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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #75 on: February 21, 2013, 04:09:36 PM »


One of my Italians...Way better than the US OS, that's for sure ;)

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #76 on: February 21, 2013, 04:13:59 PM »


One of my Italians...Way better than the US OS, that's for sure ;)

Nice, Brian.

And no paper fills.  wynk



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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #77 on: February 21, 2013, 05:04:44 PM »
Ugh, right Jeff?  It's the beauty of the unbacked poster...no buyer beware :-\

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #78 on: February 21, 2013, 05:07:36 PM »
Ugh, right Jeff?  It's the beauty of the unbacked poster...no buyer beware :-\

 cheers




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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #79 on: March 08, 2013, 01:17:51 AM »
a few more 2 sheets to add to the collection here  8)












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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #80 on: March 15, 2013, 02:16:28 PM »
Usually love Italian posters, but I thought this was a humorous misstep by Martinati:




The US OS being iconic and all:




Yikes!  Everyone has an off day:)


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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #81 on: March 15, 2013, 02:19:26 PM »
And a RARE misstep, I might add.  He is the master:)  And he totally redeems himself with this masterpiece:


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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #82 on: March 15, 2013, 02:23:22 PM »
Usually love Italian posters, but I thought this was a humorous misstep by Martinati:




Yikes!  Everyone has an off day:)



I like the Martinati. Davis smiling and a gentler looking Paul Muni convey another feeling and emotion, IMO, plus he didnt just copy the US artwork verbatim.

I'll take it!   ;D




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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #83 on: March 15, 2013, 02:28:15 PM »
Yeah, I can see that, but have you seen the movie?  The US OS so perfectly represents Davis' character!  The Italian is kind of off-putting to me.
It's a deal, you take the Italian, I will take the US OS ;)
Compromise is a beautiful thing!

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #84 on: March 15, 2013, 02:29:32 PM »
Yeah, I can see that, but have you seen the movie?  The US OS so perfectly represents Davis' character!  The Italian is kind of off-putting to me.
It's a deal, you take the Italian, I will take the US OS ;)
Compromise is a beautiful thing!

You have a deal.

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #85 on: March 15, 2013, 04:27:44 PM »
My latest acquisition...


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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #86 on: March 16, 2013, 05:52:43 PM »
^ Schweeeeeet..

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #87 on: May 20, 2013, 03:03:09 AM »
Anyone know much about Italian 1-Sheets (which are basically the size of US 1-Sheets)?  I rarely see anyone posting them and I don't see too many for sale.  Were they printed in lower quantity than the normal sizes?

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #88 on: May 20, 2013, 04:08:25 AM »
Anyone know much about Italian 1-Sheets (which are basically the size of US 1-Sheets)?  I rarely see anyone posting them and I don't see too many for sale.  Were they printed in lower quantity than the normal sizes?


You mean 1 Foglio (28" x 39") which is half the size of the poster shown above by harry which is a 2 Fogli (1 panel: 39" x 55")?

Nah, don't know sorry

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #89 on: May 20, 2013, 07:04:37 AM »
Anyone know much about Italian 1-Sheets (which are basically the size of US 1-Sheets)?  I rarely see anyone posting them and I don't see too many for sale.  Were they printed in lower quantity than the normal sizes?

As far as I know italian 1sheet ( we call it "soggettone") was an integral part of a lobby cards set (in italian "set di fotobuste").
For each movie there usually were: one 4fogli, one 2fogli ( sometimes 2, A and B), one locandina and a set of fotobuste. The set was made up of 4/6/8  lobby cards and 1 ( sometimes 2 ) soggettone.
It was usually 2times folded to fit in the envelope containing the lobby cards (wich were folded in half).

About the print run I don't know.. surely we see a few on the market.

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #90 on: May 20, 2013, 01:19:05 PM »
As far as I know italian 1sheet ( we call it "soggettone") was an integral part of a lobby cards set (in italian "set di fotobuste").
For each movie there usually were: one 4fogli, one 2fogli ( sometimes 2, A and B), one locandina and a set of fotobuste. The set was made up of 4/6/8  lobby cards and 1 ( sometimes 2 ) soggettone.
It was usually 2times folded to fit in the envelope containing the lobby cards (wich were folded in half).

About the print run I don't know.. surely we see a few on the market.

Great info. Thanks for sharing.  I've been able to pick up a couple 1F's this year and they really have some stellar artwork, just started wondering why I didn't see them as much.

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #91 on: May 26, 2013, 12:05:43 PM »
Much lower quantities for italy 1shs it seems , I guess they thought bustas were more important to print in large quantities.

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #92 on: June 03, 2013, 05:13:29 AM »
Outside of Italy there is a lot of confusion when it comes to Italian '1-sh' posters. For us non-italians, 1-sheets are posters.  Since the Italian 1-sheet posters are called '2-foglio', many dealers and collectors think that the 'soggetone' is a '1-sheet' poster because it has that (approx.) US 1-sheet poster size. Of course it is not, it is a lobby card and part of the lobby card set - not a poster. Italian posters of '1-sheet' size just do not exist (pre-war maybe ? I'm not an expert on stuff printed before the 50s).
Not all 'photobusta' sets include 'soggetones'. It is very hard to find Italian pressbooks as reference, so it's not easy to know
when an Italian set is complete. The envelope often states the content of the sets though. The smallest set I have is EASY RIDER 70s re-release (set of 4), the one from 1969 had 10 bustas (no soggetone as far as I know). WILD BUNCH for instance is a set of 12 (no soggetone either). And ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST for instance is a special case: Set of 12 incl. 7 regular size bustas + 5 soggetone!
Collecting Italia is an adventure. And very worthwhile, beautiful stuff...
Some of my 2 / 4-foglios:

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #93 on: June 03, 2013, 05:28:48 AM »
Italy

Nice, I like the Italian posters... I am on the look out for a particular scifi space poster, hope to get it one day

 

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #94 on: June 26, 2013, 03:29:52 PM »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gtv5gpUWD-E" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/gtv5gpUWD-E</a>

June 20th : Great Escape is 50  :o

US premiere was (surprise , surprise) July 4th ;)
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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #95 on: June 04, 2014, 05:27:29 PM »
'59 HoD italy posters , awfully nice (and awfully expensive , sadly)

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #96 on: June 05, 2014, 12:48:41 PM »
Just to chime in on the 1-foglio. Before the fifties 1-foglio were quite often used as a regular poster size in stead of a part of a fotobusta set. This was probably due to paper shortage, at least during and shortly after WW II.

here a few examples:








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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #97 on: June 05, 2014, 01:16:55 PM »
There were 1-foglios produced at least as late as the 1960s. 

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/1316709.html


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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #98 on: June 06, 2014, 01:19:10 PM »
Yup , you're right (and that is a tough bastard to find  :-\

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Re: Italian Film Posters!
« Reply #99 on: June 08, 2014, 04:19:14 PM »
Haven't picked up anything new in a while so I am trying to organize the mess that is my helter skelter "collection". These are all of my Italians?