Yes I do. Maybe 18 posters went out to these theaters, but not 18 posters were printed. No one would print 250 posters, let along 18, especially in those days. It is not economically rational, and studios are not in the business of printing posters in the event the movie becomes a hit and they can sell their left overs for money. Studios do not care about posters. They are just a mean to an end. I've worked long enough for studios to know that. It is pocket change to them. And the interview of a printing manager 30 years after the fact doesn't mean shit either, at least to me. The only thing that matters is whether a poster is hard to find or not. I will agree that the SW Birthday poster is hard to find. Not impossible, but harder than most from the same era. But I will never put out numbers, just because some dude at a printing shop says so. That is irrational to me.
And like you said, we all made our point, people can believe whatever they read or hear. Nothing else to add to the conversation, I'm done here.
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