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Movie Poster Archives, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2016 domiciled in New Orleans, Louisiana. The mission is preservation, research, education, and exhibition.

Growth
200,000 in 2016 400,000 in 2019.

As of December, 2021, the archives contained 1,000,000 paper artifacts including movie posters, production stills, lobby cards, celebrity portraits, and presskits.

Exhibitions
In 2020 the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation awarded Movie Poster Archives a grant to create the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum which launched on January 16, 2021. Additional funding was provided by the New Orleans Entertainment Coalition.

Movie Poster Archives presented an exhibit entitled Backdrop Louisiana! curated by Ed and Susan Poole of Hollywood On The Bayou that premiered in January 2020 at the Slidell Cultural Center.

Mutual Support
Through a gift from Chicago-based collector Dwight Cleveland, Movie Poster Archives returned a collection of 13 rare British posters to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter. Posters featured stars in Britain and USA in the 1920s: Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Ivy Duke, Alma Taylor and Annie Laurie.

Movie Poster Archives donated 5,000 studio-issued promo cards featuring Star Wars characters to Rancho Obi-Wan, the world's largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia.

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