To frame or not to frame: Episode 4

Always a good approach when framing movie poster is to keep it simple. It does not get much simpler than the two frames shown here. First one is an original direct-to-video German A1 poster for Stephen King’s IT, in a very basic black aluminium frame:

KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE was also direct-to-video in Germany, here’s the A1 poster in the same frame, this time in silver:

From what I hear, certain video posters are actually collectible these days and fetch high prices, some of them apparently sell for several hundred Euros. As of this writing, these two are still very affordable, in both cases the frame is considerably more expensive than the poster. I still love them.

What we see here: This is the Nielsen Classic frame. It comes in many colors and many different sizes. Their A1 size frame fits perfectly for almost every modern German 23×33 in movie poster. (Sometime in the 1960s, printers started to cut the posters to the exact standard size, or at least very close to it. Before that, posters were trimmed by hand, so older German movie posters often differ in size by a half inch or more. For many of those posters, a custom framed is required as they are often slightly bigger than A1.

What I like about this frame: Simple yet elegant, high quality, easily available, very affordable.