Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Bi-weekly Trivia Question (Answer)….


This time we wanted you to explore the library’s online movie poster collection and so asked what is the earliest movie poster in that collection.  The earliest poster is for the 1913 silent, short Wamba a Child of the Jungle. 

From the special collections of the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Branch Library, the Movie Poster Collection spans from the earliest years of the motion picture industry to the World War II era. Part of the Library's "Visual Collections", these selected posters have been digitized and may be viewed online. Find the library’s movie poster collection with a visit to the library’s Research & Homework page. You’ll find it under M.