Were Australian one-sheets or daybills displayed at Australian theaters when you were growing up?

Bruce · August 2018

Something I have wondered about for the native Australians here:

When I grew up in New York in the 1960s, there were all sorts of posters and lobby cards, but my two local theaters only used one-sheets. How about your Australian theaters?

Were Australian one-sheets or daybills displayed at Australian theaters when you were growing up or were both displayed?

HONDO · August 2018

In Newcastle, the second largest city in N.S.W., the five city cinemas and the huge Century Theatre at Broadmeadow, a very close to the city suburb, where I mainly attended I remember large displays of lobby cards were in the majority where it came to display material. I suppose after that one sheets, with little in the way of daybill displays. Some other suburban cinema that I also sometimes attended were more into displaying daybills, with some one sheets.

Rick · August 2018

We only had a local drive-in and my memory from the 60s-70s was daybills. I kept a few at the time but no on-sheets

Bruce · August 2018

HONDO said:

In Newcastle, the second largest city in N.S.W., the five city cinemas and the huge Century Theatre at Broadmeadow, a very close to the city suburb, where I mainly attended I remember large displays of lobby cards were in the majority where it came to display material. I suppose after that one sheets, with little in the way of daybill displays. Some other suburban cinema that I also sometimes attended were more into displaying daybills, with some one sheets.

Thanks! Were the lobby cards Australian, U.S., or both?

HONDO · August 2018

Bruce said:

HONDO said:

In Newcastle, the second largest city in N.S.W., the five city cinemas and the huge Century Theatre at Broadmeadow, a very close to the city suburb, where I mainly attended I remember large displays of lobby cards were in the majority where it came to display material. I suppose after that one sheets, with little in the way of daybill displays. Some other suburban cinema that I also sometimes attended were more into displaying daybills, with some one sheets.

Thanks! Were the lobby cards Australian, U.S., or both?

Mainly U.S. lobby cards ( some 8 x 10's as well ) for American films and American financed British films and British lobby cards and FOH cards for British films released by U.K. distributors such as Rank. Australian lobby cards were usually only printed in cases of where the Australian distributors were different from the U.S. or the U.K. distributor, and also where the titles were for Australian made films. This is why you have so few Australian lobby cards listed in your auction history section.
For Bruce - Talking about lobby cards, I am sure that you are the person to know the answer to question #22 in my screening Venues quiz.

Bruce · August 2018

I took a guess on #22. Be kind if I am completely wrong!

HONDO · August 2018

Bruce said:

I took a guess on #22. Be kind if I am completely wrong!

Thanks for having a go. An American film and the same decade of release.

HONDO · October 2018

Some massive amounts ( for normal cinemas that is ) of cinema poster advertising for one Australian cinema during the 1940's I intend to post sometime soon on ''Hondo's This And That'' thread. I won't duplicate it all here so keep you eye out for it on the other thread shortly.

Eisenhower · October 2018

I saw a couple of advertising pieces the other day I walked by my local theater....

bigdamo · January 2020

yes grew up in the sixties 70s lobby cards and posters were common right up till the late eighties in Sydney anyway I still have my originals to this day regards damien

Were Australian one-sheets or daybills displayed at Australian theaters when you were growing up?

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