22 May 2022

More postcards by News Productions

Last year, EFSP had a popular post about News Productions in Baulmes which operated till 2004. We love the stylish black and white postcards by this Swiss publisher with classic film scenes, set photos, and mesmerising star portraits. The pictures by such photographers as Sam Shaw and Larry Shaw often came from the Cinémathèque Suisse in Lausanne which must have a rich and wonderful photo collection. Recently, Paul van Yperen found dozens of other News Productions postcards at Delcampe. He made a new selection of his 20 favourite unpublished cards for this post.

Marlene Dietrich
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56481. Photo: Marlene Dietrich, Paramount, 1932 / Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. 

Lillian Gish in Birth of a Nation (1915)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56487. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Lillian Gish and Henry B. Walthall in Birth of a Nation (David Wark Griffith, 1915), produced by D.W. Griffith Corporation.

Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56492. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Greta Garbo in The Kiss (Jacques Feyder, 1929). produced by MGM.

Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56495. Photo: Warner Bros / Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941).

Steve Reeves in Ercole e la Regina di Lidia (1958)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56496 Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Steve Reeves in Ercole e la Regina di Lidia/Hercules Unchained (Pietro Francisci, 1958), produced by Lux-Galatea / Lux France.

Michel Simon and Jean-Louis Barrault in Drôle de Drame (1937)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56510. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Michel Simon and Jean-Louis Barrault in Drôle de Drame/Bizarre, Bizarre (Marcel Carné, 1937), produced by Comiglion-Molinier.

Sandra Milo in Giulietta Degli Spiriti (1965)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56522. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Sandra Milo in Giulietta Degli Spiriti/Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965) produced by Rizzoli.

Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56531. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Scene from Bronenosets Potyomkin/Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925), produced by Goskino. The actress playing the mother whose child is killed by the tsarist army and discovers this in shock, was Prokhorenko.

Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56533. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Scene from Konets Sankt-Peterburga/The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller, 1927) by Mejrabpom.

Buster Keaton and Kathryn McGuire in Sherlock Junior (1924)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56545. Photo: MGM / Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Buster Keaton and Kathryn McGuire in Sherlock Junior (Buster Keaton, 1924).

Buster Keaton
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56550. Photo: MGM / Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Buster Keaton.

Paulette Goddard in Modern Times (1936)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56551. Paulette Goddard in Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936), produced by United Artists.

Harry Langdon in The Chaser (1928)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56553 Photo: First National Pictures Inc. / Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Harry Langdon in The Chaser (Harry Langdon, 1928).

Berlin, Sinfonie der Grossstadt (1927)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56556. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Scene from Berlin, Sinfonie der Grossstadt (Walther Ruttmann, 1927), produced by Deutsche Vereins-Film AG, Berlin.

Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56557. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Scene from Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed/The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reininger, 1926), produced by Comenius Film, Berlin-Potsdam.

Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Harry Lachman and Rudolph Mate, on the set of Our Relations (1936)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56559. Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, director Harry Lachman and cinematographer Rudolph Mate on the set of Our Relations (Harry Lachman, 1936), produced by MGM.

Gina Lollobrigida on the set of  Trapeze (1956)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56572. Photo: Sam Shaw. Gina Lollobrigida on the set of Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956), Studio de Boulogne, Paris, 1958.
Burt Lancaster on the set of Trapeze (1956)
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56577. Photo: Sam Shaw. Burt Lancaster on the Paris set of Trapeze (Carol Reed, 1956).

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Brigitte Bardot in Et Dieu crea la femme (1956)
Swiss postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / CVB Publishers, Grandson, no. 56783. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Brigitte Bardot in Et Dieu... créa la femme/And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956).

Macha Méril in Une femme mariée (1964)
Swiss postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / CVB Publishers, Grandson, no. CP 46, 1996. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne. Macha Méril in Une femme mariée/A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964).

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