Kinematografi Zagreb Western movie posters
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Posters for Proboj (Crashing Thru, 1949), Graničarska Pravda, Potjera je završena, and Sjenke Zapada
In 1966, Mihajlo Arsovski designed a series of silkscreened movie posters for local distributor Kinematografi Zagreb. It promoted a collection of late 1940s American Westerns produced by the Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures, starring the actors Johnny Mack Brown and Whip Wilson.
The posters feature high contrast color palettes and use just three different typefaces: Egyptienne, Akzidenz-Grotesk, and Red Roses.
In 2018, Mirko Ilić, Croatian-born designer based in New York, commented:
For Western movie posters, from 1966, this is an extremely unusual look. They look more like Punk-Rock concert posters from the late 1970s. Furthermore, printing in silkscreen is quite an unexpected technique for movie posters.
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Poster for Zakon Zapada (Law of the West, 1949)
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Poster for Tragovi se ukrštavaju (Crossed Trails, 1948)
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In this copy, not only are the colors a little different. Also, the eyes have lost all detail, due to a surplus in ink. As Mirko Ilić comments, “printing in silkscreen is quite an unexpected technique for movie posters.”
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Poster for Skrivena opasnost (Hidden Danger, 1948)
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Poster for U ime pravde
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Poster for Zakon se vraća u dolinu revolveraša (The Law Comes to Gunsight, 1947)
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Poster for Natrag po tragu
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Poster for Potjera je završena
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