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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Academy photographs collection
Creator:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Creator:
Center for Motion Picture Study
Identifier/Call Number: 2687
Physical Description:
247.5 Linear Feet
220 boxes
Date (bulk): 1910-1999
Abstract: This collection includes publicity stills and other photographs, slides, and stills for the marketing of motion pictures and
theatre productions from the 1910s through the 1990s, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Beverly Hills
location.
Language of Material:
English.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences was founded in 1927 as an organization to innovate within the motion picture
industry. Its original 36 members included production executives and film luminaries of the time, brought together by Louis
B. Mayer. Members represent the many professional areas of the motion picture industry are organized into 17 branches – Actors,
Casting Directors, Cinematographers, Costume Designers, Directors, Documentary, Executives, Film Editors, Makeup Artists and
Hairstylists, Marketing and Public Relations, Music, Producers, Production Design, Short Films and Feature Animation, Sound,
Visual Effects and Writers.
This collection includes publicity stills and other photographs, slides, and stills for the marketing of motion pictures and
theatre productions from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Beverly Hills location. The bulk of the collection
consists of film stills from various motion pictures ranging from the 1910s to the 1990s. Materials also include stills from
motion pictures from Paramount, Samuel Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille, Warren Newcombe, along with an extensive amount of stills
from the motion picture
Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred to USC Cinematic Arts Library from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Academy photographs collection, Collection no. 2687, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Actors -- Photographs
Actresses -- Photographs
Advertising -- Motion pictures -- United States
Film stills
Motion pictures -- History -- Photographs
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Photographs
Motion picture actors and actresses
Photographs
Promotional materials
Center for Motion Picture Study -- Archives