Two printings of Some Like it Hot daybill
The first noticeable difference is one has a red background on the bottom of the daybill and the other doesn't.
The one without has Offset Printing Co and has misspelt "released". The red version has the correct spelling but has dropped the 'Offset Printing Co'
You can plainly see The red version has more red throughout and looks like the artist did a rush job on it. Was it because there was a spelling error? So they reprinted it?
The one without has Offset Printing Co and has misspelt "released". The red version has the correct spelling but has dropped the 'Offset Printing Co'
You can plainly see The red version has more red throughout and looks like the artist did a rush job on it. Was it because there was a spelling error? So they reprinted it?
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Wavy finger...,
Other UA daybills from the early '60s are without printer's details at the bottom. Of the ones I looked at I couldn't see any others printed by Offset.
I had an Offset version that hadn't even been guillotined. It measured 14.5 inches wide with a 1.5 inch border on the rhs. They were rough!
BTW it's not secret information. Anyone can look it up in about 15 mins.
Thanks Mark.
Can you type out the exact printer's info for both Matt?
If you want to find info on printers just go to Wikipedia and get a list of the films from the release year. They have all the films from all the companies broken down by year: MGM, UA, WB, Paramount etc.
What you will find is that they used the same printing co. If a particular daybill doesn't match up, then there's a reason for it. Go back and forward by a few years and see if they changed printer. If not, you're looking at some kind of re-release.
Hope that makes sense.
Bit tough with no printer as in this example, but that is unusual. The vast majority of daybills have the printer's info.
Shortly I will share my thinking here on this subject, but before I do this I am keen to hear if anyone else would like to comment with any additional thoughts that they may have regarding this topic.
Peter
My thoughts on the two Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) Australian daybill posters.
Some Like It Hot was released in Sydney Australia on October 15, 1959. The following daybill and one sheet were printed by Offset Printing Co. during a year that they had printed a number of United Artists daybills.
The following daybill was printed without a printer's credit appearing on it.
Following is some history on United Artists used daybill printers between 1950 and 1964.
W.E.Smith continued as being U-A's preferred printer, carrying over from the previous decade into 1950, and up until 1958 when they ceased operating in this role.
During 1958 and continuing until 1963 and to fill the void that W.E.Smith had left, a number of different Australian printers were used. The printers' involved in printing small numbers of titles were Chromo Print, Offset and Advertising & Commercial (A&C). The vast majority of U-A daybills that were printed between 1959 and when Robert Burton became the preferred printer in 1963 were not credited with any printer's details.
The earlier displayed Offset printed daybill and one sheet have to be the 1959 first release printed posters.
The uncredited printer's daybill version I am thinking was either produced as a replacement for the error made in the original, or even produced as a second printing, due to the film's popularity at the box office in the very early 1960's.
A trimmed image of an incomplete Some Like it Hot Australian three sheet poster. Although not able to assist in anyway with the previously discussed matter I thought that I would include it here for reference purposes.