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.....

Paris: C. Darmon, 1980. Collection of 16 vintage color French lobby cards from the 1980 French theatrical release of the 1980 US television miniseries. First broadcast in three parts on NBC on January 27 through 29, 1980 in the US, released theatrically in France. Based on the 1950 novel by Ray Bradbury. A three-episode miniseries which imagines a future world.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1927. Vintage hand color tinted lobby card for the 1927 silent film. Pictured are a curly haired Louise Brooks, looking past an oblivious Wallace Beery and toward a typically sly Adolphe Menjou. Based on the French play "L'homme en habit" ("The Man in Evening Clothes) by Andre Picard and Yves Mirand. Today considered a lost film. 11.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1971. Collection of eight vintage lobby cards from the 1971 film. Two strangers meet in a chance encounter that ends in an unusual romance. Very Good plus, with light age toning. and a handful of pinhole tears to each lobby card.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Original lobby card for the 1959 film "The Chaplin Revue," a re-release of three of Charlie Chaplin's earlier films: "A Dog's Life" and "Shoulder Arms" (both from 1918), and his final short film, "The Pilgrim" (1923). Lobby card No. 7 in the set depicts a scene from "Shoulder Arms," where the Tramp is a......

England: ITC Entertainment, 1978. Collection of 7 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1978 British film. After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon into deep space, the Moonbase-Alpha and its several hundred inhabitants drift until a rescue party from Earth arrives. the commander of the space station sees the rescue party differently, as aliens hellbent on extracting radiation.....

England: ITC Entertainment, 1974. Collection of 7 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1974 British-italian television mini-series. Six-hour television mini-series that aired in 1973 and 1974, a retelling of the life of Moses (Lancaster), the man who discovered the Ten Commandments and parted the Red Sea. Cult favorite Anthony Burgess contributed to the entire series, and Thomas Keneally.....

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.....

Hong Kong: Golden Harvest / Concord Productions, 1972. Collection of three vintage lobby cards for the 1972 film, likely for an international release. The first film produced by Bruce Lee's Concord Productions studio, as well as Lee's screenwriting and directorial debuts, and the film debut of Chuck Norris, who battles Lee in an iconic fight scene at the film's climax.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Concord Productions, 1973. Original lobby card for the 1973 US and Hong Kong co-film from original Hong Kong distributor Golden Harvest. Scarce. Perhaps the greatest and most influential martial arts film of all time, and the first produced by a Hollywood studio, which brought the genre to a wide international audience, changed the way fight.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia / Jerry Bresler Productions, 1965. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 US film. During the Civil War, an obsessed, glory seeking Union cavalry officer leads a disparate crew of soldiers, Confederate POWs, and American Indian scouts into Mexico to attack a group of Apaches that have been raiding towns.....

London: The Archers, 1947. Complete set of 8 UK color front-of-house cards from the first-run screening of the 1947 film. Each with the contemporary rubber stamp of Girosign, Ltd., on the verso. Front-of-house cards served the same purpose in the UK as lobby cards in the US, but were generally only produced for films shot in color. A very popular.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Original lobby card for the Quebecois release of the 1959 film "The Sound and the Fury," loosely based on the 1929 novel by William Faulkner. Seen here with the title painted over in black and rewritten in French: "Le Bruit et la Fureur," as was common practice at the time. Lobby card number eight in.....

Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1936. Two vintage lobby cards from the 1936 film. The talented soprano daughter of an eccentric theatrical family is determined to live a quiet life with her fiance, though that would mean being unable to use her gift, until she is wooed into performing with her family in a traveling show and realizes her mistake. Very Good.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1945. Original complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1945 film, based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus. Lightly soiled with pinholes, but still bright.

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1969. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards for the US release of the 1969 French film. 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.....

N.p. Universal International Pictures, 1966. Collection of eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1966 film. Each with stamps on the verso reading "Girosign Ltd". and "393".Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England.8 x 10 inches. Very Good only, with some creasing to several cards, and some faint pen markings.....