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  • Vast-A-Vision! Really?



    Peter
  • Rick said:
    Frankie Howerd!
    Yes indeed!

  • Spotted this one in the late 50s early 60s era series Marvelous Mrs. Maisel set in New York City. Facebook guys didn’t give it any love… Hint: there are at least two problems here… 


  • That's the reissue 3-sheet for Butterfield 8 isn't it? (1966?)

    If it's early 60s then GI Blues (1960) is okay isn't it? 


    Peter
  • edited July 2022
    How about they used Australian poster artwork slightly altered and rearranged.

         ( Australian )

     
    Original U.S.A. artwork.
  • That's the reissue 3-sheet for Butterfield 8 isn't it? (1966?)

    If it's early 60s then GI Blues (1960) is okay isn't it? 
    It’s a reissue alright… 1966 reissue which is too late for the era of the show. But It’s not a three sheet.
  • edited July 2022
    HONDO said:
    How about they used Australian poster artwork slightly altered and rearranged.

         ( Australian )

     
    Original U.S.A. artwork.
    You nailed it. It’s a photoshopped Frankenstein poster.
  • edited July 2022
    Here is the 1966 Daybill (from moviemem site)… Maybe not it’s a little different.


    Here is the original US 3SH (from my collection - which is why I was “hey wait a minute…”).


  • Weird it’s like they use multiple versions and patched it together. Now I’m baffled… lol
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    You will notice on the extremely rare original release daybill the positioning of Liz's hand is exactly the same as on the image in question. The 1966 daybill Liz is giving us the finger.

    I believe the poster under review is almost all the same artwork  as the original Australian 1961 first release poster, with one small addition and two positioning of image changes. 


  • A slight mistake made with this  poster. Any idea?
  • They left out the apostrophe in Squatter's.


    Peter
  • They left out the apostrophe in Squatter's.
    That's it.

  • Pitfall 1948 Australian daybill poster, Can you figure out the error here as it won't be easy?  


    The Love God? ( 1969 ) U.S.A, lobby card. What is our of place here?


    All That Heavens Allows (1955) later duotone printing. Someone was really not paying attention here. 
  • edited September 2023
    All that Heaven Allows - Universal - Intenational instead of International, and MAGNICENT OBSESSION, instead of MAGNIFICENT, which is weird because they got it right JUST above!

  • All that Heaven Allows - Universal - Intenational instead of International, and MAGNICENT OBSESSION, instead of MAGNIFICENT, which is weird because they got it right JUST above!

    They also messed up Agnes Moorehead's name
  • All that Heaven Allows - Universal - Intenational instead of International, and MAGNICENT OBSESSION, instead of MAGNIFICENT, which is weird because they got it right JUST above!

    John said:
    All that Heaven Allows - Universal - Intenational instead of International, and MAGNICENT OBSESSION, instead of MAGNIFICENT, which is weird because they got it right JUST above!

    They also messed up Agnes Moorehead's name
    You have it. Three mistakes in one Australian daybill must be a record.

     I have always thought the poster artists at F. Cunninghame were a lot worse than those at Robert Burton, and here is a great example to support this.
  • edited September 2023
      
    F. Cunninghame apparently realised their mistake, then produced a correct amended replacement version as seen above..
  •    
    Just realised that I had forgotten the fact that previously this poster's fault was spoken about when included by me on another of the forum threads. 
    The Love God? ( 1969 ) U.S.A. lobby card was used in Australia. The censorship stamp  should have been the Not Suitable For Children one.
  •  

    This leaves only Pitfall. A far too obscure error, so I will now reveal the problem that the poster has.


    As seen above Lizabeth Scott in an actual scene from the film holds the gun in her right hand, which is also as it appears on the U.S. poster artwork.

     The Australian daybill artwork has her depicted with the gun being held in her left hand. 

  • It also appears that Rock has snapped poor Jane Wyman's neck while attempting to kiss her.



    Peter
  •    
    The Gospel According To St. Matthew ( 1964 ) Australian daybill.

    A very minor error here with this one. and it should be easy enough to spot
  • Are you referring to "Blake Films present" as a grammatical error? If so, it is probably acceptable to use the plural for Blake Films and then add present rather than presents. Other than that the title begins with the quotation marks " and ends with ' and there is a capital R in present which should be lower case.

    Maybe you are thinking of something else altogether!
  • Perhaps it isn't one of the great films of all time?????


    Peter
  • John said:
    Are you referring to "Blake Films present" as a grammatical error? If so, it is probably acceptable to use the plural for Blake Films and then add present rather than presents. Other than that the title begins with the quotation marks " and ends with ' and there is a capital R in present which should be lower case.

    Maybe you are thinking of something else altogether!
    All valid points you make, but I was thinking of something different. My observation was in the gap appearing  in the word FILMS, situated between the letters L and M.

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  •  
    Somewhere In Time (1980 ) Australian daybill film poster.

     Are you able to spot something defective about this poster's presentation?
  • No censorship classification?


    Peter
  • No censorship classification?
    That is correct, but what I am after is more regarding a major mistake having being made. 

     Many appear to have been asleep at the wheel here.
  • Their names are under the wrong image?  Dunno!
  • Their names are under the wrong image?  Dunno!
    Yes what you say is correct.  Christopher Reeve's previous released film was Superman in 1978. and he was now a big star when Somewhere In Time was released. He was credited all around the world with first billing on all posters printed for this film, not including though this Australian daybill version.

    The daybill containing this bad but not picked up error was printed by an uncredited Australian printer. The following Australian one sheet, which was printed by M.A.P.S., however does show the correct order of the crediting of the actor's names.


     ( John )
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