Have you tried these folks:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Museums/HollywoodEntertainment.shtml

It's a delightful looking museum from the outside I've
yet to see.  It's close to Graumann's (Mann's) Chinese
Theatre in Hollywood and on its way to both West
Hollywood and my classes at UCLA.  It's relatively new
and on my list of to-check-outs.



--- Curtis Miner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We recently unearthed a large collection of mainly
> hand rendered film posters
> from a defunct Pennsylvania art movie house.  We're
> accessioning between half to
> two thirds of the roughly 400 odd posters into our
> permanent collection, so we
> now need to find an appropriate repository for the
> remainder.  Most of the
> posters that will be available date between 1945 and
> 1955 and include many
> foreign film titles, including works by neo-realists
> like Rosellini.  I should
> also add that many are oversize:  there are roughly
> 40-50 marquee sized posters
> (4' x 9') along with several dozen narrow door panel
> posters (6' x 2') and more
> conventionally sized posters.
>
> We've checked with the usual suspects:  The Academy
> of Motion Picture Arts and
> Sciences, the Smithsonian and Library of Congress,
> UCLA Film Archive, etc., but
> this particular genre seems beyond their collecting
> scope.  Ideally, we'd like
> to offer these posters to a museum that specializes
> in foreign film and would be
> in a position to care for paper objects such as
> these.  Any folks familiar with
> European film museums?
>
> Would appreciate any and all suggestions.
>
> I can be contacted off list at:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Curtis Miner
> Curator of Popular Culture
>


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