JackFavell Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I'm so excited! I love **** for Tat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieman1957 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Thanks for Stan & Ollie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patful Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Beautiful! Thanks, Kyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Chief, Thursday's poster included another disembodied hand. Any chance we can have a series of them? They seemed to be very popular with poster artists back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Somehow, the more I look at that poster, the more Ollie resembles Raimu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Saturday, January 23rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Sunday, January 24th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollywoodGolightly Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Really awesome poster for The Merry Widow. So glad TCM is bringing us the silent version of it, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patful Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Gasp! The first wardrobe malfunction. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Thanks for the click through larger size Merry Widow, Kyle... sigh.... it's just gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Your eyes are playing tricks on you. The poster in the Forums is the same size as what is at my 'flicr' site. (450 pixels wide.) Most all the posters in the Forums are that size. It is the default size of the originals from one of my resources for theis thread. I know a lot of folks click through on the images hoping a larger version is available at the other end. But that is not typically the case. "Clicking Through" is the "preferred" method of posting of images from the 'Flickr' site. In fact, they sort of demand it in their terms of use. Don't know why but that's what they request. So that is how I do it. "Rotogravure Posters" are not necessarily rare but quite a unique style. I think they were expensive to mass produce. And the process only allowed this "one-color" poster. Full color lithographic photography printing was a few years off yet. (And very expensive when it finally arrived.) Full color printing of original artwork was easy and available through a stone litho process. And very beautiful. There are many examples of the beauty of early posters printed in the stone litho process in this Forum. While they are amazing to look at today, in the 20s they really couldn't compare to full-color posters as an advertising format. (And MGM seems to be the only studio that used the rotogravure style for their releases.) Going back to the size discussion, here is a "click through image" link to a much larger version of the poster for *The Merry Widow*. Kyle In Hollywood Edited by: hlywdkjk on Jan 24, 2010 7:15 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Wow... my eyes deceived me... I thought it was at least one size up from the page here... interesting. Thanks for the detailed description. I think the one color sepia -ish color is beautiful for this particular poster. It's such a recognizable moment, and one needs nothing more than to see it in glorious two tone.... My dvd-r malfunctioned last night due to overload...so I lost my copy of this movie. I was only able to stay up for half of the film. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinemafan Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Kyle, I am glad that I was able to click through - otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to read of the *mad revelry holds sway*. I taped it and will try to enjoy tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Monday, January 25th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollywoodGolightly Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Steiger always stuns me. Really look forward to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 Tuesday, January 26th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankGrimes Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Excellent! I just watched Man Hunt in December. It's a pretty good film; love Joan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Loved the fact that they had to show she was not a prostitute, they put a sewing machine in her room to show she was a seamstress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollywoodGolightly Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 That is just the kind of little detail that would probably go right over my head if someone hadn't pointed out to me when I first watched the movie. Boy, do I feel naive sometimes when I find out about all the gritty stuff the Code was supposed to protect us from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 27, 2010 Author Share Posted January 27, 2010 Wednesday, January 27th _*Shadows Of Russia*_ Spies Among Us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Chief, I love that Frank Lovejoy looks like a young Richard Nixon in the *FBI* poster! Guess they were hoping that audiences would connect Lovejoy and the words FBI and Communist and want to think of Nixon, who was very vocal in his denunciation of Commies back then. I also like how in the *My Son, John* poster the man running reminds me of Cary Grant in *North By Northwest*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 Thursday,January 28th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlywdkjk Posted January 29, 2010 Author Share Posted January 29, 2010 Friday, January 29th 3-Sheet Poster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patful Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Ooh! Ahh! That's a good poster even if it is for a western. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 Thursday's and Friday's posters look beautiful together - rich pumpkin and saturated aqua --- I see a decorating change in my future..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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