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I am trying to date a local photo of Aberdeen, Scotland in which a local cinema is depicted in the background. The film being shown is advertised on a large poster above the entrance but the quality of the image is not clear enough to read the film title. The image has been enhanced as much as possible and I was hoping that some film buff might recognise the poster from the layout and put a name to the film, thereby giving an approximate date of the photo. I know it's a long shot but it's worth a try.
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The portrait of the woman on the left side looks so incredibly familiar and it is driving me crazy I cannot place it! I blew way too much time looking through Bruce's archives without success - is it Greer Garson, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Hedy Lamarr?! For some reason am envisioning a smaller poster (one sheet or daybill) with a mainly pink background with that portrait on it...grrrrrr
Are there any other details in the photo - like a vehicle parked on the street?
I don't believe the image is of a film poster for an individual film.There is no wording whatsoever shown and I think the enclosed section on the wall is a permanent montage of scenes of films attached to the wall, including a scene of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind similar to the one as shown below. Possibly Greer Garson and Marilyn Monroe appear also, but I cannot be sure. There is a young girl, appearing to be cuddling a white dog on the bottom right hand side, that I am wondering if it could possibly be Elizabeth Taylor? It appears to me that with with the large amount of remaining blank brick wall this was either an ongoing project to cover the whole encased area, or an abandoned one, when this photograph was taken. It will be very difficult, if I am correct. to accurately date this image.
More likely 1930s
Based on the 'big hair' and plunging neckline I tend to think something from the 40s? Also looks like a red head, so could be one of these?
Ginger Rogers
Rita Hayworth?
As previously mentioned I thought there is an image of Greer Garson appearing on the poster, and what I had thought was Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind is, I now believe could possibly be Greer Garson and Gregory Peck in a scene from the 1945 film The Valley Of Decision, as appearing above.The scene on the right hand side of the display of the little girl with a dog doesn't appear to be from this film though. All very intriguing and again i'll mention no wording within the poster and plenty of what appears to be just blank wall space.
Thanks to all who have manage to enhance the image I supplied to a much better degree than I managed.
I am inclined to agree that the advertising board is displaying more than one poster and probably three.
Thanks for all your help and, should I get a definitive answer from the members of the closed Facebook group in which the original image was posted, I will most certainly update this thread.
But that wasn't released until 1947 which seems to late for the setting...
Aye, Summertime in Scotland, July 3rd, between 12:45 and 12:58 every year...bliss.
The picture shows clearly a Walk/Don't Walk sign. - true, you never had them as kid as they didn't come into effect until the mid/late 1930s
I don't know enough about cars to say either way, just what I can see they look to me like from the 1930s.
Moving on. The Picture House now called the Gaumont, circa 1962, minus the billboard. It would be interesting to establish when the billboard was removed. One would think it would have had to be in 1950, to make way for the Gaumont sign.
The only other way is perhaps to date the other viewable things like the store "Kennaway" - I've not found anything about them other than they appear to have been (or became) Ledingham and Kennaway.
So when the name change?
How long were they there (from/to).