Anyone know why the border is partly white and partly acidified brownish? (Lower and left edges of previous image).
It is on quite a number of my Italian (only) posters. Strange lengths too. Do italians do something different to the rest of the world? Looks like maybe was clamped partly behind a frame or something.
Several posts ago in this thread, I promised that I will look into this. I did, and this is what I found. Hope it makes sense.
In Spain, which I assume it is like it would have been in Italy, in the small town cinemas they used to have just
one huge frame, and always with a thick, heavy
wooden frame.
The frame had to be treated regularly to avoid thermites so that could be a reason why the posters had this brownish color. I also understand that the frame was just
one size-fits all, so it was be big enough to show OS, 3S and 6S.
With such a large wooden frame, the OS posters were clamped from the top of the frame and from one side, either the left or right. They used a pushpin to tighten up the remainder bottom corner side of the poster.
The interesting bit is that most of those nice posters were then
re-used for distribution for shows in other remote villages.
In poorer areas these re-used posters were just ''glued'' to the walls. The way to do it was just by painting a glue mark in a
Z shape in the wall not a [] shape so that could also explain why they had this sort of weird discoloration around the top and the bottom (and just one side were it was originally clamped).
Sacarino, an 87 year old assitant in one of those cinemas told my Dad, who told me and now I am telling you. Don't shoot the messenger. I don't know if this is true or not.
