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Hollywood
The film industry's first full-length look at itself, and it chose to play the joke.
What
A 1923 six-sheet — a large multi-panel poster pasted up as a single billboard-scale image — for the Paramount satire directed by James Cruze.
Why
Cruze filled the picture with dozens of stars appearing as themselves, at the exact moment the industry's scandals had made 'Hollywood' a word with a second meaning. The film is lost; only a fragment is known to survive.
Notice
The near-square proportion, unusual among surviving sheets, which is the six-sheet format assembled rather than a single printed piece.
“A town describing itself before the description hardened.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Hollywood (1923), dir. James Cruze
- Country / studio
- United States · Paramount Pictures
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. six-sheet, 1923
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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