The Original Movie Posters Blog - Art of the Movies

Many of us in the English speaking world have heard of H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, but, if asked to name another science fiction author, few of us are likely to reply “Stanislaw Lem…”

That is a shame, as, in the mid 1970s, he was acclaimed as the most widely read science fiction author in the world.

In this, a “The Film Behind The Poster” blog post, we take the superb poster for “Voyage to the End of Universe” and discover how Stanislaw Lem helped inspire Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey”…

Movie posters don’t just come in ‘large’. Over the last hundred or so years, studios have used a wide range of formats, many of them actually quite small.

Whilst a smaller piece can provide a focal point on its own, they can also make a real impact when grouped together.

This is commonly called ‘salon hanging’ or a 'cluster wall’. In this blog post, we take a closer look at this style of hanging.

In previous posts in the 'Poster Names and Sizes' series we have deep-dived on the movie poster names, sizes and formats of specific countries.

This post provides an overall summary, giving poster sizes for all of the countries we have covered so far.  

Why not bookmark it / add it your favourites as your one stop handy reference?

When we aren’t out looking for original movie posters, one of our favourite past-times is to settle in at home, to turn on the T.V. and to watch a good British detective programme - even the non-Brits reading this will know ‘Miss Marple’, ‘Hercule Poirot’ and ‘Midsomer Murders’.

So, a Sunday evening a few weeks ago, the Art of the Movies team settled down on the sofa and turned on the television to watch the long-awaited 6th series of 'Endeavour'.

This is what we saw, and, it made us sit up and take notice… 

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

In a story with parallels to the early rejection of The Beatles, the first Harry Potter manuscript was submitted to twelve publishers, all of whom turned it down.

Almost as if the books prophesised their own fate, it took a child to save the day...

It’s the weekend of the 91st Academy Awards and the film industry has Oscar fever. In the run-up, The Washington Post ran a fantastic article looking at the movie posters of some of the award hopefuls.

It’s so good, we have to share it….

Our mission is to get more Original Vintage and Contemporary Movie Posters in to people’s homes and on their walls. We love seeing how people have framed and incorporated posters in to their lives. As a result, we are always thrilled when we stumble across a photo of a beautiful framed movie poster...

We founded Art of the Movies with a simple goal, to get more Original Vintage Movie Posters out of drawers and long-forgotten boxes and, where they should be, hanging on walls.

Once any piece of art is framed, the next exciting challenge is choosing where to hang it in the home, and importantly, what height it should be hung at.

In this blog post we explore the right height to hang your newly framed movie poster. (It applies equally well to any piece of art.)

On June 6th 1915, “The New York Times” published an article by Henry MacMahon entitled “THE ART OF THE MOVIES”.

Found, one hundred and four years later, it's title was bound to pique the interest of the Art of the Movies team. What we read, and what it lead us to, was a fascinating episode in movie-making history...

Can you believe it is 24 years since Toy Story was released?

Last night Disney used the Super Bowl advert slots to release a new trailer for Toy Story 4, due out in June.

Watch it here!

Over the weekend the Art of the Movies team went to see the amazing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”. It’s astonishing. Every scene has been lovingly crafted to a living comic.

Go and see it!

(Here's the trailer.)