10k Downloadable Movie Posters From The 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s

https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll84/search

139•bookofjoe•1w ago

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JKCalhoun•3h ago

This reminds me, so many films, so little time.

I confess, I like the style of a lot of the earlier movie posters.

bdz•2h ago

>so many films, so little time

I've started watching one film every day 3 years ago. Much less time investment than one would imagine. It all comes down to finding a good system to plan what to watch not just sit down and have an analysis paralysis. Once (after a few months) I’ve figured out my current plan where I _have to_ watch certain films it became incredibly easy to keep up.

ghaff•1h ago

The nice thing about films is that they're generally pretty much self-contained. A lot of modern TV series are serialized and committing to a multi-season set of episodes is a big chunk of time.

pwython•1h ago

So now having watched over 1k movies in the past 3 years, what are you favorites?

layer8•49m ago

It’s all a blur. ;)

(not the OP)

ghaff•1h ago

I'm not sure that art deco is really the right term but there's definitely a 30s/40s poster styleI find quite attractive. You also see it wit a lot of travel/national park/etc. posters from that era.

ssenssei•2h ago

I was looking to add a few posters to my room, and this came at the right time. The only one that interested me was: Colossus: The Forbin Project, as I love Michael Colombier's OST in that. Other than that, it's hard for me as a 23-year-old to find movies I've seen here. The earliest I can think of is Indiana Jones, and The Rocketeer, and those are in the 90s.

ghaff•1h ago

I'm fairly familiar with films and I would say a lot of that is relatively obscure. I've certainly seen some but definitely a minority.

d99kris•2h ago

On a vaguely related note, two accomplished film poster artists passed away in the past month: Renato Casaro [1] and Drew Struzan [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Casaro

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Struzan

voidfunc•2h ago

Anyone know of a similar site for mid-century Airline and Train travel posters?

NaOH•1h ago

The Library of Congress has a bunch at

https://guides.loc.gov/travel-posters/sample-images

and this site got some traction here recently:

David Klein's TWA Posters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952696 - Aug 2025 (9 comments)

rawgabbit•1h ago

This is cool. I found:

North by Northwest. https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...

Goldfinger / Dr No. https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...

Ten Commandments. https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...

noir_lord•53m ago

They have Day of the Triffids and The Omega Man as well - it's a neat collection, I've spent a couple of years not deciding what I want on the walls of my home office but some of those kitsch older sci-fi posters are a strong candidate - I saw a fair few of them as a kid.

eterm•43m ago

Weird, the date and "National Screen Service Number" on North by Northwest is wrong, it's showing 1949 instead of 1959.

jauntywundrkind•1h ago

Different subject matter (space), but if anyone has recommendations, I would love love love the chance to see a poster form childhood.

It was sometime around international space year ish (1992), and was a poster of a hybrid ship, part Space Shuttle and part large sailing ship, a gallon or what not.

I kept it for many years as it fell apart but ultimately got rid of it. I love the motif, the idea of endless exploration. Every now and then I do a little web-searching for it, but no luck. Any suggestions welcome!

ThinkingGuy•38m ago

You might try posting this question on https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

They specialize in finding and identifying obscure childhood memories like this. Good luck!

layer8•51m ago

xaxaxa123•31m ago

Very cool

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