Title: Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection, C-F
Authors: Just, Lothar.; Just, Eva.; Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection (Harvard Film Archive); Harvard Film Archive.; The HFA Film Stills and Ephemera Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Year: 1910
Subjects: Just, Lothar Photograph collections.; Just, Eva Photograph collections.; Just, Lothar Poster collections.; Just, Eva Poster collections.; Motion pictures History Sources.; Theatrical publishing History Sources.
Abstract: The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection at the Harvard Film Archive is a collection of approximately 550,000 film stills and ephemera representing the work of over 7500 directors. Largely film stills, but also including a great number of pressbooks, posters, and other ephemera, the collection was originally amassed by Lothar Just, a Munich-based film publicist. Just’s collection began with the gathering of image and source material for the annual film lexicons which he continues to publish. While the collection contains significant holdings from the silent era, its greatest strength lies in vintage images from the classic studio era of the 1930s-1960s, as well as images from the last 30 years. Thanks to Just’s and Munich’s close connection with the new German cinema the collection contains important holdings on postwar German cinema. The collection is also particularly strong in the areas of German pre-war and very rare Nazi era cinema. In addition, the Just film stills significantly represent North American and European cinema while including excellent materials for internationally known Chinese, Japanese and Latin American filmmakers. Much of the material is German-language, regardless of the country of origin.