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Horse-Drawn Cart Advertising Movie

Date: 09 24 1932
Description: Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats."
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Toledo Scale Outside Theater

Date: 01 31 1931
Description: Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai...
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"Monte Carlo"

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Display advertising "Monte Carlo" movie featuring roulette wheel in Capitol lobby? A man is standing behind a table on the right.
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F&W Grand "Check and Double Check" Window Display

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: F&W Grand store window, located at 15 W. Main Street, displays 33 rpm records, jewelry, and advertising for Amos n' Andy in the film "Check and Double Chec...
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Orpheum Advertisement in Window

Date: 07 31 1930
Description: Orpheum advertisement for "The Sap from Syracuse," and a Capitol Theatre advertisement for "Let Us Be Gay" in Collyer's Pharmacy window in the Mayer Buildi...
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Strand Theatre

Date: 05 21 1930
Description: Strand Theater, with marquee advertising Warner Baxter and Carol Lombard in "The Arizona Kid," and Collyer's Pharmacy, Kinney Shoes, and a Heinz billboard.
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The Big Parade Marquee

Date: 1927
Description: A crowd is gathered around MGM's "trackless train" outside the Astor Theater where "The Big Parade" is showing. Also visible is a gigantic advertisement fo...
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War Movie Advertisement

Date: 07 1942
Description: Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The m...
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Banner design for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 10 15 1940
Description: Photograph of a banner promoting Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator."
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Poster design for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: Poster promoting Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." Chaplin costumed as the dictator Hynkel contemplates a globe in the upper right. In the lower left...
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Banner design for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: In this banner design for Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," Chaplin as Hynkel the dictator gives a salute and casts a large shadow.
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"The Great Dictator" poster design.

Date: 1940
Description: In this nearly square poster design for Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," Chaplin as the dictator Hynkel in uniform and black boots gives a salute. A...
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Cartoon for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: In this Al Hirschfeld cartoon promoting Charlie Chaplin's film "The Great Dictator," Hynkel, played by Chaplin, dances with Madame Napaloni, played by Grac...
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Drawing of poster design element for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: In this drawing, intended as a poster element, Chaplin as the dictator Hynkel contemplates a globe on the left while on the right is a small silhouette of ...
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Poster design for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: This photographic element of a poster design shows Charlie Chaplin's Hynkel character from the waist up in a military uniform. He is making a Nazi salute, ...
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Poster design for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: This photographic element of a poster design shows Charlie Chaplin's Hynkel character full length in a military uniform including jodhpurs. He is making a ...
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Poster design for "The Great Dictator."

Date: 1940
Description: This element of a poster design shows Charlie Chaplin's Jewish barber character standing on the shoulder of his Hynkel character as though to give him a ha...

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