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Decades of movie poster history go online

January 18, 2018 - Erin Willard

It is difficult to envision the sheer volume of the Movie Poster Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The collection encompasses upwards of 10,000 posters and spans decades: from when the film industry was just beginning to compete with vaudeville acts in the 1920s to the rise of the modern megaplex and drive-in theaters in the 1970s. The sizes range from that of a small window card to that of a billboard. [Read more…] about Decades of movie poster history go online

Filed Under: Film, Research + Teaching Tagged With: digital collections, digitization, IIIF, Interstate Theatre Circuit Collection, Lauren Walker, movie posters

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