Movie posters: They don't make them like they used to. Sure, smaller independent films usually have something interesting, but posters for big blockbusters are pretty standard. However, in the first decades of cinema everything was different.
With handmade illustrations and letters, collages of black and white photographs or geometric designs of the Middle Ages, these posters look like works of art. If you are interested in the genre, there is a very large collection of classic movie posters. The good news is that you can download them for free. 
The Movie Poster Collection at the University of Texas Austin's Harry Ransom Center contains approximately 10.000 digitized movie posters dating back to the silent cinema era.
Most of the collection comes from the Interstate Theater Circuit - a chain that once had almost every movie theater in Texas.
Posters, movies, lobby cards and books cover from the 1940s to the 1970s. You will find a very large collection of movies from the 1950s and 1960s, such as musicals, epics, westerns, horror movies, counterculture and much more.
There are two different ways to find the posters you are interested in. You can search for the movie you are interested in or start browsing. Start here.
The search function works like any other page. However, we would suggest you to browse. In addition to moving from image to image, you can choose to browse specific genres such as crime, science fiction, romance, action / adventure and thriller.
