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Auction History Result 2a0522 A BOUT DE SOUFFLE 28 French 8x10 stills 1961 Godard, Belmondo, Seberg, ultra rare candids! Date Sold 4/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Group of 28 Original Vintage French 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) 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! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that these 28 stills, all of which are candid images, which measure 8" x 10", have a blank area at the bottom (all but one, which has a horizontal orientation), and are "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 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!). They are unbelievably rare! We have never even auctioned one of these before (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)! Condition: very good to fine. The still that was on top of all the rest has a few stains in the bottom blank area, but the rest are in really excellent condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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