"The First 100 Years" Original US Movie Poster

Original US film poster used in cinemas in America when the film was first, released in 1932 This American pre-Hays Code (censorship) film was directed by George Cukor and produced ...

Original Swedish Movie poster for the American 1917 Comedy. The Artwork is by Eric Rohman (1891-1949) Eric Rohman was a pioneer in poster design....

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...

Original vintage movie poster for the restored version of the 1939 Soviet animated children's film The Golden Key / ??????? ?????? (or The Adventures of Buratino / ??????????? ????????) directed by Aleksandr Ptushko and written by Nikolay Leshchenko and Lyudmila Tolstaya based on a fairy tale story by Aleksey Tolstoy about a Pinocchio boy made of wood called Buratino (meaning Puppet in Italian). Fun design depicting a smiling wooden boy with a pointed nose wearing a blue and white outfit and a red and white striped hat...