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Offline Tang Lung in Rome

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Italian posters : Printers and Dates
« on: June 24, 2013, 07:23:45 AM »
Vecchioni 1959-64 : Monroe SLIH 2sh , 007 FRWL 2sh

Policrom 1965-66 : Eastwood FAF$M , 007 TB , Dracula PoD

Novograph 1972-73 : What's Up Doc locandina , Fist of Fury 2sh (both styles , also red Titanus logos)

Rotograph 1969-74 : Easy Rider bustas , Owl and Pussycat bustas , Lee's BB/FoF/WotD bustas , Death Wish bustas

Rotopress

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Re: Italian posters : Printers and Dates
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2013, 01:15:53 PM »
Rotograph 1968-74 : OUATITV vertical pb

Vecchioni and Guadagno : Great Escape vertical pb

Novograph 1971-73 : Scars Dracula 2sh

Rotolito : 007 R65 DN 4sh

Rotolitografica : 007 TSWLM pb

Rotopress : 007 TSWLM 4sh , Lee R70s BB/FoF/WotD/EtD
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Re: Italian posters : Printers and Dates
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2014, 06:13:05 PM »
Goldfinger 1st issue , Rotolito or P. Ragioni.......OHMSS was P. Ragioni I believe ?

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Re: Italian posters : Printers and Dates
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2014, 12:27:50 AM »
Does anyone have info on the printer, A.P.E. Roma, and when they might have been in business?

I found some info that suggests they did posters in the 1930's and 40s but don't know how thorough that time frame is.



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« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2014, 02:50:22 PM »
I tripped across these...kind of interesting...

HA sold a pair of photobustas for GWTW, in 2010. They are described as being from 1948. What is interesting is that 1948 also appears on the lower right corner of each piece. But imdb suggests that GWTW didnt first play in Italy until 1951.

http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/academy-award-winner/gone-with-the-wind-mgm-1948-italian-photobustas-2-185-x-26-academy-award-winners-total-2-items-/a/510072-52185.s#57445744658

However, when I was looking closely at these, something immediately popped off the page that says these are most likely from the early 1970s. And that was the MGM logo (leo the lion) used on both. This logo was created and used by MGM starting in the 1960s thru 1982, for their film posters. The distributor, CIC, was started in the early 1970s by Paramount and Universal.

In 1973, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer closed down its distribution offices and became a partner in CIC, which took over international distribution for MGM's films.

So is the 1948 more likely a code or cataloging number of some kind?






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« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2014, 05:02:36 PM »
I only consentrate on the 50s-70s era , sorry......but that is prolly re-issue , yes.

If FAF$M/007 TB is Policrom then 007 GF should be Policrom as well (GF came out early '65 in Italy)

Rotolitografica 1971-77 (Elvis TTWII , 007 LALD , 007 TSWLM)

'72 Dirty Harry ("Dear Bell" , then "PIC") , same with '73 King Boxer (aka Five fingers of death) & '74 Enter Dragon.........

(there is Enter Dragon locandina with blue lettering , although it has DB logo it's by Rotopress.......)
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« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2014, 05:13:55 PM »
The MGM logo, if nothing else (well, the CIC distributor name, too), are the dead giveaways that it is a 70s RR (imo).

Even the font styles used look much too modern.


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« Reply #7 on: June 04, 2014, 05:17:41 PM »
Yes , they should've done more research.......

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Re: Italian posters : Printers and Dates
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2018, 05:15:03 AM »
"prima di edizione" is irritating collectors for ages now.
It doesn't mean anything really and (mostly) just states to year the film was released
(or any paper was printed) for the first time in Italia...

One has to go by distributor / paper quality / design / printing quality (regarding reproductions, also by the distributors).

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« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2018, 12:26:10 AM »
Autographs (always assume it's fake until proven otherwise)

Italian posters (always assume it's re-issue cuz it usually is)

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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2019, 01:26:08 PM »
I don't have many Italian one Panels, but the ones I have seem to be on very poor quality paper. Is this typical? French paper seems to be higher quality, but maybe it is the examples that I have that are bad.
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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2020, 04:08:42 AM »
Sadly Italy had low quality paper movie posters :(

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« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2020, 09:12:25 PM »
Sadly Italy had low quality paper movie posters :(

That's unfortunate. There is some great artwork and I like the size.
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« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2021, 07:49:02 AM »
Selestampa 1975 (TX Chainsaw 4sh)
Cromographica 1973 (Chinese Boxer 4sh)
Rotolito 1965 (007 GF)
Rotolitografica 1971 - 77 (Big Boss rejected 2sh , Chinese Hercules 2sh)
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Re: Italian posters : Printers and Dates
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2021, 09:54:30 AM »
Newby question but does anyone have any information on Rome based printers ROTOEDIT? Active 70’s to 90’s?… or beyond? Can’t find much info online about them.