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I doubt I will waste my money watching the new Mad Max. I watched (with regret) Fury Road - messy, chaotic and unmemorable action scenes with ugly characters with boring dialogue that I couldn't care less what happened to. But that's typical of many…
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Here is a photo of a photocopy of the Dawn Patrol daybill. Almost an exact replica of the Insert Card.
in Where Are These Daybills?
Comment by darolo
April 2024
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A Dawn Patrol daybill does exist and it's the same art and colours as the insert.
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The artist who did the 30's Warner Brothers posters that Bruce is referring to may well have been Tony Gablik, who did a lot of stylized art with art deco elements. My favourite U.S artists would be Fred Kulz (Universal and Republic) and Glenn Crava…
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Bruce - I've bought some things, mainly from you, so you've seen those - ha ha. Most of my purchases of the last few years are lobby cards and probably of much less interest to collectors here.
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Great discoveryI Walked daybill moves into number one position from this series IMO.
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Bruce - That makes it even more remarkable that several dozen of these early Disney 1 sheets (and larger) have survived, especially when there are scores of 1930's features - such as Shanghai Express and One Way Passage where no 1 sheet has been sig…
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Lawrence - My guess is that Disney ad would date from circa December 1932. I have the same ad in a Film Weekly from that month. It is actually a 4 page colour ad, that image is of the first page.
Bruce mentioned that United Artists only create… -
Half sheets - often 2 styles as well, were available to exhibitors in Australia from the 20's onwards, the press sheets bear this out.
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Grace Kelly's top half has been altered on the NZ poster, that's the most interesting thing. They did such things on posters in Ireland, the Catholic influenced censorship was strong there.
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These "warehouse finds" are sometimes of very old posters as well - There's a glut of copies of 1930's 1 sheets for the serials King of the Wild and Phantom of the West out there, in top condition too. These are U.S. 1 sheets. In daybills there was…
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I've had many from all these crime series from the 40's but not one Ellery Queen - a mystery in itself.
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Excellent RKO and Simmons analysis. I have long thought that RKO had the most consistently good posters both in Australia and the U.S. over the period of the company's existence - 1929 to circa 1958. Posters from the other studios had highs and lows…
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The other 1 sheet I saw must be the rerelease as it wasn't as colourful as that one pictured there.
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There's also a red and blue version of the Jolson Story daybill printed by W.E. Smith Ltd. The first release one sheet has Larry Parks holding his hat in his right hand also printed by Smith.
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Yes. The first few words are hard to make out but Offset Printing it is.
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1 sheet - Offset printing Co.
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Isn't one of those Nevada's the American Insert?
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The General Died at Dawn had two - from the press sheet.
in Two Different Original Styles Of The Same Daybill Designs.
Comment by darolo
September 2022
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Good homework on this poster but it's not quite complete. None of those Simmons posters state Metro Goldwyn Mayer on them whereas the earlier Simmons - 1950 and before are all A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Picture.
The Asphalt Jungle has the earlier S… -
I would base the poster seen as being original down to the following. 1. It's printed by Simmons, who were printing MGM daybills in 1950, but not in 1954 in fact not even beyond 1950 from what I can see. All the daybills 1953-54 are Smith printings…
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Heritage Auctions and eMovieposter have both sold this daybill, as original too and I'm pretty sure that's accurate.
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I think there's only one copy known from each of those 3 titles, all at one time owned by Vic Forsyth, a deceased collector.
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These 2 Flash Gordon's are both photocopies - first generation. But when I was getting copies of rare daybills years ago, often they would be copies of copies of copies etc.
in FLASH GORDON. I HAVE QUESTIONS. Comment by darolo August 2022
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That Flash Gordon REALLY looks like the colour photocopy that I saw in the home of a collector in Sydney in 1995. Couldn't imagine it's anything else.
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Superb daybills, it's interesting how many more 20's long daybills have appeared versus those from 1930 to 35.
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The back to back Into the Straight and Sons of Matthew pages illustrated are from the giant Australian Universal-International 1949 announcement book, and are not posters as such.
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I think in South America football trumps the cinema.
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That reissue daybill is likely better than the original, given the average art of Warner daybills I've seen from the late 30's.
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Yessir.
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