John
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(Quote) Yes, they were based in Wardour St London. I'm pretty sure that a US dealer picked up a huge collection of English Front of House stills that must have originated from Girosign. They have been appearing on eBay for many years and I'm …
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(Quote) I have thousands of press sheets but can't find any reference that has an official term for these odd size posters so I guess thats why they are referred to as "special".
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They both measure 16" x 24". I quite understand that odd sized posters are sometimes called "special posters" but I'm not really fond of that term. Thats just my personal view and not, in any way, criticism of anyone that uses it.
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Here is another rare poster for an Australian film. There is also a flyer listed on eBay at the moment.
in Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films
Comment by John
March 2025
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Here is another rare poster for an Australian film
Notice that on the title still from the set, there was a triangle where the Australian censor details would have been placed indicating that these stills would have been used internationallyin Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films Comment by John March 2025
Here is another still from the film
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(Quote) Typo on the daybill - should be Leopard Woman not WomenIt would be good if the NFSA could put images of their archived posters on their website.Fred Brodrick initials on the black and white artwork for the advert. It would be good to see if he designed the daybill as well.I will post some moreHONDO said: (Quote) I think they have just cropped the bottom of the image for the press sheet for some unknown reason but it seems that RKO pressbooks cannot b…The shadowing on the elephants in the press book is also different.(Quote) They look very similar in the press book but I think it shows that they might have just shown an image that approximated what was actually released (see my earlier comment about the censor rating).(Quote) This is what I meant when I was referring to "conflicting images of posters". Unfortunately, some RKO press books pictured posters that either had the censorship classification missing or in a different place to the actual posters. It…I recently acquired an extremely rare Dumbo Australian Press Book. It possibly provides some new information about movie posters for the film but I would caution that RKO press books sometimes contain conflicting images of posters. Here are some ima…I have all of the full colour daybills except Mark of the Gorilla. Strange that that one has never appeared,I will have some more information about the original Dumbo daybill coming soon(Quote) Yes, I agree with that.There were some lazy artists with a couple of the full colour posters(Quote) Good question. I can't see anything in the press book that shows what they are.The price increased a little for daybills for Riding High (1950)
in Press Sheet showing prices of Australian posters
Comment by John
January 2025
(Quote) Yes and I have been the recipient of some of these huge collections when distributors or, people who have worked for the distributors, have sold their inventory. This is also true of New Zealand and there are certain people who ran ci…(Quote) They didn't attach snipes to all the postersThere are no photos at all showing up in this thread on my screen(Quote) What happened to the photos?I will just give you one general example and leave it at that. It is fairly well known that a huge number of posters were found at the Orpheum Cinema in North Sydney many years ago. Amongst them were large quantities of specific titles, some of whic…
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