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For a long time, back to
when you could find these things in the back of fanzines, I have been
collecting Movie Posters for British and American films. Everything you see here is photographed from
original posters I own. No secondary sources
or images looted from a book, magazine or website. It's tough to get them to
photograph well; folds, wrinkles and blemishes can be seen on many of them. I
guess I'll keep practicing but I wanted them to be out here on the Internet
somewhere.
I started by collecting
Quad posters from
Hammer Film Studios, a British movie company that revitalized the
English Cinema's approach to Horror Movies in the 60's and 70's. Sadly they are now more or
less defunct. Since Hammer posters are becoming scarcer and more
expensive I have started collecting other posters. The common factor with
Hammer,
cheap Thrillers and the exploitive
sex Comedies you will find posters here for, is that these are the films that kept
British actors working in the 60's and 70's, while TV took over peoples
leisure time. They may not be high art
but they kept an industry alive. Other posters you will find here are
ones that I found interesting for one reason or another, either because
I like the movie, the art or the salaciousness of the image. What can I
say? They knew how to appeal to their audience. There is also a big
presence of
nostalgia for films my Dad took me to see.
I am still looking for some: Zulu, Ice Station Zebra, 633 squadron
and James Bond films that are
out of my price range for now, but you never know, I'm still
looking.
Tom William Chantrell is the artist
for many of them, if you have information on the artist for any of the
others let me know, I'm always keen to learn a little more. Sadly many
poster artists were discouraged from signing their work, so I have noted
it when they have.
The British
Quads are 30x40 inches, the 1 sheets 27x41. Some of them have been
photoshop restored or touched up to present nice images here, but mostly they have the folds, tears and pinholes from their original
use in movie theaters. If you missed the movies when they were out in the cinema, you can now watch them on your HD or
LCD TVs where the quality is just as good,
probably better if you remember cigarette smoke rising in front of the
projector. Posters were never intended to kept or sold, many
were disposed of and long gone. They are becoming expensive. People who
are fans of the stars depicted or are looking for Home Theater decor are
competing with collectors for a dwindling resource. Some are originals
from the movies first release, some are re-issues from later
re-releases. It's tricky business knowing what you have, so if you know I
have misidentified something, don't be shy, let me know.
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