originally recorded as an interview on Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” TV program in 1951, Murrow later expanded it into a feature-length documentary movie about the jazz great. Within the film, Armstrong’s life is portrayed through his music. The documentary features his trip to West Africa, which he immediately adopted as his ancestral home because of how much he liked the people there. Originally folded, this half sheet poster is in fine condition.

Original Sheet Music (9×12) for the song “I Love To Whistle” performed in the Norman Taurog musical comedy, MAD ABOUT MUSIC (1938) starring Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, and Arthur Treacher. With music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Harold Adamson, the song was performed by Deanna Durbin. Although the photo shows the image slightly eclipsed, the real sheet music has not been trimmed in any way and is in very fine condition.

Original Sheet Music (9×12) for the song “It Happened in Monterey” sung in the John Murray Anderson musical revue, KING OF JAZZ (1930) starring Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, and Jeanette Loff. With music by Mabel Wayne and lyrics by Billy Rose, the duet was sung by John Boles and Jeanette Loff to the accompaniment of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Although the photo shows the image slightly eclipsed, the real sheet music has not been trimmed in any way and is in very fine condition.

Original Sheet Music (9×12) for the song “St. Louis Blues” sung in the Allen Reisner music biography, ST. LOUIS BLUES (1958) starring Nat “King” Cole, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, and Pearl Bailey. The film is the biography of the composer Will Handy, and the song is performed by Nat “King” Cole and Peal Bailey and reprised later by Eartha Kitt. Although this sheet music is not the official sheet music from the film, it is sheet music for this famous song. Although the photo shows the image slightly eclipsed, the real sheet music has not been trimmed in any way and is in very fine condition.

U.S. One sheet for the Edgar Ulmer film CARNEGIE HALL. This movie has a rather thin plot and may be little more than a vehicle to showcase some of the finest talent in American music: Walter Damrosch, Bruno Walter, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Lily Pons,,Gregor Paitigorsky, Rise Stevens, Arthu Rodzinski, Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce, Ezio Pinza, Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner, Leopold Stokowski and Harry James. This scarce one sheet has been linen backed and is in very fine to very fine plus condition. Beautiful!

U.S. scene card with Texas rock and blues musician Doug Sahm. Small part of the lower right hand corner is damaged, but not missing. MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI was B.W.L. Norton’s “sequel” to George Lucas’ classic portrait of teen life in the early sixties. Fine.

Original MGM Three Sheet Poster (41×81) for the George Sidney romantic musical comedy, VIVA LAS VEGAS (1960) starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. This film was more successful than BLUE HAWAII (1961) and turned out to be one of his best musical films. With delightful musical numbers, Presley and Ann-Margret produced great on-screen chemistry. Indeed, when the wedding scene was filmed, many tabloid magazines of the time published photos of the “wedding” and suggested that the two had actually gotten married. Originally folded, this three sheet poster has minor cross-fold separations, ghosting in the tagline, and tanning in the fold lines—otherwise, the poster is in very fine condition.

Original MGM Insert Poster (14×36) for the Laszlo Kardos film noir, THE STRIP (1951) starring Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig, and Louis Armstrong and his band. This original insert poster is rolled and in very fine condition.

Original Ellman Film Enterprises One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Peter Clifton music documentary, THE LONDON ROCK AND ROLL SHOW (1973) starring Mick Jagger, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Bill Haley. Originally distributed in the U.K. by Pleasant Pastures, this U.S. one sheet poster is folded and in fine condition.

Original Universal Pictures Complete Set of 8 Lobby Cards (11×14) for the Terence Fisher musical horror film, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1962) starring Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, and Edward de Souza. The individual cards in this set, in terms of condition, range from very fine to very fine plus.

Original MGM One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Pierre Adidge music documentary, MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN (191) starring Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, and a host of some of the best rock musicians of the period. Cocker finds that he has several American tour dates left to play but no band. So, he recruits over 40 of his friends and family to help him out, and for the next six weeks Cocker and friends become a kind of touring commune. With over twenty songs, this is certainly one of the best concert films ever made. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition.