Original Zoetrope Studios Promotional Portfolio for the 1980 Cannes Film Festival

Los Angeles, CA: Zoetrope Studios, 1980. First Edition. One of 20 original Zoetrope Studios promotional portfolios created for the 1980 Cannes Film Festival signed at the rear cover by Eric Baker and Katherine Marking, members of the studio’s art department who contributed to the Willardson+White Studio design of the portfolio. Spiral bound, 8 1/2” x 14”, 23 pages, illustrated in color xerox. With some separation of the acetate to the front cover, else fine. Willardson+White was contracted by Coppola to create a professional art project quality portfolio which he could show to potential investors and gave them three days to complete the task, offering them access to his library and other resources. In 1980 color xerox was a relatively new medium and the design team used it well - well enough for Coppola to be successful with his investment pitch. The program is divided into two sections: Films in Production and Complete Films. At the time of publication, Zoetrope Studios, Francis Ford Coppola’s film production company, was working on Hammett - to be directed by Wim Wenders with a screenplay by Dennis O’Flaherty as an adaptation of the novel by Joe Gores, starring Frederic Forrest, Marilu Henner, Sylvia Miles, and Sylvia Sidney, One From the Heart - to be directed by Francis Ford Coppola, screenplay by B. Armyan Bernstein, starring Frederic Forrest, Terri Garr, and Raul Julia, The Escape Artist - to be directed by Caleb Deschanel, screenplay by Steven Zito and starring Raul Julia, and an unproduced film titled Photoplay - to be directed by Martha Coolidge, screenplay by Leslie King and Dalene Young, with a to-be-announced cast. Included in the Complete Films section are The Conversation (1974), American Graffiti (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), and The Black Stallion (1979). Of the films included in this portfolio, several have been nominated and/or won awards at the Cannes Film Festival. These are; The Conversation which won the 1974 Palme d’Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention for Francis Ford Coppola, and Hammett which was nominated in 1982 for a Palme d’Or for Wim Wenders, and Apocalypse Now which won the 1979 Palme d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize for Francis Ford Coppola. American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is an acclaimed American film production company, centered in San Francisco, California and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. A majority of its film library is now owned by the entertainment company Lionsgate. Some of the other notable films from Zoetrope include THX 1138 (1971), Koyaanisqatsi (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), and The Beguiled (2017). (Inventory #: 22821E)