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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you this week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

This week, I have the pressbook from The Woman on Trial, (released in other English-speaking countries as "Confession"), the 1927 Mauritz Stiller silent Paris France romantic love triangle mother love courtroom legal lawyer murder mystery crime melodrama ("What is your verdict of the woman on trial?"; about a woman whose love is an artist who is dying of tuberculosis, and she marries a rich man, and has a son by him, and gets him to buy her lover's paintings, so he can afford to go get cured!; but he goes downhill, and she rushes to his side, and her husband catches her with her lover, and divorces her, and gets the courts to give him custody of their little boy; she shoots her husband and is put on trial, and the entire movie is told in flashback from the witness stand, and after she tells her story, the jury acquits her, and she is able to reunite with her lover, who is now cured!) starring Pola Negri, Einar Hanson, Arnold Kent, Andre Sarti, and Dorothy Brock. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no complete surviving copies are thought to exist (only fragments).

Here are images of the front, back, and two interior pages:

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!).