The Best Theatrical Cartoon Movie Posters

[Nelson]

During the "GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION",which hollywood studios made the "BEST" theatrical cartoon posters?

[Jack]

I voted for Disney, the posters I've seen look pretty good, and the characters are usually on model.

WB really didn't make posters, it focussed on lobby cards that could be attached to a generic series posters. MGM made posters, but they often look stiff, or they totally miss the mark with the character designs.

I'd have to say the runner up would be Fletcher, they actually used screenshots in one of it's color Popeye posters, I think from "Sindbad the Sailor."

Now if this were a "best lobby card" poll, WB would be tops.


Jack:D

[Brian Cruz]

Hey Nelson, you don't have to type "Poll" in the subject line when you post a poll. The board does that automatically. Just thought you should know.

[Thad Komorowski]

I voted DISNEY too. All of the ones I've seen ("Mickey's Birthday Party", "Der Fuehrer's Face", "Saludos Amigos", there's more) had very accurate designs of the characters.

-Thad:D

[Sogturtle]

Don't know if this poll is really fair, as the big bulk of posters from studios other than Disney are just about never seen. Walter Elias Disney as the nitpicker-supreme saw to it that HIS posters came out looking really good.

The Fleischer Popeye and Boop posters are just about perfect. The Iwerks ComiColor cartoons are in some ways tops though as each poster was wonderfully executed in full color, but then also included FOUR gorgeous color lobby cards to boot!!! All of which look to have been done by a very fine studio artist.

The MGM posters are indeed dismal... With the exception of some of the Avery ones that give the impression that Tex had leaned on somebody to make them a lot better. Nothing like seeing a poster of the fiendish dog ("Cat That Hated People") taking an ax to the head of the formerly lucky black cat. "Red" in the poster for the original "Red Hot Riding Hood" looks like an inflatable doll!! Whereas in "Swingshift Cinderealla" and "Uncle Tom's Cabana" she is lovely and sexy, just like in the cartoon. The Tom and Jerry's are just appalling.

[Nelson]

For starters, Thanks Brian, good looking out....I'll remember that next time.

I voted for the "Terrytoons"posters, simple because I think the made the BEST movie poster out there.As Leonard Maltin once said "If only the animation looked as good as their movie posters".Warner Bros. could have done a lot better with their posters, I remember seeing a MM poster with Henrey Hawk in it and he had a round nose instead of a beak.

Disney,Columbia,and Iwerks Sudios all had great posters along with MGM, but WB could have done a better job making good posters for their cartoons

[billyjoelfan]

WELL there are two that i like and thay were

GI JOE THE MOVIE

and

SOUTH PARK BIGGER LONGER AND UNCUT

there just some thing about thouse posters



billy joel you had some pretty good posters fan!

[J Lee]

The images on the Warner Bros. lobby cards really didn't start looking like the actual characters with any consistancy until around 1947. The Clampett unit cards seemed to look the best before then. maybe owing to the McKimson influence. The Jones unit's cards were wildly inconsistent, going from some decent reporductions to one or two that look like failed home art school applications ("Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears"), while and the ones from the Freleng and Tashlin units were almost uniformly poor imitations of what showed up on screen.

[Garrett]

Originally posted by billyjoelfan
WELL there are two that i like and thay were

GI JOE THE MOVIE



G.I. Joe: The Movie doesn't count, seeing as how it was never released in theatres. I personally thought the art sucked, myself, but most Sunbow promotional art had this problem, IMO.

Since we're discussing movie posters, am I the only one who wishes that movie poster art was used on the cover of the video/DVD? I've always though that the posters. when done well, were some of the most dramatic things I've ever seen.....

Garrett