eBook release: 'Movie Posters from Silent Films'

NOW AVAILABLE! Movie Posters from Silent Films: Pictorial highlights from early cinema and the silent movie era

Browse through a feast for the eyes: This selection of iconic movie posters allows modern audiences to appreciate the art form and to gain insight into how some of the biggest silent movie-era hits and critical darlings were advertised to the public. The “coffee table ebook” is a perfect introduction for movie history novices, or for those well-versed in classic movies, a visual reminder of why silent movies capture our hearts. 

Included are a range of genres and movies stars of the silent era, avant-garde productions and mass-marketed movies, films with Academy Award-winning design and posters with just plain interestingness. Movie posters from the silent works of Rudolph Valentino, Theda Bara, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Ramon Novarro, Lon Chaney and more are inside.

Highlights include:

• Cinématographe Lumière (1896)
• A Trip to the Moon (1902) Le voyage dans la lune (original French title)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• A Corner in Wheat (1909)
• Dante’s Inferno (1911)
• The Student of Prague (1913)
• Traffic in Souls (1913)
• Cabiria (1914)
• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• The Price of Silence (1916)
• Cleopatra (1917)
• A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
• Mickey (1918)
• Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
• The Doll (1919) Die Puppe (original German title)
• When the Clouds Roll by (1919)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (original German title)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
• Just Pals (1920)
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920)
• Something to Think About (1920)
• Way Down East (1920)
• The Kid (1921)
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) Körkarlen (original Swedish title)
• Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
• Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (1922) Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (original German title)
• Robin Hood (1922)
• The Covered Wagon (1923)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• Safety Last! (1923)
• The Ten Commandments (1923)
• Iron Horse (1924)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
• Tumbleweeds (1925)
• Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
• The General (1926)
• What Price Glory? (1926)
• Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
• The Circus (1927)
• The Last Command (1927)
• The Magic Flame (1927)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Napoleon (1927)
• Seventh Heaven (1927)
• Sunrise (1927)
• Wings (1927)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• The Crowd (1928)
• Sadie Thompson (1928)
• Pandora’s Box (1929) Die Büchse der Pandora (original German title)

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This edition was specifically created as an Amazon ebook with Guided View panels. This allows a better reader experience on small device screens.