If one of your ephemeral interests is in Posters, you will want to take a look at this article in Smashing Magazine. The intro reads as follows:

Before the era of globalized entertainment made movie posters look the same in every country, Polish artists were creating their own versions for the internal market. What resulted was a whole school of artists trained in the art of the poster. This article presents a short historical look at how this movement was born and how it developed, form its art-related beginnings at the end of the 19th Century to the golden era of the film posters throughout the 20th Century.

The article is not all that long, with numerous sections. What is extensive is the number of posters shown. They have amassed a huge collection of colorful and interesting posters.

Two posters that caught my eye are the one shown on the left… It has the caption “1955 – “One Sunday Morning”, Poland 1953. Directed by Andrzej Munk” so obviously is related to a play… and the one shown on the right with the caption ““El Dorado”, US 1967. Directed by Howard Hawks” and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Two of my favorites!

The article ends with a conclusion that reads:

Posters are very important in the Polish culture. During the Communist regime they were probably the only colorful things one would see in the streets.

Having lived in China for a while, I can agree that colorful posters “were probably the only colorful things one would see in the streets”. While that changed rapidly over the years that I was in and out of China.. there are still many remnants that remain today. Not so much in the main cities like Beijing and Shanghai.. but get out into the rural areas and you can still see a lot of these old, torn and ripped posters on the side of buildings and other structures.

Anyway, have a look at Smashing Magazine.. and at the hundreds of posters they have shown.

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We’ve been here before… but once again I am going to point you to “Tattered and Lost”.  This blog continues to grab my attention.

Today I was looking at their posting on “The Chinese Honeymoon“.  Given that I lived in China for some 14 years, it caught my attention.

I had of course never heard that specific term, although honeymoons in China are not unlike honeymoons anywhere else in the world.. i.e. “a traditional holiday taken by newlyweds to celebrate their marriage in intimacy and seclusion”

In this case however I learned that A Chinese Honeymoon was a musical comedy back in the 1800s in England.  It eventually made it to New York at the famed Shubert “Casino Theatre” (sorry, it was demolished in 1930) on Broadway.

Tattered points out that

According to the front of this card this production in the US was “Sam S. Shubert’s Oriental Musical Comedy. Only successful Musical Treat America has witnessed in three years.”

Leave it to Tattered and Lost to find and research interesting Ephemera.  If you are not following him (or her) you are missing out.

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Tom

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