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Background imageFilm Collection: The Revenge of Frankenstein at a cinema

The Revenge of Frankenstein at a cinema
The Revenge of Frankenstein (starring Peter Cushing) advertised in sensational form outside a cinema. Date: 1958

Background imageFilm Collection: The Dolly Sisters in The Million Dollar Dollies

The Dolly Sisters in The Million Dollar Dollies
Advertising lobby card (2 of 2) for the film The Million Dollar Dollies starring the Dolly Sisters, 1918 1918

Background imageFilm Collection: Poster advertising The Sorrows of Satan

Poster advertising The Sorrows of Satan

Background imageFilm Collection: Costume design by Georges Barbier for the Valentino film Mon

Costume design by Georges Barbier for the Valentino film Monsieur Beaucaire, 1925 1925

Background imageFilm Collection: Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 96, June 1930

Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 96, June 1930
Illustration Cine-plaisirs from Paris Plaisirs number 96, June 1930 Date: 1930

Background imageFilm Collection: Cover for Paris Plaisirs number 95, May 1930

Cover for Paris Plaisirs number 95, May 1930 featuring Kay Francis in a Paramount film Date: 1930

Background imageFilm Collection: Betty Blythe in the film Le Puits de Jacob

Betty Blythe in the film Le Puits de Jacob (Jacobs Well / A Daughter of Israel) from Paris Plaisirs number 43, February 1926 Date: 1926

Background imageFilm Collection: Photographic print wallet

Photographic print wallet, advertising Kodak Film, and the developers, Karakashian Bros of Khartoum, Sudan. The art deco design shows a young woman with bobbed hair, taking a photo with a box camera

Background imageFilm Collection: Photographic film envelope

Photographic film envelope
Photographic envelope for a roll of Selo Panchromatic film. 20th century

Background imageFilm Collection: Cast and crew on a film set

Cast and crew on a film set -- a man and woman sit at a table, while another man holds up a slate (Shot 11, Set 3). 20th century

Background imageFilm Collection: A Night to Remember, film poster

A Night to Remember, film poster

Background imageFilm Collection: Music cover, It Happened in Monterey

Music cover, It Happened in Monterey
Music cover for It Happened in Monterey by Paul Whiteman and his Band. circa 1930s

Background imageFilm Collection: Cooks Continental Coach Tours

Cooks Continental Coach Tours
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Continental Coach Tours -- see it all so easily! A roll of camera film shows colourful pictures of holiday resorts, and a coach travelling along a road. Date: 1953

Background imageFilm Collection: Gran pops nose is put out of joint by Lawson Wood

Gran pops nose is put out of joint by Lawson Wood
Now that King Kong has appeared in London, this might happen to Gran pop (the wily orang utan created by artist, Lawson Wood) at any moment

Background imageFilm Collection: A Night to Remember, film studio scene

A Night to Remember, film studio scene
An artists colour sketch of a film studio scene for the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912

Background imageFilm Collection: A Night to Remember, book and film items

A Night to Remember, book and film items
The book by Walter Lord, with an information folder and film poster advertising the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, based on the Titanic disaster of 1912. Date: 1958

Background imageFilm Collection: Costume design by Georges Barbier for the Valentino film Mon

Costume design by Georges Barbier for the Valentino film Monsieur Beaucaire, 1925 Date: 1925

Background imageFilm Collection: Filming Thunderbirds

Filming Thunderbirds
Filming the classic 1960s series Thunderbirds, a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films

Background imageFilm Collection: Rosie Dolly arriving in court for film suit

Rosie Dolly arriving in court for film suit

Background imageFilm Collection: Evelyn Laye in Princess Charming

Evelyn Laye in Princess Charming
Evelyn Laye, British actress, seen here in her costume for Princess Charming (a stage production and a film). 1933

Background imageFilm Collection: Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge

Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge in an amusing scene from Under Your Hat (a theatre production in 1938 and a comedy film released in 1940). 1939

Background imageFilm Collection: Compton Mackenzies house, Isle of Barra, Scotland

Compton Mackenzies house, Isle of Barra, Scotland
The house of the writer Compton Mackenzie on the Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, northern Scotland. His novel Whisky Galore (1947) was filmed here

Background imageFilm Collection: Cinematography trophies on display

Cinematography trophies on display
Various trophies on display

Background imageFilm Collection: People in a park, with cine camera

People in a park, with cine camera
People in a park, watching an event. A man stands with a cine camera on a tripod, filming

Background imageFilm Collection: Clifton Webb and Irene Castle, Paris, 1922

Clifton Webb and Irene Castle, Paris, 1922 Date: 1922

Background imageFilm Collection: Mrs Vernon Castle (Irene Castle), New York, 1916

Mrs Vernon Castle (Irene Castle), New York, 1916 - famous dancer, cabaret artist, stage actress and film star Date: 1916

Background imageFilm Collection: Film ballet Between Two Worlds

Film ballet Between Two Worlds
A scene from the Oxford University Experimental Film Groups film ballet, " Between Two Worlds", made in 1951-2

Background imageFilm Collection: Royal Court Theatre group on Aldermaston March

Royal Court Theatre group on Aldermaston March
Members of the Royal Court Theatre entering a field at Aldermaston with their banners for the first day of the 1959 Aldermaston March

Background imageFilm Collection: Brandon Estate, Southwark, London

Brandon Estate, Southwark, London
The Brandon Estate, a flagship 1960s council estate in Southwark, south east London

Background imageFilm Collection: Aldermaston Marchers in a field

Aldermaston Marchers in a field
A group of Aldermaston Marchers in a field, ready to set off on their march to London. A cameraman with a tripod stands on top of a car, ready to make a film of the event

Background imageFilm Collection: Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham

Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham
A man in a clean white shirt working at machinery in the Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham

Background imageFilm Collection: Poster advertising silent film, Les Ailes (Wings)

Poster advertising silent film, Les Ailes (Wings)
Poster advertising the French version of an American silent film, Les Ailes (Wings), by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Llasky, set during the First World War. circa 1920s

Background imageFilm Collection: Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney
SYLVIA SIDNEY American film and television actress, here with a geisha girl doll. Date: 1910 - 1999

Background imageFilm Collection: Jan Kiepura Film Poster

Jan Kiepura Film Poster
The artwork for a Film staring Jan Kiepura, the Polish singer (tenor) and actor Date: circa 1940

Background imageFilm Collection: Music cover, Gershwins Embraceable You

Music cover, Gershwins Embraceable You
Music cover for George Gershwins Embraceable You, from the film Rhapsody in Blue. circa 1940s

Background imageFilm Collection: Poster of Africa for a film distributor, AGDC

Poster of Africa for a film distributor, AGDC
Poster of Africa, showing the territory of a French film distributor, the AGDC, l Alliance Generale de Distribution Cinematographique

Background imageFilm Collection: Four children with a film projector

Four children with a film projector
Four children and a cat with a film projector, looking at a picture of a boy and a dog on a screen. early 20th century

Background imageFilm Collection: Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow
American film star Jean Harlow, the original Platinum Blonde, having her hair tested for colour. Date: 1911 - 1937

Background imageFilm Collection: Little boy in jesters costume with projection show

Little boy in jesters costume with projection show
A little boy in a jesters costume projects an image of two pigs onto a screen. circa early 20th century

Background imageFilm Collection: Children looking at a pig projected onto a screen

Children looking at a pig projected onto a screen
Four children looking at a pig projected onto a screen, with a little boy in a jesters costume standing to one side, operating the projector. circa early 20th century

Background imageFilm Collection: Talking Movie Equipment

Talking Movie Equipment
English Professor Low, demonstrating his Audiometer, which synchronises moving film with sound, an ingenious invention during early Talkies years. Date: early 1930s

Background imageFilm Collection: Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong
ANNA MAY WONG Premier Chinese American film star and stage actress who achieved worldwide fame in the 1920s and 1930s. Date: 1905 - 1961

Background imageFilm Collection: MAKING A TALKIE

MAKING A TALKIE
A film crew making a Talkie of the gulls in Hyde Park, central London. Date: early 1930s

Background imageFilm Collection: Girls at the Cinema

Girls at the Cinema
A group of extremely well turned-out young ladies, all of them with trendy Marcel Wave hair-dos, wearing headphones to watch a film at the cinema. Date: early 1930s

Background imageFilm Collection: Travelling Actors

Travelling Actors
Actors, part of a travelling theatre company, performing their comedy (or mime) routine on a platform in the middle of a field. Date: early 1930s

Background imageFilm Collection: Dryden / Garden / Allah / 238

Dryden / Garden / Allah / 238
Reproduction of Ernst Drydens palette board Date: 1935

Background imageFilm Collection: Dryden / Garden / Allah / 231

Dryden / Garden / Allah / 231
Costume design for Marlene Dietrichs orchid chiffon dress Date: 1936

Background imageFilm Collection: Dryden / Garden / Allah / 240

Dryden / Garden / Allah / 240
A page from Drydens storyboard showing a six-day shoot between 15 and 27 April 1935, with silver lame and chiffon samples attached. Date: 1935

Background imageFilm Collection: Dryden / Dr Rhythm / 271

Dryden / Dr Rhythm / 271
Portrait of a jazz player for the film Dr Rhythm Date: 1938

Background imageFilm Collection: Children queueing for the cinema

Children queueing for the cinema
Children queue outside the Coliseum, in the Harrow Road, West London, to see Buster Crabbe in Gun Brothers. 1957



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