Richard Kimble Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 A French version of The Merchant of Venice (1911): Link to post Share on other sites
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 I find it interesting that sometimes the actors in a movie poster don't look much like the actual actors in the the movie. Some are right on. I assume that some of the images are from photos and of course they look like the actor. But some that are 'right on' look like drawings while other drawings are 'off'. Link to post Share on other sites
RolloTredway Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 The first one below is the program for the original Broadway production. What's FDR doing there? The French one wins no award for facial likenesses. Link to post Share on other sites
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Richard Kimble Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 A print of this film exists -- anyone here seen it? A rare appearance from Jeanne Eagels, but note especially how Gilbert is cringing in fear and hiding behind Eagels's skirt -- hardly the image you'd think a studio would want to present for their superstar leading man. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Film Fan 50s 60s 70s Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
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RolloTredway Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 note especially how Gilbert is cringing in fear and hiding behind Eagels's skirt -- hardly the image you'd think a studio would want to present for their superstar leading man. In keeping with his slightly unusual character in the film, an innocent "Mama's boy". The film emphasizes its moral that young men ought to spend their evenings at home with their mother and not go running after fascinating society editors - that spells big time trouble. But to balance that image: Can't blame John for being fascinated, though: I've seen it in a 15th-generation copy ... One for the restoration dept.? On a more light-hearted note, My Lady of Whims (1925) also moralizes against the wild life, in typical 1920s having-your-cake-and- eat-it fashion. It plays almost like a precursor to Breakfast at Tiffany's: Clara Bow runs around with a bohemian Greenwich Village crowd, but what she really wants is Peppardian square Donald Keith to dress her down and steer her into the decent way of life... Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted August 27, 2014 Author Share Posted August 27, 2014 A Kiss From Mary Pickford (USSR, 1927): Link to post Share on other sites
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speedracer5 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I stumbled across this German Uncertain Glory poster yesterday. It's really cool; I wish I could find it to buy and frame; but I haven't had luck yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 The next one is not a poster, but a lantern slide plate: Sort of a variation on a trailer, the lantern slide plate would be projected onto the screen to promote an upcoming film. Link to post Share on other sites
mistervegan Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
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Richard Kimble Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 Happy birthday to Gertie The Dinosaur, who debuted 100 years ago today. Link to post Share on other sites
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joefilmone Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Strange way to sell this movie- it looks like a scene from "The Exorcist" Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Richard Kimble Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Not movie-related -- and I've complained plenty when people posted non-movie stuff in the Interesting Pic thread... But I'm gonna post it here anyway, since it is poster-related, and some poster expert may have the answers for my questions (after the photo): Women creating World War II propaganda posters in Port Washington, New York -- July 8th, 1942 I'm posting this to ask: Why are these women all working on the same poster? Wouldn't SOP be to make one poster and then have it mass-produced? What process would be used for this mass production? And to make it semi-relevant to this thread, were movie posters made this way? Link to post Share on other sites
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