Estimate: | £600 - £800 |
Hammer price: | £1,500 |
A red hardback scrapbook compiled by Hylda Gilbert, the 17 pages pasted with numerous press clippings and material relating to the premiere including: two tickets for the Royal World Charity Premiere, Odeon Leicester Square, Monday 12 June 1966, [one trimmed and pasted to the inside cover] with a corresponding ticket for the Royal Enclosure and a ticket inviting early arrival; a ticket for the press screening on the same date; a two-page mimeographed time table for the premiere; five black and white press stills of Lewis and Hylda Gilbert at the premiere including one with Cubby Broccoli, and one with Alan Whicker (three copies) – two: 20.5 x 26 cm. and three: 19 x 24.6 cm; ten ‘Good Luck’ telegrams; a Polaroid of Gilbert and Cubby Broccoli in Japan; four identical photographs of Lewis Gilbert on set with Sean Connery, three colour and one black and white, printed later – majority 21 x 30 cm.; and a colour machine print reproduction of four snap shots of Lewis Gilbert on a location scout with Ken Adam, framed, overall measurements – 31 x 41 cm.
All Photographs Sold Without Copyright
Condition Report: Overall good
Bellmans is grateful to Wallace and Hodgson for their assistance with cataloguing the Lewis Gilbert Film Script and Production Archive.