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1 day ago · Alphonse Mucha – Tragique Histoire d’Hamlet / Sarah Bernhardt circa 1899. Sold for $17,500 via Swann Auction Galleries (February 2021). The ability to distil the adventure, star presence, and drama of a film into an engaging visual reference has ensured the art of movie poster design has endured through the years from Hollywood’s golden ...
Mar 16, 2021 · Especially old posters, such as this one-sheet for The Phantom of the Opera (1925), are quite often the most expensive posters that can be found. These pieces’ extreme rarity is incredibly enticing to hardcore collectors – especially collectors with a fondness for the movie’s actors, directors, or studios.
- Birth of The Movie Poster
- Movie Posters as Art
- The Art of Collecting Vintage Movie Posters
Around 1895, the invention of cinema happened pretty much simultaneously in France and the U.S. Almost immediately, movie posters came into being to promote what was an amazing new invention. During the twenty years between the creation of cinema and the onset of World War I in 1914, the movie poster evolved in many countries. And, in each country,...
WalterFilm has always had an interest in international film poster art. Since 1982 we have presented the finest original vintage film posters from the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, the Soviet Union, Poland, and many other countries. We are always searching for the finest original, vinta...
Here are a few of the many different approaches which people can take to movie poster collecting: 1. Favorite Stars or Favorite Directors — People focus entire collections on Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Barbara Steele, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, etc. 2. Collections on Specialized Subjects — This could include African Americana, L...
Nov 27, 2023 · TIP: Remember that age does usually determine rarity, but there are exceptions – Roadshow posters of classics, limited theatrical releases, and three-sheet poster prints are worth looking out for too. 5. Authenticity. WARNING: The world of vintage movie posters is full of fakes, reprints, and reproductions.
Aug 29, 2018 · Some vintage movie posters have realized auction sales well into six figures. In November 2017, Heritage Auctionsold the “holy grail” of movie posters, an original 1931 Dracula poster for over $500,000! The striking one sheet is the rarest and most desirable of its genre, if not the entire hobby!
One that is very old, unused, and in near pristine condition. Yes, there are Near Mint unused vintage original movie posters. If you look at other collectibles, there are coins, baseball cards and comic books that have survived for over 50 years in Near Mint condition. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.
Movie Posters - Original & Vintage. This web site contains only authentic, original, genuine movie memorabilia. We stock over 10,000 original vintage hollywood movie posters and lobby cards from the 1920s to the present. These are real theater-used advertising materials printed in very limited quantities and displayed when the film was released.
