"The Creature from the Black Lagoon, " Film Poster

William Reynold Brown was a prolific American artist whose career embraced virtually every face of the illustration field. During his life he produced work for the newspaper comics, invented the concept of the cutaway drawing for North American Aviation, painted overs for some of the first paperback pained covers for some of the first paperback books every published, illustrated scores of magazines and magazine covers, and most notably produce over 300 mvo0ie posters. Reynold Brown was commissioned to do the poster artwork for the 1962 version of the movie, one of the posters is shown to the right. This one shows the basic elements required in most movie posters (theme, stars and romance). Brown also portrayed Brando in "The Ugly American," (1963) and in "Appaloosa" (1966). List of film posters Poster art. A giant woman clad in a white bikini straddles an elevated, 4-lane highway. She has an angry expression, and she's holding one smoking car in her left hand as if it were a toy. She is reaching down to grab another. There are several car crashes on the highway, and people are fleeing from her as if they were small insects. Brown's poster for Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958); part of this image was selected as the cover art for a recent book about Brown's art and life.[8] List of fiom posters: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Tarantula (1955) This Island Earth (1955) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) The Land Unknown (1957) Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Ben-Hur (1959) The Atomic Submarine (1959) House of Usher (1960) The Time Machine (1960) Spartacus (1960) Black Sunday (1960) The Alamo (1960) The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1961) King of Kings (1961) How the West Was Won (1962) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) Black Sabbath (1963) Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) War of the Zombies (1964) Shenandoah (1965)