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I have discovered a way to create copies of movie posters to make little station platform signs.  It is probably some sort of copyright infringement to post images of what I'm talking about, and definitely not a thing one should do to sell them commercially, but for private entertainment in one's own basement, it's probably OK. If Wikipedia can display them on their website, I doubt if the copyright cops will bang on your door.

Go to Wikipedia, type in a movie title and there will be an advertising poster from the original release. It can be copy-n-pasted into a word document, and printed for your own little train world on suitable paper.

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It is probably some sort of copyright infringement to post images of what I'm talking about, and definitely not a thing one should do to sell them commercially,

Actually, a great many old movie posters are in the public domain due to some abstruse technicalities of copyright law:

https://www.balough.com/frankl...it-has-no-copyright/

In such cases, it would be perfectly OK to use such images, even commercially, at least for the purpose you propose.

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Well, ain't that somethin'!  I remember being told by a movie house manager, many decades ago, that he couldn't let me have one of the lobby posters because, he claimed, the movie distribution company kept a very strict inventory of the cards, and they had to be returned promptly.

Now, I know the posters I will look up and print:

Murder on the Orient Express (original)

The Train

Silverstreak

Stranger on a Train

Narrow Margin

Pelham 123 (original)

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