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Re: The Comedy Quiz
Is C14 Where’s Poppa? (1970) - Ruth Gordon is the Harold and Maude connection!
Re: The Comedy Quiz
Thanks Peter for posting and correcting the situation regarding the non appearance of the musical in Melbourne. Unfortunately I gained the incorrect information from a website appearing on Google. Another example of where you cannot believe everything you locate on Google. I should have checked more than one website regarding the Australian playdates.
''Back To The Future: The Musical played its Australian premiere season at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from September 2025 until it closed early on January 25, 2026. Planned seasons for Melbourne and a nation tour were cancelled due to rising operating costs and soft ticket sales"(AussieTheatre.com)
''Back To The Future: The Musical played its Australian premiere season at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from September 2025 until it closed early on January 25, 2026. Planned seasons for Melbourne and a nation tour were cancelled due to rising operating costs and soft ticket sales"(AussieTheatre.com)
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Re: Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films
An original rare Australian long daybill from 1927.
( Everyones/Trove)
The above cinema display image shows some extra size poster Australian artwork that was produced for The Kid Stakes. It is a pity though that the image isn't much clearer to see.
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Re: Hondo's This And That
Nicely spotted. I am thinking the one displayed on the right is a U.S.A. poster. I base this on the difference in the two posters, due to the placement of credits on the posters. Mainly though my reason for thinking this is that the one on the right is exactly the same image as it appears on the below U.S. press sheet image. The one exception being the press sheet image has a part darkened background which was perhaps added to the actual poster after the press sheet was printed. To support my thinking the poster on the right hasn't any Australian censorship rating appearing on itWil said:Nice to see what I'm assuming to be a US 24 Sheet displayed next to an Australian one? Or possibly just a modified Australian one, seeing how the portraits are of similar quality.
It is really great that Bruce's archives are available with so many images that one can draw upon to help in assisting to make a point here on the forum.
HONDO
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Re: Australian Daybills comprehensive Video on YouTube
Not gonna lie Lawrence, I might not post very often, but your research and posts are one of the few things that keep me coming back 
Can't tell you how much I have learned from you.
Can't tell you how much I have learned from you.
Re: Australian Daybills comprehensive Video on YouTube
I am always surprised that people are surprised when conversation wanes. When you get into a hobby you wanna learn so much, after a while you learn alot...then what? How many times can you talk about the same things. Also, people's lives change...we move into different phases and have different things that pop up which either interfere or are more important than posters.
If you want more international content on the forum, create it.
Newer collectors are rarely interested in the oldies...if you look at the FB groups its mostly all 80s and above. Hate to tell you all, but we are old Me included. The young ones are not interested in our jabberings. Its a world for tiktok and snapchat...the younger ones spend the vast majority of time there.
If you want more international content on the forum, create it.
Newer collectors are rarely interested in the oldies...if you look at the FB groups its mostly all 80s and above. Hate to tell you all, but we are old
Me included. The young ones are not interested in our jabberings. Its a world for tiktok and snapchat...the younger ones spend the vast majority of time there.Re: The Comedy Quiz
I do like Norman Wisdom, although I must admit that I haven't seen too many of his films. A Stitch In Time (1963) I do remember seeing many years ago and thinking then that it was hilarious.
Most screen comedy actor's films tended to run out of steam during their careers. Martin and Lewis, then Jerry Lewis films once funny no longer raise much of a laugh anymore. The British Carry On Series should have stopped production very early in the piece.
Some comedians films that are still funny today are those of early Charles Chaplin, Laurel And Hardy, Buster Keaton The Three Stooges (selected shorts), and not forgetting the funnies comedians of them all The Marx Brothers.
I have to single out that the U.K. television series of Faulty Towers (1975-1979) which starred John Clees and Prunella Scales is still hilarious when watched today. I have lost count of the number of times that I have viewed all the episodes over and over.
Comedy of today especially presented in American comedy films is often crude and lacking in having any genuine humourous scenes included in them.
Most screen comedy actor's films tended to run out of steam during their careers. Martin and Lewis, then Jerry Lewis films once funny no longer raise much of a laugh anymore. The British Carry On Series should have stopped production very early in the piece.
Some comedians films that are still funny today are those of early Charles Chaplin, Laurel And Hardy, Buster Keaton The Three Stooges (selected shorts), and not forgetting the funnies comedians of them all The Marx Brothers.
I have to single out that the U.K. television series of Faulty Towers (1975-1979) which starred John Clees and Prunella Scales is still hilarious when watched today. I have lost count of the number of times that I have viewed all the episodes over and over.
Comedy of today especially presented in American comedy films is often crude and lacking in having any genuine humourous scenes included in them.
HONDO
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Re: Australian Daybills comprehensive Video on YouTube
The social media pages have certainly affected forums but most of those pages now just seem to be filled with people trying to sell their posters rather than providing information and discussion about posters.Charlie said:There has been a lot of discussion on the transition from forums to social media. But as long as I can afford it, the forum will be a repository for poster info. Most social media posts will be lost over time. The old head scratcher - I saw that somewhere on Facebook.HONDO said:.John said:Yes indeed, and disappointing would be a more accurate word to cover what is happening. or more accurately what isn't happening here.Also interesting that no one else has commented particularly as this is a forum for those who have an appreciation of Australian Daybills.
An example is the Australian Vintage Movie Posters Buy Swap & Sell page that is followed by many Australian collectors. It seems to be largely dominated by "For Sale" posts. Many other Facebook movie poster group pages are the same and I think that there is actually less interest and participation in those pages now than there was when they first started. The novelty is wearing off!
That makes me wonder whether interest in the hobby is waning in general. It could be that there is just too much material out there. I have been offered more collections than ever lately and Facebook is flooded with people trying to sell off collections.
It's great that Charlie is willing and able to continue running VMPF. There are very few places where collectors can find so much historical information.
John
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Re: Hondo's Daybill and One Sheet Q&A [Re-Titled]
When I booked film titles from the major 16mm film distributors that were to be screened at the film society that I was involved with, I always received numerous copies of original daybills with every booking. If one takes into account the large number of 16mm commercial screenings, then later numerous club screenings and film society screenings that would have been sent daybills, this would certainly account for a large number of required posters for these screenings. I am thinking that after the original number of printed posters were despatched to theatres numbers then would have dwindled, so cheaper designed versions and stock posters for 16mm distribution were printed.
The following Across The Wide Missourt and The Naked Spur daybills printed for 1950's films in what appears to be in the 1970's would have to have been surely printed for later 16mm bookings.
The following Across The Wide Missourt and The Naked Spur daybills printed for 1950's films in what appears to be in the 1970's would have to have been surely printed for later 16mm bookings.
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