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Auction History Result 5m0012 LOT OF 104 STREET SCENE 8X10 STILLS 1931 research photos of NYC streets to create sets! Date Sold 8/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 104 8x10 stills from Street Scene. This movie about New York City tenements was shot in a studio, and the crew needed reference photos to help them make sets that would look like New York City. So they sent photographers to New York to take lots of pictures of city streets, both close up and far away, and then they were used to create the sets. Included with these research photos are three great close up candid images of Sylvia Sidney, an 8" x 10" negative of vintage cars on New York streets, and a diagram of New York streets drawn on Hotel Edison stationary with a note on the back. We would think that these great photos would not only be of interest to those who collect on this movie, but also a great interest to anyone looking for authentic 1931 photos of New York City, and they are mostly in excellent condition! Of course, Street Scene is the classic 1931 King Vidor New York City problems-of-the-poor romantic love triangle melodrama ("The Pulitzer Prize Drama by Elmer Rice"; a very complicated tale of a New York City tenement, where a middle-aged man shoots his wife's lover, and their beautiful daughter can escape the tenements by becoming the mistress of a well-to-do Jewish store owner, but after her mother is shot by her father, she decides to leave the tenements behind, to find a better life) starring Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, Greta Granstedt, and Adele Watson. Note that this movie was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1928, but there was a social worker in the play who is very unsympathetic to the poor people she is supposed to help, and pressure was brought on the play's producer Samuel Goldwyn to change the character, and he proposed she become a secret Soviet agent who was planning to blow up the tenement building so that Clarence Darrow would be elected President, and apparently that scared people enough that the character remained similar to how she had been in the original play. Measurements: from 6" x 9 1/2" to 8" x 10"Note that this lot and 21 others we are currently auctioning, were owned by director H. Bruce Humberstone (nicknamed "Lucky"). He was born in 1901 and he started as a juvenile actor, and in his teens, he became a script clerk, and then worked his way up to being an assistant director to many top directors, including King Vidor. In 1932, he directed his first movie, and he worked steadily through the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, directing one last movie in 1961. He directed both "A" and "B" movies, including some Tarzan, Charlie Chan, Cisco Kid, and more, and some of his movies have cult status, including "I Wake Up Screaming"! The 22 lots we are currently auctioning include a large number of stills (many of them key books and some include lots of incredible candids showing Humberstone) from movies that he either directed or was the assistant director on, and there are also some non-still items as well, including his personal phone/address book, which had the phone numbers of all the top stars of that time! This is a rare opportunity to obtain large numbers of guaranteed original stills and other items from Humberstone movies that were the property of the man himself! Condition: very good to fine. A few of the research photos have some fairly minor wear, but they are generally in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
              
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