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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #750 on: August 05, 2018, 08:31:44 PM »
Wanda looks calm, collected, and lovely.  No wonder she out-smarted Erik!  Okie

She also has a little bit of that Mary Philbin look... (but MP was a bit prettier, imho).


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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #751 on: August 05, 2018, 08:40:12 PM »
I bought this photograph a few years back. The girls are posing in a theater hall, and in the back, argentinean one sheets for: Colleen (1936), Things to come (1935), Ya tiene comisario el pueblo (1936) and The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936).




HI Matias, Your photo with the 1930s Argentinean movie posters in the background is fantastic!  You know, I really enjoy the great stone lithos from your country.   Do you have any more vintage photos of Argentinean stone lithos on display?  My best wishes, Okie

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #752 on: August 25, 2018, 02:09:02 PM »
Sort of in action.

This is a pic of Hammer Films co-founder and British film producer, James Carreras, holding a framed JP poster for (Horror of) Dracula (1958) in his office.

The photo was taken in December, 1964.



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« Reply #753 on: August 25, 2018, 02:22:10 PM »
Sort of in action.

This is a pic of Hammer Films co-founder and British film producer, James Carreras, holding a framed JP poster for (Horror of) Dracula (1958) in his office.

The photo was taken in December, 1964.



Looks a couple of additional Japanese Hammer in the background, too!.  A fantastic photo find, Jeff!  Okie

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #754 on: August 25, 2018, 02:29:01 PM »
Lots of good stuff on display at this theater for RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE (1943)  devil 2



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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #755 on: August 25, 2018, 04:09:54 PM »
Looks a couple of additional Japanese Hammer in the background, too!.  A fantastic photo find, Jeff!  Okie


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« Reply #756 on: August 26, 2018, 01:08:30 PM »
Looks a couple of additional Japanese Hammer in the background, too!.  A fantastic photo find, Jeff!  Okie

Looks like he had those few (and probably many others) scattered around his office, Okie. I know I would, too.  8)


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« Reply #757 on: August 26, 2018, 10:11:35 PM »
Found another cinema (The Elizabeth Picture Theatre) in Brisbane (Australia) with posters in the foyer (Australian 3-sheets and Daybills). (Here are posters in another cinema in Brisbane owned by the same owner).





















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« Reply #758 on: August 26, 2018, 11:09:13 PM »
Nice to see a theatre owner in Brisbane who knows from where he came, 50s!   Okie

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #759 on: August 26, 2018, 11:43:51 PM »
Great pics thanks for sharing!
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« Reply #760 on: August 27, 2018, 01:32:54 AM »
Cool pics there, Steve. Those 3 sheets look nice going up those hall stairs.


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« Reply #761 on: August 27, 2018, 10:19:09 AM »
Nice place and shots, Steve.  Interesting posters, although I'm more impressed by the architecture that seems to be designed for framed 3 sheets, with the recesses in the walls, and the hand rail. 

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #762 on: August 30, 2018, 09:02:18 AM »
I always liked this one.



and this one.

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« Reply #763 on: August 30, 2018, 11:23:24 PM »
Yeah, those are very cool, Skyjacker! I don't miss the big city, though it's fun to see these monster sized posters/advertising.  Okie

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« Reply #764 on: August 31, 2018, 04:30:26 AM »
What a lovely cinema, in Brisbane.  Reminds me of the Everyman chain in the UK that also have vintage posters framed in the foyer.

Love those Inception and Batman billboards.  Very inventive.

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #765 on: September 03, 2018, 01:27:48 AM »
Capitol Theater in Dallas, TX

THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936)



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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #766 on: September 04, 2018, 01:01:57 AM »
Capitol Theater in Dallas, TX

THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936)




Yes, Jeff!!!!  That is an incredible photo!  The good stuff, indeed!  There's a person wearing the helmet, too.  Hot dog!  Okie

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #767 on: September 04, 2018, 08:28:28 AM »
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man with telescope  ;D

how much for these Gilda standees please  eyeroll


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« Reply #768 on: September 04, 2018, 10:15:23 AM »
Wow, Redman! That's what I call exploitation! Those life sized GILDA standees would probably go for 2 or 3K each, if they still exist, which they probably don't. The BEDLAM display is typical of what NYC Times Square did at the time. Great! And it looks like the manager who did the ISLE OF THE DEAD / HOUSE OF DEACULA display cleaned out the NSS warehouse! He also mixed in posters from HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN, THE MUMMYS CURSE, and I think PILLOW OF DEATH.

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #769 on: September 04, 2018, 06:28:41 PM »
Some incredible movie paper wall-covering, Redman! Alcide La Flamme is a theatre manager in Albany?  Sounds like Rocky and Bullwinkle should investigate that Ritz...

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« Reply #770 on: September 04, 2018, 06:46:29 PM »
Great montage of images there, redman. clap clap.

They knew how to do theater lobbies right, back in the day, thats for sure.


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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #771 on: September 04, 2018, 11:58:27 PM »
The Lexington Theater in KY

VERY COOL looking standees and what looks to be a framed 3 sheet, on the right, further back, for FREAKS (1932)

Also on the right, another framed 3 sh poster for the movie, PRESTIGE (1931), with Ann Harding, and on the left, a framed OS for the flick, THE HATCHET MAN (1932), with Edw. G Robinson.





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« Reply #772 on: September 05, 2018, 12:06:21 AM »
Just an incredible photo with the Freaks' standups, Jeff!  Wow, the juxtaposition of the subject matter and opulence of the venue is sure thought provoking.  And, then Jean Harlow with the serpent: how it all seems to make sense somehow.  Okie

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« Reply #773 on: September 06, 2018, 04:33:10 PM »
Just an incredible photo with the Freaks' standups, Jeff!  Wow, the juxtaposition of the subject matter and opulence of the venue is sure thought provoking.  And, then Jean Harlow with the serpent: how it all seems to make sense somehow.  Okie

Hey Okie,--

The standee with Harlow is for the 1932 flicker, THE BEAST OF THE CITY

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Re: Pictures of posters in action
« Reply #774 on: September 06, 2018, 04:39:15 PM »
Freaking awesome photo, it made me watch the film- i've had it a while but you know how it is getting round to watching things   :-[
An incredible film. Just read that 30 min was cut but is now lost?
Also read about bloke who played Half Boy, Johnny Eck. Imagine being there and seeing this magic act in the 30s:
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In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show. In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf, who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs. After being sawed in half, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing his legs around the stage, screaming, "Come back!" "I want my legs back!" Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing - people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women - the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause. The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop his legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater.  8) ;D