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The Water Hole
Zane Grey in Death Valley, lost.
What
A 1928 lobby card for the Paramount Western The Water Hole, directed by F. Richard Jones from a Zane Grey novel.
Why
It was shot in July in Death Valley, with sequences in Technicolor, and no copy is known to exist.
Notice
Jack Holt and Nancy Carroll are named in the record.
“Colour film, lost to the desert”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Water Hole (1928), dir. F. Richard Jones
- Country / studio
- United States · Paramount Pictures
- Format
- Lobby card
- Poster published
- U.S. lobby card, 1928
- 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.
From Silent Hollywood
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