The Leonard Schrader Collection
February 20, 2008 4:16 PM   Subscribe

The [Leonard Schrader] Collection consists of 8,462 vintage lobby-cards and 5,000 related items - many the sole surviving traces of long-lost silent films - acquired by late screenwriter/filmmaker Leonard Schrader over the course of 27 years.
posted by Armitage Shanks (4 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Wow, what a collection! Just wish I could SEE IT!!!

The Collection link doesn't allow you to go to individual cards for viewing at your own pace? Just that "home" link where the cards cross-fade into the next in a group of images? What a bummer! Thanks at least to Vanity Fair for letting us step through a handful of them at our leisure, though of course that interface is a drag, too... Oh well, I guess beggars can't be choosers.

Sure would like to peruse this amazing collection properly, though. The Keaton cards are particularly delightful, as were his films, of course.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:42 PM on February 20, 2008


The Collection link doesn't allow you to go to individual cards for viewing at your own pace?

No, unfortunately it's just a few pages of text with annoying Flash to slow everything down. I didn't find any sites with images of the cards other than the Vanity Fair link.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 4:48 PM on February 20, 2008


Be sure to also check out previous Lobby Card thread -- 'Lobby Card Invasion.'
posted by ericb at 5:04 PM on February 20, 2008


Damn, these are brilliant – particularly love this one for Keaton's The Cameraman.
posted by Len at 9:23 AM on February 21, 2008


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