As part of the BFI's major UK - wide Black Star season the BFI Southbank is currently home to the Separate Cinema Exhibition, showcasing original film posters loaned from the most extensive private holdings of African - American film memorabilia in the world, The Separate Cinema Archive. (lwlies.com)
Released Sept. 18, «Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art» offers a visual documentation of Black film history via graphic advertisements drawn from The Separate Cinema Archive, a private collection of Black film memorabilia described as containing more than 35,000 movie posters, lobby cards and photographs. (culturetype.com)
The people who created these posters — trained artists such as John Alvin and Drew Struzan — are royalty among cinephiles and film memorabilia collectors. (museumpublicity.com)