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Sep 24, 2021 · The major blockbusters era began in the late 1970s with Star Wars, which now went back to painted scenes. Movie posters in the 1980s increasingly used painted scenes that sometimes combined with photography. Famous artists such as Ansel Adams, Frank Frazetta, and Bob Peak were often involved in producing movie posters.
The world's first film poster (to date), for 1895's L'Arroseur arrosé, by the Lumière brothers Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand, 1922. The first poster for a specific film, rather than a "magic lantern show", was based on an illustration by Marcellin Auzolle to promote the showing of the Lumiere Brothers film L'Arroseur arrosé at the Grand Café in Paris on December 26, 1895.
Dec 20, 2021 · The main style through the end of the 1940s featured an illustrated scene or characters from the film. Then the '50s and '60s posters saw an increase in conceptual, abstract, and minimalist designs. Photographs began to take over illustrations in the '70s, which led to today's modern film poster style that rose to prominence in the 1980s.
Mar 10, 2011 · by Bruce Hershenson, 1998. Today movie posters are valuable collectibles, but in the beginning, they were just one more way the big studios tried to convince audiences to go to the movies. Bruce Hershenson, a vintage poster dealer, explains the origins of movie poster collecting. Before 1940, each film studio maintained its own offices (or ...
Sep 4, 2024 · A visual history of movie posters. A new book from Reel Art Press collates the first comprehensive history of film posters. We explore why they remain an underappreciated area of cultural design. By Aimee Mclaughlin 04/09/2024. The film poster has been enticing audiences across the threshold of the movie theatre since the birth of cinema in the ...
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A Brief Early History of Film Posters. This StoryMap will take a deep dive into the early history of movie posters, from the 1890s to the 1920s.
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Feb 17, 2016 · The 40s, 50s and 60s slowly wove their way out of scene depictions and placed greater emphasis on the film’s actors and more conceptual moods. The 1970s finally saw the entry of photographs. Of course, the quality didn’t resemble that of prints online today, but it was a spectacle nearly fifty years ago.
