Federal Theatre [presents] Goodbye Hollywood! The best of friends must part! – Antique Poster Print
![Federal Theatre [presents] Goodbye Hollywood! The best of friends must part!, 1936 — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e6/e6aabdb0de2c-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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This rare vintage poster captures Federal Theatre [presents] Goodbye Hollywood! The best of friends must part! in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Federal Theatre [presents] Goodbye Hollywood! The best of friends must part!
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The best of friends must part!" runs as the tagline on this 1936 silkscreen poster for the Federal theater Project's production *Goodbye Hollywood!*, a farewell pitched to audiences with a bit of playful sentiment. The Federal theater Project was one of the arts programs of the Works Progress Administration, created to put theater workers back on payrolls during the Great Depression and to bring live plays to communities that rarely saw them. Its posters were often produced by artists working in the WPA's graphic arts units, and the bold flat color of silkscreen printing made them easy to read from a distance. The subject headings tie the show to California and to travel in the 1930s, a period when Hollywood's film industry was reshaping American entertainment.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1950. Travel--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,763 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 867_Federal_Theatre_present_1936 |
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