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"Fred Ott's Sneeze"

Date: 1894
Description: Printing-out-paper contact print of 45 frames of the 5 second film known as "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" or simply "Fred Ott's Sneeze." The fil...
Photograph

Production still for "Let's Live a Little"

Date: 1948
Description: Robert Cummings, left foreground with sunglasses in his hand, looks down upon a busy advertising photography studio in 1948 romantic comedy "Let's Live a L...
Poster

"Černý Petr" (Black Peter) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster with a white background and black lettering. Along the bottom is a photographic image of three young men and a woman talking, s...
Poster

"Milenka" (The Mistress) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Swedish film "Alskarinnan." At the top is a cutout heart framing the waist-up photographic image of a naked woman (face...
Poster

"Přisně tajné" (For Eyes Only) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the German film "Streng Geheim." Features a grainy photographic image of a hand and a face. The hand is holding a black and...
Poster

"Vojandy" (The Camp Followers) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian film "Le Soldatesse." A small photographic cut-out image of a woman's legs, along with an equally small cut-out...
Poster

"Mamma Roma" Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for an Italian film. Photographic close-up image of a woman holding her hand up to her face.
Poster

"20 Hodin" (20 Hours) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster featuring a black and white photographic image of an arm (and its shadow) reaching out towards a rifle.
Poster

"Souhvězdí panny" (Sign of the Virgin) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and blue close-up image of two faces, one in front of the other. Their eyes are closed and have stars pasted on the eyel...
Poster

"Kočār do vīdně" (Carriage to Vienna) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Black and mustard yellow image of a carriage wheel in the bottom right corner and part of a face in the top left corner.
Poster

"Černý tulipán" (The Black Tulip) Film Poster

Date: 1967
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "La tulipe noire." Collage image of a swashbuckler dressed in black and holding a sword while standing in a...
Poster

"Die Hand in der Falle" (The Hand in the Trap) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: German film poster for the Argentine film, "La mano en la trampa." Black and white photographic image of a woman standing and wearing a dress with the rota...
Poster

"Unter Mexikos Sonne" (Time in the Sun) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: German film poster for the American film, "Time in the Sun." Image of two faces on the right side and a skull on the left side. Black with a yellow backgro...
Poster

"Abgründe" (The Abyss) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: German film poster for the French film, "Les Abysses." Photographic image of a woman resting her head in her hand superimposed over the photographic image ...
Poster

"Báječny Život" (Wonderful Life) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the British film. At top right is a photographic waist-up image of a man hugging a woman from behind. Below them in the cen...
Poster

"Die Nacht began am Morgen" (Morning Departure) Film Poster

Date: 1960
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the British film. Close-up image colored in green of a man's face and another man behind him.
Poster

"Der scharlachrote Vorhang/Mina de Vanghel" (Two Love Crimes) Film Poster

Date: 1953
Description: German film poster for the French film, "Les crimes de l'amour." Out-of-focus photographic image of a hand reaching down.
Photograph

Frank Borzage on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Film director Frank Borzage and camera operator Joseph Biroc, along with other members of the film crew, are seen in the reflection of mirrors on the set o...
Photograph

Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ...
Photograph

Alex Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets

Date: 
Description: Image of actor Alec Guinness as Young Henry in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets. Guinness stands behind a camera as in the film, Young Henry ...

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