View all entries in local "something" competition:
So my guess is its the local entries for wherever this bookshop is provided by Paramount as part of the advertising for the film?
Excellent image pickup and summing up Ves.
The top section of the image reads-
VIEW ALL ENTRIES BY LOCAL ARTISTS IN COMPETITION
The window display featured in Boans Bookshop was in Perth, Western Australia, The state received a total of 83 entries. It does appear that the complete window display isn't shown in the image below.
Thanks for clarifying, I don't know how I missed that image in Part 3, I thought I'd checked!
No problem. I hadn't previously spotted your posted image of the examining of the winner's poster either.
So much information to be found in Everyones publication over decades that sometimes things can be overlooked. There is bound to be much more great information and images waiting for me to discover one day.
For one advertisement that I once read, but no longer can locate, I do still keep my eye out for it, and that hopefully one day I will sight it once more. The advertisement was placed from South Africa wanting to purchase theatre equipment and most interestingly Australian film posters.
I am currently researching Jason Film distributors.
Does anyone per chance have any Australian or New Zealand film posters that were printed for this very minor film distributor?
The above are the only two posters that I have managed to locate that display the Jason logo. Both The Mighty Jungle and Mad Doctor Of Blood Island films were classified for screenings on 35mm in New Zealand..I cannot locate any details to confirm that either of these films were ever screened in Australia,
The following Revenge Of The Zombies (1943) daybill is a beautiful rare Australian horror film poster that was printed during the 1940's for a poverty row Hollywood studio film. This film was a Monogram film released here by BEF.
You will notice that the original U.S.A. insert poster that is also displayed below has very similar artwork to the daybill.
I am currently researching this subject and wondering if anyone has any other daybills of any Monogram. PRC, Republic Pictures, or any other minor poverty row studios horror produced film titles? Revenge Of The Zombies is the only daybill example I have managed to locate. Of the many other missing printed daybills produced for the numerous other poverty row horror titles I am not holding out much hope in being able to locate any of them. On saying this one can only ask if one happens to have any of them in their collection.
The daybill poster that I would really like to see surface is The Ape from 1940.
The following Australian cinema advertising has similar artwork to the below original U.S.A. insert artwork. The film was released in Australia in January 1941 by BEF, so most likely is to be a beautiful W,E,Smith long daybill. using similar artwork.
( Thought that I would also include the following located rare The Phantom Speaks (1945) Australian daybill. Although not strictly being a horror film it does though contain some horror, and is a nice looking poster.
Lawrence, are you thinking that the vast majority of even Poverty Row 1940s U.S. movies were released in Australia, except for the ones that got banned for some reason?
I am surprised that it made financial sense, when so many movies were coming out all the time, and Australia had so many fewer theaters than the U.S.
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Lawrence, are you thinking that the vast majority of even Poverty Row 1940s U.S. movies were released in Australia, except for the ones that got banned for some reason?
I am surprised that it made financial sense, when so many movies were coming out all the time, and Australia had so many fewer theaters than the U.S.
Thanks Bruce for your excellent question and your comment.
I will reply in detail to the points you raise in the future. There is a lot that I will cover,so I want to be thorough in what I have to say to address your thoughts.
A question to you Bruce is in your first paragraph you do mention the word even. Did you mean to say all instead of even?
When I wrote " the vast majority of even Poverty Row 1940s U.S. movies" I meant that I can see how they would possibly release just about all the major U.S. studio product in Australia, but why would they bother with all the product from Poverty Row studios when so many of those were much lesser movies without big names?
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When I wrote " the vast majority of even Poverty Row 1940s U.S. movies" I meant that I can see how they would possibly release just about all the major U.S. studio product in Australia, but why would they bother with all the product from Poverty Row studios when so many of those were much lesser movies without big names?
Thanks for clarifying this for me Bruce.
Yes you are correct in thinking that almost all the product that was available from the major studios was released in Australia. The exceptions being those titles that were refused classification.
You are also correct in querying that all the poverty row studio films would have been released here due to the reasons that you mentioned. The quality of a good deal of these films was certainly sub standard. Let's look at the three biggest of the poverty row studion operating in the 1940's.
Republic Pictures product was released in Australia in the 1930's and 1940's by BEF then through 20th Century Fox in the 1950's.
Monogram, then Allied Artists product was released in Australia in the 1930's and 1940's by British Empire Films (BEf), then United Artists in most of the 1950's and followed by Paramount Pictures in the very late 1950's and 1960's. Also some AA product in the mid to late 1960's obtained Australian release by Blake Films.
Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), the very much smaller poverty row U.S. distributor's product was released in small numbers of titles in Australia by an unknow to me Australian distributor, possibly Hoyts but not confirmed.
Product sourced from Republic, Monogram/Allied Artists ad PRC was up to the Australian distributor to secure or reject.
Most of the low budget westerns were a major genre rejected for release in Australia and films across the board in all genres of poor quality were also not picked up. Series such as The Bowery Boys and Bomba were no longer released here in the 1950s.
Now to return to my original question regarding missing poverty row horror film daybills. For reasons of either being banned by the Australian Film Censor or just being rejected by the Australian distributors. a large number never made it to our shore.
I will include below some of the known horror titles that are confirmed as being released here that are missing daybills images.
The following four films The Black Raven, Bluebeard,The Devil Bat and Dead Men Walk are from PRC. I have included some U.S. poster artwork to show what the Australian artwork may have looked like.
The above Australian published ''Talks On The Talkies inclusion is interesting as it talks about the quality of PRC product.
All the above included newspaper inclusions are courtesy of Everyones/Trove/NLA).
Love to see the Australian daybills. Interestingly i have never sighted a PRC film daybill of any genre whatsoever, I am sure the PRC product from what I have found had mainly very limited distribution here. Thinking that the left over posters quickly were destined for the dump.
There is a giant mystery in the U.S. how posters from a few 1940s U.S. titles are beyond rare, while those from a few others show up in massive quantities, and yet everything else is of medium rareness. I imagine the U.S. answer for the super common ones is that there were "warehouse finds" of those, but I still have never found a good explanation for the few super rare 1940s titles.
I know there were substantial "warehouse finds" of certain Australian titles (that show up endlessly). Thanks for adding to my knowledge!
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There is a giant mystery in the U.S. how posters from a few 1940s U.S. titles are beyond rare, while those from a few others show up in massive quantities, and yet everything else is of medium rareness. I imagine the U.S. answer for the super common ones is that there were "warehouse finds" of those, but I still have never found a good explanation for the few super rare 1940s titles.
I know there were substantial "warehouse finds" of certain Australian titles (that show up endlessly). Thanks for adding to my knowledge!
Thank Bruce for your appreciation of my imput.
You can locate some thoughts of mine regarding Australian ''warehouse finds'' by checking out a previous forum thread titled ''Lack Of Stock Posters',' starting from a November 1924 entry.
Another located Monogram horror film Australian released rare BEF daybill of King Of The Zombies (1941), Also on display for comparison the U.SA. insert poster showing similar artwork.
I have had the daybill image for a while but had forgotten about it until now. Some information that may interest you is this poster sold at an Australian auction on October 14, 2021. It had an estimate of A30-A80 listed, but ended up selling for A$450,
Hi @HONDO keen for your thoughts on these two Australian one sheets for Bridge Kwai as I could not find any information on emovieposter. I believe they are from the first release but printed at different times? There are quite a few differences
Hi @HONDO keen for your thoughts on these two Australian one sheets for Bridge Kwai as I could not find any information on emovieposter. I believe they are from the first release but printed at different times? There are quite a few differences
A timeline for the two posters. . Original pre Oscars one sheet that was printed for the Australian release that commenced on March 8,1958.
Australian one sheet similar designed version containing two added Oscar results notifications, The 39th Academy Awards results were announced on Match 26, 1958., eighteen days after the Australian release took place. My thinking then is that the A.A. included details poster was printed a.s.a.p. after the results were made known Therefore both posters were printed for the original Australian release
This might give it away in the description "Backed on linen, airbrushing and some replacement have addressed edge wear, pinholes with tears, creases, a couple of gouges, and slight chipping/trimming along parts of the edges."
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View all entries in local "something" competition:
So my guess is its the local entries for wherever this bookshop is provided by Paramount as part of the advertising for the film?
Peter
Excellent image pickup and summing up Ves.
The top section of the image reads-
VIEW ALL ENTRIES BY
LOCAL ARTISTS IN
COMPETITION
The window display featured in Boans Bookshop was in Perth, Western Australia, The state received a total of 83 entries. It does appear that the complete window display isn't shown in the image below.
Peter
I have the following I had intended to include here shortly. I was thinking it would be my final information to share.
Looking forward to what you may have to share,
There was a total Australia wide number of nearly 400 entries received for the contest.
The following newspaper article. was published in a Perth WA newspaper on March 1,1934. It includes a beautiful image of the WA winning entry.
(Trove /NFA)
Queensland entrant (7th March, 1934 - Everyone's) - It looks like there were individual winners from each state. No image for this one.
It's unknown whether this one below was the ultimate winner, or just the Victorian winner
14th March, 1934 - Everyone's
Close up of the poster.
Peter
The two winning Queensland state poster entries.
dedeposter said:
This was absolutely the Australian National contest winner.
The National winning image seen above in the middle and the two tied State winning Queensland entries appearing on the far left and the far right.
Peter
So much information to be found in Everyones publication over decades that sometimes things can be overlooked. There is bound to be much more great information and images waiting for me to discover one day.
For one advertisement that I once read, but no longer can locate, I do still keep my eye out for it, and that hopefully one day I will sight it once more. The advertisement was placed from South Africa wanting to purchase theatre equipment and most interestingly Australian film posters.
I am currently researching Jason Film distributors.
Does anyone per chance have any Australian or New Zealand film posters that were printed for this very minor film distributor?
You will notice that the original U.S.A. insert poster that is also displayed below has very similar artwork to the daybill.
I am currently researching this subject and wondering if anyone has any other daybills of any Monogram. PRC, Republic Pictures, or any other minor poverty row studios horror produced film titles? Revenge Of The Zombies is the only daybill example I have managed to locate. Of the many other missing printed daybills produced for the numerous other poverty row horror titles I am not holding out much hope in being able to locate any of them. On saying this one can only ask if one happens to have any of them in their collection.
The daybill poster that I would really like to see surface is The Ape from 1940.
The following Australian cinema advertising has similar artwork to the below original U.S.A. insert artwork. The film was released in Australia in January 1941 by BEF, so most likely is to be a beautiful W,E,Smith long daybill. using similar artwork.
( Thought that I would also include the following located rare The Phantom Speaks (1945) Australian daybill. Although not strictly being a horror film it does though contain some horror, and is a nice looking poster.
Peter
I am surprised that it made financial sense, when so many movies were coming out all the time, and Australia had so many fewer theaters than the U.S.
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I will reply in detail to the points you raise in the future. There is a lot that I will cover,so I want to be thorough in what I have to say to address your thoughts.
A question to you Bruce is in your first paragraph you do mention the word even. Did you mean to say all instead of even?
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Yes you are correct in thinking that almost all the product that was available from the major studios was released in Australia. The exceptions being those titles that were refused classification.
You are also correct in querying that all the poverty row studio films would have been released here due to the reasons that you mentioned. The quality of a good deal of these films was certainly sub standard. Let's look at the three biggest of the poverty row studion operating in the 1940's.
Republic Pictures product was released in Australia in the 1930's and 1940's by BEF then through 20th Century Fox in the 1950's.
Monogram, then Allied Artists product was released in Australia in the 1930's and 1940's by British Empire Films (BEf), then United Artists in most of the 1950's and followed by Paramount Pictures in the very late 1950's and 1960's. Also some AA product in the mid to late 1960's obtained Australian release by Blake Films.
Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), the very much smaller poverty row U.S. distributor's product was released in small numbers of titles in Australia by an unknow to me Australian distributor, possibly Hoyts but not confirmed.
Product sourced from Republic, Monogram/Allied Artists ad PRC was up to the Australian distributor to secure or reject.
Most of the low budget westerns were a major genre rejected for release in Australia and films across the board in all genres of poor quality were also not picked up. Series such as The Bowery Boys and Bomba were no longer released here in the 1950s.
Now to return to my original question regarding missing poverty row horror film daybills. For reasons of either being banned by the Australian Film Censor or just being rejected by the Australian distributors. a large number never made it to our shore.
I will include below some of the known horror titles that are confirmed as being released here that are missing daybills images.
The following four films The Black Raven, Bluebeard,The Devil Bat and Dead Men Walk are from PRC. I have included some U.S. poster artwork to show what the Australian artwork may have looked like.
The above Australian published ''Talks On The Talkies inclusion is interesting as it talks about the quality of PRC product.
All the above included newspaper inclusions are courtesy of Everyones/Trove/NLA).
Love to see the Australian daybills. Interestingly i have never sighted a PRC film daybill of any genre whatsoever, I am sure the PRC product from what I have found had mainly very limited distribution here. Thinking that the left over posters quickly were destined for the dump.
There is a giant mystery in the U.S. how posters from a few 1940s U.S. titles are beyond rare, while those from a few others show up in massive quantities, and yet everything else is of medium rareness. I imagine the U.S. answer for the super common ones is that there were "warehouse finds" of those, but I still have never found a good explanation for the few super rare 1940s titles.
I know there were substantial "warehouse finds" of certain Australian titles (that show up endlessly). Thanks for adding to my knowledge!
Here is a handy checklist to help tell eMoviePoster.com apart from all other major auctions!
Thank Bruce for your appreciation of my imput.
You can locate some thoughts of mine regarding Australian ''warehouse finds'' by checking out a previous forum thread titled ''Lack Of Stock Posters',' starting from a November 1924 entry.
I have had the daybill image for a while but had forgotten about it until now. Some information that may interest you is this poster sold at an Australian auction on October 14, 2021. It had an estimate of A30-A80 listed, but ended up selling for A$450,
.
Original pre Oscars one sheet that was printed for the Australian release that commenced on March 8,1958.
Australian one sheet similar designed version containing two added Oscar results notifications,
The 39th Academy Awards results were announced on Match 26, 1958., eighteen days after the Australian release took place.
My thinking then is that the A.A. included details poster was printed a.s.a.p. after the results were made known Therefore both posters were printed for the original Australian release
This rare long daybill (along with other Sherlock Holmes Australian one sheets) has surfaced at Heritage.
I have a few questions on the printer details I would appreciate your input on
1) Did WE Smith exist in the early 1930s?
2) Have you ever seen other daybill examples that have "Lithographed &" preceding the "Printed By W.E. Smith..."
3) The dots between the "W" and "E" are centre aligned rather than bottom aligned.
Peter
Peter