Odd size Australian posters
I have been finding quite a few odd size Australian posters in some of the collections I have picked up recently. An example is this Valachi Papers poster measuring approx. 13" x 23". Different daybills and one sheets were also issued for this film but this poster has rarely if ever been seen. Just curious as to what other odd size Australian posters others have seen.
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My thoughts about this poster is that it was solely printed for display in bookshops or any other venues promoting or selling the book. As well having some nice publicity for the novel it was displaying it would have been also aimed at making the potential book buyers aware of the film as well.
Another odd size that springs to mind is the 16'' x 27'' poster used for the Greg Lynch Film Distributors 1980 release Hard Knocks.
Various sized Australian window cards discussed on various thread on this forum in the past.
There are probably others as well that don't spring to mind at this time.
Some other Greg Lynch posters I am unable to locate sizes for but they look odd sizes are Comin' At Ya ( 1981 ), This Is America Part 11 ( 1980 ) and one of two AC / DC : Let There Be Rock ( 1980 ) posters that I have sighted. The image of the AC / DC ; Let There Be Rock poster appearing on a Google listed website has it as being sold. No size is credited now but it is listed as being a mini daybill.
The Brood is also an odd one - frustrating too; there are some really nice daybills for Cronenberg's other early films!
As The Brood was imported on 35mm and no 16mm print was submitted and classified for censorship, which was the case with R rated films around this time, and this along with a very minor little known independent film distributor involved, I believe this would have been the only poster printed. Pancho do you have any other titles from Everard Films that we could check the sizes of ?
As for the Greg Lynch titles that I had mentioned earlier I am fairly sure that they were printed for the original 35mm release. They had numerous credits and were too detailed in design and in colour in some cases to have been printed for 16mm for my thinking.
Just to add to the fun / mystery, Greg Lynch also had 'standard' size daybills too:
If and when an Everard poster turns up, please can we see it ?
Yes GLFD did produce some normal size daybills, such as The Secret Policeman's Ball with Bloody Virgin perhaps being another. If you or anyone else has a copy of Bloody Virgin you may like to confirm the size of this one.
Norther Safari
The Naked Bunyip
Rolling Home
Blood Money
Nightmares
I Can't Get Started
Rocking The Foundations
Friends & Enemies
Mabo
La Spagnola
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo
Rash
Lake Mungo
Salvation
The View From Greenhaven
The Loved Ones
Love The Beast
Some obscure titles among those Ves. I like the La Spagnola poster.
The following posters were printed for 16 mm release only -
The Naked Bunyip, Northern Safari, Friends & Enemies, Mabo - Life Of An Island Man, Blood Money ( another GLFD release with only a brief running time of 63 mins and released here on 16 mm only ), and Rolling Home ( both 16mm & 35 mm prints ). To clarify that the two films Rocking The Foundations and I Can't Get Started were 35 mm releases.
The Comin' At Ya poster mentioned above has measurements of 15'' x 24.5'', as listed on a website previously selling this poster.
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The Razor's Edge (1946 ). An interesting example here of a 13 1/2'' x 30'' original release Australian daybill along with an odd sized daybill for the same film measuring 14 1/2'' x 26''. I have never seen this size before to the best of my knowledge.
The second poster has to have been printed during the first release of the film due to the ''20th Century Fox World Leadership Production'' logo appearing on the poster. This special logo was only applied to a very small number of posters printed by W.E.Smith for 20th Century Fox released in Australia between 1947 and 1950. It would be interesting to know the history behind the smaller poster.
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The above two entries frpm years ago were sitting unsent in the ''Leave a Comment'' section until now. I thought at the time there was more to come, but this didn't happen and the information was never added to the thread.,
I have included the information here now due to the current discussion on the ''Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Film'' thread regarding''special posters''. I am thinking this may be of interest, along with all the details included on the whole thread to anyone following the other thread.