Sorry my wording of RKO Australian film posters printed for RKO Australia, but the films involved were not distributed by them here''may have possibly been a little misleading.
There will not be any new film images to view. The posters I will cover were for films that were never released by RKO in Australia, but ended up being released by MGM, who would have used the RKO posters.
Deadpool & Wolverine coming July 26. It certainly. will be interesting as Ves has previously mentioned, to see how this one fares at the box office. All the ingredients would appear to be there to make it a huge hit, but who knows what will happen these days.
Results are in and this film has been a huge hit at the world box office. . On the opening weekend it shattered box office records overtaking Barbie's staggering ticket sales from last year $440 million worldwide box office debut takings
There's still some considerable life remaining in this genre of films it would certainly appear when you have the right ingredients that appeals to audiences..
A rare Australian Cliff Richard produced stock poster daybill that would have been used for the three films of his that Warner Bros,. released here in Australia.
The three films involved were The Young Ones (1961), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Lise (1964), and are seen above shown with the original daybill posters that were originally printed for the films.
The House on Haunted Hill (1959) original U.S.A insert film poster, and the very censored Australian daybill version of the U.S. artwork.
The following is the New Zealand daybill artwork that was produced for the different N.Z. film distributor's release there, Although missing a Vincent Price image I actually prefer it to the Australian censored version. Anyone else happen to agree I wonder?
Another thing that has crossed my mind is surely the imported U.S. lobby cards and possible half sheet that all displayed the offending scenes would have had to have been censored and covered over, one would have to think. Either that or they were not allowed into Australia at all.
I will include some further comments regarding this subject, but hopefully after I receive some feedback to my earlier asked question.
I'm sure the lobby cards would have had a black snipe over the hanging skeleton, much like a lobby card from The Invisible Boy I once had that had the boy being held by Robby The Robot blacked out. I'll try to find an image of it but this was the uncensored version of the artwork.
I'm sure the lobby cards would have had a black snipe over the hanging skeleton, much like a lobby card from The Invisible Boy I once had that had the boy being held by Robby The Robot blacked out. I'll try to find an image of it but this was the uncensored version of the artwork.
If this was the case then with the lobby card's having a black snipe applies to cover over the hanging woman's image, you would also have to believe a covering black snipe was also used to cover over the woman's severed head image as well on the lobby card.
As it would certainly appear that no one else is going to comment on the subject at hand, I will now move on to making some final observations by expanding the Australian poster material's problems.
With the original U.S.A. poster material, and also the Australian daybill the appearance and placement of the skeleton's legs on the ground look fine.
A different story though with the following Australian 3 sheet and one sheet images as the bottom section of the skeleton's legs are missing, and it appears the skeleton is coming out of the building. The red background colour is impressive, but it only highlights the point I have mentioned.
The placement of the GET MORE OUT OF LIFE AND GO OUT TO A MOVIE advertisement promotion on the one sheet sorta reminds me of the skeleton this time dangling the wording material,.
What the skeleton appearance on the Australian 3 sheet and one sheet should have looked more like, as seen on the following U.S. one sheet image.
We thought we were badly done by with the Australian artwork, but look above at the U.S.A. one sheet used in New Zealand by a different distributor over there.
People viewing this poster must have though what is behind the curtain?
We thought we were badly done by with the Australian artwork, but look above at the U.S.A. one sheet used in New Zealand by a different distributor over there.
People viewing this poster must have though what is behind the curtain?
Hondo, I think you're mistaken. The New Zealand release poster you're referring to above was actually the little known House on Haunted Hill vs 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel. Unfortunately they spoiled the surprise by putting the monolith on the poster.
(Wil) Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) Australian press sheet showing the big selection of larger film posters that were made available in the 1930's in Australia for some major releases.
Multiple copies of three of the available sizes were printed for this film.. How beautiful they must have looked, and probably as a long shot the possibility of only the daybills and one sheets would be likely to ever surface. To be realistic though the likelihood of this happening would have to be unfortunately extremely remote.
Whilst we're on the subject of Wynne W. Davies, you may like these trade ads of his Lawrence, from within a couple Everyone's magazines that I recently added to my collection.
Fighting Love, Rose of the Golden West (1927), The Unholy Garden (1932) and The Only Way (1926)
On the subject of Wynne W. Davies I had originally intended to spotlight his work in my Australian series of Movie Poster Artists that I commenced including here on this thread in 2020.
Included on this thread to date are the following entries.
Part 1 - Norman McMurray in 2020. Part 2 - George Feather Lawrence in 2020. Part 3 - Tom Ferry in 2021. Also but not officially numbered Estelle Waterman in 2021 as well.
Due to the huge time factor that was involved in presenting these four artists, and mainly due to a lack of time availability this then presented a problem in continuing with this project.
I had always wanted to include Wynne W. Davies as my first entry. Due though to the huge volume of his work, and to do it justice, it had to be put on the backburner.
I have well over two hundred images of his film advertising material, along with his prolific non film related artwork that he produced in Australia and the U.S.A, as well.
Hoping one day I will get to add Wynne W. Davies to be part of my Movie Poster Artists project.
In the meantime though you can locate some of his poster work by searching Wynne W. Davies on emovieposter.com and moviemem.com to view examples of his excellent artwork.
Images follow below showing just two examples of his excellent artwork that he produced for Mammy and a Everyone's front page cover.
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I assume as its a prequel to Fury Road, you kinda needed to see that one first?
RKO Australian film posters printed for RKO Australia, but the films involved were not distributed by them here.
Peter
There will not be any new film images to view. The posters I will cover were for films that were never released by RKO in Australia, but ended up being released by MGM, who would have used the RKO posters.
There's still some considerable life remaining in this genre of films it would certainly appear when you have the right ingredients that appeals to audiences..
Hello Cheyenne! is a 1928 U.S.A film. For the above original Australian daybill they certainly made a big time error in spelling.
Peter
A rare Australian Cliff Richard produced stock poster daybill that would have been used for the three films of his that Warner Bros,. released here in Australia.
The three films involved were The Young Ones (1961), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Lise (1964), and are seen above shown with the original daybill posters that were originally printed for the films.
The House on Haunted Hill (1959) original U.S.A insert film poster, and the very censored Australian daybill version of the U.S. artwork.
The following is the New Zealand daybill artwork that was produced for the different N.Z. film distributor's release there, Although missing a Vincent Price image I actually prefer it to the Australian censored version. Anyone else happen to agree I wonder?
Another thing that has crossed my mind is surely the imported U.S. lobby cards and possible half sheet that all displayed the offending scenes would have had to have been censored and covered over, one would have to think. Either that or they were not allowed into Australia at all.
I will include some further comments regarding this subject, but hopefully after I receive some feedback to my earlier asked question.
Anyone else care to comment?
Peter
If this was the case then with the lobby card's having a black snipe applies to cover over the hanging woman's image, you would also have to believe a covering black snipe was also used to cover over the woman's severed head image as well on the lobby card.
With the original U.S.A. poster material, and also the Australian daybill the appearance and placement of the skeleton's legs on the ground look fine.
A different story though with the following Australian 3 sheet and one sheet images as the bottom section of the skeleton's legs are missing, and it appears the skeleton is coming out of the building. The red background colour is impressive, but it only highlights the point I have mentioned.
The placement of the GET MORE OUT OF LIFE AND GO OUT TO A MOVIE advertisement promotion on the one sheet sorta reminds me of the skeleton this time dangling the wording material,.
What the skeleton appearance on the Australian 3 sheet and one sheet should have looked more like, as seen on the following U.S. one sheet image.
Any comments would be most appreciated.
We thought we were badly done by with the Australian artwork, but look above at the U.S.A. one sheet used in New Zealand by a different distributor over there.
People viewing this poster must have though what is behind the curtain?
Peter
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) Australian press sheet showing the big selection of larger film posters that were made available in the 1930's in Australia for some major releases.
Multiple copies of three of the available sizes were printed for this film.. How beautiful they must have looked, and probably as a long shot the possibility of only the daybills and one sheets would be likely to ever surface. To be realistic though the likelihood of this happening would have to be unfortunately extremely remote.
Wil has kindly allowed me to display the following Australian long daybill image of the 1924 film printed by Marchant & Co. Ltd. of The Sea Hawk.
I doubt if there would exist another copy of this impressive poster.
The image of the man at the top of this poster reminds me of a pose from an Italian genre sword and sandal film from the 1950's and 1960's period.
Fighting Love, Rose of the Golden West (1927), The Unholy Garden (1932) and The Only Way (1926)
On the subject of Wynne W. Davies I had originally intended to spotlight his work in my Australian series of Movie Poster Artists that I commenced including here on this thread in 2020.
Included on this thread to date are the following entries.
Part 1 - Norman McMurray in 2020.
Part 2 - George Feather Lawrence in 2020.
Part 3 - Tom Ferry in 2021.
Also but not officially numbered Estelle Waterman in 2021 as well.
Due to the huge time factor that was involved in presenting these four artists, and mainly due to a lack of time availability this then presented a problem in continuing with this project.
I had always wanted to include Wynne W. Davies as my first entry. Due though to the huge volume of his work, and to do it justice, it had to be put on the backburner.
I have well over two hundred images of his film advertising material, along with his prolific non film related artwork that he produced in Australia and the U.S.A, as well.
Hoping one day I will get to add Wynne W. Davies to be part of my Movie Poster Artists project.
In the meantime though you can locate some of his poster work by searching Wynne W. Davies on emovieposter.com and moviemem.com to view examples of his excellent artwork.
Images follow below showing just two examples of his excellent artwork that he produced for Mammy and a Everyone's front page cover.
Here is a handy checklist to help tell eMoviePoster.com apart from all other major auctions!
I have a number of poster images that he did produce while in the U.S.A between 1931 and 1933,
Let me know if you would like to see them?
Peter
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