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

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

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·October 18, 2025
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rawgabbit

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...

d99kris

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

ssenssei

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

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.

voidfunc

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

NaOH

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)

JKCalhoun

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

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

bdz

>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.

pwython

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

ghaff

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.