Collections & Services
Posters
Original vintage movie posters have a long and fascinating history. An enormous number of different posters were made and there are an almost infinite number of collecting strategies one could follow.
Photographs
The visual history of motion pictures is contained in movie still photography. Every aspect of the movie making process was featured in this medium and each is highly collectible.
Lobby Cards
Lobby cards are a uniquely American creation. They are a hybrid of movie posters and photographs. One early author on the subject described them as akin to antique Persian miniatures.
Movie Scripts & Rare Books
We only offer vintage original movie scripts, multiple drafts of the same script, early rare books and magazines and press books that were used to market films to theatre owners.
Memorabilia
WalterFilm’s focus is on on both international and Hollywood movie memorabilia that touches on the history of motion pictures as well as objects that were part of the movie making process.
African Americana
African-American Collectibles and Black Memorabilia have grown in importance over the last decade, offering a wide selection of collectibles to those wish to start or expand a collection.
LGBTQ Collection
With the growth of the LGBTQ movement, our sales to an ever-expanding number of institutions and individuals have made WalterFilm.com a major resource for LGBTQ Cultural History.
Curatorship
The curatorial process WalterFilm goes through in evaluating a piece consists of Authentication and Evaluation and we provide our clients with a detailed description of every piece we sell.
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But this was not always the case.
Five Lesbian And Bisexual Women In The Performing Arts
In the middle of the 1970s Sandra Bernhard became a staple at The Comedy Store. As her popularity as a comedian grew, in 1977 she was cast as a supporting player on The Richard Pryor Show. Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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