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Home - Movie Posters - Poster Sizes Guide to Movie Poster SizesThe fascinating world of Movie Posters!Movie posters come in different sizes - ranging from postcard size to huge 24 feet billboard sizes. Among the most popular sizes, one finds the one-sheet and the half-sheet, yet the fascinating world of movie posters comprises numerous poster sizes that even vary from one country to another. In this movie poster guide, we explain all there is the need to know about the different US sizes - including dimensions, type of paper stock, and poster use. |
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Hang up a movie memory on your wall ...but which size?Movie posters have always been printed on a variety of standard sizes since the early stages of the movie industry. However, some of these standards did change along the years; as we will explain shortly, a typical case is the one-sheet. To complicate matters, poster sizes do vary from one country to another. French, Italian, British, Russian and Japanese movie posters - just to mention a few - all have their own variety of movie poster sizes that differ from American movie posters. In this article, we will concentrate mainly on the most important U.S. sizes. The One-Sheet - Most popular American Movie Poster SizeThe One-Sheet is definitely the most common among US movie poster sizes, measuring 27 inches by 40 inches. It represents the standard movie poster size used in U.S. movie theaters today. However, up to 1983, one-sheet originals measured approximately 27x41 inches in size, while re-prints of pre-1983 originals normally measure anything between 39.5 inches to 40.5 inches in height, by 27 inches in width. After 1983, we started to see a shift in the one-sheet movie poster size with the height being reduced to 40 inches rather than the original 41 inches used previously. By 1989, almost all original one-sheets were 40 inches, with poster sizes measuring 39.5 inches and 41 inches being the exception. Reprints of post 1989 posters would normally come in the same size of the original poster size, making it difficult especially for the untrained eye, to identify an original from a reprint. 'DS' One-Sheet: DS one-sheet posters come in the same poster size as the one-sheet except that these are double-sided posters and are normally designated as 'DS' 1 Sheet posters. DS 1 Sheet posters have printing on both the front and the back of the paper stock, with the printing on the backside being in precise alignment with that on the front and a mirror image of the printing on the front side. The inking on both sides of the paper stock will render the poster more suitable for use in backlit poster lightboxes - producing richer illumination as against the more washed-out results obtained with single-sided posters. The growing use of backlit poster light boxes especially after 1985, led to a larger number of modern posters being printed on both sides. A few words about DS One-Sheet posters: Up to a few years ago, double-sidedness was considered as a guarantee that the poster is an original. This no longer holds true. In recent years, a handful of reproductions have been printed double-sided, often on better quality paper than originals. This has led to a lot of fraud and misrepresentation in the movie posters collector world. Distribution of One-sheet Posters: In recent years, these have mostly been distributed rolled, but folded one-sheets were commonly seen throughout the 1980s. Posters printed before 1985 are almost always found with two horizontal folds and one vertical fold, except Disney posters which often do not have the final vertical fold. Other Movie Poster Sizes (smallest to largest)
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