It would certainly appear Australian lobby cards ceased being printed circa 1979, when they were replaced by lobby card posters aka photo sheets that were printed during the 1980s.
A Journey Among Women Australia lobby card from 1977. This time this style of limited colour presentation usually seen from Roadshow, is in this case from Greater Union (GUO Film Distributors).
Interestingly the above colour Greater Union Australian lobby card of Summerfield was also printed in1977. There apparently wasn't at GUO a set policy regarding lobby card presentation.
I'd say the difference in types of lobby cards from the same organisation would have been a budget related decision. Each film would have a certain amount of money allocated to marketing and publicity, so film that would have been expected to do better than others would have had a full colour set of cards printed, rather than the B&W / single colour version of Journey Among Women above.
I worked on a few early Paul Cox films when I was in my early days of collecting and when Paul was getting the posters printed I asked whether they'd do lobby cards, but that would have been a larger expense so they only printed one sheets.
I worked on a few early Paul Cox films when I was in my early days of collecting and when Paul was getting the posters printed I asked whether they'd do lobby cards, but that would have been a larger expense so they only printed one sheets.
I am curious to know the names of the films that you were involved with. There is a good reason for asking this question. Your information should assist me regarding details on the posters that were printed for Paul Cox films.
The above lantern slide image is from an unknown source, and the duotone image from IMDb.
( Unknown origin ). Impressive front of house display.
A Girl Of The Bush ( 1921 ). Interestingly and suprisingly there are also many different black and white still images available from various sources that I have also sighted. For a 1921 Australian film, over one hundred years old, to have so many available images is indeed unusual. One example appears below of this truely Australian themed film..
The above information and images were presented here earlier on this thread in January 1922. It is good to keep everything related together for one to view.
There are 22 stills, too many to include here from this film that are mostly not included here, that can be viewed at the Josef Lebovic Gallery on Google, including the following image.
I worked on a few early Paul Cox films when I was in my early days of collecting and when Paul was getting the posters printed I asked whether they'd do lobby cards, but that would have been a larger expense so they only printed one sheets.
Apart from a small number of only five one sheets known by me to exit, the vast majority of the large number of one sheet posters from his total output cannot be located. At least three daybills were printed for his Roadshow releases, with these being Man Of Flowers (1983), My First Wife (1984) and Cactus (1986). From his earlier work there is also a special poster 16 1/2 x 21 3/4 of Inside Looking Out (1978) and an unidentified size poster of Kostas (1979).
A question Peter is when you worked on the 1986 made for television film Army Wives did you perchance get to meet any of the actors that appeared in the film? I am thinking not as you work would seem to have been post shooting, but one can only ask.
I worked on a few early Paul Cox films when I was in my early days of collecting and when Paul was getting the posters printed I asked whether they'd do lobby cards, but that would have been a larger expense so they only printed one sheets.
Apart from a small number of only five one sheets known by me to exit, the vast majority of the large number of one sheet posters from his total output cannot be located. At least three daybills were printed for his Roadshow releases, with these being Man Of Flowers (1983), My First Wife (1984) and Cactus (1986). From his earlier work there is also a special poster 16 1/2 x 21 3/4 of Inside Looking Out (1978) and an unidentified size poster of Kostas (1979).
A question Peter is when you worked on the 1986 made for television film Army Wives did you perchance get to meet any of the actors that appeared in the film? I am thinking not as you work would seem to have been post shooting, but one can only ask.
Phillip Quast is the only one I remember interacting with.
I worked on a few early Paul Cox films when I was in my early days of collecting and when Paul was getting the posters printed I asked whether they'd do lobby cards, but that would have been a larger expense so they only printed one sheets.
Apart from a small number of only five one sheets known by me to exit, the vast majority of the large number of one sheet posters from his total output cannot be located. At least three daybills were printed for his Roadshow releases, with these being Man Of Flowers (1983), My First Wife (1984) and Cactus (1986). From his earlier work there is also a special poster 16 1/2 x 21 3/4 of Inside Looking Out (1978) and an unidentified size poster of Kostas (1979).
Paul had all the one sheets stored in his office in Albert Park for all his films. My First Wife, Man of Flowers, Vincent, etc. I'm pretty sure they would have been the last stash of posters that existed, his films had limited distribution so I think he looked after a lot of that. I visited him quite a while after I'd finished working with him and grabbed a bunch of posters of each film. He wouldn't sign them though! The building where he worked has recently been demolished, so I don't know what happened to the rest of the posters, probably thrown out after his death unfortunately. He was a lovely man.
So sad. Hopefully his work can live on through his posters, and you may be as kind in include some of the images here, The one sheets that I have images of are for Man Of Flowes, My First Wife, Lonely Hearts and Cactus. There is one other unconfirmed title waiting to be confirmed as being an original one sheet,
A question Peter is when you worked on the 1986 made for television film Army Wives did you perchance get to meet any of the actors that appeared in the film? I am thinking not as you work would seem to have been post shooting, but one can only ask.
Phillip Quast is the only one I remember interacting with.
Two of my good friends John and Mary Spicer, who were husband and wife in real life appeared in the film where they also played husband and wife. They were friends with the film's director Denny Lawrence who they worked with on sone other of his film and television directed films.
So sad. Hopefully his work can live on through his posters, and you may be as kind in include some of the images here, The one sheets that I have images of are for Man Of Flowes, My First Wife, Lonely Hearts and Cactus. There is one other unconfirmed title waiting to be confirmed as being an original one sheet,
I'll see what I have in storage, getting them all out very soon.
So sad. Hopefully his work can live on through his posters, and you may be as kind in include some of the images here, The one sheets that I have images of are for Man Of Flowes, My First Wife, Lonely Hearts and Cactus. There is one other unconfirmed title waiting to be confirmed as being an original one sheet,
A question Peter is when you worked on the 1986 made for television film Army Wives did you perchance get to meet any of the actors that appeared in the film? I am thinking not as you work would seem to have been post shooting, but one can only ask.
Phillip Quast is the only one I remember interacting with.
Two of my good friends John and Mary Spicer, who were husband and wife in real life appeared in the film where they also played husband and wife. They were friends with the film's director Denny Lawrence who they worked with on sone other of his film and television directed films.
Mary Spicer then known as Mary Kimber had performed in the U.K. during the 1940s and 1950s and possibly 1960s., in mainly repertory theatre, where she had worked with the likes of Paul Scofield. Mary also performed in an unsuccessful run of only seven performances of the J.B. Priestley play The Linden Tree on Broadway in 1948 before it closed after only seven performances, She acted and directed on stage in Australia from the 1970's onwards in amateur theatre as well as guest appearances on television, and as at least did one prominent television commercial voiceover.
Mary's husband John was an actor originally from England as well as Mary where he also acted on stage. In Australia he headed an amateur theatrical company that I was involved in as an actor, where many of his directed plays won awards. As well as directing the majority of the companies plays he also acted in some of them as well. John also appeared in a number of theatrical films and television series where he had small roles including those in Emoh Ruo, The Flying Doctors and A Country Practice.
Thanks for the images Ves,They were very much appreciated. The Force of Destiny one sheet was the unconfirmed title that I had mentioned earlier. How rare are these posters? I put the posters rarity down to all five being from very minor independent distributors, so very small print runs most likely were decided on in the knowledge that film bookings would be small. I do like the A Woman's Tale artwork,
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A Journey Among Women Australia lobby card from 1977. This time this style of limited colour presentation usually seen from Roadshow, is in this case from Greater Union (GUO Film Distributors).
Interestingly the above colour Greater Union Australian lobby card of Summerfield was also printed in1977. There apparently wasn't at GUO a set policy regarding lobby card presentation.
I worked on a few early Paul Cox films when I was in my early days of collecting and when Paul was getting the posters printed I asked whether they'd do lobby cards, but that would have been a larger expense so they only printed one sheets.
Peter
Peter
A few years back I recall finding a random stack of Girl of the Bush stills in a local junk store (photograph taken at the time).
Some more new images to be added here shortly.
There are 22 stills, too many to include here from this film that are mostly not included here, that can be viewed at the Josef Lebovic Gallery on Google, including the following image.
Peter
A question Peter is when you worked on the 1986 made for television film Army Wives did you perchance get to meet any of the actors that appeared in the film? I am thinking not as you work would seem to have been post shooting, but one can only ask.
Peter
Peter
Peter
The one sheets that I have images of are for Man Of Flowes, My First Wife, Lonely Hearts and Cactus. There is one other unconfirmed title waiting to be confirmed as being an original one sheet,
Peter
Mary's husband John was an actor originally from England as well as Mary where he also acted on stage. In Australia he headed an amateur theatrical company that I was involved in as an actor, where many of his directed plays won awards. As well as directing the majority of the companies plays he also acted in some of them as well. John also appeared in a number of theatrical films and television series where he had small roles including those in Emoh Ruo, The Flying Doctors and A Country Practice.
Both Mary and John were very talented people.
Force of Destiny
Salvation
Human Touch
A Woman's Touch
The Island