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Forging the weapons of war, official United States war film / Ioseph Pennell del. ; Ketterlinus Philada. imp.

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Poster showing cranes in a shipyard.

Produced by Signal Corps, U.S.A. and Committee on Public Information.

Movie posters and movie theaters.

The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week. By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars. At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.

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world war economic and industrial aspects communications boat and ship industry industrial facilities hoisting machinery lithographs color motion picture posters american war posters weapons war film ioseph pennell ketterlinus philada ketterlinus philada imp art posters philadelphia movie theaters posters world war i posters posters artist posters joseph pennell united states army signal corps states war film ioseph pennell ultra high resolution high resolution posters world war i wwi american propaganda prints silent films united states history public domain movie posters free art posters library of congress
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Date

01/01/1918
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Contributors

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926, artist
United States. Army. Signal Corps, sponsor
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What's in Movie Theaters Tonight?

Movie posters and theaters.

Go to Cinema!

Movie Entrances and Movie Posters of the Pre-War decades.
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information see "World War I Posters" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/243_wwipos.html)

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world war economic and industrial aspects communications boat and ship industry industrial facilities hoisting machinery lithographs color motion picture posters american war posters weapons war film ioseph pennell ketterlinus philada ketterlinus philada imp art posters philadelphia movie theaters posters world war i posters posters artist posters joseph pennell united states army signal corps states war film ioseph pennell ultra high resolution high resolution posters world war i wwi american propaganda prints silent films united states history public domain movie posters free art posters library of congress