Decade

1930s Films as Colour Posters

The 1930s are the most honest decade for a colour poster: almost everything is black and white, so the barcode becomes a series of fine greys whose changes in brightness reveal the film's dramatic structure. It looks graphic, calm and surprisingly modern. If you want a poster of films like The Blue Angel, M or Modern Times, you get no colourful gimmick but a piece of film history in light and shadow. Especially lovely on warm paper with a plain black frame.