Question about Movie Posters

[Juli]

I tried searching Google but I could not find my answer there so I thought I would try asking here. When did movie posters start becoming glossy? I heard that a long time ago they were not on glossy paper, so about what year did the change occur?

Thanks for any help in answering this question.

~ Juli

[fallenangel1]

I doubt it was just done one day by all printers .. and even today there are some that arent glossy .. So coming up with a date would pose a bit of a delima

Correct me if Im wrong is the "gloss" the really glossy posters a kind of UV coating?

[Der Januskopf]

Rather than  start a new thread, I had a question about this Frankenstein one sheet. Does anyone know when this might have been printed and distributed? Several things about Karloff's image bother, me, from his missing eyelids, blue eyes, to a mouth that almost doesnt look to be Karloff's? Even his hairline has been retouched.

Yet it uses visual elements from the original one sheet. It isnt a RealArt re-release, so it had me somewhat stumped. Any ideas out there?

-Kerry

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Correct me if Im wrong is the "gloss" the really glossy posters a kind of UV coating?

no it isn't. The gloss is a clay-based coating to help the image be printed in finer detail than was possible on uncoated stock which spreads ink absorption. The slick coating prevents ink spread.

[Bruce]

I believe that Frankenstein poster is the 1938 re-release, but I could be wrong. The lobbies are green duotone.

On glossy paper for one-sheets, it started in the U.S. right around 1964. There are one-sheets from that time that were printed both ways.

Of course, in Australia, they had glossy paper decades before that, because they are so much more advanced than Americans!

Bruce

[ddilts399]

Juli,

Are you talking about general paper in use, or the coating that posters like Sony generally uses?

[Juli]

Juli,

Are you talking about general paper in use, or the coating that posters like Sony generally uses?

I was talking about general paper in use.

[crowzilla]

Bruce is correct, that Frankenstein is the 1938 one-sheet, is currently the only known copy and is part of Stephen Fishler's amazing poster collection.

[110x75]

Bruce is correct, that Frankenstein is the 1938 one-sheet, is currently the only known copy and is part of Stephen Fishler's amazing poster collection.

The Frank 6 sheet guy!!