Citizen Kane

Original Polish film poster designed by Henryk Tomaszewski (1914-2005) and used for the film's re-release 1957. This stylish Polish poster, designed by Henryk Tomaszewski uses minimal colours to great effect. Martin scorsese has said that what makes Welles’s style so remarkable is its self-consciousness. Orson Welles at the age of only twenty-five directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in this remarkable film. This film has consistently been number one on the American Film Institute's top 100 American films. He deployed every narrative device and cinematic technique available: flashback, deep focus, high and low angle shots. These he reshuffled, reinvented, amplified, freeing the narrative from the convention of chronology and revolutionising the way a camera was used. Unlike the invisible Craft of someone like Howard Hawks, Welles’s authorship made its presence felt. The impact of Citizen Kane...

Original British set of eight studio front of House stills for Michael Caine's Classic, 1965 spy thriller. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.

Original French film poster for Michael Caine's Classic, 1965 spy thriller. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.

Original French poster for Nijni et Stone French ballet poster from the 1930s This wonderful Art Deco design was created by Obrad Nicolitch (1898-1979) ...

Original French film poster for Don Siegel's 1964 This film was an adaption of the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. This was the second time the story was made into a film by Universal Studios, the first being in 1946. This one starred Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson...

Original Italian film poster for the 1940 musical comedy second chorus. This Hollywood musical stars Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire and features Artie Shaw...

Original 1966 Japanese B2 poster for the first Japanese theatrical release of the 1941 film Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles with Joseph Cotten / Dor...

Antique golf poster. A large continental advertising poster for Coq sur Mer, De Haan, Belgium, 1897. The image is in a faded condition, but this is an ext...

This propaganda poster was designed by Hazel Roberts (1883-1966) to encourage onlookers to join the U.S. Navy League. The poster was issued in 1916 and features a depiction of a Navy soldier facing the horizon and playing a bugle. The text at bottom reads "War Clouds Gather! Manhood willing but unarmed. Help the Navy-Join the Navy League/ Local Headquarters." The artist's signature from the lithograph...

Offered is an original U.S. Navy propaganda poster advertising "Navy Day." Below a large image of a U.S. battleship is block text reading "Navy Day, October 27th." The poster dates to 1940, shortly after the American entry into World War II. The poster highlights an impressive depiction of a column of U.S. battleships within a red border with small white anchors. The printed signature of U.S. Navy artist matte Murphey appears at the bottom right of the image, while the bottom edge of the poster bears the printing line: "NRB - 27919 - 8-5-40 - 18M." Each of the ships depicted in the image appear to feature cage masts, indicating that the artist was working from a reference image taken prior to the modernization of the U.S. battleship force in the late 1920s-early 1930s. The first “Navy Day” was celebrated on October 27, 1922. October 27, 1922 was suggested by the Navy League to recognize Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday. Roosevelt had been an Assistant Secretary of the Navy...

This WWI poster features a woman wearing long robes holding a red cross symbol in her right hand and an American flag in her left. The figure is set in fro...

Offered is a 1918 WWI recruitment poster by Louis Fancher. This U.S. Army Signal Corps Recruitment Poster features an army serviceman raising one hand and...