Looking at Early-20th Century Sci-fi Movie Posters

When looking at the content of this movie poster I can see that immediately the posters text is in Russian or a similar language, in the middle the poster there is a man wearing a bowler hat, he's wearing glasses and his face is mostly covered with yellow, underneath him are two people a man and a woman sitting on a bench, they have no colour they are just grey with text in between them, there is also title text at the top, this is the biggest and most eye catching typography on the page.

This poster shows a combination of things that are completely possible, but also definitely at the same time drawn from the imagination, with the mans face coloured blue and yellow with a red bowler hat this is certainly not a everyday occurrence, who ever drew this poster definitely had a very interesting and wild imagination, the colours themselves are very psychedelic and bright . I haven't seen any movie poster like this before, the typical layout are dark colours and informative 'cool' pictures/texts however this is very different. The immediate impression that the poster gives me aside from the fact I already know its a movie poster, is that it might be something to do with the mind, the way the two people are set apart and their facial expressions tells me that they are scared or worried and the abstract colours also give me the impression of a 'mind' or 'mind game' also the sinister look in the mans eyes gives him a 'mentalist' look.

When looking at the form of the Poster, the two people sitting down in at the bottom of the poster are sitting apart at such a distance which is telling me that they are being held apart, and perhaps they are being held apart from the huge head which is placed in between them, both their body language is also showing that they might know each other however are unable to communicate. The large head in the middle of the poster is definitely the most important feature of this piece of work as it takes up around 90% of the poster and is so striking, not only the size but also the lary bright colour scheme instantly gets your attention and the simplicity of it keeps you interested.

The most memorable thing for me about this posted is definitely the colour scheme, as it's an early 20th century poster the buildings/surroundings of this would of been quite dull, so bright reds, yellows and blues would of caught anyone's eye and make the viewer immediately interested, not only that but the contrast of those colours again the grey smaller people also makes it more visually appealing.

When doing some further research on this image and this poster is from Soviet Russia drawn by Paul Lafargue for a film directed by Nikolai Okhlopkov, unfortunately the film that was based on Glutton millionaires was lost in a fire in WWII.

Image Source: http://en.ria.ru/images/17545/68/175456847.jpg