The Crowd

King Vidor (director)
Joseph Farnham (screenwriter)
James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach (starring)

Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film, showing the infamous "office set," with dozens of identical desks in a largely windowless room. Provenance label, mimeo snipe, and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso.

A bleak, populist film, heavily influenced by German cinema, and nominated for several awards at the very first Academy Awards ceremony, including Best Director for King Vidor.

Shot on location throughout New York and in Los Angeles.

10 x 7.25 inches. Very Good, moderately edgeworn, with old cello tape at the corners and center bottom edge.

National Film Registry. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 44. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies.


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