Republic Pictures ceased bring a film maker and distributor in 1959, so it was interesting to see the following Republic Pictures Paramount logo appear at the beginning of a made for Television movie titled The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial that screened on a pay television channel recently.
Republic Pictures has been revived and these these days is a global subsidiary of Paramount and handles Paramount Acquistions only of independently made product for global viewing.
The original extremlely rare Australian release daybill and one sheet posters of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958). These are the only images that I have located for these posters and they have both originated from New Zealand.
The point I will raise here is that these are only two examples of a good number of rare Australian posters that only surface in the market place originating from New Zealand and not here in Australia.
A U.S.A. image of the original insert poster that was printed for the American 1946 horror film House Of Horrors.
Following it above is the Australian daybill poster printed for the original Australian release of this film when it was re-titled as The Sinister Shadow.
You will notice the toning down of the Australian poster version done to adhere to censorship guidelines no doubt. The U.S. tagline of MEET THE CREEPER! replaced in Australia by WHO?! Then the frontal image of the monster was replaced here by a blacked out image of the monster only seen from his back.
The previous posted Australian Everyones magazine advertisement from February 29, 1928 had me thinking. Was this solely an Australian happening?
The following rare Australian daybill is credited as being ''Paramount's Second Greater Movie Season - Entire month of March 1925'. It is the only poster that I have ever seen from the yearly series that Paramount ran. (Ebay)
This poster is currently advertised for sale on eBay with an asking price of $185.00. Bruce sold a copy of this poster in 2006 for $127.50. One wonders if it is the same poster.
The first screening of Paramount's Greater Movie Season started in Australia in 1924 and ran every year for seven years until it would appear ceased in 1930 with this promoting of big forthcoming product.
Was it only an Australian and a New Zealand occurrence I do have to wonder.
It certainly would be interesting to see if the other years printed daybills images were also the same design..
Before I reveal the update I thought that I would mention that Australian daybill, along with one sheet and three sheet posters printed for films released in Australia in 1954 and most of 1955 that were filmed in Cinemascope contained no mention of the word Cinemascope on them. The exception was for 20th Century Fox films, the distributor who introduced Cinemascope to the world in 1953
There were alternative 2-D non Cinemascope film versions also available for a short time, so the posters covered these versions.
You will find on Bruce's website the odd daybill poster with a Cinemascope snipe attached to them by cinema owners.
Some early Cinemascope titles are extremely hard to find. That is the only King & I first release I've ever seen. Others like The Command are still MIA.
I am sure that members of the forum don't realize the magnitude of missing daybills in Australia. Talking about missing CinemaScope productions here are some very early titles. To the best of my knowledge I haven't ever sighted any images.
1953
Beneath The 12-Mile reef
1954
East Of Eden Broken Lance Carmen Jones The Student Prince ( only re-release version is available ) Three Coins In A Fountain Drum Beat New Faces Ring Of Fear Lucky Me The Command ( already mentioned by Mark )
Since I originally published the above information in November 2018, over six years ago, images of five of the above listed titles have surfaced. The titles being the following
Beneath The 12-Mile Reef East of Eden The Student Prince Ring Of Fear Lucky Me.
The still missing titles are the following,
Broken Lance Carmen Jones Three Coins In The Fountain Drum Beat New Faces The Command
Hopefully the above still missing six daybills will turn up sometime in the future.
There were other Greater Movie Seasons daybills from the 20s. I have seen one with the Paramount logo as the main graphic on a blue background and the coffee table book Reel Art has a black and white photo showing various foreign Paramount posters and a long daybill can be seen advertising one of these.
Dead Country - a low-budget zombie horror. I was Slaughter Claus.
By all reports a huge turkey of a film without any redeeming features, I have just finished watching a fifteen minute video review of the film. showing continual scenes from the film, What I was subjected to certainly looked diabolical and amateur in all aspects of film making. The director and the editor had no idea on how to make a movie. Honestly I even feel that I could have made a better film had the oppotunity ever occurred.
A couple of limited questions are as follows.
Surely a first release on DVD? Where were the expected hordes of zombie scenes? And where were any actual convincing actors. What was your experience like making the film.? -
It was embarrassing but somehow the writer/director managed to put together a budget for it. My friend and I got paid for our work! I've been an extra in six movies/TV shows and this was by far the worst but i got an IMDB credit from it! There were two female actors there the day my friend George and I were extras. One of them couldn't say her lines and I couldn't blame her because the writing was awful. I actually re-wrote it into something usable. The highlight was when a government minister drove past and stopped thinking we were making a road safety commercial. I had dealt with him for my work so had to explain what we were doing. The director's mother was the assistant and went around with an umbrella over his head. I'd like to see that video review of it - do you have a link? For my next role, i was demoted from being a zombie to being a lawyer in ABC's The Broken Shore, but at least Claudia Karvan was in that one. I did another amateur zombie film which i've not seen but the two-day shoot had some professionalism about it. I was also in Tales from the Crypt filmed in Hollywood, Charlie and Boots and Journey to the Centre of the Earth filmed locally so got to mingle with the likes of Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Treat Williams and Hugh Keays-Byrne. I had to pull out of Oddball because of work but have a new extra role starting soon.
Some interesting experiences then Rick while doing your extra work no doubt.
Wasn't your Dead Country credit unusual? I had believed previously no dialogue, then no credit given for a film appearance.
Check out Youtube for Oh, the Horror! 13 Dead Country for the film's review by a guy calling himself Fedora. You are certainly going to find it interesting.
Credits depend on a lot of things. Goodwill from a Producer can extend to giving credits to almost everyone as thanks for helping out on a project, or receiving little renumeration. In television I usually only add names that are listed on the call sheet, other people (extras, stand-ins, etc) usually don't get a credit, they're employed at different pay scales. If you're listed on the call sheet you're usually employed as, at the very least, a bit part. That entitles you to more money, and a credit.
I spent two days on both Journey and Boots and got a 'bump' on Tales from the Crypt, but no credits. But i did get to share the credits on screen with some famous names on Tales from the Crypt, complete with 1990 mullet.
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Peter
Thanks Ves for your opinion as well. Very interesting answers overall expressed.
Republic Pictures ceased bring a film maker and distributor in 1959, so it was interesting to see the following Republic Pictures Paramount logo appear at the beginning of a made for Television movie titled The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial that screened on a pay television channel recently.
Republic Pictures has been revived and these these days is a global subsidiary of Paramount and handles Paramount Acquistions only of independently made product for global viewing.
Please advise me if you have any in your collection.
The original extremlely rare Australian release daybill and one sheet posters of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958). These are the only images that I have located for these posters and they have both originated from New Zealand.
The point I will raise here is that these are only two examples of a good number of rare Australian posters that only surface in the market place originating from New Zealand and not here in Australia.
A U.S.A. image of the original insert poster that was printed for the American 1946 horror film House Of Horrors.
Following it above is the Australian daybill poster printed for the original Australian release of this film when it was re-titled as The Sinister Shadow.
You will notice the toning down of the Australian poster version done to adhere to censorship guidelines no doubt. The U.S. tagline of MEET THE CREEPER! replaced in Australia by WHO?! Then the frontal image of the monster was replaced here by a blacked out image of the monster only seen from his back.
The following rare Australian daybill is credited as being ''Paramount's Second Greater Movie Season - Entire month of March 1925'. It is the only poster that I have ever seen from the yearly series that Paramount ran.
This poster is currently advertised for sale on eBay with an asking price of $185.00. Bruce sold a copy of this poster in 2006 for $127.50. One wonders if it is the same poster.
The first screening of Paramount's Greater Movie Season started in Australia in 1924 and ran every year for seven years until it would appear ceased in 1930 with this promoting of big forthcoming product.
Was it only an Australian and a New Zealand occurrence I do have to wonder.
It certainly would be interesting to see if the other years printed daybills images were also the same design..
An update on missing very early Cinemascope Australian daybill posters that were originally mentioned here on this thread in November 2018.
There were alternative 2-D non Cinemascope film versions also available for a short time, so the posters covered these versions.
You will find on Bruce's website the odd daybill poster with a Cinemascope snipe attached to them by cinema owners.
Since I originally published the above information in November 2018, over six years ago, images of five of the above listed titles have surfaced. The titles being the following
Beneath The 12-Mile Reef
East of Eden
The Student Prince
Ring Of Fear
Lucky Me.
The still missing titles are the following,
Broken Lance
Carmen Jones
Three Coins In The Fountain
Drum Beat
New Faces
The Command
Hopefully the above still missing six daybills will turn up sometime in the future.
Peter
A couple of limited questions are as follows.
Surely a first release on DVD?
Where were the expected hordes of zombie scenes?
And where were any actual convincing actors.
What was your experience like making the film.?
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There were two female actors there the day my friend George and I were extras. One of them couldn't say her lines and I couldn't blame her because the writing was awful. I actually re-wrote it into something usable.
The highlight was when a government minister drove past and stopped thinking we were making a road safety commercial. I had dealt with him for my work so had to explain what we were doing.
The director's mother was the assistant and went around with an umbrella over his head.
I'd like to see that video review of it - do you have a link?
For my next role, i was demoted from being a zombie to being a lawyer in ABC's The Broken Shore, but at least Claudia Karvan was in that one.
I did another amateur zombie film which i've not seen but the two-day shoot had some professionalism about it.
I was also in Tales from the Crypt filmed in Hollywood, Charlie and Boots and Journey to the Centre of the Earth filmed locally so got to mingle with the likes of Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Treat Williams and Hugh Keays-Byrne. I had to pull out of Oddball because of work but have a new extra role starting soon.
Wasn't your Dead Country credit unusual? I had believed previously no dialogue, then no credit given for a film appearance.
Check out Youtube for Oh, the Horror! 13 Dead Country for the film's review by a guy calling himself Fedora. You are certainly going to find it interesting.
In television I usually only add names that are listed on the call sheet, other people (extras, stand-ins, etc) usually don't get a credit, they're employed at different pay scales. If you're listed on the call sheet you're usually employed as, at the very least, a bit part. That entitles you to more money, and a credit.
Peter
Peter
But i did get to share the credits on screen with some famous names on Tales from the Crypt, complete with 1990 mullet.