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Motion pictures -- History -- Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Academy photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2687
Abstract

This collection includes publicity stills and other photographs, slides, and stills for the marketing of motion pictures and theatre productions from the 1910s through the 1990s, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Beverly Hills location.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1999

Doc Merman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2678
Abstract

Collection consists of photographs and correspondence belonging to production manager and producer Doc Merman (1900-1979).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s

Stanley Scheuer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2307
Abstract

This collection consists of American script supervisor Stanley K. Scheuer's (1900-1983) scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, magazines, and lists of films he worked on. He worked on films including "West Side Story" (1961), "Al Capone" (1959), and "Cleopatra" (1963).

Dates: 1912 - 1965

Wilson Aero Corp. photograph album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7045
Content Description Photograph album with 24 photographs depicting Wilson Aero Corp.'s motion picture work. Photographs include on the set images of Dawn Patrol (1930), the comedy short Plane Crazy (1930), and Paul Sloane's War Correspondent (1932) starring Jack Holt. The album documents much of the activity of the Wilson Aero Corp. and may have functioned as a sales tool--glamourous images of film shoots, various planes, and photographs of the turret camera mount that allowed for 360 degree in-air tracking...
Dates: circa 1932