Unless you tried it already, .... an addition to the "usual suspects":

Head of Collections and Exhibitions
American Museum of the Moving Image,
35 Avenue at 36 Street,
Astoria, NY 11106
tel: 718-784-4520
fax: 718-784-4681

They collect, preserve material culture of film, television, video.

At 08:16 AM 3/29/00 -0500, you 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
>
>The State Museum of Pennsylvania
>PO Box 1026
>Harrisburg, PA  17108                           FAX  (717) 783 4558
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