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Movie Posters => Posters By Country => Topic started by: bigmike on February 21, 2015, 06:05:55 AM
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Just ordered my first one. Does anybody here collect Egyptian posters?
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Tut tut, check this thread (http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,6615.0.html) out
I advise you to seriously consider the consequences of collecting Egyptian posters... You'll end up with a uni brow and start looking all too serious
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hey Mike.. are you talking Egyptian posters for movies? Or Egyptian travel-type posters or those that advertise Egypt, in general? If for movies, I think you might be safe from the uni-brow curse. ;D
What movie poster did you just order?
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Lol. I am referring to movie posters. I bought one for Rumpelstiltskin (one of my favourite horror films)
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Cool and congrats! clap
Is the text/title in Arabic or English?
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(http://www.musicman.com/00pic/8079.jpg)
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Very cool, Mike...
And in Arabic AND english! ;D
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Tut tut, check this thread (http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,6615.0.html) out
I advise you to seriously consider the consequences of collecting Egyptian posters... You'll end up with a uni brow and start looking all too serious
Egyptian TRAVEL posters are serious business nono
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Egyptian TRAVEL posters are serious business nono
"So let it be written, so let it be done!" Egyptsmiley
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Hi Everybody
I just put up a new blog entry for a rare 1945 Egyptian billboard originally issued in eight sheets:
http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/03/miss-bossy-nour-al-hoda-1945-egyptian.html
I sold this one to a library about a year ago but never got around to posting it on the blog. The blog post has a link to the original 1945 film, for anybody who understands Arabic.
(http://www.musicman.com/00pic/egypt/e59.jpg)
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Mike bought that Rumplestiltskin poster from me! I'm honored he posted it here.
I just did a blog entry about one of my favorite items of Egyptian film memorabilia, a lobby card:
http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/03/the-night-of-counting-years-dir-shadi.html
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In March of last year I did a blog post about a billboard poster for the 1951 Egyptian Henry Barakat production of The Count of Monte Cristo based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas:
http://www.mopopoc.com/2014/03/the-count-of-monte-cristo-anwar-wagdi.html
I didn't keep that one long because a library wanted it.
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This is my only Egyptian travel poster, showing one of the colossi at the great temple of Ramses II in Abu Simbel of southern Egypt egypt. It is 27" x 38.5" and was about to be discarded at my Cairo hotel, so they said I could have it.
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Very nice and great salvage job!
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This is an Egyptian movie poster issued in 1975 soon after the death of the great Egyptian singer Om Kolsum with the title Farewell Star of the East. It was apparently made to promote a documentary of some kind but I haven't been able to locate the film itself. The names in the lower right are the photographers who contributed footage, but there is no director name, just the names of the printer and the distributor.
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This is my signed copy of the Egyptian one-sheet for the 2006 Marwan Hamed film The Yacoubian Building.
It is signed by the director Marwan Hamed and by Youssra, the lead actress. I asked a friend to get their signatures
for me when they were visiting at Stanford University. I was in Cairo when this film was released; someone took
me to the site of the actual Yacoubian Building and also to the building where the film was shot, which is
totally different architecturally. There's a Wikipedia article about the Yacoubian Building if anybody is interested.
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More Egyptian posters, please.
I don't own any, but several vintage pieces have caught my eye.
cheers
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This poster is a rare and exciting discovery for me. It is a 13" x 27.5 stone litho designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour and Dimitri Gabriel to promote the 1956 Hussein Fawzi 95-minute black-and-white film Sea of Love [bahr al-gharam] starring the late Naima Akef. It is the only example I have ever seen of a poster printed in egypt in the locandina size, but on the type of paper stock the Egyptians normally used for their one-sheets in that period. I have only seen one other locandina for an Egyptian film, which was diistributed in Lebanon for the 1965 Youssef Chahine film Aliban the Seller of Jokes [baya' al-khawatem] starring Fairuz. I believe that one was printed in Italy because of the high quality of the printing and the type of paper, and also because the Lebanese used Italian printers for a number of other film posters. Although this poster was printed in egypt by Dar al-Taba'a, it is unusual both because of its size and because Gasour is credited as the source of the poster's maquette. I've never seen him credited that way (Gasour was by far egypt's most prolific film poster artist with a career as egypt's preeminent poster designer that lasted more than 40 years). Dimitri Gabriel was also a very important early Egyptian poster artist. The depiction here of Naima Akef is not to my liking. She was an athletic woman who began her career as an acrobat and a circus performer. She wouldn't have climbed a ship's rigging with a hand on one hip.
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Cool looking poster, John.
The art style and color palette remind me a bit of Venturi's work, too.
Very nice. cheers
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The art style and color palette remind me a bit of Venturi's work, too.
Indeed Jeff, good eye.
And John, that's a lovely stone litho! thumbsup.gif
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Thanks for sharing all of this interesting imagery and info, John.
cheers
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Thanks for sharing all of this interesting imagery and info, John.
cheers
Thanks to everybody who looked and commented
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This one of my oldest posters for a feature-length Egyptian film:
http://www.mopopoc.com/2013/10/return-to-countryside-1939-mahmoud.html
(http://www.musicman.com/00pic/e36.jpg)
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This is a blog entry from last year whose imaqe I just replaced because of improved techniques with my scanner and photoshop:
http://www.mopopoc.com/2014/03/the-count-of-monte-cristo-anwar-wagdi.html
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This is a blog post I did last year about a rare 1942 poster for a film starring Farid Al Atrache "The King of the Oud"
http://www.mopopoc.com/2014/03/dreams-of-youth-farid-al-atrache-1942.html
Here's a famous clip of Farid playing an oud improvisation in the opening sequence of the 1975 Henry Barakat film Melody in My Life [naghm fi hayati]:
http://www.youtube.com/v/LP43GcGnAvk
Farid died while this film was being made. The film opens with an iconic shot of the famous Cairo Television Building.
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This one has a lot of nice memories for me. Once while I was in Cairo I was told about an Egyptian film distributor who was going out of business and selling all her posters and other stock including reels of film, cutting tables and supplementary paper such as lobby cards, foreign posters and studio catalogs. She was also selling her apartment on Naguib al-Reyhani Street, which I ultimately decided not to buy. Her name was Nadia Farhat (written in Arabic in the upper right corner of this poster in the phrase "Nadia Farhat presents"); I eventually made a deal with her and moved her inventory to an apartment I had in 6 October City, about 40 KM outside Cairo. This move was an enormous adventure involving a hired moving crew and truck, I ended up with six big floor-to-ceiling cabinets full of posters; these were mostly Egyptian posters for foreign releases whose printing Nadia had commissioned, along with the foreign originals that had come to her as part of the distribution materials she'd had sent to her from Italy. These cabinets, stacks of reels and boxes of odds and ends took up most of the free space in my apartment in 6 October City and were a perfect use for the space, which I never used as habitat. I discovered soon after leasing the apartment that I didn't want to spend much time there because it was too far from most of the people I was dealing with in Cairo, but after I obtained these goods from Nadia the apartment became a perfect storage room. I kept the apartment for two years before I eventually decided to ship the best posters back to myself in the USA and give the rest of Nadia's stock to my friend Mohsen, a Cairo paper seller specializing in posters. Mohsen was very happy and I was glad I could do him some good. I now have a roll of about 50 of this Game of Death poster here at home with me, along with a few similar batches of other favorites that came from Nadia.
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musicman is your site?? Boy that brings back memories, I used to visit that site AGES ago.
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Cool poster and side story, DarvishJo.
Keep them coming.
cheers
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Just got these in the mail today:
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/arabfilmdirectors.jpg[/img]
Encyclopedia of Arab film directors
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/arabdreamfactory.jpg[/img]
Collection of photos and descriptions of Egyptian lobby cards
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/arabmovieposterbook.jpg[/img]
The best Egyptian movie poster book so far: The Art of the Egyptian Film Poster by my friend Sameh Fathy
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/arabmoviesongs.jpg[/img]
Seven-volume encyclopedia of all the lyrics to all the songs in all Egyptian films - over 6000 pages!
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/arabmusicals.jpg[/img]
Reference work on Egyptian musicals
Sameh sent me these as part of a trade for some rare posters I sent him about six weeks ago
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Wow, John.
Those are quite the sets of reference books. 6000 pages.
They all look great.
clap clap
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In 1969 we had Dean Martin as Matt Helm with his wrecking crew. The Egyptians liked the idea so much that in 1985 they made a new film called Watch out for the Gang of Women [احترس نصابة النساء] starring Sameer Ghanem.
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Old Egyptian poster for a 1968 documentary film about an appearance of the Virgin Mary in the town of Zeitun. I could not find the documentary referenced on the poster, but I found several shorter films about the event. None of them actually shows anything like the luminous figure drawn on the poster; there were some shots of what looks to me like artificial illumination of parts of the church roof, and a lot of excited talk about the wonders of the experience. Whatever they were, these wonders must have been invisible to the camera. The art is by Wahib Fahmy, whose work is seen frequently on Egyptian posters for foreign films. The poster was made in the years when egypt and Syria were known as the United Arab Republic.
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I like that art by Fahmy.
If you do find the original documentary online, I'd appreciate a link.
cheers
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I like that art by Fahmy.
If you do find the original documentary online, I'd appreciate a link.
cheers
No problem Ted, I'll be sure to do that.
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Hi Everybody
I just put up a new blog entry for a rare 1945 Egyptian billboard originally issued in eight sheets:
http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/03/miss-bossy-nour-al-hoda-1945-egyptian.html
I sold this one to a library about a year ago but never got around to posting it on the blog. The blog post has a link to the original 1945 film, for anybody who understands Arabic.
(http://www.musicman.com/00pic/egypt/e59.jpg)
Hey John.
I came across this post again, and wanted to ask about where this billboard was printed. From the wording on the lower left corner, it suggests it might have been done in France? And the artist, Marcel -- is he French? Do you know anything about him or other posters that he did?
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Hey John.
I came across this post again, and wanted to ask about where this billboard was printed. From the wording on the lower left corner, it suggests it might have been done in France? And the artist, Marcel -- is he French? Do you know anything about him or other posters that he did?
Hi Jeff,
Marcel was Greek according to what I've read, and was one of the prolific early Egyptian poster designers (I don't know if he is dead or alive), but I'm pretty sure he is no longer active. I'm virtually certain L'Art Graphique was in Alexandria Egypt, but I don't know much about it. There is no reason to believe this particular Egyptian print shop would be in France, since everything else about the poster is so characteristically Egyptian. As far as I know the French printed posters for Egyptian films (think of the logistics of shipping the paper to Egypt) only when the film was released in France, and in those cases most of the text on the poster would also have also been in French. That was the case for a lot of films directed by Youssef Chahine. The film advertised on this billboard was directed by Niazi Mostafa, who had no particular connection to France. Marcel was one of the early classic Egyptian poster artists and was quite prolific. The following is a list of posters I have that were either designed by Marcel or by Marcel in collaboration with someone else. The key on the left from my database references what I recorded about the signature that appears on the poster. There are a lot of different keys because I tried to note variations such as street addresses and telephone numbers when I found them:
marcele df 1965 00pic/6833.html Wisdom and Money [al-aql wal-mal] (1965) - (Ismail Yasseen) Egyptian film poster F, NM $75 *
marcele snil 1955 00pic/10396.html Love's Madness [gonoun al-hob] (1955) - (Raqiya Ibrahim) Egyptian oversize stone litho film poster F, EX $150 *
marcele nahas 1944 00pic/egypt/e6.html Hassan and Hassan (1944) - (Mohammed Al Kahlawi) Egyptian film poster $550 *
marcelswf 1962 00pic/13429.html Ulysses against Hercules (1962) - (Georges Marchal) Egyptian two-piece film poster F, VG $95 *
marcelv sst 1955 00pic/13877.html Flesh [al-gessad] (1955) - (Hind Rostom) original Egyptian oversize film poster F, NM $750 *
marcele sst 1958 00pic/13876.html Gift from Heaven, A [rahma min al-sama'] (1958) - (Hind Rostom) original oversize Egyptian poster F, EX $300 *
marcel sssh 1964 00pic/4951.html Thousand and One Nights, A [alf layla wa layla] (1964) - (Shadia) Style B stone litho Egyptian movie poster F, NM $125 *
marcel asf 1969 00pic/11432.html My Father Is up the Tree [abi fawq al-shagarah] (1969) - (Abdel Halim Hafez) original Egyptian film poster F, NM $175 *
marcele snil 1954 00pic/5950.html Love's Madness [gonoun al-hob] (1954) - (Raqiya Ibrahim) Egyptian stone litho film poster F, NM $125 *
marcele 1965 00pic/13321.html Pistol for Ringo, A (1965) - (Giuliano Gemma) Egyptian film poster F, EX $45 *
marcele mtcsf 1963 00pic/10658.html Letter from an Unknown Woman [resalah min emraa maghula] (1963) - (Farid Al Atrache) original three-piece stone litho Egyptian film poster F, EX $250 *
maz mss 1970 00pic/10978.html Ticket Thief [harami al-waraqa] (1970) - (Naglaa Fathy) Egyptian film poster F, NM $45 *
marcele 1957 00pic/13432.html Phantom Stagecoach, The (1957) - (William Bishop) Egyptian film poster F, EX $45 *
marcele 1962 00pic/13323.html Fire Monsters against the Son of Hercules (1962) - (Reg Lewis) Egyptian film poster F, EX $45 *
marcele 1965 00pic/13324.html Man Called Gringo (1965) - (Goetz George) Egyptian film poster F, EX $45 *
marcele sqs 1967 00pic/13416.html Oscar (1967) - (Louis de Funes) Egyptian film poster F, VG $55 *
marcele 1954 00pic/13409.html Jesse James vs. the Daltons (1954) - (Brett King) Egyptian film poster F, EX $65 *
takiaz sssh 1963 00pic/13689.html Soft Hands [al-aydi al-na'ema] (1963) - (Sabah) Egyptian one-sheet film poster F, EX $95 *
marcelv sst33 1956 00pic/6509.html Heart Has Commands, The [al-'alb lu ahkam] (1956) - (Faten Hamama) Egyptian stone litho film poster F, NM $125 *
best
John
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Great info, John.
In looking up Marcel, I found this link from the Princeton University Library that had an exhibit of Arabic posters and lobby cards, in 2013-2014. Marcel's name as well as Studio Marcel are mentioned a couple of times.
http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84432&p=541925
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Great info, John.
In looking up Marcel, I found this link from the Princeton University Library that had an exhibit of Arabic posters and lobby cards, in 2013-2014. Marcel's name as well as Studio Marcel are mentioned a couple of times.
http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84432&p=541925
Thanks Jeff. I don't know if you noticed, but one of the key elements of that Princeton exhibition was a reproduction of a contract to print a poster, which they obtained from yours truly. The original is still in my collection.
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Thanks Jeff. I don't know if you noticed, but one of the key elements of that Princeton exhibition was a reproduction of a contract to print a poster, which they obtained from yours truly. The original is still in my collection.
I hadn't noticed that, John. But i will have another look.
And how great that you still have the original document. clap clap
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