United States
1966 to 1967
184 vintage color photographs and contact sheets, custom red calf clamshell box
Photograph sheets approximately 8" x 10" (20.3 x 25.4 cm); photographs generally 4" x 5" (10.2 x 12.7 cm)
Provenance: Private Texas collection
This archive contains 184 vintage color photographs and contact sheets from The Green Hornet, the 1966 to 1967 ABC television series starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato. The group includes 102 keybook photographs and 82 contact sheets, encompassing reference, portrait, publicity, on-set, location, and prop images, with production labels, manuscript annotations, and keybook-style two-hole punches preserving the studio working context. The material is concentrated on candid and production images of Bruce Lee during the television role that introduced him to a broad American audience.
The Green Hornet originated as a 1930s radio character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, but the 1966 to 1967 television adaptation became historically significant through Lee's presence and its role in introducing martial arts to mainstream American television audiences. Lee's performance as Kato generated substantial audience response and is widely documented as the foundation of his subsequent career in film. The archive preserves a working visual record of the production rather than a curated set of publicity images, giving it documentary weight beyond individual stills.
The 184-piece archive is housed in a custom red calf clamshell box, presenting the material as a unified collection rather than individual photographs. Archives of this type, documenting a specific production with working studio materials intact, represent a distinct category within the market for television history and Bruce Lee material. The combination of scale, studio provenance indicators, and the historical significance of the series gives this archive a clear position within 20th century American popular culture collecting.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
United States
1966 to 1967
184 vintage color photographs and contact sheets, custom red calf clamshell box
Photograph sheets approximately 8" x 10" (20.3 x 25.4 cm); photographs generally 4" x 5" (10.2 x 12.7 cm)
Provenance: Private Texas collection
This archive contains 184 vintage color photographs and contact sheets from The Green Hornet, the 1966 to 1967 ABC television series starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato. The group includes 102 keybook photographs and 82 contact sheets, encompassing reference, portrait, publicity, on-set, location, and prop images, with production labels, manuscript annotations, and keybook-style two-hole punches preserving the studio working context. The material is concentrated on candid and production images of Bruce Lee during the television role that introduced him to a broad American audience.
The Green Hornet originated as a 1930s radio character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, but the 1966 to 1967 television adaptation became historically significant through Lee's presence and its role in introducing martial arts to mainstream American television audiences. Lee's performance as Kato generated substantial audience response and is widely documented as the foundation of his subsequent career in film. The archive preserves a working visual record of the production rather than a curated set of publicity images, giving it documentary weight beyond individual stills.
The 184-piece archive is housed in a custom red calf clamshell box, presenting the material as a unified collection rather than individual photographs. Archives of this type, documenting a specific production with working studio materials intact, represent a distinct category within the market for television history and Bruce Lee material. The combination of scale, studio provenance indicators, and the historical significance of the series gives this archive a clear position within 20th century American popular culture collecting.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
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