12th Mar, 2025 13:00
Alan Parker: The Evacuees (BBC TV movie 1975) -
Original hand-drawn annotated sketch by Alan Parker; Production script; Film Schedule and Cast List; and related BBC letters to include: -
Alan Parker (1944-2020) seven caricature sketches drawn and annotated by the director to both-sides of a single leaf on ‘The Alan Parker Film Company’ headed notepaper, depicted are cast and crew members ‘Neville’ Miller (played by Steven Serember), ‘An Angry Director’ (Alan Parker), ‘Graham’ (Graham Benson, production assistant), ‘Smiling Gary Carp’ (cast in the role of Danny Miller), ‘Brian Tufano’(cinematographer) and ‘Paul Besterman’ (cast in the role of Sidney Zuckerman), with Alan Parker’s additional manuscript Signed note in black ink next to the sketch of Paul Besterman, ‘Dear Steve, Sorry to hear about your mishap . . .The film is coming along nicely and soon we will have it all together . . . Cheer up and I hope you get home as soon as possible. Alan’.
Personally sent by Alan Parker to cast member Steven Serember following an accident Steven had suffered a few months after filming completed. Alan Parker later commented, ‘We found our locations in Manchester, Salford, Blackpool, and Lytham St Annes and cast mainly in and around the Manchester schools. I found Steven Serember (young Neville) at the King David High School. He was waiting outside the headmaster’s office when we spotted him — always a good sign when casting’.
together with,
The Evacuees, Original Production Script by Jack Rosenthal, titled to front page ‘Manchester. September 1, 1939’, unbound with a brass brad, 174-pages on white sheets including a blue page of revised script, 21.5 x 30cm.
The Evacuees, Original Production Filming Schedule and Cast List, marked to front page, Project No: 215472326, Filming: 19th August to 27th September 1974, Locations: Manchester/Lytham St. Annes/Blackpool, unbound with brass brad, 52-pages on white sheets, 21.5 x 30cm.
The Evacuees, Original Shooting Order, for weeks 34-35, Monday 19 August – Sunday 1 September, 4-pages on loose yellow sheets, 21 x 30cm;
Alan Parker, Typed Letter Signed, dated 31st July, 1974, one-page, letter sent by the director to Steven Serember enclosing a copy of the script for him to read, . . . ‘I don’t want you to learn anything, just read it through a number of times, so you understand the part, I will go through it with you more thoroughly when we get nearer the shooting date . . . we still have a strike here at the BBC, which is why I we have to keep postponing our dates . . . If the strike continues after next week I’m afraid we’ll have to cancel the film . . . I hope you enjoy the script and your skating is coming along! Yours, Alan’.
Graham Benson, Autograph Letter Signed by the production assistant (also sent to Steven Serember following his accident) written on both-sides of a single leaf of BBC TV headed notepaper, . . . ‘It was very strange for the first few days getting back to London and not having 3 noisy, awkward, ill-tempered but generally charming boys to worry about from noon to night. In all honesty, may you believe it or not, I miss you all very much. Alan and I have seen a lot of you on film lately . . . It’s really looking very, very good and I think you have a lot to be proud and pleased about. I have seen Maureen [Lipman] and Jack [Rosenthal] recently and they send their love . . . Yours Graham Benson’.
A pair of one-page letters typed on BBC TV headed notepaper, the first: sent to Steven Serember by Gwen Joyce, Assistant to Alan Parker, dated 14th August 1974, which confirmed a costume fitting and haircut with the Make-Up-Supervisor at Simpsons Hotel, Manchester, where Alan would also tell Steven about the scenes he would play; the second: sent to Mrs. Serember (Steven’s mother) by Nansi Davies, Artist’s Contracts Department, which enclosed two copies of Steven’s agreed contracts (not present in this Lot). (8)
The Evacuees was Alan Parker’s debut full-length feature, starring script writer Jack Rosenthal’s wife, Maureen Lipman, which went on to win a Bafta Award for best TV drama and an Emmy for best International Drama.
Provenance:
The Collection of a member of the cast.
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Alan Parker: The Evacuees (BBC TV movie 1975) -
Original hand-drawn annotated sketch by Alan Parker; Production script; Film Schedule and Cast List; and related BBC letters to include: -
Alan Parker (1944-2020) seven caricature sketches drawn and annotated by the director to both-sides of a single leaf on ‘The Alan Parker Film Company’ headed notepaper, depicted are cast and crew members ‘Neville’ Miller (played by Steven Serember), ‘An Angry Director’ (Alan Parker), ‘Graham’ (Graham Benson, production assistant), ‘Smiling Gary Carp’ (cast in the role of Danny Miller), ‘Brian Tufano’(cinematographer) and ‘Paul Besterman’ (cast in the role of Sidney Zuckerman), with Alan Parker’s additional manuscript Signed note in black ink next to the sketch of Paul Besterman, ‘Dear Steve, Sorry to hear about your mishap . . .The film is coming along nicely and soon we will have it all together . . . Cheer up and I hope you get home as soon as possible. Alan’.
Personally sent by Alan Parker to cast member Steven Serember following an accident Steven had suffered a few months after filming completed. Alan Parker later commented, ‘We found our locations in Manchester, Salford, Blackpool, and Lytham St Annes and cast mainly in and around the Manchester schools. I found Steven Serember (young Neville) at the King David High School. He was waiting outside the headmaster’s office when we spotted him — always a good sign when casting’.
together with,
The Evacuees, Original Production Script by Jack Rosenthal, titled to front page ‘Manchester. September 1, 1939’, unbound with a brass brad, 174-pages on white sheets including a blue page of revised script, 21.5 x 30cm.
The Evacuees, Original Production Filming Schedule and Cast List, marked to front page, Project No: 215472326, Filming: 19th August to 27th September 1974, Locations: Manchester/Lytham St. Annes/Blackpool, unbound with brass brad, 52-pages on white sheets, 21.5 x 30cm.
The Evacuees, Original Shooting Order, for weeks 34-35, Monday 19 August – Sunday 1 September, 4-pages on loose yellow sheets, 21 x 30cm;
Alan Parker, Typed Letter Signed, dated 31st July, 1974, one-page, letter sent by the director to Steven Serember enclosing a copy of the script for him to read, . . . ‘I don’t want you to learn anything, just read it through a number of times, so you understand the part, I will go through it with you more thoroughly when we get nearer the shooting date . . . we still have a strike here at the BBC, which is why I we have to keep postponing our dates . . . If the strike continues after next week I’m afraid we’ll have to cancel the film . . . I hope you enjoy the script and your skating is coming along! Yours, Alan’.
Graham Benson, Autograph Letter Signed by the production assistant (also sent to Steven Serember following his accident) written on both-sides of a single leaf of BBC TV headed notepaper, . . . ‘It was very strange for the first few days getting back to London and not having 3 noisy, awkward, ill-tempered but generally charming boys to worry about from noon to night. In all honesty, may you believe it or not, I miss you all very much. Alan and I have seen a lot of you on film lately . . . It’s really looking very, very good and I think you have a lot to be proud and pleased about. I have seen Maureen [Lipman] and Jack [Rosenthal] recently and they send their love . . . Yours Graham Benson’.
A pair of one-page letters typed on BBC TV headed notepaper, the first: sent to Steven Serember by Gwen Joyce, Assistant to Alan Parker, dated 14th August 1974, which confirmed a costume fitting and haircut with the Make-Up-Supervisor at Simpsons Hotel, Manchester, where Alan would also tell Steven about the scenes he would play; the second: sent to Mrs. Serember (Steven’s mother) by Nansi Davies, Artist’s Contracts Department, which enclosed two copies of Steven’s agreed contracts (not present in this Lot). (8)
The Evacuees was Alan Parker’s debut full-length feature, starring script writer Jack Rosenthal’s wife, Maureen Lipman, which went on to win a Bafta Award for best TV drama and an Emmy for best International Drama.
Provenance:
The Collection of a member of the cast.
