What are some of your favorite/iconic silent film posters?

[Daveismyhero]

Hello all,

We are in the midst of decorating our movie room, and I'd like to add some film posters to help spruce up the place. As such, I'd appreciate hearing what some of your favorites are, so please feel free to share the pics here or link to them as appropriate.

Thanks in advance!

Dave

[Rodney]

Doug Fairbanks on a flying horse.

[wich2]

Jack Barrymore shows a different "pro-feeel":


Jack

[Red Bartlett]

Does anyone know of a good place to buy posters like this? I'd love an original, of course, but would be totally fine with a decent reprint/reproduction.

[oldposterho]

Be prepared to pay for originals. Lesser titles can be had for a few hundred, A List run into the 10s of thousands. For originals check out Heritage Auctions or emovieposter but patience (and deep pockets) will be a virtue.

For superb reproductions try http://www.rueroyalefinearts.com/shop/p ... he-movies/ to get quality titles and quality printings. Note that these have slight variations from the originals but that detail would only matter to ob/com purists.

You could click the link in my signature to view some of the posters I've accumulated (and are not for sale) to get an idea of what lower end collectors can gather given time, lack of perfectionsim, and the skinnest of flints.

[Red Bartlett]

Be prepared to pay for originals. Lesser titles can be had for a few hundred, A List run into the 10s of thousands. For originals check out Heritage Auctions or emovieposter but patience (and deep pockets) will be a virtue.

For superb reproductions try http://www.rueroyalefinearts.com/shop/p ... he-movies/ to get quality titles and quality printings. Note that these have slight variations from the originals but that detail would only matter to ob/com purists.

You could click the link in my signature to view some of the posters I've accumulated (and are not for sale) to get an idea of what lower end collectors can gather given time, lack of perfectionsim, and the skinnest of flints.

Perfect, thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for -- high-end/authentic reproductions worthy of framing. I've pretty much written off anything original.

[Rick Lanham]

Looks like a great place to gets reproductions. They have a very interesting video on their process:

http://www.rueroyalefinearts.com/about-us/" target="_blank

Rick

[Rodney]

Yes, a nice site with a lot of interesting posters (including the Thief of Bagdad, I see). Note that the Russian film that they're calling The Love Triangle is better known as Bed and Sofa. I have a small reproduction of that Cleopatra poster that I picked up at a Denver record store -- they had a bin of reproductions at about 9 x 14 size, costing only $10 some years ago.

I've also acquired some original programs from silent movies, and those often have nice covers and can be framed in a way that lets you get them back out to look through.

[radiotelefonia]

Sometimes the posters are better than the films.

[Donald Binks]

To take this off in a slightly different tangent, I have oft admired the newspaper advertisements for films during the silent period. Most were hand drawn and the artwork in them is wonderful. I have had reprints made of some of them done from microfiche negatives and then coloured them in and framed them.

[FlammableNitrate]

I really love Cabiria's posters. Can't seem to find a decent scan of one, though, so I won't post one.

Intolerance's posters are amazing but I find it disappointing the Babylonian segment didn't get a cool poster.... There are foreign posters for The Fall of Babylon release but they aren't that great.

Noah's Ark (1928), Theda Bara's Salome, Missing Husbands (1921) and everything Bauhaus are cool.

[radiotelefonia]

Images from microfilms from Argentina, Spain and, mostly, Brazil. All of this and more is available online.

[oldposterho]

If I couldn't have the Czech Nosferatu, I'd die a happy man if I owned this:



Can't think of anything else you'd want in a movie poster (other than Max Schreck)...

[rudyfan]

I'd die a happy man if I owned this:

Yeah, I'd have to agree on this one, it's a holy grail spectacular stone litho.

[radiotelefonia]

I prefer to break the routine

[kaleidoscopeworld]

Les Vampires must be one of the most striking.



And for the episode Les yeux qui fascinent:

[sepiatone]

for me this poster of Irene Rich in a 1927 silent appeared in a 1975 book on silent lovers by Jane Mercer. It was one of my first instances in appreciating silent film lobby art. The deep greens and the stars face positioned directly center lets the patron know who's the star and that it's definitely a so-called 'woman's' picture.
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