The Seekers ( 1954 ) Australian colour daybill and a New Zealand duotone daybill. In comparison the N.Z. version is well above the usual standard we are used to seeing in New Zealand produced daybill artwork. What is interesting also is that this New Zealand poster has a printer's credit appearing on it, which certainly wasn't a common practice in the 1950's for this to happen. The printer's credit belongs to Wright & Jaques., Printers, Auckland.
( Rewi's Last Stand image courtesy of New Zealand's Nga Taonga Sound And Vision, with the remainIng two images courtesy of the National Library Of New Zealand ).
Rewi's Last Stand ( 1940 ) film poster, Nicola And His Brilliant Company 1938 live theatre poster and Paul Pedrini And His Royal Zambesi Baboons 1929 live theatre poster, which also includes a snipe for the film Our Dancing Daughters starring Joan Crawford which was also appearing on the same progamme. These are only three more examples of Wright & Jaques poster artwork. There are many other examples of their live theatre posters artwotk to be found on Google. Wright & Jaques were printers of numerous live stage production posters with the occasional film poster designed as well. A little more effort was given to their live stage posters than with the film posters it would appear. The company operated from 1887 to the 1950s.
That Nicola is absolutely stunning! Good to see that the Kiwi's could hold their own in the art department. Was starting to think that because of all the bad duo tones, we wouldn't see any thing nice come from that way.
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Was starting to think that because of all the bad duo tones, we wouldn't see any thing nice come from that way.
Love to hear any comments on this one.