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By definition, a daybill is vertical in orientation, so not surprised that an auction house wouldn't refer to it as a db.
Mounted on cardboard would suggest a smaller poster to me. Another poster on back, so possibly an unfolded herald. That's … -
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Aussie program from Prince Edward.
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Keith said it was a daybill before. We need to know the size.
Certainly Keith knows movie posters, but if you haven't seen the campaign book, then it could be mistaken as a daybill. I have a good memory, but 7 or 8 years is stretching it. I kne… -
When you factor in the fold-out, the width of paper would be quite long, bound down the centre when the page is folded up. Who better to print a long lithograph than Simmons, already on your accounts?
If you didn't have a daybill handy in 1929,… -
"That's a horizontal daybill!"
"How do you know?"
"So & So said it was!"
As a hobby, I thought we had moved on from this sort of speculation.
Also, drawing a long bow between early 1920s & 1932 when Congorilla dates… -
I remember when Keith listed it on ebay as a horiz daybill, but that doesn't make it one!
They issued updated versions of the campaign books. I have the MGM 1928 season, which has different pages and content to one Bruce auctioned recently. Th… -
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One of the campaign books sold recently at auction and had the same fold-out. Pretty sure I emailed Ves when I saw the auction. Could have been Bill Collins. From memory either NFSA or another Aussie gov institution also has a copy on their site.That's a fold-out from the campaign book, not a daybill.Have you spotted the typo on Aussie Blob?Rare poster, unless the seller has 5 more copies they're not letting on about!2 of 7 Mad Max one sheets that have been stored rolled up together for the last 40 years. I know exactly which cinema they came from, and there is no doubt they are genuine. The 7 posters are all slightly damaged by water in the top left corner. All…Wondering if this one went to Canada?
Less colours = cheaper to print. Not a guarantee, but certainly a red flag that you might have a second printing or re-release.A general tip is to count the colours. Less than four and you should do some more research. Each colour took an extra pass.
1941 RKO
1941 MGM >>
1940 MGM with space >>
If you are working off Australian one sheets - 20th C Fox - 1940s on EMP, then there are less than 30 examples pictured, so you can't really make a judgement from that amount. In 1940 alone Fox produced 48 films, so must be close to 500 over the who…An artist would easily stretch out that artwork to fill the entire poster. I think it was deliberately left blank, possibly for serial / news / shorts info to be added.
The posters were originally drawn up in small scale. The mock-ups I have s…Like it!My experience with local Aussie auctions is that they aren't interested in remote bidders. Generally they don't ship, or hold items while you make arrangements, which is understandable when they are selling hundreds of lots. You can end up winning o…Probably all 16mm.
Universal form >>
Usual ratio for 1970s & '80s posters. About 10 daybills for every one sheet you see. Maybe more.
Haven't looked in a long time, but Screen Aust site had some stats on Aussie cinema going back a while.He worked there in early 1980s. At that time cinema was battling the huge number of video stores that were popping up, hence the many re-releases. Compared to 1950s or earlier, I don't know what the difference would be.
Amalgamated would inclu…A guy who worked at The Film Centre in the 1980s told me 2-3000 daybills was the norm. His job was in the warehouse where all the posters were stored.
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