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Most of the advertisements in this 1917 issue of Moving Picture World market directly to film exhibitors making their way...

Moving Picture World was a periodical published by James Petrie (J.P.) Chalmers, Jr and was targeted to film exhibitors. The...

This week, we’ll be tracing trends and changes in the world of theatre design and film exhibition through some of...

An interesting quirk of the press release collection is amount of photos with white-out editing. This process, called “early photoshopping” by...

To close out our week of silent star press releases, we’ve made this gif of Al St. John having some classic...

This doleful, Orientalist starlet is Juanita Hansen, an Iowa-born, Los Angeles-bred star of early Hollywood who worked for L. Frank...

This 1925 press photo of a seemingly “wholesome” young actress making use of an innovative radio/dance floor gives an early look...

Not all of Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties remained at the “knee-nudity” level of stardom. Mabel Normand continued her career at Sennett’s...

In the earlier days of movie-going, short serialized story films, called serials, were a popular form of entertainment. These serials...

Press photos show more than the celebrities of the day. They can also serve as gateways to moments in history...

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