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I should probably wait longer to post this drivel, but here I am back again. Car stuff? Yep. At least one of 'em is film related though, so there's that. But first, the non-movie stuff. In my humble opinion concerning automotive design, the Mercedes 300SL gullwing coupe and roadster (1954-1957, and 1957-1963 respectively) were a couple of the prettiest cars ever made. I had been poking around ebay for a 1:18 scale diecast gullwing, and ran across these posters. The posters have a dash of an 80's vibe that I'm not super wild about, but the car is rendered pretty well. Both are half sheet size and will make it up on the walls here at some point.



The other is a pressbook, coming from the great land of OZ (maybe I bought it from one of y'all). I can't find much in terms of sales/auction history of posters, but I'll take what I can get for now.







Looks like I need to find me a 6 sheet. I know, I know, good luck with that, right? Anyway, that's all the excitement I have for now. Thanks for looking!

Rick said:

This might be a challenge for Lawrence. I have two copies of the Aussie To Sir With Love but with differences in the ratings and printer credit. Any idea about them?

My findings are that the blue Royelltone Prints Pty Ltd one sheet is from the original 1968 first Australian release. Royelletone only printed daybill and one sheet  posters, mainly for 20th Century Fox starting in the  mid 1960s to 1969. The second blue one sheet would be a second printing by an unknown printer using the original design, but changing  the circle  censorship rating presentation to the  the new Not Suitable For Children one line wording style that commenced being used in circa 1970.

Due to the huge success of To Sir, With Love at the Australian box office, the uncredited one sheet version would appear to have been printed in either 1970 or 1971, prior to the rating changes in November 1971.This information is an updated version of information I included in the forum thread titled To Sir, Wth Love that I posted in  Februaty 2016. If anyone is interested you can check out the thread as it discussed the Australian one sheet, along with the daybill version as well, 

A couple more entries for the mountainous pile-o-paper™ here in the lair. Neither are for movies, but both are for documentaries, which is prolly the same thing anyway. Storytelling via the medium of film. Anyhoo, 

PBS produced Ken Burns jazz doc, image of Mr. Armstrong (poster size - 18x24 inches, because dammit, we refuse to go metric):



7 separate French posters, one for each segment/episode/whatever for the Scorsese produced blues doc (poster size 15x23 inches):



Thazzit. That's all I got for now. Thanks for having a peek.