Ready! Aim! Fire! The merry musical hit (S) Moved to the Mayan. – Antique Poster Print
(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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Ready! Aim! Fire! The merry musical hit (S) Moved to the Mayan. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ready! Aim! Fire! The merry musical hit (S) Moved to the Mayan.
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The poster announces *Ready! Aim! Fire!*, a musical comedy that was moved to the Mayan theater in Los Angeles, a detail that sets it apart from many Federal theater Project posters of the period. The Federal theater Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, employed actors, writers, and stagehands during the Great Depression and staged productions across the country, often at low ticket prices. Its posters were printed by silkscreen, a method the WPA poster units used to produce bold, flat areas of color at low cost. Look at how the lettering and color blocks work together to grab attention from the street.
| Created / published | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Musical revues & comedies--California--Los Angeles--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,744 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 737_Ready_Aim_Fire_The_merr_1937 |
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