Great research, let's hope some of these now turn up.
Thank you Peter. Nice to know that at least one person has indicated that they appreciated the information.
Fingers crossed that some images will now get to be revealed.
An additional musical film is Charley Moon ( 1956 ). This is an obscure British musical that wasn't released theatrically in Australia, Apparently by all the film wasn't very good
Thank you Rick, and for the assistance of Ves for getting to now see The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady original daybill image. Very much appreciated.The light blue background colouring extending outside of the borders is interesting.
Thanks also to Rick for the Oklahoma! daybill image, and to Ves for The Great Caruso image. I have to point though out that both these images weren't printed for the original 1950's Australian releases. The original Oklahoma! 1957 release was by RKO Radio, and the original The Great Caruso was released in Australia in 1951. The printer of the first release poster would have most likely have been W,.E. Smith, but with a lesser possibility it may have been printed by Simmons.
Both the following daybills were printed for 1960's re-releases.
One image from my missing daybill list has surfaced, so that is pleasing to me. Hopefully more images will turn up over time.
Excellent. The 20th Century Fox re-release daybill certainly stuck with this earlier style artwork, and decided not to some up with anything different.
Curious to known what the above wording on the bottom of the poster says.
Yes it certainly appears the credits have the same wording that appears below, This image having being taken from a daybill poster of another film. Thanks Ves for the clarification.
Southern Studios credited artwork completed for RKO Radio Australian posters is extremely rare. They mainly did poster artwork for Warner Bros. The only other example of poster artwork for RKO Australia is the following late 1950's daybill for X... The Unknown.
I accept the fact that daybills from before the 1950's are still missing in large numbers, and are more difficult to locate the further we go back in time,
What I do find hard to understand though is why film titles from as late as the 1980's are still missing.
House of The Long Shadows from 1983 which was released by a major Australian distributor Fox Columbia Film Distributors is a good example. In case i have missed sighting it, does anyone happen to have a daybill of this film?
The U.S.A. one sheet image. I am thinking the daybill could be a nice looking poster.
Do you think it is even remotely possible they somehow missed making a daybill on these or ANY title that did play in Australia? Could they solely have used U.S. or English posters for a brief run? Or even locally produced ones if there was a very limited showing at just one or a couple of thesters?
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Never seen one. The other disappointment is the lack of a Day of the Dead daybill.
The reason that no daybill has been sighted for the 1985 Day Of The Dead film it would appear is because it was banned on 35mm in Australia in February 1986 in after being submitted by Hoyts Distribution.. Following in June 1986 the film was also banned on videotape when submitted by CBS / Fox video,
Later, on the 8 /11/1988 the film was passed uncut on videotape. No record of a 35mm classification found. The Australian film premiere occurred on a Roadshow Premiere Home Video videotape on 15 / 6 /1989. The original 1986 35mm and videotape banned submissions were submitted to the censor by different distributors than Roadshow who apparently didn't have any artwork for Day Of The Dead. to work with,
Roadshow ended up using artwork from a completely different film on their Day Of The Dead VHS cover.r They ended up using an image from one of their own distributed filmds titled The Return Of The Living Dead ( 1985 ).
The Australian Roadshow distributed VHS videotape cover.
Do you think it is even remotely possible they somehow missed making a daybill on these or ANY title that did play in Australia? Could they solely have used U.S. or English posters for a brief run? Or even locally produced ones if there was a very limited showing at just one or a couple of thesters?
I believe apart from possibly a few instances, that until daybills started to be discontinued being printed in the very late 1990's in Australia they were always printed here for all films.. .
I meant to write Dawn of the Dead. I've only seen US posters for Day, but we did have an Australian one-sheet for Dawn.
I actually mixed the two titles up in the past as well.
Taking into account the time period, and the fact that Dawn Of The Dead ( 1978 ) was released by a major distributor United Artists surely then daybills would have been printed for this film.
What is interesting though is that there has been an Australian one sheet available easily available over the years in the marketplace..Bruce haas sold a total of seventeen over the years.
it is odd indeed that no daybill has been sighted.
I accept the fact that daybills from before the 1950's are still missing in large numbers, and are more difficult to locate the further we go back in time,
What I do find hard to understand though is why film titles from as late as the 1980's are still missing.
House of The Long Shadows from 1983 which was released by a major Australian distributor Fox Columbia Film Distributors is a good example. In case i have missed sighting it, does anyone happen to have a daybill of this film?
The U.S.A. one sheet image. I am thinking the daybill could be a nice looking poster.
Is it possible they had no aussie paper? Just used the US?
I accept the fact that daybills from before the 1950's are still missing in large numbers, and are more difficult to locate the further we go back in time,
What I do find hard to understand though is why film titles from as late as the 1980's are still missing.
House of The Long Shadows from 1983 which was released by a major Australian distributor Fox Columbia Film Distributors is a good example. In case i have missed sighting it, does anyone happen to have a daybill of this film?
Is it possible they had no aussie paper? Just used the US?
The U.S.A. one sheet poster has American censorship rating information printed on it.
If Us printed one sheets had been used here a US printed international / foreign poster would have been imported. There is no sign on Bruce's website or anywhere else that such a poster was ever printed.
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Fingers crossed that some images will now get to be revealed.
An additional musical film is Charley Moon ( 1956 ). This is an obscure British musical that wasn't released theatrically in Australia, Apparently by all the film wasn't very good
Just checking that the Oklahoma daybill is the RKO version. When you next come across the poster you know where to post it.
Thanks for responding. Much appreciate
Peter
Thanks also to Rick for the Oklahoma! daybill image, and to Ves for The Great Caruso image. I have to point though out that both these images weren't printed for the original 1950's Australian releases. The original Oklahoma! 1957 release was by RKO Radio, and the original The Great Caruso was released in Australia in 1951. The printer of the first release poster would have most likely have been W,.E. Smith, but with a lesser possibility it may have been printed by Simmons.
Both the following daybills were printed for 1960's re-releases.
One image from my missing daybill list has surfaced, so that is pleasing to me. Hopefully more images will turn up over time.
here is the 3 sheet.
Curious to known what the above wording on the bottom of the poster says.
Its not mine and I dont remember where the image came from but I think it say..
This poster produced by southern (?) studios. Printed by (?) Cunninghame (?) Sydney...dunno, can't make out the whole lot
What I do find hard to understand though is why film titles from as late as the 1980's are still missing.
House of The Long Shadows from 1983 which was released by a major Australian distributor Fox Columbia Film Distributors is a good example. In case i have missed sighting it, does anyone happen to have a daybill of this film?
The U.S.A. one sheet image. I am thinking the daybill could be a nice looking poster.
Do you think it is even remotely possible they somehow missed making a daybill on these or ANY title that did play in Australia? Could they solely have used U.S. or English posters for a brief run? Or even locally produced ones if there was a very limited showing at just one or a couple of thesters?
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Later, on the 8 /11/1988 the film was passed uncut on videotape. No record of a 35mm classification found. The Australian film premiere occurred on a Roadshow Premiere Home Video videotape on 15 / 6 /1989. The original 1986 35mm and videotape banned submissions were submitted to the censor by different distributors than Roadshow who apparently didn't have any artwork for Day Of The Dead. to work with,
Roadshow ended up using artwork from a completely different film on their Day Of The Dead VHS cover.r They ended up using an image from one of their own distributed filmds titled The Return Of The Living Dead ( 1985 ).
The Australian Roadshow distributed VHS videotape cover.
The borrowed artwork.
Taking into account the time period, and the fact that Dawn Of The Dead ( 1978 ) was released by a major distributor United Artists surely then daybills would have been printed for this film.
What is interesting though is that there has been an Australian one sheet available easily available over the years in the marketplace..Bruce haas sold a total of seventeen over the years.
it is odd indeed that no daybill has been sighted.
If Us printed one sheets had been used here a US printed international / foreign poster would have been imported. There is no sign on Bruce's website or anywhere else that such a poster was ever printed.
Best image I have. Does anyone have the actual Dawn Of The Dead Australian press sheet? It could help.