Poster Saturday. Soup

British World War Two Ministry of Food poster urging potato consumption.  Taken from Sara Sundin's blog on World War Two.

Poster Saturday: Recycling the old ones. . .

As we've noted before, the first half of the 20th Century was really the golden age of poster.  After that, color photography and television seems to have really killed it. As media became much more freely available, well, illustrations lost their allure.  By the 1950s, the age of mass posters was over, although it'd enjoy a brief revival in the 1960s, with a certain style unique to that period, for concert posters.

None of which means, ironically, that the posters of the early 20th Century still don't retain their original impact in some ways.  And for that reason, those of World War Two are frequently recycled and updated.  Here, the Canadian Army has done just that.

Pretty clever really.

Poster Saturday. September 1920; The American Woman

 

 

 

April 4, 1920. Treasure Island released, France announces advance, Soviet Union requires workers to have identification.

On this day in 1920, the film Treasure Island, or rather one of its earlier (not its earliest) versions, was released.  The popular novel has lead to frequent cinematic adaptations.

On the same day France announced it was going to occupy German cities in the Ruhr due to the failure of the besieged Ebert government in Berlin to withdraw the Reichswehr from that region.  On the same day the benighted government of the workers in the Soviet Union announced that all the benighted had to carry identification as to their place of employment so as to be able to make sure that they were remaining benighted.

Poster Saturday: Clean dry clothes keep him on the job.

Poster Saturday: His mask keeps him on the job

Poster of Saturday: Plenty of Sleep

Recently we ran an entire series of "Jenny on the job" posters from World War Two. 

This is part of a similar series, all depicting a though sailor doing what's right to keep him on the job.

Poster Saturday: An Heroic Sacrifice

Poster Saturday: Technicolor is Natural Color

Actually, it isn't.  And this isn't a poster either, but an advertisement.

Oh well.

Technicolor was beautiful movie color, irrespective of it not being really natural.  It was sort of more natural than natural.  It actually evolved, and pretty significantly, from when the process, which I'll skip the details on, was first introduced.

The first Tecnicolor motion picture,  using the first process, was released in 1917.  That movie, The Gulf Between, required a special projector and had a limited run.  Of course, it's now a lost film, destroyed in a fire in 1961, with only some snippets remaining.

Scene from The Gulf Between.

The second technicolor movie was 1922 The Toll Of The Sea, which didn't require a special projector and which is still around.

Scene from The Toll Of The Sea.

Poster Saturday: The Cyclone. Released on January 25, 1920.

It's a lost film.

Poster Saturday. Back Home.

Poster Saturday: Why Aren't You In The Army?

A Russian White poster from the Russian Civil War, raging a century ago and to have enormous global impacts in its results.

Poster Saturday: Back to work. . . back to school. . . back to books.

A Depression era poster promoting books, now that summer was over.