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Auction History Result 8r055 FIREMENS BALL program 1969 Saul Bass designed cover for Milos Forman's third Czech movie! Date Sold 8/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1969 Vintage Movie Program (measures 6" x 9" [15 x 23 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Hori, Ma Panenko (released in the U.S. in 1968 as "The Firemens Ball"), the 1967 Milos Forman Czechoslovakian/Italian fireman firefighter romantic screwball comedy (nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award; about a group of volunteer firemen who throw a party for their boss and invite their entire town!) starring Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka, Josef Kolb, Vaclav Stockel, and Josef Svet. Note that this was the third of three Czech movies director Forman made between 1964 and 1967. That brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and in 1971, he made his first English language movie, "Taking Off", which was critically acclaimed, which led to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" four years later, and a very illustrious career after (but Forman took years between projects, so he did not have a large output, only directing 13 features in all). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Saul Bass Important Added Info: Note that this movie played in New York City at the Cinema II theater in February 1969. That theater printed a faux "playbill-like" program for this movie (in every way it looks like a program for a stage play, but it is actually for the movie!). The cover of the program (called "Showcase"), with a deceptive tagline "The Monthly Magazine For Art Theatregoers", has art of firefighters in a human pyramid with a half-dressed female at the top, and that art was designed by Saul Bass, who receives printed credit next to the image. Note that this is one of fifteen Saul Bass related items we were consigned from a very longtime Saul Bass collector. While Saul Bass did some incredibly memorable movie posters (including Vertigo and Anatomy of a Murder), much of his work only appeared in print ads, often in exhibitor magazines, and locating those ads (either in the magazine, or cut out of them) is incredibly difficult, because the magazines only went to theater owners, and virtually no one saved them! This is a great opportunity to obtain extremely rare Saul Bass items. Condition: very good to fine. The program is in nice condition, with minor creases at the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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