Original upload date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:23:19 GMT
A fascinating and entertaining TV documentary released in 1994 about the work of Reynold Brown, who is one of the biggest and famous movie poster artists in the '50-s, whose art sets the standards for
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portraying the nation's postwar social climate. This documentary revealed some of Brown's most compelling masterpieces for such classical sci-fi & horror films as "Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman" (1958), "This Island Earth" (1955), "I Was A Teenage Werewolf" (1957), "Tarantula" (1955), "Creature From The Black Lagoon" (1954) and "Monster On The Campus" (1958). Art Critics, curators and authors as well as B-movie producers such as Roger Corman and Samuel Z. Arkoff discuss Brown's work in an art historical and social context and the posters artisty which often is more memorable rather than the movies themselves.