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Edison Movie Projector

Date: 10 19 1931
Description: Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven.
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Biondolillo Family

Date: 1916
Description: Studio portrait of Mr. Louis Biondolillo and his wife seated with their five children around them. From left to right the girls are Mary, Lena, Rose, Pauli...
Poster

"Dr. Mabuse der Spieler" (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler) Film Poster

Date: 1962
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the film. Illustrated image of the face of a man with a moustache wearing a top hat. Several numbered playing card...
Poster

"Fräulein Julie" (Miss Julie) Film Poster

Date: 1961
Description: German film poster for the Swedish film, "Fröken Julie." Illustrated image of two faces, one of a woman on the bottom left, and one in the center of a man ...
Poster

"Dr. Mabuse, Inferno des Verbrechens" (Dr. Mabuse, Part 2) Film Poster

Date: 1962
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the film. Illustrated image of the faces of five men surrounded by darkness.
Poster

"Das Privatleben Heinrich VIII" (The Private Lives of Henry the Eighth) Film Poster

Date: 1962
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the British film. Illustrated image, in two rounded sections, of Henry the Eighth dressed in red and carrying a sw...
Poster

"Schade, dass du cine Kanaille bist" (Too Bad She's Bad) Film Poster

Date: 1964
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the Italian film, "Peccato che sia una canaglia." The top half of the poster of an illustration of a woman from he...
Poster

"Knute Rockne All American" Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Poster for the 1940 film "Knute Rockne All American." Pat O'Brien's face is at the top part of the poster. Ronald Reagan is kicking his leg up in the air o...
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Richard Burton as Alexander the Great

Date: 1956
Description: Richard Burton poses, in costume, next to a plaque of Alexander the Great. Burton wears a curly blonde wig for the title role of the 1956 film "Alexander ...

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