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Now reverting back to The Freedom Riders and the two style daybills sold previously by Bruce. Interestingly the 56 yellow style versions are all credited as being unfolded, while the black style are all shown as being fully folded.

Sadly the value of the Freedom Riders has taken a nosedive with so many on the market

Fantasea "84  (!984 ) Australian daybill. Another Associated Screen Arts distributed documentary surfing film. Bruce previously sold a total of 127 daybills of this title. There were 69 individual poster images, a bulk lot of 18 copies, and another bulk lot of 40 copies ( currently no images available ).  This total of 127 daybills of an Australian daybill must place it at the very top.

Interesting for the 65 single daybills sold only 13 were fully folded and 52 were unfolded.

HI ! Not too much to say, as ussual, but, about "The Free Riders" film, I found out George Greenough live in Australia, have a Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Greenough) and also a website (http://www.georgegreenough.com) where I can see his P.O.Box, so, someone, closer to him than me (I'm exactly in the other side of the globe), can contact with him directly to ask for more details . I just saw also have a website about his films (www.greenoughfilms.com). Cheers !

Thanks Diego for your imput. I will endeavour to follow up  with these websites. along with some other possible leads.

Good topic, Mark! Is it limited to Aussie 1 sheets, as the Dementia 13 daybill immediately springs to mind.

Endless Summer started out as 16mm independent screenings in Aussie surf clubs. Wasn't until later when Columbia took over distribution that it went to 35mm and posters were produced. There are a number of obscure surfing posters I've seen that have surf clubs details, presumably 16mm. 

When I  posted this topic i was hoping it would create some good feedback from members. This certainly has turned out to be the case with some interesting input received from Bruce, Mark, Dave and John, which I actually do agree with.

"'Warehouse finds'' is certainly the answer. Bruce mentioned And I would estimate the number of such titles to be far less than 1% of all titles. They just stand out because they are offered so often. I would agree to this number.

My thoughts on the Australian scene are that film posters up to the 1960's were not considered to be of much value. Years ago I spoke to a former employee of Universal-who worked in the Sydney branch, who informed me that left over posters were disposed of in bulk by taking them to a dump site. Even in some cases, as late as the 1990's, film posters were still being discarded.

Why so many copies of The Creature Walks Among Us exist today  and not the other two earlier versions I guess we will never know for sure,

John's comment on New Zealand being a great source of warehouse finds is interesting. I have found also over the years that a good number of Australian daybills are found today only in the printed for N.Z. non Australian censorship versions  

Now regarding The large amount of The Freedom Riders daybills existing today. Bruce has 100 images appearing on his website. There are two styles available. 56 are the yellow style and 44 are the black version.

 

The Australian Classification database which includes classified films starting in October 1971 have on their website no record of a film of this title ever being classified in Australian in any format. Keep in mind that this film is credited as being a 1972 release. On speaking to a person at the Australian Classification office I was informed no record in any form is in their records regarding this film. Not any of the 100 daybills have a censorship rating printed on them

Why were two impressive versions of the poster printed by major printer  M.A.P.S.? After all it was just an Australian independent surfing documentary film advertised as being released by Associated Screen Arts . and these genre films were usually only filmed on 16mm.

I cannot locate any information on any screenings taking place in Australia, and almost no details on the film itself. More to follow shortly regarding other Associated Screen Arts surfing genre daybills.

I remember Freedom Riders, as I see it every time I search Aust on EMP!
Most I have ever seen of a single title is around 100 (Batman Returns db & Attack Force Z 1sht).
There are a lot of South Pacific dbs & programs out there. My buddy told me it played at The Mayfair in Sydney for 10 years continuous. If you look closely, there is a difference in the rating triangle colour on the daybill. Some programs have in Todd AO.