The tuneful musical hit! Vodvil frolic of 1937 - direct from Hollywood – Historic Poster Reproduction
(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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This rare vintage poster captures The tuneful musical hit! Vodvil frolic of 1937 - direct from Hollywood in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The tuneful musical hit! Vodvil frolic of 1937 - direct from Hollywood
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Colton, California, is the town named in this 1937 poster, which bills a touring vaudeville revue as a "tuneful musical hit" and promises it arrives "direct from Hollywood." The show was sponsored by the Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that employed actors, musicians, and stagehands during the Depression. Its road attractions carried live entertainment to small towns that seldom saw professional theater. The poster's flat, saturated colors reflect silkscreen printing, a method the WPA used because it was inexpensive and fast.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | A Federal Theatre Road Attraction - Div. of W.P.A. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Vaudeville shows--California--Colton--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,778 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 841_The_tuneful_musical_hit_1937 |
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