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QUENEAU Raymond.

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QUENEAU Raymond.
SET of projects and sketches concerning the cinema, 1954-1971 and s.d.
Interesting file concerning Queneau and the cinema.
Autograph manuscript in a schoolboy notebook with pink cover decorated with a vine (4 ff . and 2 invitation cards): cinematographic reveries of Raymond Queneau, drafts of projects including a list of "co-productive Italian subjects": "Goethe in Italy (Mignon), Shelley in Italy and his death, Stendhal in Italy"| ideas for shots: "Man. Wall on white background, moving. Orchestra scattered in a room", "Cinema. A scale. Wind. A car with its bonnet open"| ideas for gags: "Breton folk peasants dancing the boogie-woogie and Negroes playing the bagpipes"| two small sketches, one of which represents a street sweeper.
Photocopies of an untitled dactyl. script (1929-1930), with translation of the beginning into German and English, in the surrealist spirit.
"Report on the script of Saint-Exupéry Igor": typescript (5 p., 2 copies)| correspondence from the production, Union générale cinématographique: 4 l.s. (1954-1955), plus 2 double dact. replies.
10 L.S. from producers, including 6 by Pierre Braunberger of Films de la Pléiade (and 9 telegrams), 1954-1961, concerning various film projects, or inviting Queneau to screenings.
3 L.S. by I.T.S. film productions concerning RQ's French post-synchronization of Fellini's masterpiece, La
Strada (1955)
Letters to R. Queneau about La Loi des rues (by Ralph Habib, 1956): 7 L.S. from Paul Graetz (or on his behalf) of Transcontinental Films, plus a duplicate reply: problems with the censor, participation of
Queneau to redo the end of the film.
Correspondence for the dubbing of Around the World in 80 Days, Ariadne and Some Like it Hot (1957-1959): 11 letters from the Société Parisienne de Sonorisation (and a duplicate reply).
Le Chant du styrène (Alain Resnais, 1958, Queneau wrote the commentary): 2 L.S. from Pierre Braunberger (Les Films de la Pléiade) to R. Queneau.
Note de lecture sur le scénario de Faibles femmes (1958): 1 p. in-12 of handwritten notes| typescript (3 pp.)| 3 L.S. from Transcontinental Films, plus a duplicate reply.
Dactyl synopsis. (1 p. in-4) on aviation (with letter of request from
Cinévision, 1958).
L.S. "Q" with autograph additions approving the film adaptation of Les Fleurs Bleues by Barbara Alberti and Amadeo Pagani (1967).
L.S. from Marcel Jullian about his fi lm with Michel Boisrond On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes, based on Sally Mara's Diary (1971, and 4 docs. about another adaptation project by Sally Mara in 1969).
Attached: 2 contracts signed for the radio adaptation of Peter
Ibbetson (1948-1949)| a small file on the Festival du fi lm maudit in Biarritz (1950: documents, press clippings, telegram from Jean
Cocteau)| 3 documents concerning Queneau's nomination to the jury of the Fonds de développement de l'industrie cinématographique (1955)| 3 documents, including an amusing drawing, concerning a film shoot in Mexico (1955)| and a set of 58 letters or documents concerning the Jean Vigo prize (most of them L.S. from Claude AVELINE, 1956-1961)| 7 letters concerning the jury of the Prix du Chevalier de La Barre (1958-1960)| telegram concerning the jury of the experimental film competition at the Universal Exhibition of
Brussels (1958)| 6 convocations to the Board of Directors of the Cinémathèque française (1958-1961)| nomination to the Commission consultative du cinéma (1960)| a l.a.s. from André Heinrich (with photocopy of a screenplay)| typescript of notes from Queneau's Journal concerning the cinema.