Yellow background with actor's credits in red. Four black and white boxed images of main actors' faces.

Orange/red background. Images of four people in white with their shadows in blue. Names of cast in centre.

Comprising a lithographic side profile image of Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner on the right side of the poster and a stylised image of a wave , people and land in the distance in different shades of

This is a teaser poster. Comprises white background with black text reading 'If you never see another motion picture in your life you must see' orange text reads 'On the beach'.

One-sheet poster for US release of On The Beach.

Fred Astaire, American film and Broadway stage dancer, singer and actor, interviewed by Binny Lum in Ava Gardner's dressing room during the filming of On the Beach in Melbou

The art of poster-making flourished in Poland following the Second World War.

The central motif may be an atomic mushroom cloud but the incorporation of text gives the design an almost strangely playful psychedelic feel, pre-dating designs from the late 1960s. 

The NFSA has been collecting local and international posters of Australian feature films for years. See how The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Wake in Fright, Sons of Matthew and On the Beach were promoted overseas.