The big carnival – Vintage Print
![The big carnival, [S.l. : s.n.], c1951. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/44/44fa4e774cb4-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The big carnival. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few posters from this period feature a reporter's hunger for a story as bluntly as this one. Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling top the bill for Billy Wilder's 1951 Paramount film, which the studio also marketed as *The Big Carnival* in some releases. The story follows a disgraced big-city newspaperman who stalls the rescue of a man trapped in a New Mexico cave so he can turn the disaster into a national sensation. Wilder's cynical portrait of the press and the crowds that gather around tragedy was not a popular success on release, but it is now widely regarded as one of his sharpest films.
| Created / published | [S.l. : s.n.], c1951. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 44 x 36 cm. |
| Genre | Motion picture posters American 1950-1960.Prints Color 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Title from item. Copyright by Paramount Pictures Corporation. No. 51/249. Forms part of: Lester Glassner Collection of Movie Posters. Purchase; (DLC/PP-2002:202). |
| Subjects | Douglas, Kirk,--1916---Performances. Sterling, Jan,--1923-2004--Performances. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,098 × 5,116 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226390 |
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