Poster 21

 In its heyday Century 21 merchandising had a real broad reach.

Here's a racing poster they released.

I've never heard of Denny Hulme or the BOAC 500. Have you? 

Lionheart Art

 There are hundreds of film covers and posters knocking off the famous Star Wars New Hope cover art.

Here's another one, Lionheart. This one is a VHS.

That could almost be Luke and Leia on the artwork! 

Do you know of any sci fi film cover art that's a knockoff? 

Every Room is a Living Tomb

 

Not two old horror films I know at all but I love the garish poster art. There's just something about them.

Do you like them?

HIAB space poster by E. Semitjov

Hello

This is a photo of a space poster my brother had spotted in a local antique store and bought for me.

A promotional poster for a Swedish company HIAB (Hydrauliska Industri AB), a provider of heavy duty machinery.

It features a moonbase illustrated by a Swedish journalist and space artist Eugen Semitjov (1923-1987)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Semitjov

Made for the Finnish market in the early Eighties, the text reads "HIAB Is Number One". The poster measures 70 x 50 cm.

Looking closer at HIAB history, it is today part of the Finnish Cargotec Company through numerous company merges.

And looking closer at the poster itself, the artwork might well be made to order by HIAB, as the logo is seen also on the crane in the illustration (if not just added to a pre-existing picture).

Please feel free to blog.

Arto

Helsinki Base

Will's Thunderbird 6 Poster

Hi again Woodsy,

I've  Just restored an old cinema poster display. 

I've Put one of my old Thunderbirds quad posters in it …. I think it looks ok. Do you?

Will O

UK

Brian's Saturn V Poster

Hi Woodsy,

Here's the poster! As I said, I got it in an estate sale and it was grouped with a bunch of topographic maps of the southwest. I don't know who the original owner was.

Best Regards,

Brian P.

STEADY HANDS REQUIRED!

 

I adored this isotope image as a kid. Its from a thick book of facts from the Sixties called What do You Know.

There was just something about it - the inherent danger of messing with something dreadful -  that made me recreate it years later on a poster. One of my mates' Mums said 'I'm worried about you Woodsy' after seeing it! ha ha!

Did you make posters as a kid or fiddle with chemicals?

The Men from Planet X

There's something poignant about this cover art. I like the way the alien has its eyes half-closed looking down, perhaps lost in thought. The few strokes to create the spaceship have been done well too and I think it looks great.

The alien is clearly influenced by the Man from Planet X movie poster art ( a film I've yet to see. Have you seen it?)

This is one of many of these posters for the film but I'll be honest, I prefer the Spanish rendition above.

The great Mel Birnkrant took his spark from the same movie for his own Man from Pluto, Electron+, one of the fabulous Colourforms Outerspacemen, which I had as a kid circa 1967..

Here's Mel's own mint carded Electron+.

Those Colorforms backing cards where a thing of beauty, perhaps the best backing cards of all time I would say!

Still, there's always room for more Planet X Men.

Here's Geometric Designs limited edition resin kit.

Have you any men from X readers? 

THE BIGGEST POSTER IN THE WORLD

Wow, look what you could get on page 190 from Popular Mechanics magazine July 1967! I would have given away my spare Action Man for that Saturn V poster!

Did you get one?

2001: L'odysee de L'espace

Hi Woodsy. Here's a large French 2001 Space Odyssey film poster.

It must be about 6ft x4ft!

Will Os

UK

Dracula Posters

Hi

              From the Dark Corners movie review channel on You Tube is this look at 100 Years of Dracula Movie Posters. Yes, 100 years since the first movie with the word Dracula in the title first appeared, back in 1921. It is 56 minutes of pure Dracula movie history. Some of the films are famous, others so obscure I have never heard of them. All good fun.

100 Years of Dracula Movie Posters - YouTube

Dark Corners has many reviews of bad and/or cult movies, and various specials, and is well worth a look, if you have not seen it before.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

WILL'S MOONBASSE ALPHA POSTER

Poster from the big screen release of space1999. 

Regards. Will O

TERRANOVA'S CADBURYS MONSTER BAR POSTERS

Hello Woodsy

Since the blog is covering candy and desserts, and why not, here are some posters issued by Cadbury in the early 70's in exchange for some wrappers:

SIX CADBURY'S MONSTER BAR POSTERS.

Not as scary as paperback or magazine covers but ideal for the Beano and Dandy crowd.

Regards,
Terranova47

USA

I CAVALIERI DELLO SPAZIO: WHERE'S THE OX?

 I came across this Italian film poster for Thunderbirds Are Go [1966] online the other day.

I was expecting the Zero-X but there's a strange looking space plane in there.

Anyone know what that is?

IT LIVES AGAIN!

A very scarce Frankenstein movie poster surfaces!

Sorry about the pop-ups, its a pesky Newspaper website.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2986373/Monster-price-one-world-s-rarest-movie-posters-84-year-old-Frankenstein-poster-abandoned-cinema-sale-staggering-225-000.html


Did you have posters as a kid?

KEV D'S FANTASTIC SPACEX POSTER

Hi,

Here is that poster I had done of my Spacex MLP and P3 Helicopter scratchbuild. 

(I've included a clearer picture below of the actual image too).

Take care,

Kevin D

UK

MORE SPANISH UFO

I like this UFO poster and of particular interest for me are the two large vehicles to the left, which if I'm not mistaken appeared as articulated models in the New York Worlds Fair. Is their a link to UFO or was it simply artistic licence?

PROJECT SWORD CELEBRATION SQUAD

Curious locals watched with interest as the Project SWORD team visited the Ocean of Storms for party supplies.

CENTURY 21 RECORDS SHOP POSTER 1965

This was an interesting auction I saw last month. A piece of shop display material for Century 21 that's new to the blog.

You ever seen one readers?

Century 21 Records original UK shop display poster issued by Record Retailer magazine, 1965. This poster was for use in record shops to promote the launch of Century 21 label and advertised the first six EPs to be released.

17 x 11 inches (approx).