Metropolis Large Framed 3-Sheet Lithograph Poster

ABOUT An original lithograph poster for Fritz Lang's 1927 movie Metropolis shown at the Pacific Film Archive at the U.C. Berkeley Art Museum in 1981. Printed on thick archival paper...

Original vintage car advertising poster - En Helt Ny Oldsmobile General Motors Fabrikat / A Brand New Oldsmobile - featuring a colourful Art Deco design depicting two couples in an e...

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...

This original and authentic Mid-Century Modern French stone lithograph designed by Jean Cocteau from the 1950s is for a ceramic exhibition of his pieces at Galerie Pont de Arts in th...

Goldfinger a true cornerstone of cinematic history, this Goldfinger 1964 U.S. 1 Sheet Film Poster is a great piece from the third instalment in the legendary James Bond series—and th...

Exceptionally rare original Japanese handbill legendary 1926 Science Fiction film Metropolis. This film was directed by the great Fritz Lang and starred Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel an...

Original US trade advertisement for Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou's 1927 science fiction masterpiece. Channing Pollock, an American playwright and critic for The Washington Post wa...

Original and very rare first-year-of-release Danish 1 Sheet film poster for Steve McQueen classic Bullitt. In Bullitt, Steve McQueen stars as the eponymous all-guts, no-glory San Fr...

Original vintage travel poster for Johannesburg the Metropolis of South Africa featuring a stunning Art Deco design depicting the stylised silhouette of a couple looking out at the v...

Original first-year-of-release Spanish film poster for Fellini's classic 8 1/2. This vintage movie poster is sized 26 1/2 x 39 inches and will be sent rolled (unframed). Year ...