Slightly Different Daybill Versions Of Same Design
Earthquake ( 1974 ) has two versions of the same design but with a few minor colour alterations including the NRC rating. CIC release posters with one being printed by MAPS and the other uncredited.
Escape From Alcatraz ( 1979 has two versions exactly the same except for the colour. CIC releases with one printed by MAPS and one Robert Burton.
Airport '80 The Concorde ( 1979 has two versions exactly the same except for different colour usage and different censorship ratings. The MAPS version has a M rating and the Robert Burton one has a NRC rating. The film was originally given a NRC rating by the Australian Commonwealth censor in August 1979 and no amendments to this classification found. This means the Robert Burton version has the correct classification rating on it and MAPS version has the incorrect rating. CIC releases.
Jaws ( 1975 ) as mentioned on another thread recently has two versions of the same daybill with different coloured censorship classification ratings. CIC releases and both printed by MAPS.
There are other examples of similar printings also but the most interesting fact to come out of this is all the examples are from daybill posters from CIC.
One could ask the question of which poster was printed first and we will most likely never know but I intend to post an example shortly where I believe I will be able to prove that a daybill of exactly the same design was printed first by MAPS then later by Robert Burton using the exact original MAPS material.
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I know of five The Blues Brothers and three of Westworld. Bruce has a couple of Westworld designs marked as being probably 1970s re-release but I don't believe this to be so. All the three I would think are from the first release as I can find no record of a re-release in Australia or the U.S.A. and there is a record of Westworld being screened on television in Australia in 1977. Being between only three to four years from the Australian theatrical release to the television release I double a re-release would have happened within such a short space of time anyway.
On doing some further research I have found another two slightly different Jaws daybill designs.The poster background colours differ somewhat but I now have sited four different M censorship rating colours.
MAPS Purple M
MAPS Light Blue M ( I will call it light blue )
MAPS Red M
Robert Burton Red M
Before this I would have thought as with Earthquake example that the different colours were to distinguish the different printers but with the Jaws discovery it is clearly not the case with the red censorship rating appearing on both MAPS and Robert Burton posters.
The MAPS details would have been a separate template they added to the artwork on all posters.
We'll never know, but I'd bank on all Jaws being MAPS printed.
The sans serif Burton text on Jaws / Rocky etc is another matter ...
In the very late 1950's into the very early 1960's for 3 to 4 years the majority of United Artists daybills were printed without any printer's credits appearing. Titles included The Magnificent Seven, The Vikings, The Alamo, Pork Chop Hill, Sweet Smell Of Success, On The Beach, Inherit The Wind,The Pusher, Macumba Love, Studs Lonigan, The Lost Missile,The Man In The Net, Ten Seconds To Hell,The Misfits,Never On Sunday,The Unforgiven, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Noose For A Gunman , The Split, The Young Savages, The Devil's Disciple, and the list goes on and on. I sincerely doubt that the printer's name were accidentally left off all these posters. For whatever reason the printer decided not to include it is unknown. Following on the majority of duotone posters in the 1950's and 1960's were printed without any printer's credits. The point I am making here is that there were certain printers, that for whatever reason they decided not to have their details appear on film posters that they printed. On saying this I believe it is possible the daybills & also one sheets that were printed without printer's credits in the 1970's and 1980's may not have been MAPS.
Mark said '' We'll never know, but I'd bank on all jaws being MAPS printed''. Did you mean all or just the purple background ones, because there was a blue background version printed by Robert Burton?
Mark said ''The sans serif Burton text on Jaws / Rocky etc is another matter...'' As I am not into the technical / printing side of posters, so I am not sure about this comment in reference to the topic under discussion.
One thing Mark And I do agree upon is most likely we will never know the answer, but it is good fun discussing the subject.
i had an argument with a guy at Christmas who was adamant that non MAPS example had to be a bootleg. If so they certainly went the extra mile adding the NZ snipe...
The bottom MAPS with bullet-hole logo seems to have only been used on one sheets.
Please transfer this to another thread if necessary.
I reckon first MAPS runs 1968 - 1974. Makes Day Earth Stood Still RR post '74.
The problem is apart from myself and some others, a number of members never captioned their images, therefore with many missing Photobucket images I wouldn't have a clue as to the identity of the deleted images. I probably wouldn't need to go to Heritage of anyone else if the missing images were named as I most likely would have the images myself. Non captioning is a problem that continues to this day. It is like a book with only a part index available.