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Auction History Result 5m0549 LOT OF 4 A BOUT DE SOUFFLE CANDID FRENCH 7X10 STILLS 1960 Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo Date Sold 11/26/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 4 candid French 7x10 stills from A Bout de Souffle (released in the U.S. in 1961 as "Breathless"), the classic 1960 Jean-Luc Godard French New Wave romantic gangster crime thriller (about a small time thief who steals a car and murders a policeman, and he tries to persuade his beautiful American journalism student girlfriend to run away to Italy with him, but she has misgivings) starring Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Liliane David, Claude Mansard, and Van Doude. Note that this movie, together with Francois Truffaut's "Les quatre cents coups" began the French "New Wave", which revolutionized film-making, not only in France, but the world over! Measurements: 7" x 10"Note that this group of 4 stills has a wonderful provenance! In April 2022, we auctioned a group of 28 stills similar to these, all of which were candid images like these, and those sold for $1,111 for all. Since then, we have auctioned several similar individual stills, and some have auctioned for over $100 each! Now we are auctioning 10 as a group, because these do not have as good images as the earlier ones. Like these, each of the previous ones had a blank area at the bottom, and were "country of origin" stills for this French movie! Perhaps they were intended to be sent to magazines to use in articles about the movie, or perhaps they were intended to be used as "export" stills, used in non-French speaking countries, where they could be overprinted in the blank area with information in the language of the country using them, but those are only guesses. Our consignor (who also consigned the previous ones) got them from a friend of the still photographer on this classic movie, Raymond Cauchetier, and he may well have had them printed as test prints, but we have no way of knowing (Cauchetier passed away last year at 101!). We had never even auctioned even one of these before we were consigned the previous ones (and in fact, other than first release French posters, we have only auctioned a single French lobby card, three oversized French stills, a French pressbook, and nothing else French)! WE HAVE NOW AUCTIONED ALL OF THE BETTER QUALITY ONES OF THESE INDIVIDUALLY, AND THE FINAL ONES WILL BE AUCTIONED IN BULK LOTS (we currently have this auction and one other group in a separate bulk lot auction). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
 
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