Favorite Silent Film Posters

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I guess she only has eyes for the guy in the photograph? Hopefully Her Wild Oat gets a commercial release soon and that question can be answered :) I think it's been restored already.
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I really the look of that one. I wonder if there's a name for this style of illustration?

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It reminds me of John Held Jr.'s style, save for some key differences (the eyes, mostly). Here's another poster for Her Wild Oat in this same style. Wish I knew the artist's name. I see an "H.B. Beckhoff" at the bottom but searching it up brings up Harry Beckhoff, whose style looks too different.

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Whoever it is was a wonderful illustrator. That layout with those fonts and colors combined with stylized figures is really a wonderful look, isn't it?

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Another Colleen Moore one, Ella Cinders (1926). Ok, not a poster that would've been outside the theater, rather one in an exhibitors magazine, but still really cool with the split visual.
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Yes, that is very creative. :) It would have worked well outside the theatre, I think, as well. Seems that it would stimulate the interest and curiosity of the movie-goer.

I'm not sure whether this is a poster or even if it's of the time of the film—nice picture of Musidora, though.
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That gives an almost creepy vibe :)

This is a Swedish poster for Red Hair (1928). The Swedes made really cool posters for American silents. There's one I remember for a Harold Lloyd film.
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I had to go to Google Translate to hear that pronounced. :D I love to hear Swedish spoken (that, and Dutch). One of my favorite sound films is Ingrid Bergman's first picture, Munkbrogreven (The Count of the Old Town) made in 1935 in the years before she immigrated to the US. (Of course I need the English subtitles to know what's going on. :) )

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Here's the Swedish Harold Lloyd poster I was talking about. Never Weaken (1921).

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Isn't that interesting!? I love that one. It's amazing how stylized and abstract it is.

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