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Over the Moon UK and US posters - what a difference. The US poster is one of the most ordinary one sheets of the 30's. Merle Oberon being United Artists leading female star at the time, couldn't have been impressed with that effort.Yes, very good indeed. It's fortunate that so many Australian posters in the 20's and 30's came with a signature, which wasn't the case in the U.S. where anonymity was the rule. Wynne Davies name appears on many daybills in the 1920's, but as far as…Frankenstein meets the Wolfman daybill - This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available (eBay).
I received an email from the idiot seller boasting that this was his second copy hence the reason for sale. So essent…Bruce Hershenson has it right. The use of 1 sheeter, 3 sheeter etc. seems to be unique to Australia + the 1940 U.S. pressbook has the same cover as this Australian one but the release over there had more than one style of 1 sheet and the pressbook w…Here's the link to the GWTW press sheet that shows the posters.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/go…That GWTW 1 sheet was owned by the late Bill Collins, someone (probably much later) put 1944 on it, working it out from the date at the top, obviously no cinema would need to put the year of screening. I noticed the same auction that had this poster…Congratulations, both figures are very impressive and at the top end more than what S2 Prints have sold for.Just recently I Googled Mondo and Drafthouse to find out what these things were. Perhaps they might be the Bitcoin of poster collecting, the prices at least have a similar meteoric rise. I mostly appreciate daybills and litho posters from a certain …Lawrence - Here is a page from the Paramount 1927 announcement book with a double page art by George Lawrence. His initialed signature is on the right hand side.in Hondo's This And That Comment by darolo December 2020
Here's a snippet to add to the George Lawrence resume, reproduced from the Paramount 1927 book, which included art by Lawrence and Percy Eagles.
Hard Day's Night large French - likely others out there but none of the big guns seem to have sold one yet. Could be that French Beatles fans snaffled them all. And the number of folds these French posters have is ridiculous, many of them might have…Even though there is a lot of Australian Kong material there, it is likely the two 6 sheets are U.S. I have one 6 sheet that was used in Australia around this time and it was printed by Morgan Litho.
Here is a U.S. 6 sheet that was up for auct…More proof that King Kong is the no.1 most spectacular movie poster campaign in history, and not just in the U.S.Two King Kong daybills - Unbelievable!!Movie poster collecting is also much more diverse, I would say any comic any collector would desire Superman no 1 or X-Men no 1 but those who want a first printing Star Wars or the Thing probably don't give a hoot for a Bette Davis poster at any pri…Beautiful daybill that. Long ago I had the one sheet, another Melbourne collector has it now.
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Comment by darolo
August 2020
Exceptional information. One long daybill that he didn't do from that early period was Of Human Bondage. That art was done by an American Walter Seaton who did a few RKO and RKO/Pathe posters in the 30s.One to add to the Falcon series - a copy (though not exactly perfect) of the Falcon in Hollywood daybill.
in The Falcon RKO Series ( 1941 - 1946 ) Australian daybills
Comment by darolo
July 2020
c 1926 - The first Jumbo Lobby Card 14" x 17"
c 1900 (?) - the first Herald - something cheap like a handbill would be fairly early.I don't have any images for Republic serials but here is a 1930s Universal one adapted from a King Features Newspaper comic strip. It was also a comic book in Australia in the 40s and 50s called Sergeant Pat of the Radio Patrol.
On the Flash Go…They must have copied that from Scientology. That's the sort of stuff - surveillance, harassment etc that they do to former members (and get away with!).Posters (movie or otherwise) are best measured in price against those of other collectables and not against that of fine art, antiques and other decorative arts that have a scholarly history well before that of posters. Collecting movie posters also…Not much compared to Rock's, my only poster newbie Tarzan's Peril half sheet. I did get a good auction pick up with some old photos - 1920's mostly Tom Mix related, 210 in all.in February 2019 Comment by darolo February 2019
Nice Argentine one there. I also like posters from there. I picked up a weird one for a serial The Clutching Hand. Art by Balza.in Your Best of 2018 Comment by darolo December 2018
A last resort he could try Kirk Hammett, oh wait he's already got one as well as style B, and also the 3 sheet.The Desperate Hours daybill is about the only good poster on that title.Blade Runner 2049 poster is not worse because the movie is rubbish, only made to start yet another CGI franchise (yawn).Fair Market Value is also difficult to determine when you have some sellers (auctioneers like HA) adding 20% + and emovieposter and eBay having no add ons. And just today at HA one sheets for Jaws and Dirty Harry sell for $3000 + - way more than t…Great Reynold Brown pickup. Love-Slaves of the Amazons is pretty daring art for 1950's America and reminiscent of Ballester.in November 2018 Comment by darolo November 2018
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