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Thank you to Hammer Horror Posters and Tom Chantrell
Hammer Horror Film Posters, 1955-1976
If you like this, check out:
Atomic-age Hollywood
Brooklyn Teen Gang, The Jokers, 1959
Silent Age Star Wars
Manga, 1950s / 1960s
The Avrocar
Crash Test: 1959 Bel Air vs. 2009 Malibu
'What's My Line?' featuring Salvador Dali
Western Silent Film Lobby Cards, 1910-1930
Beard-Growing Contest Entrants, Kansas, 1957
Transporting a Nuclear Obelisk, 1957
Colour footage of Disneyland, 1956
'Jump', 1959, by Philippe Halsman
General Electric 'First' Ads, 1953
On the set of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 1953
Black Cat Auditions In Hollywood, 1961
Dali photographed by Phillipe Halsman, 1954
Marilyn meets the Queen, 29th October 1956
Movies from an Alternate Universe, by Peter Stults
Wonder Woman Amazon Baby Sitter, 1957
Princeton dance, 1952
Soviet Space Propaganda Posters, 1958-1963
The poster for “The Snorkel” is hilarious!
Please do not be alarmed. We are about to engage … The Snorkel.
Oh, these take me back! Funnily enough I just recently saw The Snorkel – it’s on a Hammer anthology dvd (here in the US, anyway). They take me back to my long-ago youth when, thanks to the X certificate, the best a boy like me (growing up in a small English town) could hope for were posters, lobby cards, the trailers, and Famous Monsters magazine (imported from the US). The poster for The Mummy used to terrify me. Funny thing, isn’t it, the way the censors slapped an ‘X’ on everything vaguely scary back then? (Except for the ‘A’ rating for The Abominable Snowman – that one I got to see.)