Night of the Living Dead was developed with the title Night of the Anubis, with its titled changed to Night of the Flesh Eaters during production. Famously, the distributor, the Walter Reade Organization, worried that title was too close to that of the 1964 low-budget horror movie The Flesh Eaters and changed the title to Night of the Living Dead at the last minute. In doing so, they removed the copyright notice attached to the original title and neglected to include one on the new title screen. This put the film into the public domain, which would lead to counteless screenings in cinemas and (especially) on TV in the 1970s and 1980s. The archive contains scripts and script pages referring to the film by its earlier titles, but one of the more unexpected finds were these colorful mini-banners. According to writer John A. Russo, these were produced by George Romero's father, who was a printer in New York. There were a number of them made to promote the film before it obtained a distributor, including giant banners intended to be hung outside the theater. Photos from the archive of the premiere of Night of the Living Dead at Pittsburgh's Fulton Theater indicate that this design was reused with the new title, at least for promotion in the Pittsbugh area.

-Adam Charles Hart