Criterion released a great transfer recently. Recommended if you can get a chance to give it a viewing. Warning, you may be depressed for a couple days after.
Here is something a little different but very interesting I picked up. The story, according to the seller, goes thusly:
"This lot of eight 1940s 20th Century Fox movie posters were printed in Australia for Hoyts Theatres Ltd. The posters were part of a large presentation album that Hoyts Theatres put together in 1946 to show their appreciation to Mr. Spyros Skouras, the president of 20th Century Fox. Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (Greek: ΣπÏÏος ΣκοÏÏας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a Greek American motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, effective September 30. An immigrant to America from Greece, his accent was so pronounced that Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week." Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra (1963) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the creation of Century City. The album was filled with photographs, newspaper clipping and posters all promoting 20th Century Fox movies in Hoyts theaters in Australia. Each poster is pasted (in the corner or along one edge) to a 20x25 inch blue cardboard mat. All of the posters were printed in Australia and most have the printers name in the lower right corner."
None of the posters are spectacular by any stretch but, as a package, are part of something pretty unique. I do really like the yellow 20th Century Fox stock one sheet poster and may try to remove it from the backing (as sacrilegious as that may be at this point!)
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"This lot of eight 1940s 20th Century Fox movie posters were printed in Australia for Hoyts Theatres Ltd. The posters were part of a large presentation album that Hoyts Theatres put together in 1946 to show their appreciation to Mr. Spyros Skouras, the president of 20th Century Fox. Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (Greek: ΣπÏÏος ΣκοÏÏας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a Greek American motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962. He resigned June 27, 1962, effective September 30. An immigrant to America from Greece, his accent was so pronounced that Bob Hope would joke "Spyros has been here twenty years but he still sounds as if he's coming next week." Skouras oversaw the production of such epics as Cleopatra (1963) with Elizabeth Taylor, as well as the creation of Century City. The album was filled with photographs, newspaper clipping and posters all promoting 20th Century Fox movies in Hoyts theaters in Australia. Each poster is pasted (in the corner or along one edge) to a 20x25 inch blue cardboard mat. All of the posters were printed in Australia and most have the printers name in the lower right corner."
None of the posters are spectacular by any stretch but, as a package, are part of something pretty unique. I do really like the yellow 20th Century Fox stock one sheet poster and may try to remove it from the backing (as sacrilegious as that may be at this point!)