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Offline DarvishJo

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And the colors certainly pop on this poster, too, John.

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Thanks Jeff.  This poster is one of a number of rare egyptian poster finds I recently obtained from my friend Ali Motmaenzadeh in iran, whose father has been a film distributor there since the 30s and has a number of never-used very old egyptian posters on his shelves.  This poster and some others he had are almost nonexistent in egypt.  If they do exist in egypt they are very unlikely to be in such fine condition and also more likely to be undated rerelease posters instead of original stone lithos like this one.  An interesting fact I have not sorted out yet is that sometimes the posters sent to Iran from egypt did not have the signatures of the poster designers, while the originals in egypt did.  I don't know the reason for this, and since I have not yet seen an original film poster that was distributed in egypt for this film, I don't even know if this one was printed with an artist signature in egypt, but I suspect it was  In some cases it does look like in those years at least there was some kind of different treatment given to posters intended for international distribution as opposed to the ones for domestic distribution, but I'm still in the dark about the exact nature of that difference and the reason for it.
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Re: My Poster Collecting Blog
« Reply #76 on: May 09, 2015, 04:53:11 PM »
Great info, John. And i'm sure you will probably dig up and find the artist's sig (and lack thereof) information, on your quest and further research into these posters.

 I very much look forward to reading more.  :D



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Re: My Poster Collecting Blog
« Reply #77 on: May 11, 2015, 09:06:39 PM »
I just had to re-post this one.
Whoaaaa...



Love your blog, DJ!  thumbup

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Re: My Poster Collecting Blog
« Reply #78 on: May 11, 2015, 09:25:14 PM »
I just had to re-post this one.
Whoaaaa...



Love your blog, DJ!  thumbup

Thanks Ted!  

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Girls for Pleasure (1969) - (dir: Jean-Claude Roy)
« Reply #79 on: May 14, 2015, 09:59:04 AM »
A Belgian poster for a documentary about prostitution:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/girls-for-pleasure-dossier-prostitution.html

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Predictable romances have always been a financial staple in Egyptian film, but since the late 1930s there has been a breakaway strain in Egyptian popular film generally known in English as social realism.  This is an original-year stone litho poster for one of those films released in 1946, The Neighborhood Girl directed by Hassan El-Seify:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/neighborhood-girl-zahrat-el-ola-1946.html

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Grils of the Night (1955) - (Madiha Yousri) Egyptian stone litho
« Reply #82 on: May 16, 2015, 11:45:05 AM »
This is an entry from February 2013 for a classic Egyptian poster designed by the famous Greek poster artist Stamatis Vassiliu, which I have just updated because YouTube now has the film:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2013/02/girls-of-night-1955.html


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Re: Grils of the Night (1955) - (Madiha Yousri) Egyptian stone litho
« Reply #83 on: May 16, 2015, 01:02:36 PM »
This is an entry from February 2013 for a classic Egyptian poster designed by the famous Greek poster artist Stamatis Vassiliu, which I have just updated because YouTube now has the film:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2013/02/girls-of-night-1955.html



Beautiful, John! I like this mucho!!



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Re: Grils of the Night (1955) - (Madiha Yousri) Egyptian stone litho
« Reply #84 on: May 16, 2015, 02:48:32 PM »
Beautiful, John! I like this mucho!!





Thanks Jeff, so do I!


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This is a nice Egyptian one-sheet for one of Omar Sharif's many Egyptian films; it is also one of the many Egyptian films with plots based in part on egypt's feudal system of agricultural land ownership:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/war-in-land-of-egypt-omar-sharif-1991.html
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Drums across the River (1954) - (Audie Murphy) Italian 4-sheet
« Reply #86 on: May 19, 2015, 03:37:05 PM »
Walter Brennan is good in this as Sam Brannan, the father of Audie Murphy's character Gary Brannan:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/drums-across-river-1954-audie-murphy.html
 
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Re: My Poster Collecting Blog
« Reply #87 on: May 19, 2015, 04:48:56 PM »
Handsome poster. Walter Brennan was always good  :P   Great actor

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Two Caught with Pants Down (1966) - (Franco Franchi) Italian two-sheet
« Reply #88 on: May 20, 2015, 12:20:00 PM »
This is a funny two-sheet for a 1966 Italian film that is a little bit like Monty Python meets A Tale of Two Cities:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/two-caught-with-pants-down-1966-franco.html


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Re: My Poster Collecting Blog
« Reply #89 on: May 20, 2015, 01:23:32 PM »
And i do like Angelo Cesselon's artistic style, too, John.

He's got a real talent and eye!

That is a fun poster, indeed!

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Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill
« Reply #90 on: May 20, 2015, 05:34:00 PM »
A daybill stone litho for an early Spielberg film:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/duel-1971-dir-spielberg-australian-day.html

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Re: Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill
« Reply #91 on: May 20, 2015, 05:44:04 PM »
A daybill stone litho for an early Spielberg film:

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/05/duel-1971-dir-spielberg-australian-day.html


Hi John,

Or is it possibly offset printing?

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A Man Alone (1955) - (Ray Milland) Danish one-sheet
« Reply #92 on: August 14, 2015, 08:52:12 PM »
Orange and green--a favorite color combination!  Poster art by K Wenzel. 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/08/a-man-alone-1955-ray-milland-danish-one.html

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Re: My Poster Collecting Blog
« Reply #93 on: August 14, 2015, 09:18:11 PM »
Couldn't recall whether I'd seen A Man Alone until I read your synopsis.
Cool film and a beautiful Danish poster.
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Re: Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill
« Reply #94 on: August 14, 2015, 09:23:58 PM »
Hi John,

Or is it possibly offset printing?

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I think it is a stone litho; I make this judgment based on the way the paper looks and feels, but I don't pretend to be an expert. 

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Fool's Gold (1947) William Boyd Mexican poster
« Reply #95 on: August 15, 2015, 07:20:19 AM »
Hoppy never yells or gets mad but he always fixes everything! 

http://www.mopopoc.com/2015/08/fools-gold-1947-william-boyd-mexican.html

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Re: Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill
« Reply #96 on: August 15, 2015, 08:45:51 AM »
I think it is a stone litho; I make this judgment based on the way the paper looks and feels, but I don't pretend to be an expert. 


No, no daybills were stone litho this late in the game.
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Re: Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill
« Reply #97 on: August 15, 2015, 09:08:10 AM »
No, no daybills were stone litho this late in the game.

OK thanks I'll revise my listing!



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Re: Duel (1971) - (Dennis Weaver) Australian Daybill
« Reply #99 on: August 17, 2015, 08:21:59 AM »
No, no daybills were stone litho this late in the game.

The paper used for this "Duel" poster is the type of paper used for stone lithos (slick image side, rough back side) which is why I was calling it a stone litho.  However the correct term is "hand litho," which refers to the long period in the printing of daybills when the old stone litho technique was used for printing, but with rolled zinc plates instead of limestone plates.  This became necessary after the limestone required to make stone lithos became too scarce.  When the transition was made they stopped making the old "long daybills"  (about 15" x 40") and went to the much smaller size used today (about 13" x 30").  -This Duel poster was definitely not done with offset printing, although there was a later transition to offset in the production of modern daybills.  I have quite a few examples of those, but they don't use the special type of paper used for hand lithos and stone lithos.  The transition in Australia between stone lithos and hand lithos is discussed by Ed Poole on learnaboutmovieposters.com; he credits his information to John Reid, a real expert on Australian posters (moviemem.com).  How to tell the difference between a stone litho and a hand litho?  You can't judge by the type of paper, which is the same in both cases, but Poole says you can see a significant difference in quality if you compare examples of each side-by-side; in Australia the long daybills were almost all from the old stone litho days (which ended in 1941 according to John Reid).