Original Damiano, Gerard Movie Posters

Gérard Damiano movie posters from the early 1970s exist at the centre of one of American cinema's most contested cultural moments — original prints that are collected both as film ephemera and as documentary evidence of a specific social and legal history. Find original Gérard Damiano campaign materials from Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973). The original one-sheets for Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones from their early-70s theatrical runs are now genuinely scarce: much of the original paper was confiscated in the obscenity prosecutions that followed these films across multiple US jurisdictions, and what survived has entered collections through channels that make provenance verification important for serious acquisitions. The poster artwork operates in a commercial register distinct from mainstream Hollywood — graphic language drawing on exploitation poster conventions of the late 1960s, with hand-lettered typography and photographic montage replacing the illustration-based artwork of major studio releases. One-sheets from legitimate theatrical bookings are distinguished from bootleg reproductions by period printing characteristics and paper stock. Window cards from sympathetic regional exhibitors document the specific geography of American censorship tolerance as it existed city by city in the early 1970s — a layer of historical detail that no other surviving format captures as directly. Browse alongside our Russ Meyer, Cynthia Myers, and Darren McGavin collections for related material. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.