So, as we’ve established, film fliers are ephemeral. Unless they happened to end up in the hands of collectors, they are supposed to be discarded after being distributed in conjunction with a film’s release. However, there is more ephemeral media than just film fliers: film advertisements within newspapers, for example, when a film is brought […]
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Newspapers in the Makino Collection
Post Hurricane Sandy in NYC, I have been organizing the newspapers in the Makino Collection, which as a whole go from 1926 to 1969, with most of the papers from the 1940s through the 1950s. These include film newspapers for which we have many issues (over 500), like the Shūkan eiga puresu/週刊映画プレス/The Weekly Eiga Press, […]