My Poster Collecting Blog

[erik1925]

John, are all of these most recent posters offset printing? They all have a very similar look, printing wise, with some alomost looking like stone lithos. The colors really pop, that's for sure.

[DarvishJo]

John, are all of these most recent posters offset printing? They all have a very similar look, printing wise, with some alomost looking like stone lithos. The colors really pop, that's for sure.

Hi Jeff,

The one I posted today "Eternal Love" is a stone litho.  The others are a mixture of offset and stone litho. 

best

John

[DarvishJo]

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Moaty for a famously bad Swedish cult Ninja movie; the one saving grace is that YouTube has a decent copy of the film (for now):

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/the-ninja-mission-1984-kryzysztof.html

[DarvishJo]

27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Wahib Fahmy for the 1990 Nico Mastorakis  and Peter Rader film which just uses the yellow Arabic phrase at the top "Commando Charmers" [fatenat al-kumando] to refer to the film's six beautiful women.   


http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/hired-to-kill-brian-thompson-egyptian.html

[DarvishJo]

27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Raga for a 1972 Rida Myassar Syrian film starring the Egyptian actress Nahed Sherif (1942-1981).  This is a story about a female drug addict who became surrogate mother to the children of her husband's deceased other wife, and eventually overcame her own drug addiction.  Nahed Sherif was notorious in Egypt for her willingness to play every kind of socially unacceptable movie role, including pornography.  The man on the poster striking Nahed is the Egyptian actor Tewfik El Dekn (1924-1988), who played the part of her drug procurer.  Both of these performers have their own Wikipedia articles. 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/journey-of-pain-nahed-sherif-1972.html

[erik1925]

The method of printing and general design on many of these posters helps to ID them (country), as many have a similar look and style, production and art-wise.

Would that be safe to say, John?

[DarvishJo]

The method of printing and general design on many of these posters helps to ID them (country), as many have a similar look and style, production and art-wise.

Would that be safe to say, John?

That is true to an extent Jeff, especially for the older Egyptian posters from the 40s through the 60s.  In the later periods sometimes Egyptian and Lebanese posters are very similar and it is harder to identify based on printing and design style, especially since the same artists often worked on both Lebanese and Egyptian posters. 

[DarvishJo]

This 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet was a design collaboration between Mohammad Abdel Aziz and Hassan Mazhar Gasour.   The title is the name of the famous Cairo bazaar, which is also popular with tourists: 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/khan-al-khalili-samira-ahmed-1966.html

[DarvishJo]

Wahib Fahmy designed this 27" x 39" poster with photos and calligraphy for a film by Hisham Abu El-Nasr.  The film simultaneously follows the lives of a group of people, but there is no real plot.  It is one of the best I've seen for Egyptian street scenes and interiors.   The people in the foreground in the color shot are Farid Shawqi (left) and Nabila Ebeid:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2013/12/the-mawardy-cafe-1982-farid-shawqi.html

[DarvishJo]

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet painted by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for a 1985 film by Ahmed Al-Nehas: 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2014/05/ruffians-farouk-al-fichawi-1985.html

[DarvishJo]

This is a 29" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Morteda Anise for the 1984 Hussein El-Wakeel film The Curse, a remake of Samuel Fuller's 1963 Shock Corridor: 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2013/10/the-curse-al-lana-1984-nour-el-sherif.html

[brude]

Seems that so many of your posts highlighting Egyptian and Iranian films are human dramas.
Do either of these countries have any history of horror or science fiction films that you can elaborate upon?
Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
Just curious.
 

[DarvishJo]

Seems that so many of your posts highlighting Egyptian and Iranian films are human dramas.
Do either of these countries have any history of horror or science fiction films that you can elaborate upon?
Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
Just curious.
 

Both the Egyptians and the Iranians have done a few horror and science fiction films Ted, but so far I have not seen any I thought were particularly good.  So, I have collected a few posters in those areas but have not been inspired to write about many of them.  I haven't been impressed with the posters or the films.  As you see, I'm mostly interested in stories about the lives of their own people.  That is where they make the best posters and the best movies imho.       

[DarvishJo]

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour for a 1966 romantic comedy by Atef Salem.  The "Paris" in the title is the name of an oasis in Egypt, not a city in France.  Nabila Ebeid plays the role of Samia in this film.  In a post I did yesterday for a 1982 film about a famous cafe, Nabila played the role of Farawla, the daughter of the cafe owner. 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2014/06/the-wife-from-paris-nabila-ebeid-1966.html

[DarvishJo]

27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Sami for a film starring Omar Sharif as a high-pressure international businessman who has been paralyzed by stress: 

http://www.musicman.com/00pic/11891.html

[DarvishJo]

27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet designed by Wahib Fahmy for a 1983 creepy low-rent horror movie starring James Earl Jones:   

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/bloodtide-1983-james-earl-jones.html

[50s]

Fair enough Darvish, you have a point.

This said, watermark is indeed a cheap (free) solution and ugly.  Google "invisible watermark"... For a small price, you can get a software that hide invisible watermark on pictures as well as a tool to monitors the web.

(y)

Invisible watermarks are a bit useless IMO. The images can all still end up in a book like happened above and Google's search won't find it if in a book.

Also if Google notifies you your imaze was found on xyz website , the website owner might say get stuffed... Are you going to take them to court about it? Especially when a photo of just the poster you can't copyright as the image is someone else's.

Sadly, sticking a visible watermark on is the better of invisible one

[DarvishJo]

Invisible watermarks are a bit useless IMO. The images can all still end up in a book like happened above and Google's search won't find it if in a book.

Also if Google notifies you your imaze was found on xyz website , the website owner might say get stuffed... Are you going to take them to court about it? Especially when a photo of just the poster you can't copyright as the image is someone else's.

Sadly, sticking a visible watermark on is the better of invisible one

I agree with you Steve, but I don't think it is sad.  It is interesting that APF readers like to talk to me about my watermarks, but they never say anything to Bruce about his.  It might be because they know they're more likely to get a response from me--or maybe because they don't like to criticize Bruce.    Google never notifies me about my images turning up on other sites, by the way.  I find them myself, but I never contact or complain to the people who have chosen to use them.  Google does like to use my images -- watermarks and all -- on its image results pages.  Great advertising!  My purpose for using watermarks is not to prevent people using the images I create.  I just want the world to know where the images originated, because they are high quality, I am proud of them and I want to be known as the worker who produced them.  I am able to sell imaging services thanks to these watermarks, especially for posters nobody else has (and I have thousands of those). 

[brude]

Thanks for posting some horror, John -- that Bloodtide poster is striking.
 

[DarvishJo]

Thanks for posting some horror, John -- that Bloodtide poster is striking.
 

Glad you like it Ted!  Wahib Fahmy converted an original photo image to this hand-painted design.  I like it too!  I wish I could do that kind of work. 

[DarvishJo]

27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Gasour for the 1990 Adel Sadeq black comedy The Swindler and the Dog : 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/the-swindler-and-dog-sameer-ghanem-1990.html

[DarvishJo]

55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet designed by Rabbat for the 1965 Mario Caiano film Vengeance of the Vikings staring Giuliano Gemma as Erik the Viking:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/vengeance-of-vikings-1965-giuliano.html

[DarvishJo]

14" x 21" Belgian stone litho for the 1960 film about the life of Nicholas Patrick Wiseman's Fabiola from his 1854 novel with that title.   This is a fairly common poster and I have several of them.  I've collected other variations too.  I keep them around as a reminder of who I want to be. 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/revolt-of-slaves-1960-rhonda-fleming.html

[DarvishJo]

Original 27" x 40" US one-sheet signed by Dinesh:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/hillarys-america-secret-history-of.html

[DarvishJo]

55" x 77" Italian four-sheet with art by Robert McGinnis: 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2016/07/you-only-live-twice-1967-sean-connery.html