Hard Day's Night large French - likely others out there but none of the big guns seem to have sold one yet. Could be that French Beatles fans snaffled them all. And the number of folds these French posters have is ridiculous, many of them might have split apart.
I was wondering if you'd seen it Ves! I'll load up a better picture when it arrives. It looks like they just cobbled together a range of images from other Roadshow daybills to make the poster up. I'm still digging, but it seems the movie was showing as a midnight show / drive-in special around late 1971 into 1972.
I have searched high and low and never found others like these. Double sided printing on rigid plastic, they are (apparently) for a backlit display like a lightbox, but are not for any of the Media Home Entertainment, RCA/Columbia or Paramount lightboxes that I've ever seen, they're not the right size. Honestly if anyone else DOES have them I'd be thrilled to learn more about them or how they were originally displayed or find a photo.
That is my guess as well. But I've never been able to find the lightboxes for them or even seen a photograph from an old video store of something like this in use. Or seen them on the secondhand market. And the films are all from multiple distributors. As far as lightboxes go, the only ones I've ever seen were the three I previously mentioned, and they are each differently sized from each other, likely in a move of stubborn proprietary exclusivity. These however are all the same exact size. They remain mysterious to me, lol. But they are really neat.
I recall in my youth seeing lightboxes sitting on the counter of my old video store (ahem...I'm aging myself here). As to find them, hard one considering how long its been since most closed up shop
I recall in my youth seeing lightboxes sitting on the counter of my old video store (ahem...I'm aging myself here). As to find them, hard one considering how long its been since most closed up shop
I'm in my late 30's so I remember video stores quite well and worked at several. Do you remember what chain of stores it was by chance? Perhaps I could find an old photo. I was hoping someone here might know some more about the origins of these. I'm sort of new... what would be the best subforum to post that sort of request in?
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Similarly for this one.
Congrats on those!
Not seen the Back to the future before, Ewbanks?
Just waiting for this one to arrive, but curious as to whether anyone has seen one before?