Monday, May 30, 2011

Art Gallery: Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)

An early attempt to portray real life hero/desperado Joaquin Murrietta.







7 comments:

  1. Great stills. I like the pistols in the one image.

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  2. One of the images could be totled "green with guns"

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  3. Almost an early Zorro as well, perhaps. Evan, I'll cal tomorrow to get you here for the sorting and shelving, we should have shelves today.

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  4. Looks like a lot of action... I remember going to the movies and seeing these production stills out front and inside... are they called lobby shots?

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  5. Close! They're lobby cards. They came (and still do) in sets of eight, and the first one, designed like a small poster, was called a title card. Sadly, the title cards went the way of the dodo sometime in the sixties. At 11 x 14", they fit nicely in a wide variety of store bought frames.

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