'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' - Part 4: Screenplay
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Second draft screenplay for Monty Python and the Holy Grail - typescript with holograph corrections and annotations and parts of pages cut and pasted as part of the editing process, 1973 (111 pages circa).
Scripts for Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 4, as follows: show 3 (this is episode 42 in the final version of the show) - photocopy of typescript, first 19 pages and 61-68 only; show 4 (this is episode 43 in the final version of the show) - typescript draft with a few holograph corrections,...
Scripts for Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 4, as follows: show 4 (this is episode 43 in the final version of the show) - clean copy typescript, 69 pages, 13 Aug 1974; show 4 (this is episode 43 in the final version of the show) - photocopy of clean copy typescript, 68 pages (front and last...
Scripts for Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 4, as follows: show 5 (this is episode 44 in the final version of the show) - typescript draft, with a few holograph corrections and annotations, doodles and Palin's signature on front page, 73 pages; camera script for show 5 'Mr Neutron', recorde...
Scripts for Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 4, as follows: show 6 (this is episode 46 in the final version of the show) - clean copy typescript, 2 copies, one with Palin's signature on front page, 57 pages, the other is missing the front and last page, both dated 22 Aug 1974; camera script ...
Press cuttings relating to episodes of Ripping Yarns. The file also includes an invitation to the screening of the last 3 episodes of Ripping Yarns, 18 Jul 1979, and an advert for More Ripping Yarns, on sale from 16 Mar 1981.
Other Ripping Yarns - Part 1: Notebook and The Wolf of the Sea
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Notebook marked 'Tomkinson's Schooldays. Ripping Yarns II (ideas for shows/titles etc.). US Court Case. Fegg Film Ideas', including holograph manuscript and typescript drafts of text and notes. Headlines include: 'A Journey Through Time', 'Opening Originals', 'Tomkinson', 'Swansea Rag Mag', 'Com...
Other Ripping Yarns - Part 3: The Extraordinary Adventure of Leonard R Lloyd
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Three drafts of a story entitled 'The Extraordinary Adventure of Leonard R Lloyd. A Ripping Modern Yarn' written by Michal Palin and Terry Jones, as follows: a combination of holograph manuscript and typescript, with pages cut and pasted as part of the editing process, 30 pages; typescript with ...
Material relating to ideas for a film by Terry Jones and Michael Palin (never realised), with working title 'The Man Who Was Loved', as follows: notebook marked 'TJ/MP Film TMWWL. The Man Who Was Loved', with notes and draft of script for the film, in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting, includi...