The Kid Stakes (1927) - Long Daybill
This poster just sold on HA for $2.1K, if a member of this forum snapped it up well done, congrats and I am jealous; I was bidding on it but then had to go to drop my wife off at the airport and forgot about it albeit I was still in the car when it was over, so I wasn't the under-bidder.
It's a superb poster for a lot of reasons:
- The film is based on characters created by Syd Nicholls and his comic strip, Fatty Finn - a somewhat iconic character in Australia folklore.
- I read that it was the LAST silent movie ever produced in Australia - that makes it a piece of history.
- [off Wkipedia] "Fatty Finn (Robin 'Pop' Ordell) is the six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo. They enter Fatty's pet goat Hector in the annual goat derby, but his rival Bruiser Murphy (Frank Boyd) lets the goat loose before the race. After a series of adventures, Fatty finds the runaway goat and persuades a friendly aviator to fly him to the race-track in time for the main event."
- The film's finale, the goat race, however was filmed in Rockhampton in Queensland, because goat racing was illegal in New South Wales.
- Most Australians will know this film, it was remade as Fatty Finn in 1980.
- It's a great looking poster!
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It's a beauty David, first original Daybill I have seen for this title( other than the Canberra Archives re-productions) , I was Under-bidder and my phone had a fit trying to put on another bid. oh well bruce will get my money on his daybill's coming up
\:D/I would certainly have bid on it if I had known about it.
Here's an interesting question. If it had appeared in the Signature auction instead of the Sunday auction would it have achieved a higher price? I certainly think so.
The only other one I have seen is pictured in the book Australian Film Posters 1906-1960 by Judith Adamson.
I didn't see Forty Thousand Horsemen. I guess I miss a lot of stuff on ebay because I just don't have the time to look.
I've seen a couple of the reprints but this seems to have been in great condition (at first I even thought - that has to be one of the repros but then looked at the larger image)
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Feast your eyes on this 'The Kid Stakes' theatre display from 1928, and ponder what all those different size poster material would have looked like in person. Below is the the best I could do in enlarging the poster images. The daybill is included in the promotion.