Heritage Finds the “Lost Hollywood” Collection
stars as attractive and glamorous as possible. A big part of that effort was
what was known as “special” photography.
“From
Hollywood’s earliest days, it was common to take still shots of a production in
progress to distribute to the media,” said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage
Movie Poster Auctions for Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries said in a
recent press release. “These stills could be taken on the set, or posed in
a studio. The ‘official’ photos shot for the standard media package became known
as the ‘key set.’”
“Outside of the key set photos,”
Smith said, “the studios did what they called ‘special’ photography. These
were stills taken by their very best photographers that could be used for
special purposes, such as enticing a major magazine to do a feature on an
upcoming picture by promising exclusive images. These images were often far
superior to the key shots, as the photographers spent much more time on them,
and they represented the work of Hollywood’s photographic elite.”
“We’re very proud to be able to offer approximately 150 of these
vintage stills – all from the world-renowned Culver City Archives – in our
upcoming Signature Auction,” said Smith. “These images, featuring
everyone from Boris Karloff to Joan Crawford to the Marx Brothers to Basil
Rathbone, by such noted photographers as George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull,
Ruth Harriet Louise, Ernest Bachrach, and Eugene Robert Richee, have never
before been offered to the public. Additionally, they have all been certified
authentic by Comics Guaranty LLC, and each one has been placed in a protective
plastic holder. This offering is a significant event for vintage Hollywood
collectors.”
Heritage Auction Galleries’ upcoming Vintage Movie
Poster Signature Auction, featuring the “Lost Hollywood” Collection,
will be held July 12 & 13, 2006 in Dallas, Texas. For more information, or
to bid online, please visit www.HeritageAuctions.com/MoviePosters.
The auction is so big that it is divided into three separate areas.
Catalogs are available for the Vintage Poster Auction, the Lost Hollywood
Auction (as detailed above) and Swedish Movie Posters.
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Heritage Finds the “Lost Hollywood” Collection
stars as attractive and glamorous as possible. A big part of that effort was
what was known as “special” photography.
“From
Hollywood’s earliest days, it was common to take still shots of a production in
progress to distribute to the media,” said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage
Movie Poster Auctions for Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries said in a
recent press release. “These stills could be taken on the set, or posed in
a studio. The ‘official’ photos shot for the standard media package became known
as the ‘key set.’”
“Outside of the key set photos,”
Smith said, “the studios did what they called ‘special’ photography. These
were stills taken by their very best photographers that could be used for
special purposes, such as enticing a major magazine to do a feature on an
upcoming picture by promising exclusive images. These images were often far
superior to the key shots, as the photographers spent much more time on them,
and they represented the work of Hollywood’s photographic elite.”
“We’re very proud to be able to offer approximately 150 of these
vintage stills – all from the world-renowned Culver City Archives – in our
upcoming Signature Auction,” said Smith. “These images, featuring
everyone from Boris Karloff to Joan Crawford to the Marx Brothers to Basil
Rathbone, by such noted photographers as George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull,
Ruth Harriet Louise, Ernest Bachrach, and Eugene Robert Richee, have never
before been offered to the public. Additionally, they have all been certified
authentic by Comics Guaranty LLC, and each one has been placed in a protective
plastic holder. This offering is a significant event for vintage Hollywood
collectors.”
Heritage Auction Galleries’ upcoming Vintage Movie
Poster Signature Auction, featuring the “Lost Hollywood” Collection,
will be held July 12 & 13, 2006 in Dallas, Texas. For more information, or
to bid online, please visit www.HeritageAuctions.com/MoviePosters.
The auction is so big that it is divided into three separate areas.
Catalogs are available for the Vintage Poster Auction, the Lost Hollywood
Auction (as detailed above) and Swedish Movie Posters.
Popular Topics
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