Road To Singapore ( 1940 ) Daybill
Two different Road To Singapore ( 1940 ) daybills. Both very nice but what period are they from ? Are they original, early second printing, later second printing or re-release ? Something I have also noticed is no Australian daybill appears to have surfaced for Road To Zanzibar ( 1941 ). Does anyone have a copy of at least seen one ? As a matter of fact no one sheet, three sheet or any other Australian paper have I ever spotted for Road To Zanzibar. 0
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As for Zanzibar, the 3rd U.S. One sheet in about 20 years from either EMP or HA, just sold---I've never seen any Aussie paper on it. Would be nice to see how they designed it.
***Question Lawrence---US distributors released press books or campaign books...did this ever happen for Australian paper?
based on the printer details at the bottom of the duo tone, plus the rating I would say that would be likely for the original release. I have a few duo tone Richardsons like this which are a mirror of their more colourful friend.
So the second would be a later re-release?...Don't think I have ever seen a Richardson studio RR daybill!?
As for Road to Zanzibar, I haven't seen one in my few years in the hobby...
or was "children" more specific to later titles of other films...
-there are more printer details on the duo-tone...is that what your referring to?
Hey Mark,
Yes, NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION was used prior to the NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN rating, so this helps to date a poster. Anything NSFGE is quite early on. I think this was discontinued early 40s, but I can't remember off the top of my head...I'm sure it is on this forum somewhere, if not Lawrence will have the info for us.
As for the printing details in the border, early RICHARDSON studio posters have more details added, then just the This is a Richardson Studio Poster like the RR (if that is what it is) or whatever the exact terminology is. I can't remember off the top of my head what it says, but I've only seen it on Richardson Studio daybills.
If I get a chance later today, I will jump on my other PC and upload a close up of what you can find on the earlier Richardsons.
...leave it to the mysterious Daybill to have the more colorful version be the later release.
I think the duo tone will have a more colourful partner...there are many instances of this.
Will upload some examples a bit later of this as well.
Four clues appear on the posters. Only two have been discussed so far. Good imput so far from Mark and Ves.
Firstly the Not Suitable For General Exhibition rating was altered to Not Suitable For Children in Australia in 1948. This means that the Colourful Road To Singapore poster pictured above is post 1948.
Samson And Delilah
North West Mounted Police
You have the Samson And Delilah daybill Ves.
OH OF COURSE!
Samson and Delilah! DUH!
It is a 13'' x 30''.
Brilliant Ves and an additional clue as well.
*** the printing details are more clear in the EMP website.
Good info Lawrence.
Thanks Mark.
The EMP poster info I am O.K. with - it is the other poster I am after help with.
Seems to appear on the WE Smith printed posters
four line credits?
You mean like the one I posted above the Bahama Passage daybills?
I can post larger images if you like...or are you talking about something else?
The image you posted from Bahama Passage in two lines only. There are other daybills with four lines of credits appearing on the bottom of the posters on other Richardson / Paramount posters.
These ones?
Sorry I assumed they were the same as the one I posted earlier...
Had to chop into two...wouldn't fit.
Left side
Right Side
Nice Joe E. Brown poster of Champion Chumps ( aka $1000 A Touchdown in the U.S.A. ) from 1939. This four line credited style doesn't figure in our discussion regarding Roads To Singapore though, but the two line and one line credits do fit in with solving the overall puzzle.