Huge Jungle Jim Posters Error.

HONDO

  

There were 16 Jungle Jim feature films released theatrically in the U.S.A. between 1948 and 1955. There was a previous thread that included  this subject, but due to all the images that were displayed being no longer available, due to Photobucket removing them all, I have opened this new thread with extra information available. Above is the original U.S. one sheet of Voodoo Tiger and the original Australian daybill of Voodoo Tiger, showing the credits. In circa 1967 an unknown number of Jungle Jim films were re-released in Australia, including the four at the top with Savage Mutiny as well and possibly there may have been others as well. As the films had not much likelyhood of making much in the way of financial return, Columbia Pictures apparently decided to produce a  cheap generic daybill to cover all the films that they planned to re-release. Columbia, for whatever reason adapted the original Australia design of Voodoo Tiger to cover all titles planned to be included in the re-release. This sounds like a great decision, but instead of making it a stock poster, with no cast credits on the bottom, and just the design and Columbia Pictures presents Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim on the poster, and then print the individual film titles on the poster as required, which would have worked, some nitwit decided to include all the Voodoo Tiger credits. This would have to be the greatest stuff up I have ever seen with Australia film poster printing. Maybe they thought the children who would read the posters at matinees wouldn't know the difference. I was involved in a children's matinee commercial screening on 16mm where a reel was left out ( long Story ) of a film screening, and no complaints were received by any patrons after the screening.      

HONDO

Another Jungle Jim poster error. A cinema owner screening the MGM 1966 film Maya decided to adapt and use a Columbia Pictures Jungle Jim stock poster to advertise the film.

 What is of interest here though is that the ''Filmed in ....... Jungle Africa'' tagline is completely untrue, and this information doesn't appear on any of the four stock posters appearing earlier on this thread that were used as Jungle Jim titles. If you look carefully  at the Maya adjusted poster appearing just above you will notice someone realised that Maya was filmed in India and lightly crossed out Africa and wrote the word India very lightly in pencil 

HONDO

Anyone thinking that the earlier mentioned story on Jungle Jim daybill printing errors was bad enough, unfortunately there is still more to be revealed.

This time around it will involve full colour first release Australian daybill posters. 

 

John

There were some lazy artists with a couple of the full colour posters

HONDO

You can locate at the beginning of this thread information regarding errors made when designing a duotone stock poster daybill for a return re-release of an unknown number of the Jungle Jim film series titles in Australia during the late 1960s. 

Firstly regarding the 1952 Voodoo Tiger U.S.A. insert and 3 sheet posters  artwork. You will also see the Australian daybill version which is, apart from a  missing tagline is the same design.

   

I recently noticed that there was a. Jungle Jim Australian  daybill of Valley Of The Head Hunter from 1953 that has a problem with the desisn.

As following below you can see the U.S. insert and 3 sheet have, and as expected have a different style image, which should have been what the Australian daybill would normally have looked like.

 

The Australian daybill appearing below actually is a slightly altered version of the previous year's Voodoo Tiger daybill image.

My thoughts are that perhaps the required poster artwork for the Valley Of The Head Hunters daybill wasn't possibly received here in time, so a decision was made to adapt the previous year's Voodoo Tiger artwork,




The same following image was used on six known Australian daybills. 

  
Valley Of The Head Hunters  and Voodoo Tiger first release daybills with very slight differences in the artwork presentation.


The 1960's re-release stock poster design that was used for the four known titles of Jungle Jim In The Forbidden Land, Jungle Maneaters Jungle Manhunt and Pygmy Island. There possibly may have been other titles where no poster images have yet surfaced.

HONDO

John said:

There were some lazy artists with a couple of the full colour posters

And they were W.E. Smith poster artists.

dedeposter

Valley of Head Hunters has the whiff of a stock poster about it with all that clear space at the bottom, and the title itself looks like they could just keep popping in Jungle Jim titles. Not saying it was a stock poster, but if you didn't know better it could pass as one.

HONDO

dedeposter said:

Valley of Head Hunters has the whiff of a stock poster about it with all that clear space at the bottom, and the title itself looks like they could just keep popping in Jungle Jim titles. Not saying it was a stock poster, but if you didn't know better it could pass as one.

Before I comment on Peter's above remarks it would certainly be good to hear from anyone else who would like to make there thinking on the subject known here.

 Any comments on what I have written about or what Peter has said would be most appreciated. 

Bruce

dedeposter said:

Valley of Head Hunters has the whiff of a stock poster about it with all that clear space at the bottom, and the title itself looks like they could just keep popping in Jungle Jim titles. Not saying it was a stock poster, but if you didn't know better it could pass as one.

There are a LOT of U.S. Columbia posters from B-movies that have the same "stock" feel to them. Fortunately they often have litho numbers, and then we can prove they surely ARE stock posters. 

I sure wish daybills had litho numbers, or dates!

HONDO

Thanks Bruce for your imput

Anyone else care to comment?

HONDO

HONDO said:

dedeposter said:

Valley of Head Hunters has the whiff of a stock poster about it with all that clear space at the bottom, and the title itself looks like they could just keep popping in Jungle Jim titles. Not saying it was a stock poster, but if you didn't know better it could pass as one.

Although your thinking regarding the Valley Of The Head Hunters colour daybill is possible Peter, I still believe that my previous below comment is more likely to have been the case.

HONDO said:

The Australian daybill appearing below actually is a slightly altered version of the previous year's Voodoo Tiger daybill image.

My thoughts are that perhaps the required poster artwork for the Valley Of The Head Hunters daybill wasn't possibly received here in time, so a decision was made to adapt the previous year's Voodoo Tiger artwork,

If it was though a stock poster where is the original version, and also any other versions of the poster in question with any other Jungle Jim titles printed on them? 

Something else to add here is that there were a total of sixteen Jungle Jim films in the series that were originally released between 1948 and 1955. Of the sixteen films there are fifteen Australian colour daybills located. The only one still missing is Mark Of The Gorilla from 1950. and I have attached a U.S. insert poster below. Anyone per chance have the daybill?



Jungle Jim certainly appears in the above poster like he could do with some more sleep.

The last three released films Cannibal Attack, Jungle Moon Men and Devil Goddess didn't include the words Jungle Jim on the poster credits. 

John

I have all of the full colour daybills except Mark of the Gorilla. Strange that that one has never appeared,

dedeposter

HONDO said:

If it was though a stock poster where is the original version, and also any other versions of the poster in question with any other Jungle Jim titles printed on them? 

Totally agree with the above comment, if it was meant to be a stock poster, where are any other examples? That's why I agree it's not...just looks like ti could be.