From the 1910s through to the 1940s film studios developed their own artwork styles for their movie posters and used well-known artists and illustrators. Even when the films were black and white, the studios recognised the attraction of colour in the publicity.
Originally the posters were produced for the exclusive use by the theatres exhibiting the film the poster was created for, and the copies of the posters were required to be returned to the distributor after the film left the theatre. Very few posters from this period survive because the paper was recycled during the depression years and WW2.
Film-noir was very much the vogue during the 1940s as is evidenced in these posts.
This is part 1 of a 3-part post on film posters of the 1940s:
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| 1940 A Chump at Oxford |
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| 1940 Before I Hang |
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| 1940 Bullet Code |
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| 1940 Captain Blood |
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| 1940 Castle of Crimes |
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| 1940 Doomed to Die |
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| 1940 Down Argentine Way |
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| 1940 Dr. Cyclops |
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| 1940 Fantasia |
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| 1940 Marx Brothers Go West |
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| 1940 Pinocchio |
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| 1940 The Blue Bird |
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| 1940 The Ghost Breakers |
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| 1941 Bad Man of Deadwood |
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| 1941 Citizen Kane |
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| 1941 Dumbo |
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| 1941 Invisible Ghost 1 |
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| 1941 Invisible Ghost 2 |
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| 1941 Moon Over Miami 1 |
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| 1941 Moon Over Miami 2 |
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| 1941 Suspicion |
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| 1941 The Devil Commands |
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| 1941 The Maltese Falcon |
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| 1942 Casablanca 1 |
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| 1942 Casablanca 2 |
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| 1942 Casablanca 3 |
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| 1942 Casablanca 4 |
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| 1942 Cat People 1 |
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| 1942 Cat People 2 |
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| 1942 Holiday Inn |
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| 1942 Street of Chance |
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| 1942 The Ghost of Frankenstein |
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| 1942 The Glass Key |
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| 1942 The Mummy's Tomb |
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| 1942 This Gun for Hire 1 |
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| 1942 This Gun for Hire 2 |
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| 1942 White Cargo 1 |
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| 1942 White Cargo 2 |
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| 1943 I Walked with a Zombie |
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| 1943 Mr. Lucky |
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| 1943 Sleepy Lagoon |
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| 1943 Spitfire |
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| 1943 Stage Door Canteen |
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