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1980 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1980 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a large abstract design with a triangle of yellow, a block of gray, a block of red, and small rectangles of black and green. Between the gray and red blocks, in the center of the poster, is an inverted screenprinted image of a strip of 35mm film in bright blue. Text on the top reads, "1980 Mill Valley Film Festival," and at the bottom, "August 7-12."

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1981 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1981 Mill Valley Film Festival. The poster has a bright red background with a small black logo in the center, featuring a smiling face and a frowing face in the theatrical tradition. The edges of the logo have holes, resembling 35mm film. White block text at the top reads, "1981 Mill Valley Film Festival." Text at the bottom indicates the dates, location, and ticket information for the festival.

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1982 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1982 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a large illustration of a smiling face and a frowning face, both with large stylized mouths in the theatrical tradition. The illustration is in grayscale with intricate shading, as well as circular designs in light pink. The right edge of the poster is designed to look like 35mm film. Text on the left states the title of the festival.

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1983 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1983 Mill Valley Film Festival. The title at the top, reading "1983 Mill Valley Film Festival," overlays a bright yellow background, and a black and white patterned strip of camera film fills the rest of the poster.

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1984 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1984 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a rectangular purple patch over a white background. A triangular piece of camera film with a shadow behind it sits on top of the purple region. A smaller piece of film comes out from behind the purple region. Text at the top reads, "1984 Mill Valley Film Festival - September 20-29 - Sequoia Theatre," and also includes information about purchasing tickets.

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1985 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1985 Mill Valley Film Festival, with a dark gray background and scattered text at different angles with lines above them. A bright pink strip of camera film emerges from one of the lines, branching from "dog bites clown" to "hero dies." The title, dates, and location of the festival are at the top of the poster.

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1986 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1986 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a painting of blue sky, the San Francisco skyline in the distance, the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, fog, a mountain, and sequoia trees. Suspended in the sky is a partially unfurled rainbow-colored roll of film.

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1986 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1986 Mill Valley Film Festival. A large, grayscale illustration of striated, stylized 35mm film stands out against a white background. Text at the top reads, "1986 Mill Valley Film Festival." On the left side, "25 September - October 2." On the right side, "Sequoia Theatre."

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1987 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1987 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring a white background with a large, centered illustration of a face. The face is made up of a stylized inverted triangle with wide lips and jagged lines extending to the right. Text at the top and bottom indicates the title, location, and dates of the festival.

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1987 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1987 Mill Valley Film Festival, featuring scattered, multicolored camera film behind the text, "10th Anniversary." An indigo sillouette of Mt. Tamalpais stands out from a black background. Text on the bottom reads, "October 8-15, 1987 - Presented by la bamba, a newer mexican restaurant."

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1988 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1988 Mill Valley Film Festival. A black background with holes on either side resembles 35mm film, but toward the bottom of the poster, the holes become scattered multicolored rectangles. The logo of the festival, a frowning face and a smiling face, is in the bottom center of the poster. Text above reads, "Fireman's Fund Foundation Presents the 11th Annual Mill Valley Film Festival - Oct. 6-13, 1988."

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1988 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1988 Mill Valley Film Festival, with additional text below the date that reads, "Celebrate at the Big Bash. Oct. 1." The poster also has additional ticket and location information.

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1989 poster from the Mill Valley Film Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

Poster from the 1989 Mill Valley Film Festival. A black border surrounds a photograph of a collage of old movie ticket stubs spelling out "Mill Valley Film Festival, 12th Annual, 1989, October 5-12." Popcorn and licorice dot the display that has holes on the side of the collage, resembling 35mm film.

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Actor and Filmmaker Jack Arnold, 1981 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0667

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Actor Jack Arnold, 1981 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0665

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Actor Jack Arnold (right), 1981 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0666

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Actor Karen Black, 1983 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0673

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Actor Karen Black, 1983 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0674

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Andrew McGuire and Zoë Elton, 1984 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0094

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Ann Brebner and Jeanne Moreau, 1982 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0668

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Ann Brebner and John Korty, 1982 - Print, Photographic

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Ann Brebner and Rita Cahill, circa 1984-1985 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0311

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Anne Lamott in a cooking demonstration, circa 1984-85 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0309

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A Tribute to Bill Graham at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 1984 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0089

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Bill Graham, 1984 - Negative, Roll Film

2017.020.0450

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Bill Graham at his Tribute at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 1984 - Print, Photographic

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Bob Clampett, 1981 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0389

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Bookselling table at the Outdoor Art Club, 1981 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0386

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Check-in at the Opening Night Gala, 1983 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0363

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Child learning how to use a projector at the Mill Valley Film Festival, 1982 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0387

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Clo in front of the Sequoia Theatre during the Mill Valley Film Festival, 1985 - Print, Photographic

2017.020.0127

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Composite and negatives, 1980 - Mill Valley Film Festival Collection

One 6" x 9" manila envelope containing four large format 4x5 negatives and one mock-up (approx. 5" x 7") of images and text taped together, used to create that year's program.

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