Film

A curated collection of posters, press materials, ephemera, and rare objects from cinema history.

This section brings together a focused selection of printed matter and collectible objects from the full arc of film culture — original release posters, reissue lithographs, lobby cards, chirashi handbills, press kits, and production ephemera spanning Hollywood's golden age through the international art house movements of the twentieth century. Each item is a document of the moment a film entered the world: the graphic language of its marketing, the paper it was printed on, the culture that received it.

The collection spans American studio cinema, European auteur film, Japanese release materials, and the full range of formats that cinema's print culture produced — from the oversized one-sheet to the pocket-sized handbill distributed in Tokyo theater lobbies. Particular attention is given to works where the design object carries as much weight as the film itself: posters as graphic art, lobby cards as portraiture, press materials as primary source documents of an industry and an era.

This is cinema held in paper — the image before the image, the advertisement that outlasted the film, the object that carries a century of moving pictures in a single sheet.