darolo
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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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Quite graphic, there were a number of major jet crashes in the U.S. in the late 70's, where no one survived, you'd be more concerned there than here.
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Destroy All Posters more like - horrendous and visually challenging stuff here.
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Those Realarts ones are really superb, The Wolf Man 1 sheet has a Dali-esque look to it and is more interesting than the original.
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And the top price in the recent auction - an 8 page pressbook! Surely some sort of record for such an item.
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Heck! My same video would last about 7 seconds - I think I have 3 of 'em.
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Okie - It is a half sheet, it has quite a few scuffs, but at least it hasn't been folded..
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Flamingo Road daybill (Heritage), The Big Cage (eBay), Outlawed (MovieArt). That's the only 3.
in Post Your Best of 2021!
Comment by darolo
January 2022
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A rare one in the series printed by Marchant.
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Excellent research Lawrence, pity we don't know for certain. My final thoughts - Simmons Ltd printed film posters, cinemas displayed film posters and a cinema indisputably did in this case. Either that occurred OR Simmons printed something that look…
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None of those 3 Ben Hur trade ads presented have any cast listed that I can see, just the main selling point - the title. I mean one would surely have the star (Novarro) listed, so the lack of in the Simmons poster has no bearing,. Also the Trader H…
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