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Scene Still from The Jazz Singer

Date: 1927
Description: A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927).
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Evangelist with Movie Projector

Date: 
Description: Rural evangelist John E. Zoller with a Zenith projector and stereopticon with a DeVry generator used during sermons. Original caption reads: "We show excel...
Poster

Apocalypse Film Poster

Date: 04 1971
Description: Poster featuring a skeleton on horseback, carrying a banner that reads, "Apocalypse". A skyline of Madison appears beneath, on fire, with the phrase "Heral...
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Eduardo Passarelli and Aldo Fabrizi in Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City)

Date: 1945
Description: Scene still of Aldo Fabrizi, as the priest Don Pietro Pellegrini, confronted by a police sergeant, Eduardo Passarelli, in Roberto Rossellini's Roma, cit...
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Houdini on a Rope in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
Description: Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) stands preaching next to Jesus (also played by Hobart Bosworth) who has a lamb in his arms. This elabo...
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Hobart Bosworth in "The Scarlet Sin"

Date: 1915
Description: The Reverend Eric Norton (played by Hobart Bosworth) entertains a baby with a teddy bear in a publicity still from "The Scarlet Sin" (Universal, 1915).
Poster

"Démon" (The Demon) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian film "Il demonio." Collage image of a woman's head with doll-like body parts and illustrated blood dripping fro...
Poster

"Poslední soud" (The Last Judgment) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian-French film "Il giudizio universale." There are two rows of legs wearing high heels with bowler hats next to th...
Poster

"O slavnosti a hostech" (A Report on the Party and the Guests) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Abstract collage image of various small figures in different poses against background consisting of yellow, red, and black col...
Poster

"End of a Priest" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Czechoslovakian film, "Faráruv konec." Illustrated image of a priest having each of his arms pu...

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