Collection Highlights: Stills, Posters, and Paper Collection

Douglass Crockwell (American, 1904–1968). Illustrated Christmas card, undated. George Eastman Museum, gift of the Estate of Douglass Crockwell.

Douglass Crockwell (American, 1904–1968). Color Wheel #1, ca. 1963. George Eastman Museum, gift of the Estate of Douglass Crockwell.

Unidentified photographer. Lothar Wolff at work editing The March of Time, ca. 1938. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, gift of Violet Wolff.

Louise Brooks research notebook, 1956. George Eastman Museum, bequest of Louise Brooks.

Louise Brooks research notebook, 1956. George Eastman Museum, bequest of Louise Brooks.

Gibson Gowland and Zasu Pitts in a publicity still for Greed (Erich von Stroheim, US 1924). Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in a publicity still for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, US 1936). Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Mary Badham and Gregory Peck in a publicity still forTo Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, US 1961). Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (Allan Dwan, US 1922). Positive image from a photo negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film. George Eastman Museum, gift of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896–1979). Greta Garbo, 1931. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, accession.

George Hurrell (American, 1904–1992). Fay Wray, 1935. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Lobby card for The Big Caper (Robert Stevens, US 1957). Photogelatin process on heavy card stock. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Lobby card for The Copperhead (Charles Maigne, US 1920). Rotogravure on heavy card stock. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Poster for Die göttliche Jette (The Divine Jetta, Erich Waschneck, Germany 1937). Lithographic process on wove paper. George Eastman Museum, accession.

24-sheet poster for A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, UK 1964). Color offset printing on wove paper. George Eastman Museum, accession.

One-sheet poster for The Silent Witness (Harry Lambart, US 1917). Lithographic process on wove paper. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Claude Rains, Humphrey Bogart, and Paul Henreid in a publicity still for Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, US 1942). Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, gift of Warner Bros.

Press book for The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, US 1933). George Eastman Museum, accession.

Publicity still for Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, US 1933). Gelatin silver print. George Eastman Museum, gift of Warner Bros.

Music score for Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo, US 1925). George Eastman Museum, accession.

Thematic music cue sheet for The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton, US 1928). George Eastman Museum, gift of Marianne Huff.

Mutoscope reel of The Love Conjurer, produced by the International Mutoscope Reel Company, ca. 1915. George Eastman Museum, gift of the Estate of Douglass Crockwell.

Praxinoscope band. George Eastman Museum, accession. 

Theoscope band. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Zeotrope band. George Eastman Museum, accession.

Frame clipping from Au pays de l’or (In the Land of the Gold Mines, Pathé Frères, France 1908). Stencil-colored nitrocellulose motion picture film. George Eastman Museum, gift of Paolo Cherchi Usai, ex-collection Davide Turconi.

Frame clipping from L’écrin du rajah (The Rajah's Casket, Gaston Velle, France 1906). Stencil-colored nitrocellulose motion picture film. George Eastman Museum, gift of Paolo Cherchi Usai, ex-collection Davide Turconi.

Frame clipping from Il poverello di Assisi (Enrico Guazzoni, Italy 1911). Tinted and toned nitrocellulose motion picture film. George Eastman Museum, gift of La Cineteca del Friuli, ex-collection Davide Turconi.