Posters, Lobbies and Stills

A selection of movie memorabilia, with vintage movie posters, lobby cards and stills

Italy (463)

1) All Periods:
Italian One-Sheet (17)

27x39 inches
Italian Two-Sheet (106)

39x55 inches

Also 55x39 inches (rare size)
Italian Four-Sheet (67)

55x79 inches
82x57 inches (rare size)
79x55 inches (rare size)
2) Period From 1944-1950:
Italian Square (3)

53x55 inches
55x57 inches

The Cat and the Canary
Grand Illusion
It's a Wonderful Life
Italian Double Fotobusta - Up To Eight In A Set (1)

19x13 inches
Italian Fotobusta - Up To Eighteen In A Set (18)

14x10 inches
10x14 inches
16x12 inches
13x14 inches - two, four or six
13x14 inches - eight, ten, twelve or sixteen

Also 12x16 inches

The square fotobuste were still used for re-issues up to 1954
Italian Fotobusta Set


Example of 1944-50 fotobuste set
(four plus ten, all the same size)

Sets made with Irfanview
3) Period From 1948-Present:
Italian Locandina (1)

13x28 inches

Also 28x13 inches (rare size)
Italian Four-Sheet - Additional Issue (5)

110x39 inches (rare size)
39x110 inches (rare size)

Doctor Cyclops
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (3)
La Strada
Italian Six-Sheet (3)

117x55 inches
55x117 inches (rare size)

Blue Velvet
Cabiria
Rocco and His Brothers
Italian Eight-Sheet (1)

110x79 inches
Italian Twelve-Sheet (1)

150x75 inches
Italian Twenty Four-Sheet (1)

223x105 inches
4) Period Up To 1955 Only:
Italian Two-Sheet (1)

27x77 inches (rare size)
Italian Three-Sheet (2)

79x39 inches
39x82 inches

Rocketship X-M
Umberto D
Italian Banner (1)

197x28 inches (rare size)

This is a five-sheet poster
Italian Quadruple Fotobusta - Two Or Four In A Set (2)

27x39 inches (montage style)(rare fotobusta size)

Frankenstein
Werewolf of London
Italian Double Fotobusta - Two Or Four In A Set (15)

19x26 inches (montage style)
26x19 inches (rare style)
19x26 inches
Italian Fotobusta - Up To Twenty Four In A Set (99)

19x13 inches - title card (rare style)
19x13 inches - seven (if title card), eight, ten or twelve
13x19 inches - none, two or four

The smaller fotobuste were still used for re-issues up to 1957
Italian Fotobusta Set



Example of pre-1956 fotobuste set
(two medium-sized doubles and ten small)

Sets made with Irfanview
5) Period From 1955-Present:
Italian Quadruple Fotobusta - Two Or Four In A Set (2)

55x39 inches (rare fotobusta size)

Also 39x55 inches (rare fotobusta size)

Gone With the Wind
The Leopard
Italian Double Fotobusta - Two Or Four In A Set (15)

27x39 inches (montage style)
39x27 inches
27x39 inches

Also 39x27 inches (montage style)
Italian Fotobusta - Up To Twenty Four In A Set (101)

19x26 inches - two or four (montage style)
26x19 inches - six, eight, ten or twelve
19x26 inches - none, two, four, six, eight, ten or twelve

By the 1960's, some reissue sets could be just six fotobuste, and by the 1990's they could be just four.
Italian Fotobusta Set



Example of post-1955 fotobuste set
(two large-sized doubles and ten medium)

Sets made with Irfanview

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Italian Fotobuste were printed in large sets, so would often depict scenes not included in US lobby card sets