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- BFI identifier28663
- Date1968 (Copyright)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA down-trodden accounts clerk murders his boss when displaced by an adding machine. After his trial and electrocution, he finds himself one of hundreds of operators punching ultra-modern decimalised adding machines in the next world. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Jerome Epstein
©: Universal Pictures Limited
[Production Company]: Associated London Films
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Title
The Adding Machine (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/3373-1649-87E5-FB79-4627-YCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
D3 - Video - Viewing
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Screenplay - SCR-3017
Script - Script type: Script (revised to May 10th 1968) - SCR-3018
THE ADDING MACHINE - Documentation - JLE/8/1 Draft script, marked "Original Type script, English Version", nd. JLE/8/2 Draft script with inserts and annotations, nd. JLE/8/3 Folder of pre-production correspondence, 1962-1964, including correspondence regarding film rights between Epstein and Elmer Rice, author of the original play and correspondence relating to casting. JLE/8/4 Folder of pre-production correspondence, 1965-1967, including A letter to Epstein from Elmer Rice's wife after his death in 1967 and correspondence relating to film financing and agreements, casting and background for the film. JLE/8/5 Folder of pre-production correspondence, 1968, including an incomplete letter to Epstein from Oona Chaplin, asking about the film and correspondence finalising casting and deciding on a start date for production. [Item Returned to Donor] JLE/8/6 Items relating to casting and location: i) Stills of Phyllis Diller (x6), nd. ii) Black and white photographs of ships at sea, marked 'Raffallo', 'Adding Machine research', nd. iii) Memos relating to casting and location, nd. JLE/8/7 Folder containing pre-production notes and memos, 1967-1968 and nd. JLE/8/8 Folder containing storyboard sketches, nd. JLE/8/9 Folder containing preliminary budgets for the film, nd. JLE/8/10 Folder containing film stills featuring Epstein on the film set, (x23) nd. JLE/8/11 Photograph of Charlie Chaplin's daughter, Josephine on the film set, marked on the back 'Josephine Chaplin and her ex husband', nd. JLE/8/12 Strips of film stills, taken for publicity use, (x16), nd. JLE/8/13 Film stills (5 envelopes, 162 stills), nd. JLE/8/14 Photographic negatives, featuring Billie Whitelaw, one of the stars of the film, nd. JLE/8/15 Folder containing 'daily progress reports', March-May 1968 JLE/8/16 Folder containing notes and memos (handwritten and typed) relating to different phases of the film production, February-September 1968 and nd. JLE/8/17 Folder of production items: i) Statement of production cost, 15 December 1968 ii) Cast lists, March-April 1968 iii) Shooting schedules, February-March 1968 iv) Unit lists, February-March 1968 v) Production related correspondence, March 1968. JLE/8/18 Folder containing items relating to post-production: i) Titling suggestions, nd. ii) Editing notes, nd. iii) Notes for the film opening in London at the Cameo Poly, Upper Regent Street, 21 May 1970. JLE/8/19 Folder containing post-production correspondence, 1968-1970, including correspondence relating to editing, financial concerns, film showings and advertising/marketing. JLE/8/20 Film stills with publicity captions, nd. JLE/8/21 Folder containing publicity items: i) Synopsis, written as a publicity statement, nd. ii) Notes: ideas for publicising the film, including Epstein's own ideas, 1967-1969 and nd. iii) Publicity for individual screenings: Special showing at Howard and Wyndham's Theatre, London, 25 March 1970. Showing at Cameo-Poly Cinema, Upper Regent Street, London, 17 June 1970. Showing at Kips Bay Theater, New York, 23 September 1970. JLE/8/22 Folder containing publicity items: i) Newspaper articles, July 1969 and nd. ii) Typescript of interview with Epstein about the film, for United Press International, nd. iii) News sheets produced by Universal Pictures Ltd., March 1968 and nd. JLE/8/23 Newspaper reviews, English and American, 1969-1970 JLE/8/24 Folder containing film related correspondence, 1974-1981, including, correspondence relating to the musical film rights. - JLE-8
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - interior of massage room with two men on tables having massage and talking - PD-18731
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - SPD-151983
Photograph: transparency - SPD-151984
Photograph: transparency - SPD-151993
Photograph: transparency - SPD-151994
Photograph: transparency - SPD-151995
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Work - 28663 - 1968 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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