Warner Bros. trailer typography
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.
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN
[buy]Director: Michael Curtiz
A White-Hot Drama about a Red-Hot Jazzman!
CHAIN LIGHTNING
Director: Stuart Heisler
When she’s in his arms, it’s the grandest thrill the screen can give!
THE DAMNED DON’T CRY
[buy]Director: Vincent Sherman
She’s the Private Lady of a Public Enemy!
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
[buy]Director: William Keighley
Gun-violence echoes across the Dangerland of the West!
THE ENFORCER
[buy]Directors: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
“If you’re smart you’ll come down – if you’re dumb you’ll be dead…”
OPERATION PACIFIC
[buy]Director: George Waggner
Up from the floor of the sea to a high mark in excitement!
CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER
[buy]Director: Raoul Walsh
Wherever adventure beckons, you’ll find Captain Horatio Hornblower!
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
[buy]Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A tennis star plays a match with murder!
ON MOONLIGHT BAY
[buy]Director: Roy Del Ruth
A happy screenful of sun-kissed melody and kiss-by-moonlight romance.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
[buy]Director: Elia Kazan
…When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed.
I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
[buy]Director: Michael Curtiz
The glorious story of Gus Kahn, the songs he wrote into America’s heart, and the girl who put them into his!!!
APRIL IN PARIS
[buy]Director: David Butler
Sparkling as Champagne! The Year’s Musical Eye-ful!
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON
[buy]Director: David Butler
Bright romantic comedy… gay with song… to welcome the Spring.
TROUBLE ALONG THE WAY
[buy]Director: Michael Curtiz
Wild, Wayne and Wonderful All The Way!
HOUSE OF WAX
[buy]Director: André De Toth
You’ve never been scared until you’ve been scared in 3-D.
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
[buy]- Directed by:
- Eugène Lourié
- Starring:
- Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef
- Country:
- USA
CALAMITY JANE
[buy]Director: David Butler
Yippeeeee!! It’s the big bonanza in musical extravaganza!
DIAL M FOR MURDER
[buy]Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Is this the man she was waiting for… or the man who was waiting for her?
