Nine items relating to the film 'Antonio Gaudi, The Unfinished Vision', from the estate of its producer Michael J. Cooper, including a treatment by Cooper, a story outline with covering artwork, a signed contract, a legal letter and five receipts.

Author: 
Michael J. Cooper [Prof. Juan Bassegoda Nonell; Hedger Wallace; Mark Wenborn; John Alaimo; Fernando Rey]
Publication details: 
Mostly from Cooper's company: Michelangelo Productions Ltd., 50 Gray's Inn Road, London. 1973 and 1974.
£320.00
SKU: 12191

Regarded as lost for 35 years this drama documentary, directed by John Alaimo, was discovered in a Barcelona bank vault in 2009, and has recently been released on DVD. The nine items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. One: 'Gaudi | Treatment by Michael J. Cooper | April 1974'. [i] + 4pp., foolscap 8vo, in plastic folder. Two: 'Story Outline' for 'Antonio Gaudi | The Unfinished Vision | A Special Television Film Production'. 6pp., foolscap 8vo, with covering page for the production from Michelangelo Productions, with printed illustration of Gaudi architecture, and the following information: 'Starring Fernando Rey | Written by Hedge Wallace | Directed by John Alaimo | Produced by Michael J. Cooper'. (Rey did not appear in the film, the part of Gaudi being played by Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez.) Three: Typed agreement (3pp., foolscap 8vo) signed by Cooper and Professor Juan Bassegoda Nonell, in which Nonell agrees to subscribe the sum of a quarter of a million pesetas in a 'total initial fund' of two and a quarter million pesatas. Four: Typed Letter Signed from Mark Wenborn of London solicitors Wright & Webb. 16 July 1974. 1p., 4to. Regarding copyrights in the artwork and advertising. Five to Nine: Five typed receipts for 'Subsistance Allowances' in pesetas, all signed by the film's scriptwriter F. G. Hedger Wallace, dating from July and August 1973.