At Movie Fan Collectibles, we have dedicated ourselves and our website to providing an interesting and very collectible range of vintage and contemporary movie memorabilia. When we say collectible, we mean that our movie posters, film unit stills, lobby cards, and other unique movie ephemera originally produced by the U. S. and foreign film industries, are still very affordable and poised to increase in value rapidly.
In the foreign film memorabilia category, we are very excited about vintage promotional art from Mexican and Spanish language movies. Movie Fan Collectibles online carries a fine selection of mid-twentieth century Spanish language mini-posters and lobby cards from what was considered to be the golden era of Mexican cinema.
When we first laid our eyes on Spanish movie art and memorabilia, we knew it was unique and different from Hollywood movie memorabilia. As it turns out, our hunch was correct. Most of these posters and lobby cards were produced by first-rate graphic artists who emigrated from Spain to Mexico during the political upheavals of the 1930's.
Many of the Mexican poster artists got their start in Spain producing political posters and other graphic propaganda. A number of these artists and designers also were heavily influenced by the European avant-garde of the 30's, which included the of Cubism of fine artists like Picasso and Braque.
One of the most interesting characteristics of Mexican and Spanish language golden age movie posters and memorabilia was that the artists needed to show with little ambiguity what the movie was about. It was necessary because many of the movie-goers in Mexico and the South American movie markets were illiterate and would be unable to read any promotional or descriptive text on the posters.
All of these uncommon artistic and cultural elements have combined to make Mexican and Spanish language movie art visually stunning and highly desirable.
(Thanks to Rogilio Argasanchez and his archive for the art background)
When we first laid our eyes on Spanish movie art and memorabilia, we knew it was unique and different from Hollywood movie memorabilia. As it turns out, our hunch was correct. Most of these posters and lobby cards were produced by first-rate graphic artists who emigrated from Spain to Mexico during the political upheavals of the 1930's.
Many of the Mexican poster artists got their start in Spain producing political posters and other graphic propaganda. A number of these artists and designers also were heavily influenced by the European avant-garde of the 30's, which included the of Cubism of fine artists like Picasso and Braque.
All of these uncommon artistic and cultural elements have combined to make Mexican and Spanish language movie art visually stunning and highly desirable.
(Thanks to Rogilio Argasanchez and his archive for the art background)
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