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 He made a new selection of his 20 favourite unpublished cards for this post.


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. 


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.


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.


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).


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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).


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


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.


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).


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.


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.


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.


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.

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).


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).


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).