https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84
"The Ransom Center's movie poster collection consists of an estimated 10,000
posters and spans the entire history of film from the silent era to the present
day. All sizes of American film posters are represented: Window Cards (14" x
22"), Inserts (14" x 36"), Half Sheets (22" x 28"), One Sheets (27" x 41"),
Three Sheets (41" x 81"), Six Sheets (81" x81"), and 24 Sheets (i.e.:
billboards, 9' x 20.5').
The largest part of the collection comes from the Interstate Theater Circuit.
At one time, the Interstate Theater chain consisted of almost every movie
theater in Texas, and the posters, film stills, lobby cards, and press books
form the foundation of the Ransom Center's film publicity collection. The
Interstate posters cover the 1940's through the 1970's with a particular
strength in the films of the 1950's and 60's, including musicals, epics,
westerns, sword and sandal, horror, and counter culture films. The second major
collection of Ransom Center posters is the Sills collection. Philip Sills was a
poster dealer who donated his collection of B-movie posters to the Center in
the 1960s. The third major collection was donated to the center by W.H.
(Deacon) Crain, who for many years, served as the Center's curator of
Performing Arts."
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