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The Testing Block
A Paramount Western, title tucked low.
What
A lobby card for The Testing Block, released by Paramount on 26 December 1920, from the Beinecke Library's Western lobby card collection.
Why
Lambert Hillyer directed and co-wrote it with its star.
Notice
The title sits in small print at the lower left; the scene does the selling.
“The picture before the name”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Testing Block (1920), dir. Lambert Hillyer
- Country / studio
- United States · Paramount Pictures
- Format
- Lobby card
- Poster published
- U.S. lobby card, 1920
- Source
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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