Clark Gable in 100 Words

One thing we all know about Clark Gable: he was very good looking. A bit of a heart-throb. He is also one of the few people who can rock a moustache (Tom Selleck being another). Here are some things we may have skimmed over with our knowledge…

William Clark Gable was born on the 1st of February 190. Quitting high-school at the age of 16, he aspired become an actor after seeing the play ‘The Bird of Paradise’. His coach (and future first wife of four) took him to Hollywood in 1924. In 1934 after a sex-scene in Red Dust he found stardom. He won an Oscar in 1934. After  completing 3 years in the US Army Air Force, his film career never regained strength. After announcing he was to be a father, he succumbed to a heart attack. He died on November 16th, 1960.

A Brief History of the Movie Poster

The first movie poster was created by Jules Cheret, a French painter and lithographer, who created a poster for a film called ‘Projections Artistiques’ in 1890 – the poster showed the image of a lady holding a card with the film showing times. The first poster which actually used images from the film didn’t appear until 1896.

With the 1920s came the the golden age of the silent movie, and with the golden age of the silent movie came the development of the movie poster – which now showed illustrations of the stars of the movie, along with their names, the title, and perhaps even a slogan. Many posters adopted the art deco style fashionable at the time, with strong linear features and big bold fonts.

By the 1950s movie advertisements were starting to show in magazines, and were looking more like colour photographs than the painted sketches they started as.

Here’s a digital mock-up of what our movie logo would look like, contributed by Allen Namiq.

(For those who don’t know about lithography printing – here’s an example… and thank god we live in the age of electronic printers!)