Movie memorabilia? - from Cecil B. Demille's Paramount Picture, 'Union Pacific'
From: "Brenda Williams" b.aberly@icloud.com
I inherited the below picture that is mounted on a thick cardboard. It is a Cecil B. Demille's Union Pacific picture of Driving the Golden Spike, but not one that would have been to advertise at movie theaters. I don't think. I would like to know more about it. ... it measures about 18" high x 23" wide. ... I've been very interested in your site. Good job! Very interesting. Thank you. I'm going to send a connection to the site to my daughter and daughter in law who both do home school and one of my grandchildren is doing a joint enrollment in American history, so she will find it interesting. And this picture has been sitting around our house since I got it on 2008. Fun. ...
—Brenda Williams
I inherited the below picture that is mounted on a thick cardboard. It is a Cecil B. Demille's Union Pacific picture of Driving the Golden Spike, but not one that would have been to advertise at movie theaters. I don't think. I would like to know more about it. ... it measures about 18" high x 23" wide. ... I've been very interested in your site. Good job! Very interesting. Thank you. I'm going to send a connection to the site to my daughter and daughter in law who both do home school and one of my grandchildren is doing a joint enrollment in American history, so she will find it interesting. And this picture has been sitting around our house since I got it on 2008. Fun. ...
—Brenda Williams
THE DRIVING OF THE GOLDEN SPIKE MAY 10, 1869, COMPLETED THE RAILROAD THAT HELPED TO UNIFY AMERICA.
(FROM CECIL B. DEMILLE'S PARAMOUNT PICTURE, "UNION PACIFIC")
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 9:57 AM
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From: "Brenda Williams" b.aberly@icloud.com
Thank you very much for this history. Do you have anything like the one I have? It's not a theater poster. What would this picture have been used for? It woudn't have been given to ? celebrities would it? Just don't know what it is. I inherited this along with so many other 'interesting' things from a man in his 90's. This was in 2008. He had a life long friend he met during WW II that went on to work in movies. There were things such as a photo of him with Elizabeth Taylor in a car / parade. Maybe he worked on this movie or some such thing but I don't think they would have given casting such things. The 'cardboard' is pretty think and keeps the print flat. Any idea what is was used for? Any light you can shed on this mystery would be very much appreciated. ...
—Brenda Williams
The large print with a scene from Demille's film, Union Pacific, seems to be a souvenir, probably distributed by the movie studio as a promotion for the movie's premiers or the "golden spike days" 3 day celebration commemorating the 70th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. It also could have been displayed at the movie theaters.
From: "Brenda Williams" b.aberly@icloud.com
Thank you. I appreciate your identification and help.
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