Ok boys & girls, I haven't been this excited to get a poster in a long time, well since i got my Jung Star Wars, but when I saw this Aussie OS up for auction I really hoped it'd stay within my meager budget. And it did! Huzzah!!!
I'm also hoping it's a one-of-a-kind, but need Aussie experts to confirm; or I'll go down in flames again!
Not a good start as I unpacked it.... Backside even more water staining! But, the front side reveals a wonderful looking poster that will need some restoration, but hoping will turn out dynamite!
Ingrid 's name now elevated above Bing Crosby. Circa 1958 and this would now lead one to believe that there is either a duotone daybill or a Richardson full colour daybill out there somewhere, waiting to surface. Seeing the one sheet is full colour I would opt for a Richardson daybill. i have never seen this one sheet before
Interestingly, although his image is on the U.S. RR artwork, Bing's image is missing from the Australian RR one sheet poster. Still it is a nice poster.
Hell of a nice poster to see in person. Not mine though. There are two styles of daybill with similar art. I think they are both orig release.
Love to see them. If they are original they would have to be RKO with Bing Crosby billed first. Interestingly the RR in 1957 in the U.S.A. was by NTA ( National Telefilm associates ).
I'm interested to hear why people think posters end up being the only one left? I've always felt that some posters would be destroyed straight after used (ripped down by theatre owners), but the remainders would have been looked after by film buffs. Of course, some would get lost or accidentally destroyed over the years, but it still surprises me how many titles seem to be so scarce.
I'm interested to hear why people think posters end up being the only one left? I've always felt that some posters would be destroyed straight after used (ripped down by theatre owners), but the remainders would have been looked after by film buffs. Of course, some would get lost or accidentally destroyed over the years, but it still surprises me how many titles seem to be so scarce.
I have been compiling an ongoing list of missing Australian daybill posters for a very long time now, and the number of missing titles that I haven't been able to track down is very numerous.
As Pancho mentioned, a lot of posters would have been destroyed after use by the theatre owners. Other reasons for loss of posters are that some, if not all, film companies dumped thousands of film posters from there premises thinking they were of no value anymore. I once spoke to an owner of a second hand furniture store over thirty years ago,who told me a week before she had thrown away a large number of film posters thinking the weren't worth anything.
This doesn't mean that posters didn't survive in significant numbers though. From a sale that I believe happened at the St. James theatre in Sydney in the 1960's?,countless MGM and RKO daybills and some one sheets were sold to the general public. Included in this sale were 49 copies of an obscure RKO daybill title called Guilty? ( 1956 ). I am aware of the 49 titles going to a collector and how many of these have surfaced from this purchase, either from this collector or from any other source ? To my knowledge zero. Regarding theatre owners, when I was around 12 years of age I saw inside a N.S.W. country cinema's office and the owner had hundreds of film posters piled everywhere there. In the lower Blue Mountains a second hand dealer purchased many boxes of film posters from another country cinema in N.S.W. I was lucky enough to have been able to go through the large amount of boxes. Within the boxes there wasn't a great deal of material that jumped out at me , but nevertheless there were a few titles that were rare. My point here is when you take into account the number of collectors out there that are holding on to vast amounts of Australian posters that we don't know the titles of, all this thread can claim to be is '' Only known copies to date''. I must say with titles pre-1950 there is a very good chance you may have the only copy, particularly if it is a one sheet or 3 sheet, although multiple copies have turned up in the past for daybills originating from the 1920's. Look on the bright side and believe you may have an only copy. It is up to someone else to prove otherwise, and this may never happen.
And let's not also forget Aussie love to hoard and store posters until their time passes. Many of these collectors started in the early 1960s and are now in their 70s. So many posters will continue to surface as they make their way on the market.
I also think that maybe some titles don't come to market simply because people don't know what they have and assume that the poster is only worth a few dollars and can't be bothered listing on the major sites.
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I'm also hoping it's a one-of-a-kind, but need Aussie experts to confirm; or I'll go down in flames again!
Not a good start as I unpacked it....
But, the front side reveals a wonderful looking poster that will need some restoration, but hoping will turn out dynamite!
Reminds me of this one. Which I've only seen two of. Unless the person I brought this from, got from HA.
I know! I loved the image when I saw it!
Thanks Chris! I'm hopeful I can get to it in early Fall.
Didn't I buy my one from you?
Anyone seen it before?
Ingrid 's name now elevated above Bing Crosby. Circa 1958 and this would now lead one to believe that there is either a duotone daybill or a Richardson full colour daybill out there somewhere, waiting to surface. Seeing the one sheet is full colour I would opt for a Richardson daybill. i have never seen this one sheet before
Interestingly, although his image is on the U.S. RR artwork, Bing's image is missing from the Australian RR one sheet poster. Still it is a nice poster.
There are two styles of daybill with similar art. I think they are both orig release.
As Pancho mentioned, a lot of posters would have been destroyed after use by the theatre owners. Other reasons for loss of posters are that some, if not all, film companies dumped thousands of film posters from there premises thinking they were of no value anymore. I once spoke to an owner of a second hand furniture store over thirty years ago,who told me a week before she had thrown away a large number of film posters thinking the weren't worth anything.
This doesn't mean that posters didn't survive in significant numbers though. From a sale that I believe happened at the St. James theatre in Sydney in the 1960's?,countless MGM and RKO daybills and some one sheets were sold to the general public. Included in this sale were 49 copies of an obscure RKO daybill title called Guilty? ( 1956 ). I am aware of the 49 titles going to a collector and how many of these have surfaced from this purchase, either from this collector or from any other source ? To my knowledge zero. Regarding theatre owners, when I was around 12 years of age I saw inside a N.S.W. country cinema's office and the owner had hundreds of film posters piled everywhere there. In the lower Blue Mountains a second hand dealer purchased many boxes of film posters from another country cinema in N.S.W. I was lucky enough to have been able to go through the large amount of boxes. Within the boxes there wasn't a great deal of material that jumped out at me , but nevertheless there were a few titles that were rare. My point here is when you take into account the number of collectors out there that are holding on to vast amounts of Australian posters that we don't know the titles of, all this thread can claim to be is '' Only known copies to date''. I must say with titles pre-1950 there is a very good chance you may have the only copy, particularly if it is a one sheet or 3 sheet, although multiple copies have turned up in the past for daybills originating from the 1920's. Look on the bright side and believe you may have an only copy. It is up to someone else to prove otherwise, and this may never happen.
What do others think?
It does look like a possible RR, but I've never seen another.