F. Cunninghame - Fugly or Not?
Lawrence's comment on F. Cunninghame printed daybills being mostly fugly got me interested to see what everyone has out there.
Post em up.
I'll start with the one sheet for Touch of Evil:
Post em up.
I'll start with the one sheet for Touch of Evil:
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Vincent Ball was Aussie actor - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050482/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Monolith Monsters is another from Cunninghame.
I've Lived Before Daybill - Perty:
The Peterville Diamond Daybill - Perty (thought art done by Southern Studios...):
Matter of Life and Death Daybill (RR) - Acceptable
The Real Glory RR Fugly:
Africa Screams RR Fugly:
Train To Alcatraz OS - Perty
Woman on Pier 13 OS - Borderline...
While The City Sleeps - Fugly
The Long Night - Perty
The Thief - acceptable
Radio Cab Murder - Perty
Man Alive - Acceptable
My inventory so humble, your "fugly"s are "acceptable in my opinion and 'acceptable's' & "perty's" are awesome's in my scale!
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I will admit F.Cunninghame were responsible for some effective looking Universal-International Australian film posters in the 1950's, but these were in the minority of their overall product output. The Universal connection was around 1954 - 1960, when they were responsible for producing exclusively all their first release daybills. Not certain 100% though about one and three sheets printings.
Other periods when F.Cunninghame produced and printed film posters in Australia include -
RKO one sheets at times in the 1930's through to the 1958 with a rare daybill or two produced on a few occasions.
British Empire Films ( BEF ) limited colour second printings and some full colour and limited colour first release "B' grade film titles, not handed to W.E.Smith, when they most likely were struggling with the huge volume of posters that they had to deliver.
Warner Bros. Southern Studios product circa 1949 to late 1950's. daybills ( including a lot of re-releases ), first release one sheets and 3 sheets.
Columbia daybills and one sheets in monotone versions for second printings / re-releases of features and serials.
Ray Films, Independent Film Distributors ( IFD ) and Merite Trading in the mid to late 1950's.
Paramount, MGM, 20th Century Fox and United Artists didn't appear to have used them that I am aware of.
Some of the best F.Cunninghame Australian film posters are -
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Them. House Of Wax and I Confess 3 sheets'
And some of the worse -
All the Columbia serial duotone posters
East Of Eden one sheet
Rebel Without A Cause one sheet
Lady Godiva Of Coventry daybill
The Private War Of Major Benson and Johnny Dark duotone daybills in particular ( terrible ), but most likely the majority of U-I duotone posters they produced.
One last comment is that the RKO mid to late 1940's and early 1950's one sheets were somewhat unpolished in appearance to me.
Sorry but please don't ask for any images. You can do a little homework of your own if you are interested.
Thanks for providing your images Ves, which are the better designs. Your taste in selecting posters means you don't own the poorer designed artwork that I have been referring to. The Woman On Pier 13 and Train To Alcatraz one sheet artwork is what I previously referred to as ''somewhat unpolished in appearance to me''.
I had previously meant to mention the Richardson Studio / F. Cunningham printed daybills, but it ended up slipping my mind. As F.Cunningham solely did the printing from the Richardson provided material they really shouldn't count. These Richardson daybill posters, on a whole, are in a world of their own, and no way fugly.
This however, very fugly:
Now we are talking. When you combine WideWorld, physically distributed by U-I in Australia with F.Cunninghame, fugly designed posters were their speciality. Mark's previously posted Face In The Night and Ves's Tread Softly Stranger were only part of their output. Following are the names os other fugly designed daybill posters from Wideworld / Universal / F. Cunninghamme - Second Fiddle, The Rough And The Smooth, After The Ball, It's A Wonderful World, Not Wanted On Voyage and The Scamp ( and a one sheet as well ).
One must give credit where credit is due though. There were two daybills that actually weren't too bad in design, with these being Carry On Admiral and Mamselle Strip-Tease ( Brigitte Bardot vehicle )
Touch Of Evil ( 1958 ) original U.S.A. insert poster and the F.Cunninghame Australia designed daybill. Touch Of Evil is a favoufire film of mine and compared to the U.S. insert the daybill leaves a lot to be desired.. The insert artwork and colour presentation are superior in every way.
The daybill is very disappointing in my opinion. Anyone agree?
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Peter
The Wild And The Innocent ( 1959 ) original U.S.A. insert poster, and the Australian F. Cunninghame daybill version.
Now this daybill would have to have had one of the worse, if not the worse, artwork designs to come from F. Cunninghame.
One Sheet is a slight improvement I reckon
Peter
Comparing the Australian one sheet with the U.S.A. one sheet.