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Television Episodes Shown Theatrically In Australia Posters

HONDO — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:45:00 +0000

A preview of things to come.

Rare Horizontal Style Daybills

HONDO — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:38:00 +0000

The Haunted And The Hunted ( a.k.a. Dementia 13 ) ( 1963 ) is a 13 1/2 x 30'' commonly available horizontal format Australian daybill poster, called in this case a teaser daybill. Although this title in this format is regularly available in the market place, the horizontal style format itself is very rare.

I have stumbled across another horizontal style Australian daybill poster poster image in the form of a very rare title from way back in the early 1930's. The title is Congorilla ( 1932 ), and has been credited as being printed by Renwick Pride Printers Pty. Ltd. I cannot confirm the printer though as these details on the image are impossible to read with the image available, but the Fox credit dates it as being from 1932.

I am unaware of any other horizontal style daybills existing that spring to mind, but if anyone knows of any other Australian daybill printings in this rare format existing, please let us know.

Early Australian Alfred Hitchcock Film Advertisements From Everyones Trade Magazine.

HONDO — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:04:00 +0000

Secret Agent ( 1936 )

Sabotage ( 1936 )

Rich And Strange ( 1931 )

Enter Sir john ( 1930 ). Also a U.S.A. one sheet image of the film titled Murder! which was the origininal UK and the U.S.A. name. The Skin Game ( 1931 ) mentioned on the poster is also a Hitchcock directed film, but the remaining two titles are not Hitchcock films as mentioned at the top of the advertisement..

Elstree Calling ( 1930 ). Credited on screen with his contribution being director of ''Sketches and other interpolated items".

1950's First Release Australian Daybills Not Designed By Richardson Studio For Paramount Pictures

HONDO — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:09:00 +0000

O.S.image comparison.

There were a number of films released by Paramount Pictures in Australia in the 1950's that I am convinced that there were no daybill posters designed by the Richardson Studio for theses films. I believe these displayed five feature films daybill posters would have been designed and printed in duotone by an uncredited Australian printer for the film's first release. Note that these posters don't have A Paramount Picture wording on them only A Paramount Release or Released By Paramount Pictures appearing on them.The details for the five films are as follows.

Immediate Disaster ( a.k.a. Stranger From Venus ) Rich & Rich Ltd. USA television first release in 1954. No Paramount Pictures connection known.
Godzilla King Of The Monsters ( 1956 ). Toho Company. Embassy Pictures / Transworld Releasing Corp in the U.S.A. Released in Italy & Argentina by Paramount.
Gilbert Harding Speaking Of Murder ( 1953 ) Danziger Productions Ltd. / Paramount British Pictures. A compilation of 3 stories from a U.K. television series called Calling Scotland Yard.
Alaska Patrol ( 1949 ) Burwood Pictures Corp. / Film Classics. No Paramount connection known.
S.O.S. Submarine ( 1941 Italy then edited & dubbed and released in the U.S.. in 1948 by Screen Guild Productions. No Paramount connection known.

There were five other films that may also fall into this category of first release duotone daybills, but until an image turns up we won't know for sure. The titles are -

The Ninth Commandment ( a.k.a. Sansualita ) ( USA Barefoot Savage ) Ponti- De Laurentiis Cinematografica / Paramount Films Of Italy - I.F.E.Releasing Corporation ( U.S.A.) Italian film with subtitles.
Oriental Evil ( Breakston - Stahl Productions / Classic Pictures. No Paramount connection known .
Ten Dollar Bettor ( 1951 ) Jack Broder Productions / Realart Pictures Inc. No Paramount connection known.
Breakdown ( 1952 ) Pegasus Productions / Realart Pictures Inc. No Paramount connection known.
Gambler And The Lady ( 1952 ) Hammer Films / Lippert Films. Exclusive Films ( U.K. ) & Lippert Pictures ( U.S.A. ). No Paramount connection known.

Newspaper advertisement placed during the film's run in Newcastle N.S.W. in September 1953.

The reason the just mentioned five titles may be either duotone or Richardson Studio / W.E.Smith full colour daybills is because of the following three titles were also independently released films overseas, but were released in Australia by Paramount Films and were produced by Richardson Studio / W.E. Smith. All three have A Paramount Release and not A Paramount Picture printed on them. A point to make is that no duotone versions of any of these three titles have been sighted.

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Crashout ( 1955 ) Filmakers Releasing Organisation ( States rights system ). No Paramount connection known.
Mad At The World ( 1955 ) Filmakers Releasing Organisation. No Paramount connection known.
The Big Chase ( 1954 ) Lippert Pictiures, Inc. No Paramount connection known.

Something A Little Different In Advertising For Some Classic Films

HONDO — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:45:00 +0000

Film poster advertising of any kind has always been hard to find for the original release of The Third Man in Australia.The above daybill image recently surfaced courtesy of Heritage Auctions and is the only poster of this film for the first release that I have ever seen. I just recently found the above Australian newspaper advertisement published for a screening of the film in 1950 and was impressed by the different film noir look about it and different from any artwork I have ever seen anywhere.

'The Ghost Of Frankenstein' ( 1942 ). Apart from the error in the leaving out of the word 'The' in the title of the film on the daybill, people have often remarked on the appearance of the monster on the daybill being a little odd. A member on this forum once said ''The monster looks a little bit like an overweight Elvis, who is wearing a black turtleneck sweater''. In the above centre Australian newspaper advertisement from 1942 the monster looks like what he should look like and the different tagline 'You Can't Keep A Good Monster Down' is great as well. The advertisement on the right hand side is from another venue in another state, that was also published in 1942. This one using a variation of the 'New thrills' tagline used on the daybill.

Full Bleed Posters

Eisenhower — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:39:00 +0000

Why are "full bleed" posters so rare? Were extra labor costs involved? Did only a few studios produce them? I've seen them in the 30s & 40s, but none in the 50s. I've seen quite a few British Quads that appear to be full bleed, but few US poster-and only one sheets at that. Kiss of Death is striking, wish more would have produced!

Bower Show Print window card catalog from the 30s

110x75 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 18:48:20 +0000

I came across this catalog on ebay, from a company dedicated to print Window Cards with stock images. There's some great designs in it. Big fan of this format

Best And The Worse Daybills, Locally Produced Artwork - Australia vs New Zealand A No Contest.

HONDO — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 09:46:00 +0000

Wolf Larsen ( 1958 ). Australian Richardson Studio daybill and a New Zealand first release daybill distributed there by a different distributor. One has to feel sorry for collectors ( if any ) of New Zealand printed daybill film posters.

The majority of films released in New Zealand were from the same film distributor that was the case in Australia, and the Australian daybills were used there. The remaining product that was released in New Zealand by other distributors, that were different from the Australian distributors had to have their own daybills designed and printed in New Zealand. The daybills printed were almost all inferior in design, as you can see above with the Wolf Larsen example. Very little time and effort and pride in their work was put into whoever was responsible in producing all the New Zealand product.Whether is was a cost and time factor or / and a complete lack of talent in the designing department, who knows. I will possibly show some of the better and the worse examples at a later time.

Altered Film Classifications On Posters In Australia

HONDO — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 12:05:00 +0000

Title # 1. Sergeant York ( 1941 ). Altered on daybill from Not Suitable For Children to For General Exhibition for unknown reason.

Jane Russell's Underwater! - Behind The Scenes With The Various Advertising & Poster Designs.

HONDO — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:18:00 +0000

The following two pages were published in an edition of Life Magazine in 1955.

I couldn't find out the answer.

The advertising version of Underwater! that was displayed outside the Mayfair Theatre in Times Square New York in 1955.

Australian daybill and the Australian one sheet. The daybill design is similar to the New York Mayfair Theatre design,

Australian 3 sheet.

Australia certainly produced some variety in the artwork designs.

From the original 1955 U.S. campaign book.

I am a great Jane Russell fan and have been working for some time in compiling this. I hope you find it interesting and enjoy Jane's Underwater! posters.

Wow - What A Difference A Country Can Make In Poster Design

HONDO — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Rough, Tough And Ready ( 1945 ) U.S.one sheet and an Italian poster of the same film designed by Anselmo Ballester, which was released in Italy as Femmine del Mare, which translates into English as being the then unusual titled Female Of Sea, as far as I can make out. In the U.K. the film had a more appropriate title of Men Of The Sea. Looks like the octopus has his eyes on a land based Jean Rogers, but apart from that oddity it is a nice looking poster.

Freaks & Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

HONDO — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:48:00 +0000

I had the great experience in 1976 to attend a cinema in NSW to see a double bill of Freaks ( 1933 ) & Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ). For Freaks it was the first release in Australia since being banned in 1933 by the Australian censor. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde had long been unseen and thought lost since MGM purchased it in 1941. In 1975 both films were passed by the censor for 35mm public exhibition in Australia with the NRC censorship rating given. I enjoyed both films and the audience and I laughed at times at Fredric March's performance as Dr. Jekyll. The end scene of Freaks was haunting and still comes to mind today.

What I find interesting is as almost all films released in Australia in the 1970s have some sort of film poster images viewable on Google if you search long enough. Where then is the poster material on Freaks & Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde? No daybill, one sheet, pressbook or anything else can be located.

Does anyone have any poster material they can share images with us or information of any kind that will through some light on this mystery?

Hondo.

The Day The Earth Stood Still & The War Of The Worlds Giant Advertising.

HONDO — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:20:00 +0000

Huge outdoor advertising for the screenings of The Day The Earth Stood Still ( 1951 ) & The War Of The Worlds ( 1953 ) at the Mayfair Theatre in Times Square New York in the early 1950s. Very little in the way of images of this form of Mayfair Theatre advertising appear to exist today, so it is pleasing that images of these two classic science fiction films are available for us to see today.

24 Sheets also from the U.S.A. It is amazing that these two posters still exist.

Rare Australian Michael Shayne Film Noir Daybill Posters

HONDO — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:38:00 +0000

Dressed To Kill ( 1941 ).

There were seven 20th Century Fox produced films that starred Lloyd Nolan as private detective Michael Shayne. The films were released between 1940 and 1942. The above Dressed To Kill Australian daybill ( printed for New Zealand use without Australian censorship applied ) is rare and is the only one of the seven titles that I have been able to locate a daybill image of. Dressed To Kill is an impressive Marchant produced daybill, so one has to consider the other six, probably Marchant daybills also as they were a preferred printer at that time, to be equally excellent looking posters as well. Does anyone own any of the other six film posters, or have ever sighted any of them? The six titles are Michael Shayne Private Detective ( 1940 ), Sleepers West ( 1941 ), Blue, White And Perfect ( 1942 ), The Man Who Wouldn't Die ( 1942), Just Off Broadway ( 1942 ) and Time To Kill ( 1942 ), Anywhere between one to three of the titles were probably long daybills. I included the original U.S. insert above for comparison purposes and it trails behind in the wake of the daybill. Interestingly Sheila Ryan appears on the daybill whilst Mary Beth Hughes features on the insert and other U.S. paper.The U.S. one sheet was printed in colour, but not the insert and the lobby cards

Rare Alfred Hitchcock Poster Style of Young And Innocent

HONDO — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 05:47:00 +0000

Young And Innocent ( 1937 ) ( aka The Girl Was Young in the U.S.A. ). ( State Library Of Western Australia ) (BA 3118 / 9 ) ( Display at the Theatre Royal in Perth Western Australia in 1939 ).

I have just discovered this fantastic poster image.

The image isn't credited with the style or measurements of the poster.

This poster was exhibited in Australian cinemas and is very large when when comparing it with the front of house lobby cards on either side of the poster.

What I find interesting is that there isn't a mention whatsover of Alfred Hitchcocks involvement with the film. There is what looks like silver tinsel completely attached around the poster, which has one wondering did this decoration come attached to the poster of was it added inhouse at the Grand Theatre?

As the poster one has to believe is of British origin I am thinging Paul or perhaps Bruce or John may be able to assist with establishing what type of poster this is?

The absence of the then famous Hitchcock name from the poster really has me baffled though.

Cool Things I Found In "Everyone's" Digital Archive

CSM_2_Point_0 — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 05:31:00 +0000

Starting a separate thread for pics and articles that do not really fit anywhere else. Please add to it!

Looking back at some film related history.

HONDO — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:44:00 +0000

( Everyones, July 11, 1930 / Trove )

Gold Diggers Of Broadway ( 1929 ). A rare look af 24 sheets being applied to billboards. What makes it super rare is having females in shorts plaster up the posters, instead of the usual males who would have normally done the job. A great piece of publicity gained here by using women though.

( Everyones 1928 / Trove )

( Everyones 1922 / Trove )

From the period wnen full houses were the thing.

( Unknown )
Checking over 35mm film.

Rare Look At Australian Film Poster Formats Available In 1935 For The Film Shanghai

HONDO — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 04:45:00 +0000

Nice enlarged images taken from an Australian 1935 press sheet from Bruce's Archives. One can only imagine what the original posters, particularly the Richards Studio daybill, would have looked like.

One Body Too Many - which version do you prefer?

HONDO — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 01:18:00 +0000

One Body Too Many ( 1944 ). Three versions of the Paramount / Richardson Studio 10 x 30 daybill extisting today.

Which one do you prefer and why? Any comments would be appreciated.

Simmons RKO Full Bleed Daybill Posters Incorrecly Trimmed.

HONDO — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:17:00 +0000

Three RKO full bleed daybill posters of Dumbo,The Window and It's A Wonderful Life "" were previously discussed on my posted ''Dumbo original daybill at last'' thread. This subject deserves a separate thread. The following were either trimmed too much or not enough.

The Falcon's Adventure ( 1946 ) is yet another example of not getting the trimming process spot on.

If any other examples exist of not getting the trimming of RKO full bleed daybills correct by the printers Simmons Ltd. Litho Sydney please let us know ?

A reminder that on another forum tread titled RKO Daybills - Full Bleed, some history on the RKO full bleed and non full bleed posters is available to check out.

Ghosting Poster Problems

HONDO — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:01:00 +0000

Phantom Gold ( 1938 ). An upside down image on the reverse side of the same poster visible with the words ''Gold'' and ''For General Exhibition'' viewable.

This poster discussed on the thread Only Known Copies had me thinking of other examples of this ghosting problem. Following is another example of this type of problem.

Malaga ( 1954 ) ( U.S.A. Fire Over Africa ) daybill, Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ) daybill & another Malaga daybill with the previous Hobson's Choice daybill's image appearing on the back of the poster clearly readable on this Malaga image. Both Malaga and Hobson's Choice films were released in Australia by London Films through Universal and the printer was most likely F.Cunninghame, although not credited, they were the preferred printer for Universal at that period of time. Hobson's Choice was released in Australia in 1954 and Malaga in 1955.

Classic Ernst Lubitsch Film Poster Angel Up For Sale With An Incorrect Copyright Date

HONDO — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:58:00 +0000

An original U.S.A. ''Angel'' one sheet copyrighted and released in 1937.

A similar Australian one sheet ( with Herbert Marshall's pose altered ) released in Australia in 1937.

This Australian one sheet poster is included in the Heritage Auctions Movie Poster auction set down for July 28-29, 2018.

I have emailed Heritage Auctions regarding this matter and I am awaiting a reply.

Something I haven't mentioned to Heritage is that they credit the artwork to being Hans Flato. Is it just me but shouldn't the Australian artwork which isn't Hans Flato's original artwork, but a copied and altered version, be credited as '' artwork adapted from original artwork designed by Hans Flato'' ?

Why So Many Bedtime For Bonzo's

HONDO — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:51:00 +0000

Bedtime For Bonzo ( 1951 ) had four styles of daybills printed in Australia that I am aware of. The film must have been popular, or possibly was one or even the two duotone daybills on the left were printed later for the 16mm release, where the film may have ended up being very popular at 16mm venues?

A Daybill Poster Created By An Enterprising Theatre Owner

HONDO — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:31:00 +0000

This daybill poster looked unusual to me so I decided to check it out and I came up with the following.

Take a early 1970's Robert Burton printed CIC stock poster and print the titles of Ouch! ( 1967 ) a 27 minute silent comedy short and A Little Of What You fancy ( 1968 ) a 75 minute documentary on the poster. Then from an early 1960's MGM daybill poster of The Tom And Jerry Cartoon Festival, sitting in the manager's office, you cut off the top section with ''Fun And Laughs! MGM Presents'' printed on it and attach this to the top of CIC daybill. It appears all the work of an enterprising theatre owner. What looked odd from the moment I looked at it was that the ''MGM presents'' was out of place on this poster. I then remember the wording '' Fun And Laughs'' was on a Tom And Jerry daybill I have seen the image of, so the query was then solved when I located the Tom And Jerry daybill image with this wording appearing on it. I believe the person who attached the ''Fun And Laughs!'' hadn't seen the film A Little Of What you Fancy, a documentary following the history of the British Music Hall as all the Music Hall songs wouldn't have presented too many laughs for the audience ( which probably was limited in numbers) I am sure, within the 75 minute running time.

Valance And Circus Herald Terminology Rarely Used.

HONDO — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:59:00 +0000

Zombies Of The Stratosphere ( 1952 ). I looked at images of the original U.S. pressbook for this Republic Pictures serial and noticed a couple of things that, to my knowledge, I had ever noticed anywhere before. The banner pictured above was advertised as a valance and the herald was called a circus herald.

I then proceeded to contact Matt at eMovieposter.com, where the pressbook came from. After conferring with Bruce Matt kindly sent me the following information as follows - ''I talked to Bruce about these and he says that Universal and Republic both produced ''circus heralds''. We're not certain where the name came from, but we are guessing circuses created heralds in that size and the studios stuck with the name when they tried them. Valances were created out of silk, satin and of course ''gorgeous rayon silkolene''. The name came from '' a short ornamental piece of drapery placed across the top of a window or bed frame'' ( I had to look that up!). We're no certain what the film industry considers a ''valance'' as apposed to a normal banner. In our records, I can only find one other mention and that was a banner for the 1936 film Golden Arrow.That one was 40'' tall ( deep' ) but no length given. Zombies was 3' x 9''. I am thankful for the information that Matt and Bruce provided and for allowing me to reproduce it here.

The Golden Arrow ( 1936). The title Matt mentioned above is A Warner Brothers film and in this case is also mentioned as being silkolene but it doesn't appear with a curtain looking feature.

The Hustler ( 1961 ) Australian Poster Variations.

HONDO — Tue, 22 May 2018 08:43:00 +0000

The Hustler ( 1961 ) original U.S.A. one sheet, Australian one sheet, daybill and 3 sheet. Three different Australian designs less sexy than depicted on the U.S. poster. Interestingly on the daybill and the one sheet Paul Newman is seen wearing a shirt and Piper Laurie is depicted a little more covered up. The three sheet has a different tagline than the other three and also the only poster with an image that indicates pool is played in the film. Another interesting thing is that on the Australian daybill Paul is shown with casts on his arm and hands, which is something I haven't been able to locate on any other posters.

20th Century Fox Daybills

HONDO — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 04:56:00 +0000

As I briefly mentioned on another thread 20th Century Fox were at times very stingy with the amount of credits they wished to share with potential audiences on their daybills that they had printed in Australia.

These daybill examples from the 1950s Anne Of The Indies, Let's Make It Legal and Dream Boat show us the extent of how economical or lazy they could be. No co-stars, producers or any other credits that were on the U.S. insert appear. The Australian daybill posters were always more limited in background images as well and they could never be called busy. Everyone would have noticed Marilyn Monroe's image but not her name appearing on the Let's Make It Legal daybill image.

P.S. The above was complied earlier and has been sitting in my drafts box for a little while but due to the Marilyn thread Let's Make It Legal discussion I have decided to download this new thread now.

The Dunwich Horror

HONDO — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:09:00 +0000

This is an interesting one. The Dunwich horror ( 1970 ) appears in the Australian trade publication The Film Weekly Motion Picture Directory of 1971 listed as Dunwich Horror when released in Sydney in 1970. The 1971 newspaper advertisement above confirms this so why did the Australian daybill produced for the 1970 release have Dunwich - A Story Of The Occult printed on it instead of The Dunwich Horror? By the way the Australian artwork is completely different from the U.S. artwork and compared to it the Australian artwork is rather lame.

World War 11 At The Cinema Well Represented

HONDO — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:17:00 +0000

Newcastle N.S.W. Australia section of newspaper film classified advertising from April 1, 1944. War films were certainly well represented on that day.

Magnificent Lobby Card Sets Of Yesterday

HONDO — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:26:00 +0000

Set # 1. Sporting Youth ( 1924 ). This arrangement of all the 8 cards were not copied as they appear grouped together above, but this montage organised in this format by me. I believe only previously seen displayed individually. I love the four types of different border artwork displayed on the cards.

A beautiful 1930's set of 8, starring one of my favourite Warner Bros.actresses, coming up later on. The colours are magnificent and I am sure you won't be dissappointed.