The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, currently under construction in South Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, announced today that it has acquired the Separate Cinema Archive, a major collection which documents African American cinema from 1904 to the present. The archive includes more than 37,000 objects from original film posters and lobby cards, to film stills, publicity material, and scripts.
Source: Los Angeles’s Lucas Museum acquires major archive of African American cinema | The Art Newspaper