Various cities: Various studios, 1970-2000. An archive of 7 lobby cards, 10 pressbooks, and 2 press kits from 15 contemporary films with prominent African-American themes, characters, or cast members, with the bulk of the material dating from the late 1970s. This archive includes lobby cards, press kits, and pressbooks from 15 films, including "The Greatest," "The River Niger," "Mahogany," "Stir.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1974. Lobby card from the 1974 film, an early and unusual entry in the American neo-noir canon. Based on the 1937 novel, a hard boiled classic by proletarian writer Edward Anderson. Robert Altman made almost no mistakes in the 1970s, and this was one of the many high spots. The director, along with novelist-screenwriter Calder.....

Culver City, CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures, 1970. Six original lobby cards for the 1970 film, "Husbands," directed and written for the screen by John Cassavetes and starring Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara. Cassavetes, Falk, and Gazzara play three old friends brought together by the death of a mutual pal, each of whom enters into a subsequent reconsideration.....

Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1916. Vintage lobby card for the 1922 Republic Pictures re-release of the 1916 film short. 11 x 14 inches. Matte finish. Easily Near Fine, with one faint stain at the right margin, no pinholes.

Various cities: Various Publishers, circa 1957 - 1967. A collection of 10 original lobby cards for the Mexican releases of nine films directed by or featuring Charlie Chaplin. Highlights of this bright, charming collection include lobby cards for the Mexican releases of Chaplin's "Limelight," "King of New York," and "The Circus," as well as two variants for "The Chaplin Revue,".....

Paris: Cinedis, 1960. Original black-and-white photographic lobby card from the 1960 film, "Testament of Orpheus," Jean Cocteau's final work in the cinema. The last film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy, following "The Blood of a Poet" (1930) and "Orphee" (1950). The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself, as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists, 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1989. Collection of 8 vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1991 film. This set dated 1989, two years before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. Of note is a "tasty" image of Hopkins' bloody mouth, and a shot of director Demme surveying his work, with many images not seen in the film. Based.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC], 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White, about a unhappily married man who goes on a......

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Vintage lobby card from the US release of the 1942 film "Saboteur." An high spot among Hitchcock's early thrillers, and the director's only collaboration with author Dorothy Parker, who contributed to the screenplay. This particular film included much more location shooting than most of the director's pictures, including Boulder Dam, locations in New York.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Collection of five vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1960 US film. With the stamps of a French distributor on the versos. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for four Academy awards, including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key film in expanding allowable depictions.....

London: Thorn EMI, 1985. Collection of 10 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1985 British-Australian film. Based on Daniel Carney's 1982 novel, "The Square Circle," and sequel to "The Wild Geese" (1978). A group of mercenaries are hired by a broadcasting company to "rescue" a Nazi war criminal. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps, else Near Fine.....

London: Kentwood Productions / Allied Artists, 1956. Vintage front-of-house card for the 1956 British film noir, tinted green as issued. Pictured are the busty Diana Dors and Yvonne Mitchell in the midst of having a party. Released in the US as "Blonde Sinner." 11 x 14 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Collection of five lobby cards for the 1980 film. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road." One of the earliest feature films about central Beat figures. Shot on location in San Francisco.....

Los Angeles: Studio Films, 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers, and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio, Studio Films, and the short-lived film process "WonderColor," used to make it. A music revue that set the standard for the much.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Set of two vintage film lobby cards for the 1955 film. Loosely based on the 1898 novel by J. Meade Falkner. Fritz Lang directed the 1955 film about a young orphan sent to live with his mother's former lover. His new caretaker is morally ambiguous, dividing his time between leisurely activities and smuggling. Near.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window," here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne, created by Brett Halliday. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with two pinholes to the center of the card, a......

England: ITC Entertainment, 1975. Collection of 6 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1975 British-Canadian film. Based on Tom Ardies' 1974 novel, "Kosygin Is Coming." Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Shaver (Segal) is ensnared in a KGB assassination plot to kill a visiting Soviet Premier. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps, else Near Fine. Scarce.

Romania: Eve Productions, Circa 1970s. Two vintage oversize borderless black-and-white lobby cards from a 1970s Romanian release of the 1965 US film. Rubber-stamped on the versos MOTQRPSICHO [sic] FAVORIT, indicative of the Cinema Favorit in Romania, once the largest and most popular cinema in the country, and one that operated even under the then-Communist regime. One lobby card also bears.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Complete set of eight lobby cards for the 1947 film. Based on the Raymond Chandler's 1943 novel, his fourth book and the fourth Philip Marlowe adventure. An unusual and ambitious film noir, and Montgomery's final film for MGM. In a concept that originated with Montgomery, who directed, the entire film is shot from Marlowe's.....

Montreal: Cooperatio Productions, 1964. Vintage Canadian black-and-white lobby card from the 1964 film. In original mailing envelope from "Office National du Film Canada," and "Trouble-fete" in holograph ink on the front. Handsome starring actor Rodrigues is seen in police accouterments, checking his perimeters. Lucien (Hamelin) is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests and fighting to change.....

Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1926-1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank Thomas, Milt Kahl, Ollie Johnston, and Ward Kimball, all have.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1980. Complete set of eight lobby cards for the 1980 film. Winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Robert De Niro), and nominated for six others, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. 14 x 11 inches. Fine condition. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Spicer US.

Hollywood: National Screen Service Ltd. / Paramount Pictures, 1967. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the 1967 UK film. Based on the 1905 H. G. Wells novel, "Kipps," starring Tommy Steele as Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile. His grandfather dies and leaves him a vast wealth, prompting a sudden life change. 8 x......

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1969. Collection of eight vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1969 film noir. A late and important color noir, made at what was arguably the peak of Truffaut's success as a filmmaker, dedicated to one of his elders, Jean Renoir, and shot during the time he was deeply involved with lead actress.....