One has to wonder why so many Australian printed film posters have never turned up. With all the stock that was left over from the film distributors that wasn't dumped, and all the stock that the hundreds of Australian cinema owners had hoarded over the years, why are so many film titles never surfaced publicly. In the 1960's as a very young boy I got to visit a small NSW country cinema, and in their office there were huge piles of film poster stacks everywhere. The only title that i remember seeing was a beautiful The Narrow Margin full bleed RKO daybill. One has to wonder what treasures were stored there. I realise that for many of the missing titles that they could be part of private poster hoarding that is kept secret and never publicly displayed. Among the hoardings there as most likely so many posters of classic films included there. When some of these owner hoarders pass on will we get to see them? Hopefully this will be the case.
I had a sad local example. I was in the local surf club and a fellow member came up to me one day while I was out on patrol and asked if I collected movie posters as he had a few oldies. I got them but sadly he had a full shed of them and had dumped them at the tip while clearing out his aunt's home. The items i got were from the late 1920s, earl 1930s and in poor shape, but I could only wonder what else may have been in the full shed.
I was once informed by a now deceased collector who had in the past worked for a major film distributor that posters in bulk were regularly dumped during the period of time he worked there,
Over the last decade and into this decade at least, previously unsighted daybill posters have turned up on a regular basis. This happening though has appeared to have slowed down dramatically over the last few years. The appearance of unseen Australian daybills has certainly decreased in number for whatever reason. For all of the hundreds of missing daybill posters, particularly those from the 1940's to the 1970's, one has to hope that they do continue to surface, if only in a dribble, but more hopefully in a steady stream. Pre 1940 long daybill posters should continue to be unlikely to surface as has been the case for many years.
There are collectors out there with other rare ones, I've seen some of these posters in person, unfortunately not all collectors want to advertise their 'holdings' publicly.
I am pleased John that you have acquired some more rare daybills. Please feel free to include any others here as well .The Mugger daybill is certainly rare, and the following image is the only copy that I have previously sighted. Not usually a fan of yellow, but in this case it certainly is effective. It would look nice framed on someone's wall.
Previously included in the September 2015'' We want it scary... but not too SCARY!'' thread here on the forum, this U.S.A. one sheet has the mugger holding a knife in his right hand. The knife, due to Australian censorship reasons, wasn't included on the Australian daybill,, making the image of his hand look a little odd.
Thanks John for the two Karamoja daybill images. Not sure though for your reason for doing so. Was it because you consider them to be rare, or perhaps because they are two different printed posters that I may be able to shed some light on regarding their printings.
Well, they are obviously rare and you did ask for daybills that have not been sighted before to be added here. The question is why would there be two different daybills for such a very obscure film - even if one came before the other.
A Wynne Davies long daybill. An early Loretta Young movie, and pictured (sort of) on the poster.
An extremely rare and previously unsighted daybill poster by me of the 1928 film The Head Man. A beautiful poster originating from the hands of the prolific poster artist Wynne W. Davis. Thanks for sharing it here.
Well, they are obviously rare and you did ask for daybills that have not been sighted before to be added here. The question is why would there be two different daybills for such a very obscure film - even if one came before the other.
O.k. let us commence by stating that this original 1954 U.S.A. released film was first screened in Australia circa 1960 by an unknown Australian film distributor. It was shown at least in a Newcastle N.S.W. newsreel theatrette. In 1963 the film was picked up for distribution and re-released more commercially by Regent Films. Regent didn't exist in 1960 when the film was first released. I can understand why you had thought that this poster was rare but I have posted below an image from my files of eight other images of this poster, originating from a 2013 Theadore Bruce Sydney auction,, along with a single poster also auctioned by Theodore Bruce the year before in 2012.
The following Regent (RFD) 1963 re-release daybill poster has ''An Encore Presentation By Regent film Distributors'' printed on the bottom of the poster. The image of this daybill is rare and I have only seen one other image from CineMaterial that I am unable to download.
Well, they are obviously rare and you did ask for daybills that have not been sighted before to be added here. The question is why would there be two different daybills for such a very obscure film - even if one came before the other.
O.k. let us commence by stating that this original 1954 U.S.A. released film was first screened in Australia circa 1960 by an unknown Australian film distributor. It was shown at least in a Newcastle N.S.W. newsreel theatrette. In 1963 the film was picked up for distribution and re-released more commercially by Regent Films. Regent didn't exist in 1960 when the film was first released. I can understand why you had thought that this poster was rare but I have posted below an image from my files of eight other images of this poster, originating from a 2013 Theadore Bruce Sydney auction,, along with a single poster also auctioned by Theodore Bruce the year before in 2012.
The following Regent (RFD) 1963 re-release daybill poster has ''An Encore Presentation By Regent film Distributors'' printed on the bottom of the poster. The image of this daybill is rare and I have only seen one other image from CineMaterial that I am unable to download.
An extremely rare Australian daybill poster that was printed for an intended Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (1965) and Curse of the Voodoo (1965) double bill release. As just mentioned this is a very rare daybill and there is some very interestingly history regarding the two films involved. Any thoughts?
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I was in the local surf club and a fellow member came up to me one day while I was out on patrol and asked if I collected movie posters as he had a few oldies.
I got them but sadly he had a full shed of them and had dumped them at the tip while clearing out his aunt's home. The items i got were from the late 1920s, earl 1930s and in poor shape, but I could only wonder what else may have been in the full shed.
Peter
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Peter
The following Regent (RFD) 1963 re-release daybill poster has ''An Encore Presentation By Regent film Distributors'' printed on the bottom of the poster. The image of this daybill is rare and I have only seen one other image from CineMaterial that I am unable to download.
An extremely rare Australian daybill poster that was printed for an intended Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (1965) and Curse of the Voodoo (1965) double bill release. As just mentioned this is a very rare daybill and there is some very interestingly history regarding the two films involved. Any thoughts?