The Australian 1967 Columbia Pictures 35mm release one sheet, featuring more action than on the Australian daybill, for those who may not have seen it before.
A different way in 1933 to publicise a film. RKO Radio was aiming to attract female audiences to Chrisropher Strong by using glamorous fashion image displays of Katherine Hepburn, the star of the film.
Two rare early Chaplin Australian daybill film posters. Are they originals from their first Australian release or not? Something also interestIng about about one of the film posters shown above. All will be revealed soon, but I would be interested in any comments from anyone before I do this.
Two rare early Chaplin Australian daybill film posters. Are they originals from their first Australian release or not? Something also interestIng about about one of the film posters shown above. All will be revealed soon, but I would be interested in any comments from anyone before I do this.
First thing to mention is that The Shopwalker daybill is an Australian alternative title for the same film released in the U.S.A. as The Floorwalker.
The Floorwalker / The Shopwalker was released in Australia in 1916, and the film was advertised interestingly in newspapers in 1916 and later under both titles.
It would be interesting to know if the Australasian Film Ltd. daybill, that was printed for the original Australian 1916 release, had The Floorwalker of The Shopwalker title appearing on it ?
Easy Street was released in Australia in 1917.
Now to address the two daybills of The Shopwalker and Easy Street. Are they first release posters or not?
As the two daybills have '' Released through J.C. Williamson Exchange'' printed on the posters, this definitely rules them both out as for being printed for the original 1916 and 1917 Australian releases.
Three Australian 1916 newspaper clippings announcing that Australasian Films Limited had acquired the exclusive rights to all the Mutual / Chaplin comedies for Australian. The Floorwalker /The Shopwalker is mentioned as their first Australian release.
A January 31st 1917 Australian newspaper advertisement stating ''Mutual - Chaplin films may be hired only from Australasian Films Ltd''. This confirms Australasian Films Ltd. had exclusive handling of Mutual-Chaplin product in Australia in 1916 & 1917. The films that were acquired are as listed below.
The Floorwalker ( also called The Shopwalker in Australia
The Fireman
The Vagabond
One A.M
The Count
The Pawnshop ( also called The Pawnbroker in Australia )
Behind the Screen
The Rink
1917
Easy Street
The Cure
The Immigrant
The Adventurer
Out of interest a 1920's Australian Films Ltd. logo.
This now asks the question when would have been the period when the two daybills in question have been printed? When the Australasian Films Ltd. film screening rights for the Mutual-Chaplin films apparently came to end in the early 1920's, it then appears that they were acquired by J.C. Williamson Exchange, circa 1924.
Both the two daybills were designed and printed by The Swift Printing Co. The only other daybill posters I have been able to locate for Swift are for six 1925 & 1926 Australian releases printed for J.C. Williamson and Paramount.
The Shopwalker newspaper advertisements June 6 and also October 29 1924 for Australian screenings, stating the film as being a new version and as revised.
Easy Street newspaper advertisement October 4 1924 for an Australian screening, stating the film as being a revised version.
There are also newspaper records of all the remaiming ten Mutual-Chaplin films having been re-released in Australia in 1924, with the advertisements mentioning on nine out of the ten, that they were revised / re-issue versions being screened. Following are three out of the ten advertisements that I located that were placed in 1924 for The Immigrant, The Cure and The Fitreman, all stating these films were re-issues.
It certainly appears J.C. Williamson Films in 1924 was most likely the Australian distributor who re-released all of the twelve Mutual-Chaplin films ( 1916-1917 ) that were originally released in Australia by Australasian Films Ltd., including The Shopwalker and Easy Street. which we clearly know were distributed by J.C.Williamson Films. I believe all the other ten daybills would most likely have all been designed by The Swift Printing Co. as well, all in the style of the two images seen above.
Exausted and relieved now, as a lot of time and errort has gone into this one, but it was rewarding nevertheless.
Off to have a short break, but I will reply to any questions at all regarding this information if anyone has any to ask me about.
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A movie tie-in featuring formula one cars in the John Mott Motors display rooms in Western Australia, promoting the 1966 film Grand Prix, and featuring Cooper Ford and Lotus Elan vehicles. Photograph originally published in 1967.
Not to confused as being the same film.The 1961 released version is from the U.S.A. The film was only passed for screening in Australian by the Australian censor in 1973.
The major studio 20th Century Fox released 1968 version being from the U.K. Released in Australia in 1969.
Interesting to view the above two U.S. film posters from the earlier 1961 version, and compare them to the Australian daybill. One would think that they were three different films looking at the artwork images and wording.
Confirmation that the Australian re-release of King Kong occurred in Australia in 1953, and not 1949 as sometimes mentioned in the past.
The material above appeared in a Sydney newspaper on Thursday January 22, 1953, Only the New shows image was available to download, but a very obliging lady from National Library Of Australia was able to organise to make available to me the King Kong theatrical ad.
To the best of my knowledge no large previous theatrical newspaper advertising with a King Kong image has been seen previously outside of Trove. Numerous small advertisements with film credit details only. but with no images are available. This is most likely due to that re-releases were not given the bigger exposure that first releases films received.
The Australian 1953 Australian re-release daybill film poster.
Of all the Octopussy Australian one sheets I have seen this one stands out as being of interest.
Additionally to the normal poster 2SM Rock of the 1980's, along with OPUS appear on the poster. 2SM is an
Australian radio station licensed and serving Sydney, NSW, Australia. Opus is
the audio format used.
This leads one
to wonder why these logos appear on this particular poster?. Perhaps there
initially was a radio promotion in Sydney that publicised this film, and a limited
number of posters were printed in association with this.
I then spoke to a
contact who worked at 2SM in the 1980’s and was informed by him that 2SM were involved in many film previews in association with film company promotions during the 1980’s. I am
thinking that this is a extremely rare version of an Octopussy one sheet that was perhaps organised for preview screenings.
Funny you should mention that about the Octopussy one sheet because I was looking at a Clash Of the Titans one sheet today which also has logos on the bottom for MacDonalds and Mattel. Other one sheets I have seen have the same art but no logos ….
What is going on here? I don't believe I have ever seen an Aussie poster adapted for another country - excluding NZ of course (let alone what appears to be the Netherlands?) Weird...
What is going on here? I don't believe I have ever seen an Aussie poster adapted for another country - excluding NZ of course (let alone what appears to be the Netherlands?) Weird...
Well spotted Chris.
Fury Of The Pagans is the title printed on the poster under the covering snipe.
The poster as Chris suggested was adapted in The Netherlands with the censorship stamp appearing in Dutch reading Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkauring. The English translation is Central Commission For Film Inspection, also known as CCF.
Apart from New Zealand nothing known from me of this practice happening in any other countries either. Very odd indeed, and for The Netherlands of all places for this to happen makes it even more far out.
Not Genevieve, but inspired by The Fast Lady ( 1962 ) daybill and other unrelated material from other film / films, or even just from the mind of the artist. A terrible mishmash of a poster where apparently the Australian poster artist had no original U.K. material of San Ferry Ann ( 1965 ) at hand to copy from. None of the four actors that appeared in The Fast Lady acted in San Ferry Ann ( 1965 ), and most unlikely the running chicken, fireman's helmet man on ladder against a house with a cow hanging out of the window were in the film. San Ferry Ann is an obscure short 55 minute British film with no spoken dialogue. Original film posters from anywhere in the World are almost impossible to find. Bruce only has two Italian posters residing in his archives, a 1p and a 2p, with this one appearing below. The title and the three actors names appearing on the daybill appear to be the only correct information appearing on the daybill.The taglines at the top are inaccurate in the wording as well I believe. As mentioned earlier a terrible mishmash of a poster, originating from Robert Burton, and one of the worse examples I have seen of creating a poster from nothing. The following Italian poster shows what the actual film content looks like.
Further to my previous comments on San Ferry Ann, the ''Bedlam on the Riviera!'' tagline from the daybill is incorrect.. The travelling families go from Dover to Calais and are throughout the film on the other side of the country from the French riviera.
Update. Although The Fast Lady starred James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter and with the couple embracing and the vintage car images it looked likely that this was where the image on San Ferry Ann was sourced from. I contacted Matt at eMovieposter.co. who are currently auctioning the poster, letting him know what I knew. Matt had kindly just gotten back to me informing me he has been told by a collector that another James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter film titled Father Came Too film is where the image originated from. The San Ferry Ann daybill pictured above is the unsighted, to the best of my knowledge, original Robert Burton daybill of Father Came Too that was overprinted with credits, but leaving the same unrelated design as the British one sheet pictured above. An incorrect tagline regarding the Riviera, mentioned previously as well. Now we have the answer to what took place so the problem now solved.
There was originallty the above tampered with Australian daybill of Father Came Too that was altered to be a San Ferry Ann daybill as extensively discussed previously.
Now another image of San Ferry Ann has emerged with a different image appearing on the poster I had originally thought the previous San Ferry Ann daybill may have been sourced from The Fast Lady (n 1962 ), but this turned out not to be the case.
With this recently found daybill it certainly is the case of the copying of The Fast Lady daybill image though.
I believe the new San Ferry Ann daybill was printed for New Zealand distribution by Lion Film Distributors ( N.Z.) Ltd. The Australian distributor was BEF.
It would appear this minor 55 minute title, both in both Australia and New Zealand, didn't receive official artwork to promote the film.The result from this being so, then appears to have resulted in poster artists in both Australia and New Zealand having to use their imaginations in coming up with a poster design for San Ferry Ann. Both designs are very inacurate with the tagline '' Bedlam on the riviera'' and the images depicted not happening in the film.
... but don't be mislead by the image, as the topic involving this image isn't most likely what you may think it possibly could be about.
The above scene is from the Pete Smith 3-D short Third Dimensional Murder ( 1941 ) that was advertised then as being a Metroscopix special. This short subject was made in the early day of anaglyph 3-D technology.
( a.k.a. Murder In 3-D )
This short subject was revived and included in a programme titled Metroscopix which started screening in Australia in 1953 at the beginning of the 1950's 3-D introduction in Australia.
A 1953 Australian newspaper advertisement.
A South American poster advertising screenings there. There is a real scarcity of posters from around the world available for this Metroscopix programme. It would be interesting to see an Australian daybill or any other paper that may have been printed for it's release here.
surprisingly, Metroscopix was a relative latecomer to the 3-D business!
Much more info from our site:
"Most people surely think of 3-D movies as beginning in the 1950s, but actually, they had been around since 1915, although in a much more primitive form. There were several made in 1922 (by Frederick Eugene Ives & Jacob Leventhal), and those were called "Stereoscopiks", and there were five of them made between 1922 and 1925 (Plastigrams, Zowie, Luna-cy!, The Run-Away Taxi, and Ouch). There was not that much interest in the process until 1936, when MGM made the first of what was intended to be a series of "Audioscopiks", which used Technicolor, and the audience wore the now famous red and green glasses! This process was created by John Norling and Jacob Leventhal (the same man who had co-created the 1920s "Stereoscopiks"). The first one was called "Audioscopiks" and came out in early 1936, but the second, called "The New Audioscopiks", did not come out until two years later (both were narrated by Pete Smith, and the first one was nominated for the Best Short Subject Oscar in 1936). In 1941, MGM made one more short, this time a Pete Smith Specialty called "Three Dimensional Murder", and this included an appearance by Frankenstein with Jack Pierce makeup, but it was not a Universal movie, but an MGM one! We have never auctioned any movie item from any of the five Stereoscopik shorts (except for a single glass slide for "A Runaway Taxi") and from the three "Audioscopiks" shorts, we have only had three German stills from "The New Audioscopiks" and an Australian herald which had an ad on the back for "Audioscopiks", and it had a great illustration showing the audience having soda squirted on them from the screen!"
And here is the ONLY item from the five "Stereoscopiks" I have ever sold (a glass slide): :
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The three MGM productions advertising 1935 - 1941 ). ( 1935 ) ( 1938 )
( 1941 ) A later printing one would suggest due to Metroscopix! title being used on it and a 1942 Australian newspaper advertisement with Auduoscopic appearing on it..
Something different in the form of the advertising used above. This ad was placed in an Adelaide SA Australian newspaper in 1937.
I don't believe that I have ever seen so many short subjects given so much exposure. Usually the exhibitors just listed the titles and type of short, with no images attached. A well balanced programme of shorts presented on this programme too.
1978 newspaoer clipping about Death Flight is self explanitory. The two large posters mentioned were probably Australian one sheets, but the above daybill image should have been similar.
Previoulsy seen daybill images displayed in the earlier covered topic of San Ferry Ann on this thread..
Another image of San Ferry Ann, this time with the GU ( Greater Union ) heading. It was a hard to access poster hanging high on a wall displayed in an old theatre that I visited in a recent trip away to western NSW. Sorry about the quality.
Comments
The Australian 1967 Columbia Pictures 35mm release one sheet, featuring more action than on the Australian daybill, for those who may not have seen it before.
A Man For All Seasons ( 1966 ) original first release Australian daybill and an early 1970's re-release daybill.
I believe another rare case of the re-release poster being better than the original release version.
Agree or disagree?
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A different way in 1933 to publicise a film. RKO Radio was aiming to attract female audiences to Chrisropher Strong by using glamorous fashion image displays of Katherine Hepburn, the star of the film.
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Two rare early Chaplin Australian daybill film posters. Are they originals from their first Australian release or not? Something also interestIng about about one of the film posters shown above. All will be revealed soon, but I would be interested in any comments from anyone before I do this.
First thing to mention is that The Shopwalker daybill is an Australian alternative title for the same film released in the U.S.A. as The Floorwalker.
The Floorwalker / The Shopwalker was released in Australia in 1916, and the film was advertised interestingly in newspapers in 1916 and later under both titles.
It would be interesting to know if the Australasian Film Ltd. daybill, that was printed for the original Australian 1916 release, had The Floorwalker of The Shopwalker title appearing on it ?
Easy Street was released in Australia in 1917.
Now to address the two daybills of The Shopwalker and Easy Street. Are they first release posters or not?
As the two daybills have '' Released through J.C. Williamson Exchange'' printed on the posters, this definitely rules them both out as for being printed for the original 1916 and 1917 Australian releases.
Three Australian 1916 newspaper clippings announcing that Australasian Films Limited had acquired the exclusive rights to all the Mutual / Chaplin comedies for Australian. The Floorwalker /The Shopwalker is mentioned as their first Australian release.
A January 31st 1917 Australian newspaper advertisement stating ''Mutual - Chaplin films may be hired only from Australasian Films Ltd''. This confirms Australasian Films Ltd. had exclusive handling of Mutual-Chaplin product in
Australia in 1916 & 1917. The films that were acquired are as listed below.
Mutual Film Corporation
1916
1917
Out of interest a 1920's Australian Films Ltd. logo.
This now asks the question when would have been the period when the two daybills in question have been printed? When the Australasian Films Ltd. film screening rights for the Mutual-Chaplin films apparently came to end in the early 1920's, it then appears that they were acquired by J.C. Williamson Exchange, circa 1924.
Both the two daybills were designed and printed by The Swift Printing Co. The only other daybill posters I have been able to locate for Swift are for six 1925 & 1926 Australian releases printed for J.C. Williamson and Paramount.
The Shopwalker newspaper advertisements June 6 and also October 29 1924 for Australian screenings, stating the film as being a new version and as revised.
Easy Street newspaper advertisement October 4 1924 for an Australian screening, stating the film as being a revised version.
There are also newspaper records of all the remaiming ten Mutual-Chaplin films having been re-released in Australia in 1924, with the advertisements mentioning on nine out of the ten, that they were revised / re-issue versions being screened. Following are three out of the ten advertisements that I located that were placed in 1924 for The Immigrant, The Cure and The Fitreman, all stating these films were re-issues.
Exausted and relieved now, as a lot of time and errort has gone into this one, but it was rewarding nevertheless.
Off to have a short break, but I will reply to any questions at all regarding this information if anyone has any to ask me about.
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A movie tie-in featuring formula one cars in the John Mott Motors display rooms in Western Australia, promoting the 1966 film Grand Prix, and featuring Cooper Ford and Lotus Elan vehicles. Photograph originally published in 1967.
The Carmen Miranda Australian daybill stock posters that I am aware of. Does anyone know of any others?
( John ).
The Touchables ( 1961 ) and ( 1968 ).
Not to confused as being the same film.The 1961 released version is from the U.S.A. The film was only passed for screening in Australian by the Australian censor in 1973.
The major studio 20th Century Fox released 1968 version being from the U.K. Released in Australia in 1969.
Interesting to view the above two U.S. film posters from the earlier 1961 version, and compare them to the Australian daybill. One would think that they were three different films looking at the artwork images and wording.
Confirmation that the Australian re-release of King Kong occurred in Australia in 1953, and not 1949 as sometimes mentioned in the past.
The material above appeared in a Sydney newspaper on Thursday January 22, 1953, Only the New shows image was available to download, but a very obliging lady from National Library Of Australia was able to organise to make available to me the King Kong theatrical ad.
To the best of my knowledge no large previous theatrical newspaper advertising with a King Kong image has been seen previously outside of Trove. Numerous small advertisements with film credit details only. but with no images are available. This is most likely due to that re-releases were not given the bigger exposure that first releases films received.
The Australian 1953 Australian re-release daybill film poster.
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Another newspaper advertisement from the 1953 Australian re-release.
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Of all the Octopussy Australian one sheets I have seen this one stands out as being of interest.
Additionally to the normal poster 2SM Rock of the 1980's, along with OPUS appear on the poster. 2SM is an Australian radio station licensed and serving Sydney, NSW, Australia. Opus is the audio format used.
This leads one to wonder why these logos appear on this particular poster?. Perhaps there initially was a radio promotion in Sydney that publicised this film, and a limited number of posters were printed in association with this.
I then spoke to a contact who worked at 2SM in the 1980’s and was informed by him that 2SM were involved in many film previews in association with film company promotions during the 1980’s. I am thinking that this is a extremely rare version of an Octopussy one sheet that was perhaps organised for preview screenings.Well spotted Chris.
Fury Of The Pagans is the title printed on the poster under the covering snipe.
The poster as Chris suggested was adapted in The Netherlands with the censorship stamp appearing in Dutch reading Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkauring. The English translation is Central Commission For Film Inspection, also known as CCF.
Apart from New Zealand nothing known from me of this practice happening in any other countries either. Very odd indeed, and for The Netherlands of all places for this to happen makes it even more far out.
Was very much an effective way of transporting film in the past ... never had any go astray.
There was originallty the above tampered with Australian daybill of Father Came Too that was altered to be a San Ferry Ann daybill as extensively discussed previously.
Now another image of San Ferry Ann has emerged with a different image appearing on the poster I had originally thought the previous San Ferry Ann daybill may have been sourced from The Fast Lady (n 1962 ), but this turned out not to be the case.
With this recently found daybill it certainly is the case of the copying of The Fast Lady daybill image though.
I believe the new San Ferry Ann daybill was printed for New Zealand distribution by Lion Film Distributors ( N.Z.) Ltd. The Australian distributor was BEF.
It would appear this minor 55 minute title, both in both Australia and New Zealand, didn't receive official artwork to promote the film.The result from this being so, then appears to have resulted in poster artists in both Australia and New Zealand having to use their imaginations in coming up with a poster design for San Ferry Ann. Both designs are very inacurate with the tagline '' Bedlam on the riviera'' and the images depicted not happening in the film.
( a.k.a. Murder In 3-D )
This short subject was revived and included in a programme titled Metroscopix which started screening in Australia in 1953 at the beginning of the 1950's 3-D introduction in Australia.
A 1953 Australian newspaper advertisement.
A South American poster advertising screenings there. There is a real scarcity of posters from around the world available for this Metroscopix programme. It would be interesting to see an Australian daybill or any other paper that may have been printed for it's release here.
Some more details regarding the Australian presentation in 1953, so as to inform one more regarding these screenings.of Metroscopix at that time.
Much more info from our site:
"Most people surely think of 3-D movies as beginning in the 1950s, but actually, they had been around since 1915, although in a much more primitive form. There were several made in 1922 (by Frederick Eugene Ives & Jacob Leventhal), and those were called "Stereoscopiks", and there were five of them made between 1922 and 1925 (Plastigrams, Zowie, Luna-cy!, The Run-Away Taxi, and Ouch). There was not that much interest in the process until 1936, when MGM made the first of what was intended to be a series of "Audioscopiks", which used Technicolor, and the audience wore the now famous red and green glasses! This process was created by John Norling and Jacob Leventhal (the same man who had co-created the 1920s "Stereoscopiks"). The first one was called "Audioscopiks" and came out in early 1936, but the second, called "The New Audioscopiks", did not come out until two years later (both were narrated by Pete Smith, and the first one was nominated for the Best Short Subject Oscar in 1936). In 1941, MGM made one more short, this time a Pete Smith Specialty called "Three Dimensional Murder", and this included an appearance by Frankenstein with Jack Pierce makeup, but it was not a Universal movie, but an MGM one! We have never auctioned any movie item from any of the five Stereoscopik shorts (except for a single glass slide for "A Runaway Taxi") and from the three "Audioscopiks" shorts, we have only had three German stills from "The New Audioscopiks" and an Australian herald which had an ad on the back for "Audioscopiks", and it had a great illustration showing the audience having soda squirted on them from the screen!"
And here is the ONLY item from the five "Stereoscopiks" I have ever sold (a glass slide):
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( 1941 ) A later printing one would suggest due to Metroscopix! title being used on it and a 1942 Australian newspaper advertisement with Auduoscopic appearing on it..
Something different in the form of the advertising used above. This ad was placed in an Adelaide SA Australian newspaper in 1937.
I don't believe that I have ever seen so many short subjects given so much exposure. Usually the exhibitors just listed the titles and type of short, with no images attached. A well balanced programme of shorts presented on this programme too.
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1978 newspaoer clipping about Death Flight is self explanitory. The two large posters mentioned were probably Australian one sheets, but the above daybill image should have been similar.
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Stone ( 1974 ). Lots of Australian posters out there for this title, but the vast majority aren't from the original release. More soon.
Previoulsy seen daybill images displayed in the earlier covered topic of San Ferry Ann on this thread..
Another image of San Ferry Ann, this time with the GU ( Greater Union ) heading. It was a hard to access poster hanging high on a wall displayed in an old theatre that I visited in a recent trip away to western NSW. Sorry about the quality.