What Happened To The Australian Daybills?

HONDO

Thanks to Ves and any other parties involved for the daybill image of Night And The City. Extremely rare and very nice and well worth the wait. My only comment in comparing the insert to the daybill is the lack of credits on the daybill compared to the U.S.insert. For whatever reason 20th Century Fox Australia, over many decades, for whatever reasons, were very economical with the use of wording on their daybill posters and other posters.

HONDO

What next ? More film noir / crime, musicals, horror , Marilyn or a giant ape film that had the ape make a personal appearance by train to promote the film ? Let me know ?

CSM_2_Point_0

More film noir/crime please - if just so I can express my frustration some more

theartofmovieposters

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

More film noir/crime please - if just so I can express my frustration some more

Hahahahahaha!  They should have their own thread!  Seem to be so many of them

CSM_2_Point_0

theartofmovieposters said:

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

More film noir/crime please - if just so I can express my frustration some more

Hahahahahaha!  They should have their own thread!  Seem to be so many of them

Absolutely!  For example, off the top of my head and very quickly, never seen images of any of these 'non-obscure' titles: Third Man (original release), Night of the Hunter (banned?), White Heat (wtf), Kiss Me Deadly (already covered), Brute Force (wtf x2), High Sierra (original release), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (OK yes not a noir), This Gun For Hire (wtf x3)...etc etc

HONDO

Seeing Chris got in first and it seems backed up by Ves, a combination of Film Noir / crime / thriller / mystery and drama titles it will be from the 1940's and 1950's. Some titles will follow soon.

theartofmovieposters

Surely you have seen a this gun for hire db????

theartofmovieposters

Ta DA! This Gun For Hire daybill - you asked for it.

HONDO

I have seen it before but one cannot get enough of a good thing.

HONDO

Two very nice U.S. inserts of Trial ( 1955 ) and White Heat ( 1949 ), that I would love to see Australian daybill images of.

Sven

Here is a noir which I don't believe has been seen before.  A&C printers.

HONDO

Sven said:

Here is a noir which I don't believe has been seen before.  A&C printers.

I would like to see it as well.

CSM_2_Point_0

theartofmovieposters said:

Ta DA! This Gun For Hire daybill - you asked for it.

Ahhh of course.  My memory is terrible sometimes.  Pretty sure I even know who had a copy for sale a couple years ago.  Certainly don't mind seeing it again (there's an understatement!).  

Thanks Ves.

HONDO

HONDO said:

Sven said:

Here is a noir which I don't believe has been seen before.  A&C printers.

I would like to see it as well. If the image is no longer available just the name of the film will do.

Sven

Sure will dig up

Sven

Here you go Lawrence

HONDO

Thanks Sven. A rare interesting poster that I will mention on another thread at some point of time.

HONDO

The Beast With Five Fingers ( 1946 ). Original U.S. insert and a 1948 Australian newspaper advertisement for the film's release. Just one of countless films where Australian daybills are hard to find.

HONDO

Australian newspaper advertisement.

The Strange Death Of Adolph Hitler ( Universal 1943 ). Another missing Australian daybill for this title, most likely from W.E.Smith. Does anyone have one ?

HONDO

The Big Blockade ( 1942) U.K. country of origin quad poster appearing above and two newspaper advertisements from the Australian release by BEF in 1942.

Where is the Australian daybill, which was most likely printed by W.E.Smith?  Usually W.E.Smith / BEF daybills from this period were of a high standard, so it would be great if one turned up.

Eisenhower

Agreed. If the B/W advertisement is any indication, it'd be sweet!

Question....I'm guessing Pressbooks were not issued in Australia to promote advertising of films?

HONDO

Eisenhower said:

Agreed. If the B/W advertisement is any indication, it'd be sweet!

Question....I'm guessing Pressbooks were not issued in Australia to promote advertising of films?

Pressbooks were certainly produced and distributed in Australia, but up to the 1940s at least, are extremely rare. On Bruce's site there are 19.534 U.S. pressbooks listed but only 58 are from Australia.

HONDO

Here we go Mark, the front and back image of an Australian press sheet ( pressbook ) for one of the forum's favourites The Hour Before the Dawn from 1944.

CSM_2_Point_0

HONDO said:

Here we go Mark, the front and back image of an Australian press sheet ( pressbook ) for one of the forum's favourites The Hour Before the Dawn from 1944.

Sigh

Bruce

Lawrence. have you seen any elaborate Australian press sheets? I don't think I have (although I should have first looked at my own auction history, so I wouldn't look stupid if I auctioned one!).

theartofmovieposters

Poor Chris

CSM_2_Point_0

theartofmovieposters said:

Poor Chris

Coming up on a year to the day soon enough...

But happily it also means the little guy is going to be 1!

HONDO

Bruce said:

Lawrence. have you seen any elaborate Australian press sheets? I don't think I have (although I should have first looked at my own auction history, so I wouldn't look stupid if I auctioned one!).

As far as I can see the answer is no. We appeared to be just a poor cousin to the U.S.A. in this area. Please correct me if I am incorrect and examples of elaborate Australian press sheets do exist?

HONDO

HONDO said:

Eisenhower said:

Agreed. If the B/W advertisement is any indication, it'd be sweet!

Question....I'm guessing Pressbooks were not issued in Australia to promote advertising of films?

Pressbooks were certainly produced and distributed in Australia, but up to the 1940s at least, are extremely rare. On Bruce's site there are 19.534 U.S. pressbooks listed but only 58 are from Australia.

It wouldn't have mattered if a BEF press sheet had been found for The Big Blockade, as it appears BEF didn't picture poster images only add blocks, at that period time.  Only a few of the major distributors, including Paramount, pictured poster images, as seen earlier in The Hour Before The Dawn press sheet. Notice on the following Australian press sheet from BEF, add blocks are pictured but posters are only mentioned in print under the ''Accessories available for Flying Tigers'' heading.

 Daybill image.

Bruce

HONDO said:

Bruce said:

Lawrence. have you seen any elaborate Australian press sheets? I don't think I have (although I should have first looked at my own auction history, so I wouldn't look stupid if I auctioned one!).

As far as I can see the answer is no. We appeared to be just a poor cousin to the U.S.A. in this area. Please correct me if I am incorrect and examples of elaborate Australian press sheets do exist?

In this way, they seem very close to English pressbooks. Very little color, if any, not many pages. But there ARE  a few exceptional English pressbooks, and I was hoping someone had seen a few Australian ones. Maybe one of the experts will weigh in.