Movie script for a film that was never made. Written by Robert Shelton, the music critic who helped to launch the career of Bob Dylan.
170 pages, partly hand-typed.
‘Passport. Original story and screenplay by Robert Shelton. Holder of the option, first rights and partial copyright: Peter E. Nigoghossian, 26 The Pagoda, Ray Mill Road East, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Fourth of January 1974’.
We have no idea who ‘Peter E. Nigoghossian’ was?
The script is a mystery. It came from the collection of Shelton’s close friend and fellow critic David Laing. Laing wrote ‘The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World’. The script also comes with a photocopy of The order of service from Shelton’s memorial in 1995.
Shelton published ‘No Direction Home’ in 1986. In the 90s he became a film critic. there is no information on the script, and it may be the only copy.