Fantastic Film Posters - What's Striking Your Fancy?

[CSM]

That is really an incredible poster and I do love the movie... wish I knew which format it was.

Agreed on the art - never seen the movie unfortunately

[Harry Caul]

If you are a fan of screwball comedies and/or Powell it shouldn't be missed.

[erik1925]

That is really an incredible poster and I do love the movie... wish I knew which format it was.

Matt, in doing some online "sherlocking," I found one reference that the above GODFREY piece is a possible title lobby card. More digging to ensue and to verify. (The line at the top about it being the first 5 star triumph of the movie season makes me wonder, though).  

Jeff

[CSM]

Matt, in doing some online "sherlocking," I found one reference that the above GODFREY piece is a possible title lobby card. More digging to ensue and to verify. (The line at the top about it being the first 5 star triumph of the movie season makes me wonder, though).  

Jeff

Maybe it's part of the pressbook cover?

[erik1925]

Could be, Chris, but the landscape format doesn't seem right for a PB cover, does it? 

[CSM]

Could be, Chris, but the landscape format doesn't seem right for a PB cover, does it? 

Well if it's cropped somewhat maybe only the photo makes it *appear* a landscape poster

[Ari]

landscape is the new portrait.

[erik1925]

Very true. I see what you mean. The jpeg is cropped so that the text at the bottom ("A Universal Picture") has been partially removed.  Maybe there was more below this area? And even the top and sides of any available image are also cropped, so we dont know what the very edges/borders look like.

The mystery continues. 

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

I found it in a rare poster book (forgot title) at the Library of Congress. I took a cell phone picture of the page but can't read the small text identifying the size. I found the large image somewhere on the Internet and that site did not identify the size either.

[erik1925]

OS for THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE (1933). This was a pre-Hays Code film, but one of many that "helped" that code come into being. The movie, even tho toned down from the original William Faulkner novel, was still considered scandalous at the time.

[Harry Caul]

I found it in a rare poster book (forgot title) at the Library of Congress. I took a cell phone picture of the page but can't read the small text identifying the size. I found the large image somewhere on the Internet and that site did not identify the size either.

Can you post the cell phone snap?

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

My pitiful cellphone pics from the book Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood (does anyone have this book?)

http://www.amazon.com/Starstruck-Vintage-Posters-Classic-Hollywood/dp/0789210193

I liked this description of collectors:

"Collectors are a strange lot. The reason they spend so many precious hours seeking out and find comfort in the artistry of people who are long dead cannot be entirely explained by logic, but in that respect collecting film posters is no different from becoming lost in the works of Charles Dickens, or devoting oneself to studying Victorian paintings or restoring an old house."

[110x75]

Good pics Mel, thanks. Some of those posters look amazing. Blonde Venus and Strictly disnhonorable specially

[CSM]

"Collectors are a strange lot. The reason they spend so many precious hours seeking out and find comfort in the artistry of people who are long dead cannot be entirely explained by logic, but in that respect collecting film posters is no different from becoming lost in the works of Charles Dickens, or devoting oneself to studying Victorian paintings or restoring an old house."

I've always held myself in such high regard

[110x75]

I've always held myself in such high regard

And you should, Sir. It's not common to find a gentleman with such fine taste as yours 

[erik1925]

THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (Majestic 1933) - with Zita Johann of THE MUMMY fame 

This is another pre-code film and this poster would never have passed the censors only a year later, in 1934.

[CSM]

And you should, Sir. It's not common to find a gentleman with such fine taste as yours 

Well you see one with every glance at the mirror 

[110x75]

Well you see one with every glance at the mirror 

Not always 

[erik1925]

I wrote to Ira Resnick and got an answer about the MY MAN GODFREY piece.

It is the half sheet.   

[brude]

I wrote to Ira Resnick and got an answer about the MY MAN GODFREY piece.

It is the half sheet.   

Well, he would know.
Good one, Jeff.
 

[Harry Caul]

Thanks... now I know what to look for 

[theartofmovieposters]

My pitiful cellphone pics from the book Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood (does anyone have this book?)

http://www.amazon.com/Starstruck-Vintage-Posters-Classic-Hollywood/dp/0789210193

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I have this one...what you all looking for from it?

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

I have this one...what you all looking for from it?

Trying to determine whether "My Man Godfrey" was a half sheet.  Jeff got confirmation from the author of the book.

It's a great book by the way. Well-worth picking up.  I'll eventually buy a copy.

[erik1925]

The book does look great. Top notch photos and information on a "slew" of beautiful posters from all genres.

 

[CSM]

Not always 

I thought you would go with a vampire pic!