It is strange that original release posters are so scarce for many Australian films. This is an original release herald for Let George Do It! Art by Frank Tyler.
Rangle River ( 1936 ). Rare Australian daybill. One of only two daybill images I have sighted for this title. Is it only me thinking Margaret Dare on the poster looks like she should be in a science fiction film. Looking at the image above of Margaret with Victor Jory in a publicity shot taken for the film,and seeing what she actually looks like, I am sure Margaret would not have been too happy if she had seen the daybill.
On the Rare Non Australian Posters Of Australian Posters thread you will now find some overseas paper on this title that may interest you.
Image # 21. Show Business ( 1938 ). This film released by Atlas Films had a very limited Australian release. A. R. Harwood produced and directed Show Business which was remade under the title Night Club and was again directed by A. R. Harwood. Night Club was image # 9 which was discussed earlier on this thread.
Rangle River is great. I'd never seen that one before.
On a side note, where are you getting all these fabulous images Lawrence?
Am loving it.
I love that you enjoy the images that I am displaying. The images come from countless sources and stretch back a very long time but mainly from internet sources. In some cases I can't even remember who the sources were and in some cases the images no longer appear to available to see. I try not to use images originating from our members if I can help it.
Image # 22. Wherever She Goes ( 1951 ). Only image in any form of an Australian poster I have been able to locate to date. This is indeed a rare film in regards to paper source both here and overseas. Nothing found from the U.K. where the film was financed from. The only overseas posters I have sighted were from last year and this year when some Canadian poster material was auctioned off.
No proof Ves but I believe this Canadian poster is from the original ( and only ) Canadian release. Usually the Majority of films, mainly from the major American film distributors when they released their product in Canada in the 1950's, would use the same design posters in Canada as the U.S. ones. In the case of this film the U.S. distribution was through the small New York based independent distributor Arthur Mayer - Edward Kingsley and the Canadian film distributor Astral Films had no ready made film posters to use. Most likely, not having to spend too much money advertising a small art house movie, they came up with this inexpensive bare bones effort.
For anyone interested in Rangle River, ( Image # 20 ), that I had displayed images of on October the 9th, the above DVD is now available from the NFSA online shop.
Image # 23. Night Of Fear ( 1972 ). Self distributed starting in 1973 by Terryrod Productions. Interesting it was banned but on appeal the ban overturned and the film was released with the brief original running time of 52 minutes only.
At top - Article from a Sydney, N.S.W. Sydney Morning Herald newspaper dated Friday 4 February, 1938. A Nation Is Built ( 1938 ) was a 46 minute documentary film..
Nice souvenir program printed for the Prince Edward, Sydney opening season of the 1928 film The Exploits Of The Emden. The film was a huge success in Australia and ran for three weeks at the prestigious Prince Edward theatre.
The Exploits Of The Emden is a 1928 silent Australian film about the battle of the Cocos; the World War1 naval battle between Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German cruiser SMS Emden. It consists of footage from a 1926 German film, Unsere Emden, with additional sequences shot in Australia by director Ken G. Hall. The German film depicted the German sea captain offering to surrender at the end but Australia's Captain Glossop refused, leading to the fight in which the Emden was destroyed but the German officer survived. At the time Hall was only First National films, the Australian distributor's publicity director with his only experience in handling film being in re-editing movies to meet the requirements of Australian censorship. Only part of the film survives today.
Mouth To Mouth ( 1978 ) . The daybill posters are the same design printed by the same printer but the one on the right has the distributor's name Lestrig Films added to it. Both posters appear to be rare at the present time. Lestrig Films was Lestrig Trading Co., a 1970's Australian film distributor of mainly sexploitation films.
Australia posters for this title are indeed rare but posters from the U.S. release, re-titled Vengeance Of The Deep for it's 1940 release there, have been fairly easy to secure over the years.
Out of all the 1936 Australian films, White Death didn't seem to get much publicity compared to the others. The only clippings I found (now all safely stored in Ves's archive) are the rather insignificant pair at bottom left.
# 31a # 31b. When The Kellys Rode ( 1934 ). Rare paper from the original release in Australia, with the exception of N.S.W. where it was banned from screening there. The film was also exported to New Zealand. On the 6th of January 1942, the Chief Secretary of N.S.W. announced that the ban had been lifted. In June 1948 the film was shown for the first time in Sydney N.S.W. and re-released in other states as well in 1948. As much as the original 1934 posters are rare, the Australian printed daybill for the 1948 combination for N.S.W.first release and the rest of Australia a re-release have been available in reasonable amounts to purchase over the years.
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On the Rare Non Australian Posters Of Australian Posters thread you will now find some overseas paper on this title that may interest you.
Rangle River is great. I'd never seen that one before.
On a side note, where are you getting all these fabulous images Lawrence?
Am loving it.
I love that you enjoy the images that I am displaying. The images come from countless sources and stretch back a very long time but mainly from internet sources. In some cases I can't even remember who the sources were and in some cases the images no longer appear to available to see. I try not to use images originating from our members if I can help it.
No proof Ves but I believe this Canadian poster is from the original ( and only ) Canadian release. Usually the Majority of films, mainly from the major American film distributors when they released their product in Canada in the 1950's, would use the same design posters in Canada as the U.S. ones. In the case of this film the U.S. distribution was through the small New York based independent distributor Arthur Mayer - Edward Kingsley and the Canadian film distributor Astral Films had no ready made film posters to use. Most likely, not having to spend too much money advertising a small art house movie, they came up with this inexpensive bare bones effort.
At top - Article from a Sydney, N.S.W. Sydney Morning Herald newspaper dated Friday 4 February, 1938. A Nation Is Built ( 1938 ) was a 46 minute documentary film..
Always Another Dawn ( 1948 ). Australian one sheet. DVD release cover.
Nice find, Lawrence!
Nice souvenir program printed for the Prince Edward, Sydney opening season of the 1928 film The Exploits Of The Emden. The film was a huge success in Australia and ran for three weeks at the prestigious Prince Edward theatre.
The Exploits Of The Emden is a 1928 silent Australian film about the battle of the Cocos; the World War1 naval battle between Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German cruiser SMS Emden. It consists of footage from a 1926 German film, Unsere Emden, with additional sequences shot in Australia by director Ken G. Hall. The German film depicted the German sea captain offering to surrender at the end but Australia's Captain Glossop refused, leading to the fight in which the Emden was destroyed but the German officer survived. At the time Hall was only First National films, the Australian distributor's publicity director with his only experience in handling film being in re-editing movies to meet the requirements of Australian censorship. Only part of the film survives today.
Australia posters for this title are indeed rare but posters from the U.S. release, re-titled Vengeance Of The Deep for it's 1940 release there, have been fairly easy to secure over the years.
# 30a
# 30b
White Death ( 1936 ). Another very rare film to find posters for.
Out of all the 1936 Australian films, White Death didn't seem to get much publicity compared to the others. The only clippings I found (now all safely stored in Ves's archive) are the rather insignificant pair at bottom left.
# 31a
# 31b. When The Kellys Rode ( 1934 ). Rare paper from the original release in Australia, with the exception of N.S.W. where it was banned from screening there. The film was also exported to New Zealand. On the 6th of January 1942, the Chief Secretary of N.S.W. announced that the ban had been lifted. In June 1948 the film was shown for the first time in Sydney N.S.W. and re-released in other states as well in 1948. As much as the original 1934 posters are rare, the Australian printed daybill for the 1948 combination for N.S.W.first release and the rest of Australia a re-release have been available in reasonable amounts to purchase over the years.
Oh really? BARGAIN. When was this?
Mutiny Of The Bounty ( 1916 ), The Moth Of Moonbi ( 1926 ), That's Cricket ( 1931 ) short film and On Our Selection ( 1932 / 1938 re-release poster ).
More rare daybills, along with an odd one sheet and other paper sizes images, to follow soon.