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trailer typography (1945-1949)

Warner Bros.
trailer typography
1945-1949

My goal is to create a collection of all trailer titles from all commercially available Warner Bros. movies. I started with five pages, covering 25 years worth of trailer typography: from 1930 to 1954. I started with this era, simply because it’s the Golden Age of Trailer Title design. During the late 1950s designers started using existing typefaces, which made the designs less visually interesting. Which doesn’t mean you should visit these five pages and never come back… This is just the beginning. I’ll be adding more pages, with hopefully equally interesting typography or lettering.



1945 Roughly Speaking + Objective, Burma! + Hotel Berlin + God Is My Co-Pilot + The Horn Blows at Midnight + Escape in the Desert + Pillow to Post + Conflict + The Corn Is Green + Christmas in Connecticut + Pride of the Marines + Rhapsody in Blue + Mildred Pierce + Confidential Agent + Danger Signal + Saratoga Trunk + Too Young to Know + Appointment in Tokyo + San Antonio

1946 My Reputation + Three Strangers + Cinderella Jones + Devotion + Her Kind of Man + One More Tomorrow + Janie Gets Married + Night and Day + A Stolen Life + Of Human Bondage + Two Guys from Milwaukee + The Big Sleep + Shadow of a Woman + Cloak and Dagger + Deception + Nobody Lives Forever + Never Say Goodbye + The Verdict + The Beast with Five Fingers + Humoresque + The Time, the Place and the Girl

1947 The Man I Love + Nora Prentiss + Pursued + The Two Mrs. Carrolls + That Way with Women + Stallion Road + Love and Learn + The Unfaithful + Cheyenne + Possessed + Deep Valley + Life with Father + Cry Wolf + Dark Passage + That Hagen Girl + Escape Me Never + Always Together + The Voice of the Turtle + My Wild Irish Rose

1948 The treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) + April Showers + Winter Meeting + To the Victor + The Woman in White + Silver River + Wallflower + The Big Punch + Romance on the High Seas + Key Largo + Embraceable You + Two Guys from Texas + Johnny Belinda + Smart Girls Don’t Talk + June Bride + Fighter Squadron + Adventures of Don Juan + The Decision of Christopher Blake + Whiplash

1949 One Sunday Afternoon + John Loves Mary + Flaxy Martin + A Kiss in the Dark + Burma Victory + Homicide + My Dream Is Yours + The Younger Brothers + Flamingo Road + Night Unto Night + Colorado Territory + One Last Fling + The Fountainhead + The Girl from Jones Beach + Look for the Silver Lining + It’s a Great Feeling + White Heat + The House Across the Street + Golden Madonna + Task Force + Under Capricorn + Beyond the Forest + The Story of Seabiscuit + Always Leave Them Laughing + The Hasty Heart + The Lady Takes a Sailor + The Inspector General

HOME + 1900-1919 + 1920-1924 + 1925-1929 + 1930-1934 + 1935-1939 + 1930s trailers + 1940-1944 + 1945-1949 + 1940s trailers + 1950-1954 + 1955-1959 + 1950s trailers + 1960-1964 + 1965-1969 + 1960s trailers + 1970-1974 + 1975-1979 + 1970s trailers + 1980-1984 + 1985-1989 + 1990-1994 + 1995-1999 + 2000-2004 + 2005-2009 + 2010-2014 + 2015-2019 + Western + Film noir + Italian neorealism + Blaxploitation + Giallo + Poliziotteschi + Spaghetti Westerns + UPDATES + The typography of Jean-Luc Godard + Saul Bass' title sequences + Shaw Brothers + Titanus + Boxing movies + Christmas movies

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ABOUT ME

My name is Christian Annyas.
Between my morning coffee and evening movie I design websites. Like the one you're looking at. I could do yours too.
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ABOUT THIS PROJECT

I've seen a lot of movies over the years. To prove I've sat through at least the first ten minutes of them I started making screenshots of the titles. Then my computer crashed and I almost lost them all. To save them for future generations I created this little website.