Hand Panted (Over)

David

Couple of interesting ones.

This is a One Sheet(?) for The Sun Never Sets (1939) - entirely hand painted.

 

And this is a 3Sheet for Green Hell (1940)

BUT, it actually was originally a poster for Strange Conquest (1946) - (I can see this at the back with the light behind), so technically it is a re-release for Green Hell sometime after 1946!

HONDO

The design of the original 3 sheet is the same design of the original U.S. insert poster of Strange Conquest. The original Australian one sheet is a different design. There was a screening in Scone in 1947 and in Sydney in 1948 of Green Hell. This indicates to me very limited screenings took place around this period so perhaps no official re-release occurred to warrant a new poster and a quick fix for the late forties screenings was to change a poster, in this case Strange Conquest. Of interest the original Universal presents wasn't altered to Universal International presents.

Hondo

Matt

Judging by the extra folds on the "one sheet", is it slightly larger in size?

David

Matt said:

Judging by the extra folds on the "one sheet", is it slightly larger in size?

The Sun Never Sets is 27x40 (or thereabouts), the Green Hell is a 3Sheet.

HONDO said:

The original Australian one sheet is a different design. 

That surprises me because it is definitely an AU3SH and very little is altered other than the big blob through the middle to change the title and the massive white area to just overpaint Douglas Fairbanks Jr name. You got a pic of the AU3SH?

Matt

Very interesting indeed!

HONDO

David said:

  HONDO said: The original Australian one sheet is a different design. 

That surprises me because it is definitely an AU3SH and very little is altered other than the big blob through the middle to change the title and the massive white area to just overpaint Douglas Fairbanks Jr name. You got a pic of the AU3SH?

Sorry I don't have one. You can find by searching eMovieoposter.com images of the Australian one sheet and the U.S. insert I mentioned in my earlier posting.

Hondo

David

Yes I know where to search. 

I missread your post, I thought you said the AU3SH was different to the AU3SH design I was showing, but in fact you said the 1SH.