Photo by Merkelbach
1 photo
Symphonica in Casa Rosso 2025
12 photos
Directed by Carmine Gallone
128 photos
Directed by Frank Borzage
26 photos
Directed by Raymond Bernard
27 photos
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
1 photo
Costume by Travis Banton
46 photos
Written by Edmond Rostand
80 photos
French writer, poet and playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) is famous for stage plays such as Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), L'Aiglon (1900) and Chantecler (1910). While Cyrano was and remained an...
Photo by Lothar Winkler
40 photos
Directed by Luigi Comencini
23 photos
Photo by Lizzie Caswall Smith
17 photos
Directed by Robert Siodmak
43 photos
Film und Bild
5 photos
West German postcards by Film und Bild, Frankfurt
Netter's Starverlag
22 photos
Moscow Art Theatre
48 photos
Nero on film, on stage and in art
41 photos
Museum of Dream Worlds
384 photos
Visions of Greco-Roman Antiquity in postcards on silent film, postcards on late 19th and early 20th century theatre, opera, painting and literature, early 20th c. religious postcards, and early 20th...
Directed by Terrence Malick
1 photo
New Hollywood
27 photos
Bunte Filmbilder
23 photos
German cigarette card series by Ross Verlag for various cigarette manufacturers.
Photo by Whitey Schafer
1 photo
Adolph L. 'Whitey' Schafer (1903-1951) was an American photographer known for his pin-ups and glamour photography.
Ellis & Walery
23 photos
Between the 1890s and 1918, Alfred Ellis (5 May 1854 – 13 April 1930) ran a photo studio with the Polish photographer Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg (12 September 1863 – 24 February 1929),...
Gottschalk, Dreyfus & Davis, London, Star Series
7 photos
This was a series of coloured postcards on mainly British stage actresses, dating of the 1900s. See also www.rhodesianstudycircle.org.uk/gottschalk-dreyfuss-davis...
Directed by Luis Buñuel
2 photos
Greiling-Sammelbilder
31 photos
Directed by William Dieterle
1 photo
Films Selectos
26 photos
The Spanish journal Films Selectos issued stencil colored leaflets of stars and film scenes, called 'artistic supplements', between ca. 1930 and 1934. Sometimes, these concerned older, silent films...
Directed by Neil Jordan
1 photo
Die Tanzbühnen der Welt
2 photos
Photo by Henri Berssenbrugge
11 photos
Dutch photographer, based in The Hague.
Published by Cacitel
15 photos
Spanish postcards (in the Colección Estrellas Cinematográficas) by Cacitel.
Illustrierter Film-Kurier
1 photo
Illustrierter Film-Kurier existed from 1919 onward.
Illustrierte Film-Bühne
14 photos
German film program edition. Existed between 1946 and 1969.
Bond Girls
19 photos
Photo by Tibor von Mindszenty
21 photos
Directed by Carl Froelich
66 photos
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
2 photos
Harry Potter
7 photos
England 2024
62 photos
How to be Sherlock Holmes
12 photos
Photo by Sid Avery
3 photos
Hänsom
32 photos
German cigarette cards for Hänsom cigarettes by Jasmatzi Cigarettenfabrik G.M.b.H, Dresden/Ross Verlag.
Bolton's Mutual
4 photos
Bolton's Mutual was a British renting company, active in the later 1910s. It merged into Wardour Films, founded in 1919 by John Maxwell.
Hobby
8 photos
Supermodels
6 photos
Directed by Lewis Milestone
12 photos
Photo by Robert 'Bob' Coburn
22 photos
Latin American stars of the silent era
219 photos
Photo by Burford
15 photos
F.W. Burford portrayed the stars of the Edwardian stage, such as Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
Portuguese cinema
19 photos
Photo-Kitt
6 photos
German post-war postcards by Kitt Photokarten in München (Munich).
Martial Arts films
36 photos
Early 20th century stage plays that were also...
30 photos
Not only Shakespeare plays such as Julius Caesar, but also early 20th century plays (some original, other based on novels) were afterward turned into films, in the silent era and beyond. This is...
Directed by Enrico Guazzoni
118 photos
Composers
27 photos
Real composers and composers in biopics
Swedish theatre
72 photos
Ross Verlag G series
2 photos
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
2 photos
Directed by Wes Anderson
1 photo
Quo vadis? (1913)
32 photos
A Cines production, directed by Enrico Guazzoni.
Quo vadis? (1924), Ross
14 photos
Photo by Apeda
16 photos
New York based portrait photographer.
Edition Delta Productions
9 photos
French postcards published by Delta Productions, Montpellier.
Directed by Carol Reed
17 photos
Directed by Amleto Palermi
131 photos
Written by August Strindberg
13 photos
Italy 2024
12 photos
Directed by Henry Koster
17 photos
Designed by Ben Carré
16 photos
Ben Carré (1883–1978) was a French art director and painter who settled in the United States, after having worked for Gaumont in 1905-1912. He first worked for American Eclair and from 1914, he...
Photo by Angus McBean
11 photos
Directed by Blake Edwards
6 photos
Directed by George Cukor
11 photos
Photo by Milton H. Greene
5 photos
Cuore
55 photos
Film adaptations of the short stories in the novel Cuore/ Heart (1886) by Edmondo De Amicis, dealing with young heroes who serve as role models of altruism and self-sacrifice to the adults - in...
Directed by Robert Altman
3 photos
Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe
2 photos
Camden Graphics
5 photos
Written by Dario Niccodemi
53 photos
Several stage plays by Niccodemi were adapted for films. In particular Scampolo, La maestrina and L'ombra, were filmed various times.
Dümmatzen
24 photos
Spanish postcards published by Dümmatzen.
Photo by Strelisky
21 photos
Hungarian studio photographer of stars of the stage and the screen. Based in Budapest.
Brødrene C. & A. Halvorsens kunstforlag...
7 photos
Brødrene C. & A. Halvorsens kunstforlag was established in Kristiania in 1914 by Kristoffer Cornelius Halvorsen and Alexander Halvorsen. The company had premises at Munchs gate 10 and produced,...
Polonia
32 photos
Polonia, Krakow, was a Polish distributor of postcards of both Polish and foreign, mainly American and German, film stars, in the later 1920s and early 1930s.
The Netherlands 2024
22 photos
Foto-archief Film en Toneel
50 photos
Dutch magazine Film en toneel, which existed from 1948 till 1952. Originally it was called Film en theater in 1945. In 1948 the name was changed.
Composed by Puccini
70 photos
His operas and the films based on them, including Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madame/a Butterfly, and Turandot.
Directed by Lupu Pick
20 photos
Editions Admira
13 photos
Neues Film-Programm
10 photos
Austrian film journal, issued leaflets on individual films, numbered. It also exists as Das neue Film-Programm, which is unnumbered. It debuted in 1956 as a fusion between Wiener Illustrierter...
Photo by Melbourne Spurr
6 photos
Norwegian postcards
3 photos
Directed by Ewald André Dupont
37 photos
Photo by Don English
3 photos
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
11 photos
Directed by Allan Dwan
22 photos
Directed by Jacques Feyder
53 photos
Directed by Reinhold Schünzel
36 photos
Directed by Pietro Germi
18 photos
Directed by Gustaf Molander
17 photos
Directed by Anatole Litvak
30 photos
1924
105 photos
Photo by Günter Linke
37 photos
New Line
9 photos
Flying High - stars and aeroplanes
20 photos
Directed by Richard Eichberg
43 photos
Directed by Joseph Losey
4 photos
P.C., Paris
64 photos
French postcards by P.C., Paris.
War films
3 photos
Directed by Kurt Bernhardt / Curtis Bernhardt
8 photos
Messalina on stage and on screen
18 photos
Gerlach - GG Co.
22 photos
German postcards published by Gerlach (GG Co.)
Photo by Roger Corbeau
11 photos
Directed by Luc Besson
28 photos
Old Heidelberg on stage and on screen
30 photos
Directed by King Vidor
43 photos
Paul Heckscher
9 photos
Swedish publisher of postcards with theatre stars, 1900s-1910s.
Directed by Pierre Etaix
7 photos
Catherine Deneuve
58 photos
Photo by Alwin Steinitz
4 photos
In Like Clint
37 photos
Mexican postcards
6 photos
Photo by Terry O'Neill
11 photos
Hans Boehm/ Böhm
13 photos
Austrian photographer (1890-1950), who worked in Berlin the 1910s, making photo portraits of the stars of the stage. In 1915 he returned to Vienna and was called up for service. After the First World...
Photo by Vogelmann
92 photos
Publistar, Marseille
68 photos
Romanian postcards from the 1930s and 1940s
28 photos
Produced by Scalera
56 photos
Italian film studio of the 1930s and 1940s
Verlag Hans Dursthoff
15 photos
German postcard editing company, located in Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. Cards on stage and screen actors, musicians, composers, dancers, and films.
Produced by Touchstone Pictures
12 photos
Directed by Rudolf Meinert
25 photos
Axel Eliassons Konstförlag
127 photos
Directed by David Lynch
5 photos
Written by Sem Benelli
41 photos
Films based on plays by Sem Benelli, plus cards of his plays
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
8 photos
Marcel Pagnol
32 photos
Chinese postcards
29 photos
Directed by Jacques Demy
16 photos
Photo by Braae
9 photos
J. Braae, Berlin photographer in the 1920s.
Directed by Ludwig Berger
45 photos
Directed by Richard Lester
8 photos
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
14 photos
Neue Bromsilber-Convention (NBC)
2 photos
German postcards by Neue Bromsilber-Convention (NBC), Berlin.
Terra-Color
16 photos
German postcards by Terra-Color.
Photo by Franz Lowy
5 photos
CF, Uruguay
7 photos
Edizioni Aperol
17 photos
Italian postcard series of American and Italian stars, ca. 1930. Printed by Gazzettino di Venezia. As the Aperol & Ovos factory of the Barbieri brothers stood in Padova, some cards have...
Artistas populares
19 photos
Spanish collector's cards (cromos) for Chocolates Piera & Brugueras by Ed. I.C. Plauber S.A. Barcelona.
Greenbaum-Film
23 photos
In 1915 German film producer and director Julius Greenbaum founded the company Greenbaum-Film GmbH, which officially existed until 1933, and which produced many films with Albert Bassermann between...
Photo by Fritz Richard
7 photos
Photo by Bud Fraker
6 photos
Published by Star-Graphics
10 photos
Star-Graphics, London.
British Lion
9 photos
Deutsche Bioscop
39 photos
Deutsche Bioscop-Gesellschaft (DBG).
The Netherlands 2023
22 photos
Maxim-Film
35 photos
Italy 2023
14 photos
Frederick the Great
4 photos
Postcards about the Prussian films and the life of King Frederick the Great.
Gangster Film
6 photos
Photo by Raymond Depardon
5 photos
Emelka
26 photos
Produced by the Emelka studio in München (Munich), Germany.
Photo by Sahm
10 photos
Postcard with a photo by Atelier (Anton) Sahm, München (Munich), Germany.
Photo by Annie Leibovitz
7 photos
Photo by Rudolf Dührkoop & Atelier Dührkoop
30 photos
Hamburg-based studio photographer (1848-1918), who from 1909 onward had a portrait studio in Berlin. When he died his daughter Minya took over the studio, until she died in 1929. From the early...
Photo by Baumann
191 photos
Weekblad Cinéma
28 photos
The Belgian, Antwerp based, film journal Weekblad Cinéma issued a large series of star portraits in the later 1920s. They were identical to the star postcards by the Vilvorde based chocolate factory...
Photo by Steve Schapiro
15 photos
Photo by Steve Schapiro
Photo by Setzer
10 photos
Photo by Franz Xaver Setzer, Wien.
Photo by Hans Natge
22 photos
Hans Natge was a German photographer who worked for Ufa in the 1920s.
Photo by E.O. Hoppé
17 photos
Photo portraits by British photographer Emil Otto Hoppé, based in London. In 1927-28 Hoppé did many portrait sittings in Berlin and photographs for the UFA film studio.
American Postcard Co.
29 photos
Photo by Dennis Stock
4 photos
Photo by John Engstead
3 photos
Portraits de Cinema
7 photos
French postcards in the Portraits de Cinema series and other series by Editions Admira in Aix-de-Provence.
London Postcard Company
24 photos
Atelier Bernhardt
2 photos
German photo studio, 1920s.
Photo by Cecil Beaton
4 photos
Photo by Eugene Robert Richee
8 photos
Photo by George Hoyningen-Huene
2 photos
Red Letter Photocards
19 photos
British postcards with pictures of the films Charlie Chaplin made for the Essanay Studio in 1915 such as The Tramp, Shanghaied, A Woman By the Sea and The Bank.
Photo by Eve Arnold
2 photos
Marlon Brando
22 photos
Comic book films
3 photos
Directed by Kurt Gerron
12 photos
Télérama
4 photos
Télérama, the French cultural weekly. Every week, Télérama opens its pages to photographers.
Directed by Gennaro Righelli
65 photos
Gennaro Righelli (12 December 1886 – 6 January 1949) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, who directed over 110 films in Italy and Germany between 1910 and 1947. In 1930, he...
Directed by Augusto Genina
67 photos
Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was a prolific Italian filmmaker, who was not only a director but also a producer. From the early 1910s, he was active as director of many...
Greff Editions
13 photos
French postcards by Greff Editions, Paris.
Photo by Douglas Kirkland
19 photos
Zorro
20 photos
Photo by Wesel
123 photos
Ukrainian actors
12 photos
Itala Film
60 photos
Important Turinese film production company of the 1910s, founded in 1905 and led from 1907 by Giovanni Pastrone. Famous for its comedies with André Deed (Cretinetti), its early epics such as la...
Directed by Paul Leni
9 photos
Walter F. Seely
3 photos
Hollywood studio photographer (1886-1959), who first worked for Albert Witzel of Los Angeles and by c. 1922 started his own studio.
Film Review
6 photos
British postcards published by Film Review, London. Film Review is British longest-running film magazine. Published every month (with quarterly specials), Film Review is the essential guide to the...
Directed by G.W. Pabst
25 photos
Published by Nannina
5 photos
Italian postcards by Nannina, Milano.
Directed by François Ozon
7 photos
Directed by the Coen Brothers
3 photos
Vom Werden Deutscher Filmkunst - Der Tonfilm
88 photos
Photo by Marcel Thomas
5 photos
Directed by Werner Herzog
2 photos
Yvon
37 photos
Editions d'Art Yvon, Paris
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
4 photos
London Films
20 photos
Aldo Mazza
10 photos
Italian designer of posters, book and magazine illustrations, caricatures, etc., endowed with a great sense of humor. In the 1910s, Mazza did a series of pastel-like portraits of Italian stage...
Biopics
41 photos
Eagle Lion
58 photos
Directed by William Wyler
25 photos
Travelling Editions
10 photos
French postcards by Travelling Editions, Paris.
Divi del Cinema
15 photos
Italian postcards in the Divi del Cinema series.
Photomania
8 photos
Editions Photomania, Paris
Gérard Philipe in the GDR
18 photos
Postcards from Latin America
3 photos
Anna!
21 photos
Postcards with Italian actress Anna Magnani.
Amsterdam 2023
18 photos
Published by S.I.P.
138 photos
Société Industrielle de Photographie. The logo changed from the straight letters to the roundel with the big S between cards 1347 and 1372, before early 1906. By 1914 the marque had been taken over...
Directed by James Cruze
9 photos
Directed by James Cruze
Photo by Atelier Badekow, Berlin
20 photos
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
3 photos
Scripted by Suso Cecchi D'Amico
50 photos
Films scripted or co-scripted by Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
33 photos
Dutch postcards before 1930
72 photos
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
8 photos
Quo vadis? (1924)
22 photos
Edizione L'Argentografica, Turin.
Written by Honoré de Balzac
15 photos
Photo by Mario von Bucovich
11 photos
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_von_Bucovich
Unione Cinematografica Italiana (UCI)
177 photos
Founded in 1919, UCI was an Italian cartel, inspired by mergers such as Ufa and the Hollywood majors. In it many of the main Italian companies of the silent era merged such as Ambrosio, Milano,...
Cinerama
8 photos
Andy Warhol
9 photos
The Beatles
43 photos
Published by A Bigger Splash, Manchester
17 photos
Directed by René Clair
10 photos
Directed by John M. Stahl
2 photos
Photo by Kiesel
32 photos
Varischi Artico
36 photos
In 1900, Arturo Varischi and Giovanni Artico assumed ownership of the L. Ricci portrait studio where they had both trained as employees. L. Ricci was one of the earliest photographers in Milano,...
Photo by Haenchen
93 photos
Continental Films, France
17 photos
Ebullitions, France
15 photos
Directed by Jacques Tati
21 photos
Australian cinema
9 photos
Latin Lovers from Hollywood
65 photos
Directed by Otto Preminger
13 photos
Postcards of films directed by American filmmaker Otto Preminger.
Monogram Pictures
7 photos
La multi ani!
31 photos
Romanian calendar cards by Casa Filmului Acin from the collection of Alina Deaconu.
Photo by W.J. Gray
10 photos
Postcards with photos by W.J. Gray, Los Angeles.
Published by Garami
25 photos
Italian postcards by Garami, Milano.
Harlip Verlag, Germany
13 photos
Or photo by Harlip
Directed by Ettore Scola
3 photos
Directed by the Cohn Brothers
1 photo
Written by Oscar Wilde
12 photos
Oswald-Film & Richard Oswald
66 photos
Films by Richard Oswald for his own company Oswald Film and for other firms, plus films by Oswald-Film directed by other directors.
Ljunggrens Konstförlag
24 photos
Stockholm based film postcards distributor, 1910s-1920s.
Photo by Philippe Halsman
9 photos
Photo by Ciolfi
21 photos
Roman photo studio of the 1930s and 1940s, specialised in star portraits. Competed with Pesce, Vaselli, Venturini, Ghergo and Gneme.
Photo by Trevisani
14 photos
Italian photographer, based in Bologna, active in the 1910s and 1920s.
Directed by Douglas Sirk
12 photos
Photo by Labori
16 photos
Miklos Labori was a Budapest based studio photographer who in the 1910s was an active photographer of actors from the stage and screen, competing with other Hungarian studio photographers such as...
Indian stars
29 photos
Directed by Billy Wilder
31 photos
Photo by Hämmerer
77 photos
Japanese Stars
23 photos
Photo by Aldo
10 photos
The Italian photographer Aldo Graziati (1905-1953) or simply Aldo is known as the cinematographer of some of the classic films by Luchino Visconti. But before that, Aldo worked in France as a still...
Fairy Tales on film
101 photos
Sign of the Zodiac
11 photos
French postcards by Editions F. Nugeron in the Signes du zodiaque series.
CVB Publishers
17 photos
Freecards
46 photos
The 50 most beautiful women of the century
14 photos
Belgian postcards in the 'De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw' (The 50 most beautiful women of the century) series by Pmagazine.
Directed by Jean Cocteau
25 photos
Photo by W. Eugene Smith
1 photo
What a drag!
6 photos
Written by Raymond Chandler
7 photos
Written by Dashiell Hammett
10 photos
Backfisch
36 photos
German actresses dressed as schoolgirls was a popular trope in German silent cinema, mostly in comedy.
Written by Gustave Flaubert
8 photos
Written by Gustave Flaubert
Félix Potin
82 photos
Minicards/ collector's cards with photographic portraits of celebrities, issued in three series, the first one around 1900 ((500 personalities), a second one in 1908 (with more attention to the world...
Film Stars der Welt
27 photos
German collectors cards in the 'Film Stars der Welt ' series by Greiling-Sammelbilder.
Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquity
444 photos
On stage and on screen
Great profiles
6 photos
Bruno Bernard - Bernard of Hollywood
74 photos
Photos by Bruno Bernard better known as Bernard of Hollywood. He worked in both Germany and the US.
What a spectacles!
27 photos
Stars with remarkable pairs of classes.
Van Leer's Fotodrukindustrie N.V., Amsterdam
18 photos
Dutch postcards published by Van Leer's Fotodrukindustrie N.V., Amsterdam.
Pasquali Film
51 photos
Italian silent film company, based in Turin.
Collection: Alina Deaconu
118 photos
The Netherlands 2022
21 photos
Directed by Julien Duvivier
52 photos
Photo by Frhr. von Gudenberg
37 photos
Directed by Michael Curtiz
42 photos
Directed by Mihaly Kertesz aka Michael Curtiz
Ajax
7 photos
Late 1920s and early 1930s French postcard of film and theater stars. Typography the same as J.R.P.R., so possibly the same company.
Published by Combier
37 photos
French postcards by Editions & Impressions Combier, Mâcon.
Directed by Frank Capra
19 photos
Turkish actors and Cinema of Turkey
2 photos
Alterocca
109 photos
Ed. Alterocca, Terni (Italy)
Directed by Mauritz Stiller
85 photos
It's Miss Bettie Page
9 photos
Pin-up postcards of American pin-up model Bettie Page
Bought at Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna 2022
16 photos
Kellner Postkarten, Austria
25 photos
Hungarian hand-coloured postcards
9 photos
Hungarian hand-coloured postcards.
Italy 2022
37 photos
Written by Henry Bataille
29 photos
French poet and playwright Henry Bataille aka Henri Bataille (1872-1922) wrote many plays which were adapted to cinema, such as La femme nue, La marche nuptiale, La phalène, Poliche, Maman Colibri,...
Written by Friedrich Schiller
13 photos
Air France
5 photos
Written by Selma Lagerlöf
71 photos
Directed by Elia Kazan
17 photos
Verlag Louis Blumenthal, Germany
15 photos
German postcards by Verlag Louis Blumenthal, Berlin. Blumenthal would eventually be taken over by Verlag Hermann Leiser, hence some cards are marked 'Verlag Hermann Leiser, once Louis Blumenthal'.
Film Freak Productions, The Netherlands
15 photos
Dutch postcards by Film Freak Productions BV, Zoetermeer
Written by Victor Hugo
49 photos
Written by Colette
16 photos
Written by Henrik Ibsen
33 photos
Written by Victorien Sardou
83 photos
Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) was an immensely popular French playwright, whose plays have been performed by famous actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Réjane, and which often have been adapted to...
Directed by John Huston
16 photos
Ossi Oswalda
68 photos
Editions Mercuri, France
28 photos
Modern Beauties
5 photos
Small British collectors cards in the Modern Beauties Series. There were at least seven series of "36 real photographs" which were being packed with cigarettes.
Germany 2022
23 photos
Box Office
11 photos
British postcards published by Box Office.
Especially for you
5 photos
Antwerp 2022
22 photos
Bob and Jan spent a weekend in the city of Antwerp, Belgium.
Lobby Cards
52 photos
Baththub beauties
18 photos
Madurodam
4 photos
NMM
8 photos
Italian colour postcards by NMM, Milano.
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
10 photos
Photogravure, Dutch
13 photos
Dutch series of sepia portraits of actors and directors of the Dutch stage, 1920s. Edited by J.W. Jansen's publishing company, Utrecht.
Carmen
15 photos
Published by Memory Card
24 photos
Spanish postcards published by Memory Card.
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
14 photos
Directed by Orson Welles
20 photos
Photo by Ghergo
19 photos
Published by Canadian Postcard
31 photos
Published by Athena
14 photos
Published by Movie's Images
11 photos
Memorable moustaches
57 photos
Written by Arthur Conan Doyle
10 photos
Directed by Erich von Stroheim
33 photos
Photo by Larry Shaw
7 photos
Peplum
376 photos
Directed by Louis Feuillade
52 photos
Weenenk & Snel, Baarn/ The Hague
44 photos
Published by Weenenk & Snel in Baarn, The Netherlands.
Wilhelm Reinier Weenenk opened a business in 1900 in The Hague selling Postcards and Cityscapes. In November 1905 Mr. W.R. Weenenk...
Directed by Marcel Carné
29 photos
Written by Gabriele D'Annunzio
59 photos
Films based on novels and plays by Italian novelist and playwright Gabriele D'Annunzio
Pirates
58 photos
Written by Charles Dickens
27 photos
Written by Émile Zola
58 photos
Stage and screen adaptations after the novels by French author Émile Zola.
Moderne Schönheitsgalerie
15 photos
German collector cards by Ross Verlag in the Moderne Schönheitsgalerie Series
M. Bonnist & Zonen, Amsterdam
87 photos
The Flapper
57 photos
Written by Jules Verne
38 photos
How to wear a Monocle
56 photos
Showgirls
34 photos
Street poetry
4 photos
Den Haag, 2022
24 photos
Amsterdam 2022
15 photos
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
13 photos
Directed by Victor Sjöström
90 photos
Phoebus-Film AG.
35 photos
Photo by Charles Vandamme
22 photos
Postcards with photos by Charles Vandamme, Paris or Les Mirages.
Couple idéale - Dream couples of the French...
1 photo
Heinerle Karl May Postkarten
24 photos
Pyramid, Great Britain
38 photos
Postcards of Film & Music personalities published by Pyramid, Leicester, Great Britain
Butywave Shampoo
9 photos
Russian Postcards of the 1920s (Goznak)
19 photos
Published by 'Goznak', Moscow, in 1927, 1928, and 1929.
SB, Antwerp
17 photos
Belgian postcards by SB, Antwerp.
Photo by Discina, France
32 photos
Stars and statues
16 photos
Directed by Abel Gance
27 photos
Escenas selectas de cinematografía
38 photos
Spanish minicards (collector's cards, chocolate cards) with scenes from American and European silent films of the early 1920s. All are green tinted. Some have two of the same film, others are single...
Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie
37 photos
Belgian postcards by Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie S.P.R.L., Merksem (Antwerp)
Directed by Max Ophüls
20 photos
Written by Alexandre Dumas père et fils
177 photos
Stars reading film magazines
2 photos
Portuguese postcards
29 photos
Directed by Rex Ingram
32 photos
Roseo & Co., Napoli/ Caesar Film
17 photos
In 1916-1917 Roseo & Co., Naples, made a series of star portraits of the actors of the Roman company Caesar Film. As far as can be traced, many actors on the cards (Bertini, Serena, De Riso,...
Thanksgiving
1 photo
Directed by Roman Polanski
6 photos
Rudolph Valentino, the Latin Lover of Silent...
96 photos
Tarzan, the King of the Jungle
56 photos
Photo by Dennis Hopper
3 photos
Stars and their family
51 photos
Published by Compagnie des Arts Photomécaniques
67 photos
French postcards by Compagnie des Arts Photomécaniques (CAP or Lumicap), Paris.
Published by Moviedrome
7 photos
British postcards published by Moviedrome.
Photo by Waléry
23 photos
French postcards with pictures by Waléry, Paris. This was the French studio of Polish photographer Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg, who worked in England under the name of Walery. From the 1890s,...
Photo by Carlo Civirani
13 photos
Carlo Civirani (?-?) was a Roman studio photographer, and the father of the later set photographer Osvaldo Civirani.
'Commendatore' Carlo Civirani had a well frequented photo studio in Via Nazionale...
Film Star Autograph Portrait Series
16 photos
British postcards by L.D. LTD, London, in the Film Star Autograph Portrait Series.
Marlene's Mystery Ladies
40 photos
Published by Sonis
71 photos
Postcards published by Sonis, France.
Mack Sennett Comedies
16 photos
Directed by Howard Hawks
38 photos
Collection de la Cinémathèque française
21 photos
Photo by Sam Shaw
13 photos
The Star Wars Franchise
74 photos
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
13 photos
Directed by Charles Chaplin
69 photos
Cinema Favourites
5 photos
British postcards in the Cinema Favourites series by Photochrom Co. Ltd., London, published in conjunction with Triangle Plays.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
29 photos
Produced by Pixar
129 photos
Vintage postcards of films made by Pixar Animation Studios.
Mephisto
20 photos
Fotoromanzo
2 photos
Postcards of the Italian Fotoromanzo genre, also known as fumetti or photonovels. Fotoromanzi have been used to adapt popular film and television works into print, tell original melodramas, and...
Directed by Helmut Käutner
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Postcards of films by German director Helmut Käutner.
Festival de Cannes
16 photos
Photo by Gérard Décaux
42 photos
Diana Karenne
66 photos
Mutoscope
35 photos
American pin-up cards by Mutoscope.
Classico
99 photos
American postcards by Classico, San Francisco.
Cecami, Italy
13 photos
Italian postcards published by Cecami.
Halloween
5 photos
31 October
Napoleon on film and on stage
116 photos
Editions Votre Vedette, France
4 photos
French postcards by Editions "Votre Vedette" (E.V.V.)
Romanian cinema
7 photos
PSG, France
50 photos
French postcards by PSG.
Editions La Malibran
53 photos
French postcards by Editions La Malibran, Paris and/ort Nancy.
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
5 photos
Italy, 2021
36 photos
Bob and Jan travelled to Bobbio, Monterenzio and Bologna.
Cineteca Bologna, Italy
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Cards published by the Cineteca Bologna in Italy and pictures of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival.
Terzoli
22 photos
During the late 1930s and/ or 1940s, A. [Armando] Terzoli in Rome edited a large series of film star postcards with actors from the Italian sound cinema. The cards were printed by Stabilimenti Angeli...
Editions Art & Scene, Paris
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French postcards in the Collection Cinéma series, ca. 1995.
Picchioni
13 photos
Portraits of Italian singers, mid-1960s. Quite a few of them had also careers in cinema, some even extensive ones. Design by F. Picchioni.
Förlag Nordisk Konst, Stockholm
250 photos
Swedish postcards by Förlag Nordisk Konst, Stockholm.
Directed by John Ford
18 photos
Pressfoto, Czechoslovakia
60 photos
Small Czech collectors cards by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague)
Directed by Max Reinhardt
17 photos
British Rotophot
7 photos
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
32 photos
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
6 photos
Ambrosio
145 photos
The Ambrosio film company of Turin.
MMB
11 photos
German colour postcards in the Moderne Künstler series by MMB, published in the late 1910s. Photos by F.J. Wesselsky.
Verlag und Druckerei Erwin Preuss
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German coloured film star postcards by Verlag und Druckerei Erwin Preuss, Dresden-Freital. Priginal Colour photo portraits by Charlott Serda.
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
12 photos
GM, Italy
13 photos
Italian colour postcards by GM in Milan. Film stars and pin-ups of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Photo by G.B. Poletto
42 photos
Cameo
15 photos
British postcards in the Cameo Series, London.
The People
29 photos
British postcards in "The People" series by Show Parade Picture Service, London.
Eiko-Film, Germany
73 photos
Cines Pittaluga
7 photos
Cines Pittaluga, Roma
Photo by Suse Byk
16 photos
Postcards with photos by Suse Byk, Berlin.
Women who wear ties
32 photos
Biblical epics
96 photos
Bergeret
20 photos
Phototypie A. Bergeret in Nancy must produced thousands of series of postcards between ca. 1900 and 1914, including several comical series on modern (city) life and adaptations of famous plays, books...
Before Hollywood: Triangle
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Sedma Sila
89 photos
Publisher from Belgrade/ Beograd (then Yugoslavia, now Serbia). Postcards of mostly 1950s European and American stars, distributed by Morava Film, located in Belgrade. Between the late 1940s and...
Bromostampa
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Turinese editor of film star postcards. 1950s and 1960s. Its Turin based address was Via Spotorno 2. The firm later on was also based in Milan.
Cinema of the Baltic States
39 photos
Editions de Luxe
14 photos
Editions de Luxe, Israël
Jos. Caklovic
33 photos
Josep Caklovic was an editor of film postcards in the 1920s in Zagreb (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Croatia). Edited postcards of stars and film scenes for the Yugoslavian film production and...
G.D.E. (G. Dupont Emera)
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This was a Belgian photo studio at 142, rue Royale in Brussels, Belgium. André Brulé must have done a large photo shoot here, as many cards exist by GDE him, either in his princely uniform from the...
Ross Luxus Cards
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German postcards in the Luxusklasse series by Ross Verlag.
Cinema postcards
27 photos
Atelier Schmoll
65 photos
Alexander Schmoll, born in 1880 in Saarbrücken, worked as set photographer in German cinema from the late 1920s onward. He started in 1927 at the Henny Porten film Violantha, after which several...
Amsterdam 2021
23 photos
Bob making snapshots while walking through through Amsterdam.
Verlag Hermann Wolff
14 photos
Germany, 1910s. Series of film portraits. Photo by Alex Binder.
Photo by Riess
30 photos
Frieda Gertrud Riess (1890-1957) was a German Jewish photographer, considered the most successful society photographer of the Weimar era. She was also set photographer of major Weimar film...
Photogravure, Britain
14 photos
Real Photogravure Portraits.
Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
46 photos
Guess who
17 photos
Italian theatre actors
485 photos
Abdulla Cigarette Postcards
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British series of hand-coloured film star postcards of the 1930s. The series of cards appeared in the 50 flat tinds of Abdulla Cigarettes. The pictured often showed Hollywood film couples.
The Netherlands 2021
91 photos
Photo by Roger-Carlet
30 photos
Studio Roger Carlet was situated at 16, Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris.
French cinema in the 21st century
31 photos
Emilio Sommariva
8 photos
Milanese studio photographer, who portrayed many of the Italian divas such as Lyda Borelli, Diana Karenne, and Helena Makowska, but also stars of prose and vaudeville. His original works are kept at...
Before Hollywood: Keystone
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Postcards for the pioneering American film company Keystone.
Edizione ELAH
7 photos
Italian postcards in the '100 Artisti del Cinema' series by Edizione ELAH 'La Casa delle caramelle'.
Clacquesin
7 photos
French celebrities of stage, screen, and sports, 1930s.
Cinema Chat
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Cinema Chat was a British Magazine, published by Shurey`s Publications. The first issue was dated May 26, 1919. A postcard was included in each issue. They are sometimes confused with Pictures...
Flyers and leaflets
21 photos
Programm-hefte
Guess Who
84 photos
Small Dutch collectors cards with unidentified starlets.
M.B.S.C.Co., U.S.A.
18 photos
American postcards of the Max B. Sheffer Card Co., Chicago (M.B.S.C.Co.)
Before Hollywood: Flying A
16 photos
The American Film Manufacturing Company
De Beukelaer, Belgium
17 photos
Belgian collectors cards by De Beukelaer, Biscuits & Chocolates, Antwerp.
Melloni
9 photos
Around 1940, the Bologna-based linen and drapery company Melloni issued a series of Italian film star portraits, photographed by the Italian photo studio Luxardo. The cards were printed by Pizzi...
Nanni
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Giovanni Nanni (1888-1969) was a renowned Italian painter and illustrator of postcards, famous for e.g, his WWI postcard portraits of departing soldiers and elegant ladies with capricious hats. He...
Victims of the Spanish Flu
25 photos
Estrellas del cine
49 photos
Spanish postcards of Hollywood stars late 1920s and early 1930s. Editorial Grafica, Barcelona.
Edition Ross, France
15 photos
Hollywood in the 21th Century
152 photos
Entr'acte
37 photos
French postcards of film sets in the Entr'acte series by Editions Asphodèle Macon.
Before Hollywood: Selig
20 photos
Postcard of the stars of the American film company Selig Polyscope, active in the early 1910s.
Les Vedettes de l'Écran
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French postcards by Editions Filma in the series Les Vedettes de l'Écran.
Before Hollywood: Kalem
23 photos
Before Hollywood: Lubin
28 photos
Marlene Dietrich
170 photos
Photo by Pierre et Gilles
2 photos
Before Hollywood: Edison
13 photos
Kraus
36 photos
American postcard editing company Kraus Manufacturing Co, New York. Postcards of pre-Hollywood film stars.
Novelty Series
7 photos
British postcards, cloth on paper, of pre- and early Hollywood stars.
Eberle Verlag, Austria
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Austrian, post-war postcards by Eberle Verlag in Vienna.
Before Hollywood: American Biograph
19 photos
Directed by Alexander Korda
33 photos
Editions Hazan, Paris
50 photos
French postcards (in the Collection Magie Noire) by Editions Hazan, Paris.
Photo by Richard Avedon
3 photos
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
17 photos
Pathé Natan
76 photos
Directed by Jean Renoir
29 photos
Directed by François Truffaut
25 photos
Santoro Graphics, Great-Britain
22 photos
British postcards of the 1980s and 1990s by Santoro Graphics Ltd, London.
Before Hollywood: Pathé
65 photos
Directed by Fritz Lang
113 photos
Tobler
77 photos
Art Unlimited
18 photos
Cinema-Illustrazione
65 photos
Italian postcards by Cinema-Illustrazione