Apache Woman ( 1955 )
Apache Woman ( 1955 )
The attached daybill image is for a 1955 film Apache Woman. The daybill has always been credited as an original first release Australian daybill. I believe it is a second printed for the film printed many years later. The reason for my thinking is twofold. Robert Burton wasn't printing film posters at the time of the films release in Australia in Sydney on August 16, 1956. The second reason is the wording on the bottom of the poster of ''Theatres offer complete entertainment'' would be to promote cinema attendance after the opening of television in Australia of TCN-9 in Sydney, N.S.W. on the 16th of September, 1956 and other states that followed. Seeing the film opened in Australia a month before television started operating in only one Capitol city with a very small percentage of homes having an expensive television set this most certainly rule out a 1956 printing. My thinking is in line with when other similar cinema promotions on daybills occurred ( see my Promoting Australian cinema attendance thread ). I am also taking into account Ray films had ceased operating by 1960 so my opinion is 1958 or 1959 when a second printing occurred for whatever reason. The original first printing was probably done by F. Cunninghame & Co who appeared to print the majority,if not all, of Rays Films product in 1956.
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