My thought though is that it wasn't a standard printing and could have been done by a smaller company that specialised in hand screen printing. Hand screen printing has been used for centuries.
You may well be right but unfortunately there is no proof available to confirm this.
The Godzilla poster was most certainly produced for Regent (RFD), although not credited as such on the poster. The Godzilla poster is extremely rare, as is the majority of daybills printed for RFD released films here in Australia. For a large number of their printed poster titles there are either no known copies or only located in small numbers only.
The Godzilla poster was most certainly produced for Regent (RFD), although not credited as such on the poster. The Godzilla poster is extremely rare, as is the majority of daybills printed for RFD released films here in Australia. For a large number of their printed poster titles there are either no known copies or only located in small numbers only.
The following U.S.A. poster artwork of Carnival Of Souls, The Last Woman On Earth, The Terror and The Girl Hunters is for four films that were released in Australia by RFD that I would really love to see Australian daybills of. Does anyone perhaps happen to have a daybill copy of any of these titles?
The following three Australian daybill images of Atlas, The Intruder and The Mermaids of Tibuon are of the only copies of these films that I am aware of. I was searching for images for these films over many years before I managed to locate them.
Just located an Australian daybill poster image of The Terror that I had previously mentioned I was interested in locating an Australian daybill image of. Using a word appearing in the tagline of the poster, the artwork is diabolical. As no RFD credit appears on the poster I am not 100% certain that the poster is the one produced for the RFD 1965 Australian release, but more than likely it is.
One can only hope that this poster is a follow up second printing, but hope does fade when you take a look at the artwork that appears on the following Night OF The Big Heat, Island Of Terror and Terror In The Midnight Sun first release Regent Films daybill examples. You can also see that the Night Of the Big Heat poster, as with as with The Terror daybill, a Regent Films credit wasn't included on the poster.
I wonder whether those Regent Films posters could have been printed in house? We used to have screen printing frames at school, so it's a very simple and cheap process to use. It would have saved them a lot of money in printing costs.
Yes, that one looks better than the two above which were what I was referring to.
With your thoughts regarding Regent, what then are your thoughts on the poor artwork on IFD and Blake daybills?
The difference I see (with my limited knowledge of the printing processes) is:
For a start, they all had smaller budgets to distribute than the larger distributors, so less time would have been spent on making artwork. Perhaps their artists weren't as skilled or had much less time to create a poster?
IFD - doesn't look like hand screen printing, too much detail, not sure what process would have been used, but maybe Offset printing which was becoming cheap and popular in the late 50s & 60s.
Blake Films is definitely hand screen printing (like the Regent Films posters and Godzilla)
It's the same style as the old Lino cut prints we did at school, not much details, hard lines, and blending of ink as the squeegee goes across the screen. All colours are applied at the same time on different parts of the screen, unlike other printing processes where each colour is applied in a different pass of the paper.
Very interesting information and you may well be correct. On saying this though I still would like to have some proof presented to confirm that the hand screen printing process was used by the small Australian independent film distributors here in Australian in the 1950's,1960's and perhaps later.
No proof whatsoever, but that's exactly the style of poster that process creates, we used to do it at school. I'm still in touch with my old art teacher from school, I'll ask him next time I see him.
No proof whatsoever, but that's exactly the style of poster that process creates, we used to do it at school. I'm still in touch with my old art teacher from school, I'll ask him next time I see him.
As I had mentioned you may well be spot on here, Hopefully one day though some information may be located to confirm that this hand printing process was used at some time on Australian film posters.
A long retired from the industry contact of mine has just mentioned to me that anyone that had worked at independent film distributors such as Blake, IFD and Regent in the 1950s and 1960s, who may have been able to comment regarding the possible usage of screen printing are most likely no longer with us,
The following example of a Regent (RFD) 1960's released Battle Of Blood Island produced daybill certainly appears to have been printed by a professional printer.
Regent Films commenced releasing films in Australia in 1961. The following three daybill posters and a one sheet that were printed for Regent by Advertising & Commercial were Terror In Midnight Sun, Hello London and The Pied Piper Of Hamelin. These three films were released in Australia in the early 1960s.
Later known Regent 1960's released films were printed in duotone and being of varying artwork quality, with no printer's credit appearing on them.
The 1970's was a different story post November 1971. The majorIty of the Regent daybills, being around two thirds of them that I have images of from the 1970s and the1980s were printed by M.A,P.S. The remaining third are minus a printer's credit.
Some M.A.P.S. printed daybills and a one sheet appear below,
Two Regent daybill posters that were printed without a printer's credit appearing on the posters.
If as Peter thinks that posters may have feen printed inhouse by small independent film distributors, then if this was the case then with Regent it would have only have happened during a period of time in the 1960s.
It would be very satisfying to have some more members, in addition to regular contributor Peter, express their thoughts here on this current discussion.
Arter including a good number of Regent Films (RFD) images and information of some interest ,to me at least, that since the eighth of this month, fourteen days ago, apart from Peter, no responses received at all. Even a two second to press recorded like would have indicated to me at least some interest was being shown in the subject. I had intended to include some additional material here regarding Regent Films, but nothing here to encourage me to proceed in doing this.
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The Godzilla poster was most certainly produced for Regent (RFD), although not credited as such on the poster. The Godzilla poster is extremely rare, as is the majority of daybills printed for RFD released films here in Australia. For a large number of their printed poster titles there are either no known copies or only located in small numbers only.
The following three Australian daybill images of Atlas, The Intruder and The Mermaids of Tibuon are of the only copies of these films that I am aware of. I was searching for images for these films over many years before I managed to locate them.
Just located an Australian daybill poster image of The Terror that I had previously mentioned I was interested in locating an Australian daybill image of. Using a word appearing in the tagline of the poster, the artwork is diabolical. As no RFD credit appears on the poster I am not 100% certain that the poster is the one produced for the RFD 1965 Australian release, but more than likely it is.
Peter
Peter
Peter
With your thoughts regarding Regent, what then are your thoughts on the poor artwork on IFD and Blake daybills?
For a start, they all had smaller budgets to distribute than the larger distributors, so less time would have been spent on making artwork. Perhaps their artists weren't as skilled or had much less time to create a poster?
IFD - doesn't look like hand screen printing, too much detail, not sure what process would have been used, but maybe Offset printing which was becoming cheap and popular in the late 50s & 60s.
Blake Films is definitely hand screen printing (like the Regent Films posters and Godzilla)
It's the same style as the old Lino cut prints we did at school, not much details, hard lines, and blending of ink as the squeegee goes across the screen. All colours are applied at the same time on different parts of the screen, unlike other printing processes where each colour is applied in a different pass of the paper.
Hand screen print video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB__fEeO6no
Peter
Peter
The following example of a Regent (RFD) 1960's released Battle Of Blood Island produced daybill certainly appears to have been printed by a professional printer.
Peter
Later known Regent 1960's released films were printed in duotone and being of varying artwork quality, with no printer's credit appearing on them.
The 1970's was a different story post November 1971. The majorIty of the Regent daybills, being around two thirds of them that I have images of from the 1970s and the1980s were printed by M.A,P.S. The remaining third are minus a printer's credit.
Some M.A.P.S. printed daybills and a one sheet appear below,
Two Regent daybill posters that were printed without a printer's credit appearing on the posters.
If as Peter thinks that posters may have feen printed inhouse by small independent film distributors, then if this was the case then with Regent it would have only have happened during a period of time in the 1960s.