Rome, Open City
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[Roberto Rossellini (director)]. The Open City. [Roma città aperta or Rome, Open City]. San Jose, California: Communist Party of Santa Clara County, [circa 1946]. Original mimeographic herald advertising a screening at the Fox Padre Theatre. Folio (14 x 8.5 inches; 355 x 215 mm.). Single sheet, text printed both sides (in English on one, Italian on the other). Top margin tanned, more so on the English-language side; fainter, uneven discoloration to the bottom margin of both sides; top edge worn with some minor chipping and a closed tear (about one and one-half inches long) partially affecting a single letter in the headline; few other minor closed tears; light creasing; corners softened; horizontal fold; brief notes in pencil on the English side. Very good. The Fox Plaza Theatre, before being demolished, was located just a few blocks from the present-day Little Italy neighborhood of San Jose. The Communist Party of Santa Clara targeted a sizable demographic in the region and shrewdly c

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