Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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Pamphlets and ephemera; publicity materials such as ads and theater ads; correspondence, clippings, trade and movie fan publications, scripts and continuities, fake movie currency, and celebrity stationery and bookplates. There are also title cards and art cards used in silent film production and three scrapbooks to commemorate the first "talkies" by Fox Films and Paramount Studios. The bulk of the collection is pre-1933. See also: GC 1269, GC 1286, GC 1287, GC 1288. See also photograph collection P-26; see also photograph collection P-26.1
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Research is by appointment only
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
- Preferred citation:
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Motion Pictures Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Location of this collection:
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900 Exposition BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90007-4057, US
- Contact:
- (213) 763-3359