Some Polish movie posters from the 1920s and 1930s, part 4

I love looking around digital databases. And if those databases are located in other countries, all the better.

Recently, I returned to Polona, a digital archive from Poland which features Polish books, magazines, newspapers, and ephemera - such as movie posters. Except for the first poster shown in the first post, a 1939 poster for When You're in Love (1937), and the last poster in the last post, a 1932 poster for Prix de beaute (1930), I didn't find any other posters related to Louise Brooks career, but I did find a number of rather attractive posters promoting American films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. (Most of the posters in this digital collection date from the 1930s, when Brooks' career was in sharp decline and her films were seldom shown in Europe.)

Interestingly, these posters are predominately typographical in design, with very few images. The best of them play with design, varying the size, color, orientation and type of font displayed. There are more than 1700 posters. Here are a few that caught my eye due to their design or the film or stars featured.

This Sonja Henie poster displays a sleek design

Daughter of Shanghai (1937)

the French actress Simone Simon can be heard on RadioLulu

Madame Sans-Gêne (1925), starring Gloria Swanson

a religious film

Elmo Lincoln was the first Tarzan; this poster promotes a later western called All Around Frying Pan (1925)

from the Jules Verne novel Michael Strogoff

Laurel and Hardy

King Vidor's The Champ (1931) starred Wallace Beery

a 1932 poster for the 1930 Louise Brooks' film Prix de beaute

Some Polish movie posters from the 1920s and 1930s, part 3

I love looking around digital databases. And if those databases are located in other countries, all the better.

Recently, I returned to Polona, a digital archive from Poland which features Polish books, magazines, newspapers, and ephemera - such as movie posters. Except for the first poster shown in the first post, a 1939 poster for When You're in Love (1937), and the last poster in the last post, a 1932 poster for Prix de beaute (1930), I didn't find any other posters related to Louise Brooks career, but I did find a number of rather attractive posters promoting American films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. (Most of the posters in this digital collection date from the 1930s, when Brooks' career was in sharp decline and her films were seldom shown in Europe.)

Interestingly, these posters are predominately typographical, with very few images. The best of them play with design, varying the size, color, orientation and type of font displayed. There are more than 1700 posters. Here are a few that caught my eye due to their design or the film or stars featured. Tomorrow's post will feature even more posters.

Mazurka, starring the Polish born Pola Negri

Shadow of Sherlock Holmes ?

Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927)

Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Faust, with Emil Jannings and Camilla Horn (the first silent film I ever saw on TV)

this 1927 poster says that this military cinema in Dęblin was showing a German film

with Zarah Leander, and with Boris Karloff

Some Polish movie posters from the 1920s and 1930s, part 2

I love looking around digital databases. And if those databases are located in other countries, all the better.

Recently, I returned to Polona, a digital archive from Poland which features Polish books, magazines, newspapers, and ephemera - such as movie posters. Except for the first poster shown in the first post, a 1939 poster for When You're in Love (1937), and the last poster in the last post, a 1932 poster for Prix de beaute (1930), I didn't find any other posters related to Louise Brooks career, but I did find a number of rather attractive posters promoting American films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. (Most of the posters in this digital collection date from the 1930s, when Brooks' career was in sharp decline and her films were seldom shown in Europe.)

Interestingly, these posters are predominately typographical in design, with very few images. The best of them play with design, varying the size, color, orientation and type of font displayed. There are more than 1700 posters. Here are a few that caught my eye due to their design or the film or stars featured. Tomorrow's post will feature even more posters.

King Kong, with Fay Wray (who I once had the pleasure to meet)

Monsieur Beaucaire, starring Rudolph Valentino

Monsieur Beaucaire as Mr Beaucaire

Buck Jones, in a "sensational film"

Had to include this because I'm reading the Miriam Hopkins bio by Allen Ellenberger, and loving it!

An odd pair: Heidi, with Shirley Temple, and La Grande Illusion, with Erich von Stroheim

My Man Godfrey, one of my favorite films, starring Carole Lombard and William Powell

Charlie Chaplin, in The Gold Rush

Buster Keaton, in Doughboys

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Last of the Mochicans

an example of a dual language poster, in Polish and Yiddish

Some Polish movie posters from the 1920s and 1930s, part 1

I love looking around digital databases. And if those databases are located in other countries, all the better.

Recently, I returned to Polona, a digital archive from Poland which features Polish books, magazines, newspapers, and ephemera - such as movie posters. Except for the first poster shown in the first post, a 1939 poster for When You're in Love (1937), and the last poster in the last post, a 1932 poster for Prix de beaute (1930), I didn't find any other posters related to Louise Brooks career, but I did find a number of rather attractive posters promoting American films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. (Most of the posters in this digital collection date from the 1930s, when Brooks' career was in sharp decline and her films were seldom shown in Europe.)

Interestingly, these posters are predominately typographical in design, with very few images. The best of them play with design, varying the size, color, orientation and type of font displayed. There are more than 1700 posters. Here are a few that caught my eye due to their design or the film or stars featured. Tomorrow's post will feature even more posters.

Louise Brooks had an uncredited part in When You're in Love

   

with Pandora's Box star Fritz Kortner!

a nice example of shaped text

an example of colored text

that's Bette Davis in Jezebel

and that's Renée Adorée, I think. But I can't figure out the title of the film

with Anna May Wong

Not a movie poster: "The Capital Labor Election Committee convenes on Sunday, October 26, at 11 am
in the 'Pola Negri Palace' cinema hall Pl. Theatrical pre-election meeting"

Denver Silent Film Festival April 28 - 30

This year's annual Denver Silent Film Festival is set to take place April 28, 29, 30 in Denver, Colorado - of all places! This year's line-up of films has not yet been set, but what is known can be found below. Otherwise, find out more about the 7th annual event HERE.

The 7th Denver Silent Film Festival will open on Friday evening, April 27, 2018 with the 1927 CHICAGO. The movie tells a lurid story, based on actual events, of boozy flapper Roxy Hart (Phyllis Haver) on trial for killing her gangster lover (Eugene Pallette), and defended by her (temporarily) moral husband and a thoroughly dishonest lawyer.  It's a corrupt world -- and a delicious film. (I've seen it, and it's true, it is a riotously enjoyable movies.)

The 2018 David Shepard Career Achievement Award Recipient

The Denver Silent Film Festival's David Shepard Career Achievement Award for 2018 will go to Russell Merritt, who teaches film studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Russell Merritt has co-written (with J.B. Kaufman) two books on Walt Disney’s early films – the award-winning Walt in Wonderland (1993) and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies (2016). He has also authored articles on D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, animation, Sherlock Holmes, color aesthetics, and early film.  Merritt produces and directs the Great Nickelodeon Show, a recreation of a turn-of-the-century nickelodeon program which has played at the Telluride Film Festival, The TCM Classic Film Festival, Il Giornate del Cinema Muto, the Los Angeles Film Festival, The Pacific Film Archive, and assorted university campuses. (I'm acquainted with Russell Merritt. He is a fine fellow, and a bit of a Louise Brooks fan to boot.)

Dance With Me. Nouvelle Vague, Louise Brooks & Anna Karina

Here is something cool I found on YouTube, the song "Dance With Me" by Nouvelle Vague put to video clips of GW Pabst's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen or Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) and Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part or Band of Outsiders (1964).

And for fun, here is an another video remix of the Nouvelle Vague song and actress Anna Karina in Godard's film. As Brooks' devotees know, Karina has long been associated with Brooks. There are other video remixes of the Nouvelle Vague song out there as well. These two caught my attention.