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Poster Intro.

July 2011:

I have always thought there would be a great market for reproduction posters at realistic and reasonable prices of the various promo releases from this 1940s Hitch classic, Lifeboat. Hitherto that hasn't been the case and the ones that were on the market were at silly prices. Until now...more

ICON & ICONOGRAPHY

I've found a company called Pop Culture based in America who have the biggest selection of Alfred Hitchcock posters that I have ever seen. Spans his whole career and are reproduction posters from film releases all over the world. Each film release had completely different artwork for the posters in each country, it would seem.

But even better than that are the prices (as of July 2011) which are affordable and very reasonable. Also, these posters are not items that you will find on every high street or any high street for that matter.

They sell through Amazon.com & Amazon.co.uk and I have created a sub-index for each film release (like this one) as there are a multitude of different posters for each film release. From the sub-index you can see bigger scans of each poster on seperate pages. I did this mainly to show as big a scan as possible on a page as they do look beautiful when the images are big. Plus I wanted to show them against a black background as I think they look far more striking (the artist and architect Hundertwasser always advocated having his work shown against a black background). Each page can hold an even bigger scan of the poster so if you have any bigger of a particular poster just e-mail me it here and I'll place it on the page. I also want to use these pages as a kind of archive for Alfred Hitchcock posters from his whole career and from around the world; even if the posters aren't for sale it would be good to have a place where they can be viewed. I can't do this without your help so if you want to share your scans then you know what to do.

You can also see Pop Culture's Alfred Hitchcock Posters index page by clicking here.

I have put a buying link on each page to the particular poster at the bottom of each page so it is simple to order or find out more details.

Hope you enjoy the vast selection!

On another topic, as of July 2011, what on earth is going on with the UK Lifeboat Dvd release? Until a couple of years ago there was a lovely release in a kind of steel casing but that has now been deleted and when they do come onto the market the prices are ridiculously high. Obviously there must be some copyright or distribution issues but for Heaven's sake these big film companies should not allow this to happen. It is too important a title not to be readily available. Maybe it has been deleted and will be released later so a period when it isn't available might whet the appetite of the viewers - that might be in the minds of some film execs.. But it doesn't work like that any more. If people can't get a hard copy they might just be tempted to download it for free - the old days when film companies could treat the public as they like are long gone. The film companies must take responsibility for this and re-release it as quickly as possible.

~ Paul Page, July 2011