Holt Of The Secret Service daybill

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 This Holt Of The Secret Service ( 1941 ) daybill is often referred to and sold as an original but it is from a printing done at a much later date. It is most likely post 1953. I was able to see the original last year and can report it is the same in design and colour except the original has the printer shown as W.E. Smith and the Columbia Pictures logo is the one I included above. 

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From some more research today on Trove and along with the printer's history i'm thinking 1953 would be the year the poster was printed of Holt Of The Secret Service.

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                Original W.E. Smith printed daybill poster.                          A 1950's re-issue F. Cunninghame printed daybill poster. 


The original W.E. Smith designed daybill was printed for the 1942 Australian first release. As previously mentioned the more common F. Cunninghame inferior copied designed  version is from the Australian re-issue circa 1953.

The re-issue version has the 1950's used Columbia Pictuies logo replacing the original early 1940's used logo. Also the original tagline of ''The famous action star in his first serial!'' was replaced by '' The serial of speedy thrills and thundering action!''.


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 I thought this newspaper piece from 1941  may be of interest,