What is interesting here is the artwork image on the top advertising block.
The following listed accessories does not include a listed one sheet. Either a one sheet wasn't printed, which is very doubtful, or an error was made in not including it. I have seen many examples of where a daybill credit was omitted from a press sheet, when in fact actual daybills were found to have been printed.
No BEF lobby cards are listed as being available also. The only lobby cards seen have been for the later GUO ones printed for use some years later.
Looks like those images on the Press Sheet are "ADVERTISING BLOCKS AS ILLUSTRATED" as mentioned in the accessories section. My thought on not having a one sheet is that this is a limited release (as mentioned it only screened in one Melbourne cinema), I assume Sydney would be the same, so the cost of doing multiple formats wouldn't be justified.
Looks like those images on the Press Sheet are "ADVERTISING BLOCKS AS ILLUSTRATED" as mentioned in the accessories section. My thought on not having a one sheet is that this is a limited release (as mentioned it only screened in one Melbourne cinema), I assume Sydney would be the same, so the cost of doing multiple formats wouldn't be justified.
I had mentioned that it was an advertising block. The interesting thing is the positioning of the car on the add block that makes the artwork much more effective than that was used on the daybill. The top section of the daybill to my thinking is only ordinary at best. .
The BEF released version was screened in Canberra ACT on 7 May 1975 and again on 4 December 1975., Being a major distributor in Australia one would think a one sheet would have been printed. Is as they say the film didn't fare well at the box office why then did GUO (formally BEF) then produce lobby cards two years later in 1976, one has to wonder.
Once again, I'm guilty of not reading your post properly!
On the daybills / one sheet question I have an observation. Did Filmways (as an example of another distributor) produce one sheets for all their films?
Are there one sheets for Texas Chainsaw Massacre? That could be an example of not printing a one sheet (they did one sheets for some other films - Evil Dead, Incredible Hulk...)
I visited their office in City Rd, South Melbourne way back when they were there and grabbed bunches of daybills. They had daybills in abundance, but not many copies of the one sheets, so wouldn't give me any of those.
No one sheet availability listed on the Australian press sheet. Was this an error though in not including it on the press sheet? The reason for saying this is because I have a large number of one sheet images from Filmways (1971 to 1986) then later trading as Film Pac from 1986 to 1990). As The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a major release I am certain that they would surely have printed a one sheet for it. Of course to confirm this we need for one to surface
How does one justify the over twelve months in advance of release statement then?
I have picked up on numerous errors appearing on the NFSA website with the crediting of film information. I have also spoken to various staff members there over the years and I have found that they are young people with limited information regarding the material that is contained there.
I just read your original post properly and agree about the mention of Picnic At Hanging Rock (obvious really). The NFSA description doesn't actually state that it's the original daybill. I suspect there wasn't one produced for its original release due to the way it was originally distributed.
See this from Wikipedia (which is how a lot of Australian films were distributed at that time).
My thought is that the producers (and possibly funding bodies) would have only produced a single poster. Without a major distributor they might not have had a reason (or budget) to produce different poster formats.
This is the style of poster I recall from the release (I was only 14 or 15 at the time but remember the promotion of the film vividly).
I'd say there was only this poster made until later when it "changed distributors" which would be when the above daybed would have been made to cash in on the "Picnic At Hanging rock" Fame.
This is also what I recall when I looked into this ages ago. Tiny initial release, gorgeous one sheet done by a well known artist (all which escapes me in more detail now), followed by a more general release leading to the db
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What is interesting here is the artwork image on the top advertising block.
The following listed accessories does not include a listed one sheet. Either a one sheet wasn't printed, which is very doubtful, or an error was made in not including it. I have seen many examples of where a daybill credit was omitted from a press sheet, when in fact actual daybills were found to have been printed.
No BEF lobby cards are listed as being available also. The only lobby cards seen have been for the later GUO ones printed for use some years later.
Peter
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The BEF released version was screened in Canberra ACT on 7 May 1975 and again on 4 December 1975.,
Being a major distributor in Australia one would think a one sheet would have been printed.
Is as they say the film didn't fare well at the box office why then did GUO (formally BEF) then produce lobby cards two years later in 1976, one has to wonder.
On the daybills / one sheet question I have an observation. Did Filmways (as an example of another distributor) produce one sheets for all their films?
Are there one sheets for Texas Chainsaw Massacre? That could be an example of not printing a one sheet (they did one sheets for some other films - Evil Dead, Incredible Hulk...)
I visited their office in City Rd, South Melbourne way back when they were there and grabbed bunches of daybills. They had daybills in abundance, but not many copies of the one sheets, so wouldn't give me any of those.
Peter
As the film was originally submitted to the Australian film censor by Warner Brothers Australia, where then do they fit into the puzzle?
I am thinking possibly the original release pre BEF distribution involvement was that it was self distributed by the makers of the film.
Is then the following poster Ves a one sheet and the same one you had mentioned earlier that you have images of somewhere?
Some comment on this poster version to follow soon.