Thanks Paul for posting this image. It has me wondering though about its origins. Was it Paramount Pictures connected? Some more details regarding whatever its purpose was would be very appreciated.
I believe this poster goes with this US titled Documentary short. Name changed in the UK, as movies was an American term. All a push to try and stem people stopping at home with this new fangled TV gizzmo.. This done by RKO for AMPAS..
Thanks for posting the documentary Paul. It certainly was interesting to watch
It would make sense to me that this 1949 U.S.A.''Let's Go To The Movies'' movie attendance push inspired Paramount Pictures in 1950 in the U.K., then later in Australia in 1958 to try a poster approach in strategy to fight television and to get people back to the cinemas. Also circa 1958 20th Century Fox in Australia for only a brief period of time only included on some of their daybills ''Remember! you can't see this one on a tiny TV screen at home''.Another distributor British Empire Films ( BEF ) printed "'This film can only be viewed in a motion picture theatre'' on some of their daybill and one sheet posters circa 1959, but again for only a short period of time.
The original
Australian daybill poster and a Spanish poster of Vertigo.
I had
always thought that the Richardson Studio poster artwork was unique to
Australia. I have recently noticed a rare Spanish poster image, designed by
artist Fernando Albericio of Vertigo. As seen above it shows some similarities with the Australian daybill design., To the best of my knowledge nothing similar in design
appears anywhere else on any other world poster artwork. I am more than
interested in finding out about the history behind the designing of these two
posters.
Vertigo is certainly more common than Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder etc. I believe it wasn't as big a hit as expected.
Good point you make about Vertigo, but considering the large number of daybills sighted over the years one has to wonder where then are the one sheets? Only one known copy sighted and this poster I intend to discuss at a later time. I do have some questions regarding this particular poster though. It would be great to see another Vertigo one sheet image other than Bruce's copy before I do comment though,
Four examples of agressive New Zealand poster censorship applied to imported Australian printed daybill posters. How rampart was this censorship there? You may be surprised by the answer. Information on film poster censorship in New Zealand during 1958 up here next. In the meantime anyone like to try and guess the percentage of posters censored in N.Z. in 1958?
In 1958 the New Zealand film censor devoted considerable attention to advertising and publicity material, and a total of 232 posters were rejected outright from a total of 633 films imported during that year.184 alterations were made in advertising material to 144 films. The percentage of films censored in 1958 was 36.6 %.
This Sherlock, Jr. ( 1924 ) image I find to be of interest. Advertised at the ticket box window are Divans 50 cents.
I located on Google that in American movie palaces of the 1920s they typically had appointed overstuffed divans. Apart from this small amount of information I am unable to find out anything else about divan usage in cinemas in the 1920s, including any images at all of divans appearing in cinemas.
A rare poster image kindly sent to me by Wil in New Zealand. He describes it as a New Zealand daybill being 13 3/4'' x 19 1/2'' in size. The poster was printed on thinner paper stock than the usual normally seen N.Z. daybills printed in this format. The poster is in the same size format as the other N.Z. daybills it was discovered with at the same time.
From the RKO Radio statement it certainly would appear to me that this poster was printed for the original N.Z, 1940's release.
The odd thing though about this poster is that N.Z. daybills printed in this format in varying size variations appear to only have commenced being printed at the beginning of the 1960s.
Being such a rare poster I thought that I would include the image here.
The Fast And The Furious ( 1954 ) two Australian daybills and one Australian one sheet, Anyone care to attempt to date the order of when these three posters were printed.
No one wanting to attempt to date the printing order for the above posters?
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Ray films weren't renowned for their poster artwork. but the Australian one sheet they produced used almost all the same artwork as appears on the U.S.A. insert.
i assumed that would be the case. My friend collected one when he saw the film. He actually went with a guy who was the drummer with the Sweet Inspirations and was one of only six drummers to play live behind Elvis. A lot of the film is about how Elvis was raised in a black community and was inspired by the music he heard. I met this guy and he said Elvis "didn't have a racist bone in his body". The singers in the Sweet Inspirations (including Whitney Houston's mother) said the same, including times when promoters in Texas didn't want them singing with him but he stood his ground. Others like James Brown, BB King, Little Richard, Jackie Wilson, Fats Domino, Muhammad Ali etc who knew Elvis say the same, but still people spread hate on Twitter that he was racist and "stole" black music, especially Hound Dog (written by two white guys).
Never a massive fan, I enjoy some of his music...mainly his less popular hits. Mum loved him, so did my sister so he was playing alot at our place growing up.
I think sadly he was very much taken advantage of by alot of people...esp that manager by all accounts...don't know enough about most of his life to really comment with any authority...Certainly never struck me as racist...
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Thanks Paul for posting this image. It has me wondering though about its origins. Was it Paramount Pictures connected? Some more details regarding whatever its purpose was would be very appreciated.
It would make sense to me that this 1949 U.S.A.''Let's Go To The Movies'' movie attendance push inspired Paramount Pictures in 1950 in the U.K., then later in Australia in 1958 to try a poster approach in strategy to fight television and to get people back to the cinemas. Also circa 1958 20th Century Fox in Australia for only a brief period of time only included on some of their daybills ''Remember! you can't see this one on a tiny TV screen at home''.Another distributor British Empire Films ( BEF ) printed "'This film can only be viewed in a motion picture theatre'' on some of their daybill and one sheet posters circa 1959, but again for only a short period of time.
The original Australian daybill poster and a Spanish poster of Vertigo.
I had always thought that the Richardson Studio poster artwork was unique to Australia. I have recently noticed a rare Spanish poster image, designed by artist Fernando Albericio of Vertigo. As seen above it shows some similarities with the Australian daybill design., To the best of my knowledge nothing similar in design appears anywhere else on any other world poster artwork. I am more than interested in finding out about the history behind the designing of these two posters.
Peter
Good point you make about Vertigo, but considering the large number of daybills sighted over the years one has to wonder where then are the one sheets? Only one known copy sighted and this poster I intend to discuss at a later time. I do have some questions regarding this particular poster though. It would be great to see another Vertigo one sheet image other than Bruce's copy before I do comment though,
Four examples of agressive New Zealand poster censorship applied to imported Australian printed daybill posters. How rampart was this censorship there? You may be surprised by the answer. Information on film poster censorship in New Zealand during 1958 up here next. In the meantime anyone like to try and guess the percentage of posters censored in N.Z. in 1958?
This Sherlock, Jr. ( 1924 ) image I find to be of interest. Advertised at the ticket box window are Divans 50 cents.
I located on Google that in American movie palaces of the 1920s they typically had appointed overstuffed divans. Apart from this small amount of information I am unable to find out anything else about divan usage in cinemas in the 1920s, including any images at all of divans appearing in cinemas.
A rare poster image kindly sent to me by Wil in New Zealand. He describes it as a New Zealand daybill being 13 3/4'' x 19 1/2'' in size. The poster was printed on thinner paper stock than the usual normally seen N.Z. daybills printed in this format. The poster is in the same size format as the other N.Z. daybills it was discovered with at the same time.
From the RKO Radio statement it certainly would appear to me that this poster was printed for the original N.Z, 1940's release.
The odd thing though about this poster is that N.Z. daybills printed in this format in varying size variations appear to only have commenced being printed at the beginning of the 1960s.
Being such a rare poster I thought that I would include the image here.
The Fast And The Furious ( 1954 ) two Australian daybills and one Australian one sheet, Anyone care to attempt to date the order of when these three posters were printed.
Ray films weren't renowned for their poster artwork. but the Australian one sheet they produced used almost all the same artwork as appears on the U.S.A. insert.
Elvis in cinemas from June 24. Great poster.
How did you fare with the posters?
ebay says 13x19...so seems mini size. Loving the first image...shame they didn't use that on the OS
Mum loved him, so did my sister so he was playing alot at our place growing up.
I think sadly he was very much taken advantage of by alot of people...esp that manager by all accounts...don't know enough about most of his life to really comment with any authority...Certainly never struck me as racist...