I have had a Gallery of rare Australian movie posters for Australian films on my site for quite a few years. There are some very rare ones there. I still add images from time to time and have a lot more to come ... RARE MOVIE POSTERS FOR AUSTRALIAN MADE FILMS
Had a quick look, some beautiful posters there. They look familiar...isn't there an old book on early aussie film posters with a handful of titles? Thin thing...I think I have it somewhere...forgot all about it!
We need someone to do an updated book!
Australian Film Posters 1906-1960 published in 1978. Currently available to acquire on one of Bruce's current auctions. Recommended as Australian poster images in book form are rare. I will also mention this on the ''Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films'' as well.
Australian Film Posters 1906-1960 published in 1978. Currently available to acquire on one of Bruce's current auctions. Recommended as Australian poster images in book form are rare.
As I believe any member who doesn't own a copy of this poster book and loves Australia daybills should have a copy, then you have two opportunities to acquire a copy through either David or Bruce.
As I believe any member who doesn't own a copy of this poster book and loves Australia daybills should have a copy, then you have two opportunities to acquire a copy through either David or Bruce.
I'm not selling it.
My point was to show that people (who wanted one) can readily buy one now rather than the need to bid.
Thanks for clearing that up David. To me personally it is great that two copies of this poster book are available to acquire at the around the same time. Many years ago there were a number of copies of this publication available to purchase and I remember seeing one at a second hand bookshop in Springwood in the Blue Mountains of Australia. The availability of the book appears to have dried up in recent years but now two copies are available, which is great news. I thoroughly recommend anyone who doesn't have a copy to take the opportunity now to be able to own copy of this fabulous book. Who knows when another copy will appear ?
They look familiar...isn't there an old book on early aussie film posters with a handful of titles? Thin thing...I think I have it somewhere...forgot all about it!
We need someone to do an updated book!
Sadly I think the market for this sort of thing is so small it would be uneconomical for anyone to do so. The internet and its associated researchable databases make reference books interesting but really out of date now.
They look familiar...isn't there an old book on early aussie film posters with a handful of titles? Thin thing...I think I have it somewhere...forgot all about it!
We need someone to do an updated book!
Sadly I think the market for this sort of thing is so small it would be uneconomical for anyone to do so. The internet and its associated researchable databases make reference books interesting but really out of date now.
It is sad but most likely true. One can dream though.
Images # 20a, 20b, 20c 20d & 20e. Rare overseas paper for Rangle River ( 1936 ) in the form of a U. K. pressbook ( 3 images ) and a U.K. front of house card. Rare, in that the only posters normally seen are from the U.S.A. and from the distributor J. H. Hoffberg Company, and not from from Columbia Pictures. On my Australian Posters Of Australian Films thread I have posted a rare Columbia Pictures Australian daybill. Interestingly the film was initially banned in the U.K. but later passed with a ''U'' certificate. Rangle River is often credited as being theatrically released until the title Men With Whips also, but the name change apparently only happened when the film was sold to American television in the 1940's.An original daybill poster image of Rangle River can be found on the Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films thread. Victor Jory shown in the black and white still above, seen riding a horse in a way that is reminiscent of Tom Burlinson's riding from The Man From Snowy River many decades later.
They look familiar...isn't there an old book on early aussie film posters with a handful of titles? Thin thing...I think I have it somewhere...forgot all about it!
We need someone to do an updated book!
Sadly I think the market for this sort of thing is so small it would be uneconomical for anyone to do so. The internet and its associated researchable databases make reference books interesting but really out of date now.
It is sad but most likely true. One can dream though.
This could be said of a lot of books, but there seem to be a fair few movie poster books coming out all the time.
I think there would definitely be a market...imagine an amalgamation of early cinema history, posters and printer information. Everyone with an interest would be compelled to buy a copy!
They look familiar...isn't there an old book on early aussie film posters with a handful of titles? Thin thing...I think I have it somewhere...forgot all about it!
We need someone to do an updated book!
Sadly I think the market for this sort of thing is so small it would be uneconomical for anyone to do so. The internet and its associated researchable databases make reference books interesting but really out of date now.
It is sad but most likely true. One can dream though.
This could be said of a lot of books, but there seem to be a fair few movie poster books coming out all the time.
I think there would definitely be a market...imagine an amalgamation of early cinema history, posters and printer information. Everyone with an interest would be compelled to buy a copy!
My comment was to yours that we need an updated book about Aussie posters, there may indeed be "...a fair few movie poster books coming out all the time..." but not about Aussie posters.
I certainly agree it would be nice to have a book, even one that covered off a multitude of categories like 'cinema history, posters and printer information'. For a book like that you would need a head-editor (to decide on what makes it in and what doesn't - given the likely variety of contributors) and who's going to fact check?
For this sort of subject matter obviously self publishing is the way to go and there are places like Lulu where you can publish a book for free and then just sit back and watch the sales and profit come rolling in.
They look familiar...isn't there an old book on early aussie film posters with a handful of titles? Thin thing...I think I have it somewhere...forgot all about it!
We need someone to do an updated book!
Sadly I think the market for this sort of thing is so small it would be uneconomical for anyone to do so. The internet and its associated researchable databases make reference books interesting but really out of date now.
It is sad but most likely true. One can dream though.
This could be said of a lot of books, but there seem to be a fair few movie poster books coming out all the time.
I think there would definitely be a market...imagine an amalgamation of early cinema history, posters and printer information. Everyone with an interest would be compelled to buy a copy!
My comment was to yours that we need an updated book about Aussie posters, there may indeed be "...a fair few movie poster books coming out all the time..." but not about Aussie posters.
I certainly agree it would be nice to have a book, even one that covered off a multitude of categories like 'cinema history, posters and printer information'. For a book like that you would need a head-editor (to decide on what makes it in and what doesn't - given the likely variety of contributors) and who's going to fact check?
For this sort of subject matter obviously self publishing is the way to go and there are places like Lulu where you can publish a book for free and then just sit back and watch the sales and profit come rolling in.
The mind boggles just contemplating what would be involved in attempting such a ambitious project. I could see myself in there somewhere but unfortunately I very much doubt it will ever happen for a multitude of reasons.
I would suggest it is more fun talking about a proposed Australian poster book than actually attempting to create one.
I tend to agree.
A Wiki style website is another option too, this would allow multiple contributors and also ensure a reasonably standard format that people could understand both how to use/edit and read.
I think image 22a is far more likely a trade ad than a window card.
Here is what I found out about "Pituri" when I auctioned the above glass slide:
Uncivilised (also released as "Pituri"), the 1936 Charles Chauvel
Australian kidnapping crime thriller ("Beautiful authoress kidnapped, is
emotionally stimulated by Pituri, the drug used as a love potion",
"GIRLS... A thrilling sensation! Life in the rough! Love in the raw!";
this movie was made in Australia and set in the Outback, and had a
female English author in search of a white man who went to live in the
Outback and then disappeared; when she finds him, she discovers that the
Aborigines treat him like a god, and there is a "native" witch doctor
who turns out to be also a white man, a government agent who is posing
as a native; there are only two Aborigines in the movie with speaking
parts, although the god-like man delivers much of his dialog in the
Aborigine language;
there is a subplot where the female author is
kidnapped and given a drug that "stimulates" her, and when the movie was
shown in the U.S., naturally, this sequence was made to be the focus of
the advertising, and that sequence, along with a nude swimming scene by
the female star, made the movie successful in the U.S.!)
starring
Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry, Marcelle Marnay, and Kenneth
Brampton. Apparently, there was a real life basis in the subplot that
deals with the drug given to the woman! Pituri was a drug that was used
by Australian Aborigines when they went on "walkabouts", which was a
strong heart stimulant, and when western civilization discovered it, it
was used as a medicine for heart patients, and some unethical people
began secretly giving it to women as a "love potion" (shades of modern
day "roofies"). In fact, when the movie was released in the U.S., it was
sometimes given the title of this drug, "Pituri".
Also, there is the question of the date. Here is what I wrote about that:
the date on this slide corresponds to a Friday in either 1925, 1931, or
1936, and we think it is more likely from one of the latter two.
Which is why I called it "1930s"
I would love to learn more, or to learn I was wrong in any of the above!
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I think image 22a is far more likely a trade ad than a window card.
Also, there is the question of the date. Here is what I wrote about that:
the date on this slide corresponds to a Friday in either 1925, 1931, or
1936, and we think it is more likely from one of the latter two.
Which is why I called it "1930s"
I would love to learn more, or to learn I was wrong in any of the above!
The reason I believe the image for 22a may have been a trimmed window card is that exactly the same colour, wording & design appear on a poster image, which I am unable to show here ( from Alamy ). On the image there is white blank section at the top with State Theatre Eureka Tuesday, Wednesday May 26 - 27 printed there, and leading me to think window card.
The scenes on the poster are definitely from Uncivilised, therefore ruling out 1925 along with 1931 dates.
!936 would mean the film would have had to have been before the official U.S.A. release date in November, 1937 and the Australian release date was only on the 25th September, 1936. Therefore I would tend to rule 1936 out as well.
I have a Getty Images image ( unable to show ) titled Uncivilized from the campaign book printed by the original 1937 U.S. distributor Box-Office Attractions, Inc.
My thinking is the glass slide possibly is from a 1942 re-release under the new title Pinturi. An another re-release after 1942 fitting in with the dates would be unlikely as the film would have been too dated by then. On what I am calling a window card there is an hazy distributor's name and address printed on the bottom of the poster. It isn't Box Office Attractions. Inc. though. It is another distributor and I can make out only Woo ... ..... Los Angeles only leading me to think a re-release distributor.
The unidentified and what I had though previously was a distributor, actually turns to be a printer named Woolever Press, who was out of los Angeles , California. Woolever Press had also printed concert window cards as well. This new information doesn't alter my thinking regarding what I had previously had stated about the possible re-release and period it may have happened.
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OH GAWD YES LAWRENCE! We Australian paper collectors need that book BADLY.
Fingers and toes crossed you get there, and I want the second copy off the presses, personally inscribed of course
woohoo! Two books announced in one day! Surely a first on VMPF?!
Then again we celebrated Matt learning how to tie his shoe laces once, so we're easily pleased...
Australian Film Posters 1906-1960 published in 1978. Currently available to acquire on one of Bruce's current auctions. Recommended as Australian poster images in book form are rare. I will also mention this on the ''Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films'' as well.
Oops! wrong thread.
Buy now...
http://www.bidll.com/Listing/Details/439668/Australian-Film-Posters-19061960-Book
and/or
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My point was to show that people (who wanted one) can readily buy one now rather than the need to bid.
Sadly I think the market for this sort of thing is so small it would be uneconomical for anyone to do so. The internet and its associated researchable databases make reference books interesting but really out of date now.
It is sad but most likely true. One can dream though.
This could be said of a lot of books, but there seem to be a fair few movie poster books coming out all the time.
I think there would definitely be a market...imagine an amalgamation of early cinema history, posters and printer information. Everyone with an interest would be compelled to buy a copy!
I certainly agree it would be nice to have a book, even one that covered off a multitude of categories like 'cinema history, posters and printer information'. For a book like that you would need a head-editor (to decide on what makes it in and what doesn't - given the likely variety of contributors) and who's going to fact check?
For this sort of subject matter obviously self publishing is the way to go and there are places like Lulu where you can publish a book for free and then just sit back and watch the sales and profit come rolling in.
The mind boggles just contemplating what would be involved in attempting such a ambitious project. I could see myself in there somewhere but unfortunately I very much doubt it will ever happen for a multitude of reasons.
Still think there is a market for aussie posters, poster enthusiasts me thinks would like to add their "library" of poster information
Definitely agree it would be a phenomenal effort to get done though. Superhuman even. So you should probably start asap
Anyway, you're just raising a couple of kids in between work and tending house so obviously you've got time on your hands, you can start...
A Wiki style website is another option too, this would allow multiple contributors and also ensure a reasonably standard format that people could understand both how to use/edit and read.
22a 22b. Uncivilised ( 1936 ). Released in the U.S. A. as Uncivilized and Pituri.
Above image 22a is from I believe a from a copy of a trimmed U.S. window card and 22b is a U.S. glass slide.
Been googling...how is it that I did not know there was a box set of Chauvel's work out!
I know what I want from Santa...
Here is what I found out about "Pituri" when I auctioned the above glass slide:
Uncivilised (also released as "Pituri"), the 1936 Charles Chauvel Australian kidnapping crime thriller ("Beautiful authoress kidnapped, is emotionally stimulated by Pituri, the drug used as a love potion", "GIRLS... A thrilling sensation! Life in the rough! Love in the raw!";
this movie was made in Australia and set in the Outback, and had a female English author in search of a white man who went to live in the Outback and then disappeared; when she finds him, she discovers that the Aborigines treat him like a god, and there is a "native" witch doctor who turns out to be also a white man, a government agent who is posing as a native; there are only two Aborigines in the movie with speaking parts, although the god-like man delivers much of his dialog in the Aborigine language;
there is a subplot where the female author is kidnapped and given a drug that "stimulates" her, and when the movie was shown in the U.S., naturally, this sequence was made to be the focus of the advertising, and that sequence, along with a nude swimming scene by the female star, made the movie successful in the U.S.!)
starring Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry, Marcelle Marnay, and Kenneth Brampton. Apparently, there was a real life basis in the subplot that deals with the drug given to the woman! Pituri was a drug that was used by Australian Aborigines when they went on "walkabouts", which was a strong heart stimulant, and when western civilization discovered it, it was used as a medicine for heart patients, and some unethical people began secretly giving it to women as a "love potion" (shades of modern day "roofies"). In fact, when the movie was released in the U.S., it was sometimes given the title of this drug, "Pituri".
Also, there is the question of the date. Here is what I wrote about that:
the date on this slide corresponds to a Friday in either 1925, 1931, or 1936, and we think it is more likely from one of the latter two.
Which is why I called it "1930s"
I would love to learn more, or to learn I was wrong in any of the above!
Here is a handy checklist to help tell eMoviePoster.com apart from all other major auctions!
The reason I believe the image for 22a may have been a trimmed window card is that exactly the same colour, wording & design appear on a poster image, which I am unable to show here ( from Alamy ). On the image there is white blank section at the top with State Theatre Eureka Tuesday, Wednesday May 26 - 27 printed there, and leading me to think window card.
The scenes on the poster are definitely from Uncivilised, therefore ruling out 1925 along with 1931 dates.
!936 would mean the film would have had to have been before the official U.S.A. release date in November, 1937 and the Australian release date was only on the 25th September, 1936. Therefore I would tend to rule 1936 out as well.
I have a Getty Images image ( unable to show ) titled Uncivilized from the campaign book printed by the original 1937 U.S. distributor Box-Office Attractions, Inc.
My thinking is the glass slide possibly is from a 1942 re-release under the new title Pinturi. An another re-release after 1942 fitting in with the dates would be unlikely as the film would have been too dated by then. On what I am calling a window card there is an hazy distributor's name and address printed on the bottom of the poster. It isn't Box Office Attractions. Inc. though. It is another distributor and I can make out only Woo ... ..... Los Angeles only leading me to think a re-release distributor.
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