The Courage of Lassie Stock daybill - What date would you put on this poster?
This is an interesting stock daybill. I would be interested in hearing what date you would put on it without knowing the name of the printer....
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I agree with Matt that it could be late 1940's without looking at the printer's name.
Taking it a step further and establishing it was printed by Marchant & Co. there are other stock daybills of the same design that include Tarzan Escapes, The Ziegfeld Girl & National Velvet. The Ziegfeld Girl has a Not Suitable For Children censorship rating on it so that makes it 1948 or later. Seeing all these posters were printed by Marchant & Co,.who appeared to stop printing film posters around 1949, I would say all these daybills I have mentioned with the same design are from the late 1940's.David said Courage Of Lassie had a 1950 re-release but I have also found a re-release in 1949 .The stock poster designs changed in the early 1950's when designed and printed by W.E. Smith, F.Cunninghame & Chromo Print with a few different styles.
Hondo.
Yes, that is a fair assessment.
However, the thing I find interesting is in establishing when the stock posters were actually printed as blanks. The reason it would be useful information is that it would help in determining when Marchant actually stopped printing movie posters. These stock daybills were obviously overprinted with the title of various films, at various times. It is possible that the stock daybills were printed years earlier to be used as needed. If this is indeed the case, then it does make it difficult to pin down a date for when Marchant stopped printing.
PS I know this thread has a crossover with the Marchant posters thread.
At the present time we only know it is at least in 1949 when the last daybill poster was printed by Marchant & Co. The proof of this is in the daybill poster image of Intruder In The Dust. I posted images on the Marchant.posters thread of the original W.E. Smith colour poster and the same duotone design printed by Marchant. Both have ''An MGM Silver Anniversary Picture'' printed on them making the Marchant poster at its earliest printed in 1949.
I believe the stock posters were printed earlier then overprinted with a film's title and details when required. The only way to try to determine when each individual poster was printed is mainly from release dates and helped by censorship ratings in some cases where the Not Suitable For General Exhibition rating was changed to Not Suitable For Children in the late 1940s.
This sort of thing to me is what makes Australian film posters more interesting than the mostly dated U.S. posters.
Hondo
Fair enough but I would say 1948 or 1949 with an outside chance of being 1950. That's my guess and that's all it is.
Hondo
As far as Marchant posters go, Intruder in the Dust seems to be a bit of an anomaly. Has anyone seen any examples of Marchant daybills in the mid - late 40s that are full colour?
Courage of Lassie would seem to be c1949 ish but I'm sure that the poster itself was printed years earlier than that.
Absolutely possible and you could well be correct.
Another question is what does the original Courage of Lassie daybill look like? I have never seen one.
1943 seems to be the last year Marchant & Co. printed full colour designed daybills and there were a lot of them with their full name creits on them. Two 1945 daybills in full colour were printed with the printer's name appearing as M & C only for whatever reason. The titles are The Hidden Eye & Dangerous Partners. The same year titles in duotone such as Bewitched had the complete name on them so certainly a mystery. The only titles I have found after 1943 with the full Marchant credits are either the colour stock poster or full design duotone poster titles in very reduced numbers and all being MGM films..
Hondo
Very rare poster. Curious to know if a acquired in Australia, the U,S. or elsewhere.
Hondo
Hard to put a price on that one. Very nice indeed!
Give ya 50 bucks for it.
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