Pictures of posters in action

[monocle]

Just found an original photograph buried deep in my collection...

[CSM]

That's it - I am starting smoking again

[110x75]

 

[monocle]

I've never smoked. Although I have occasionally caught on fire whilst barbecuing.

[Mirosae]

I've never smoked. Although I have occasionally caught on fire whilst barbecuing.

 

[Starling]

Just found an original photograph buried deep in my collection...

That looks a little like Crawford.  Wonder who it is...

[brude]

[CSM]

The sad thing about that pic is that I bet at one time that theatre was a very classy 'motion picture palace'  

[Crazy Vick]

triple bill!!

yeah right, just the first one sounds exhausting.

[brude]

I wonder if that's the theater where Pee-wee Herman was caught floggin' the bishop?

[50s]

I want to see those posters on the wall in detail

[CSM]

I wonder if that's the theater where Pee-wee Herman was caught floggin' the bishop?

Does that say the Wank Factory in the back there? 

[Neo]

I wonder if that's the theater where Pee-wee Herman was caught floggin' the bishop?

The theater where he was arrested is in Sarasota, FL, right next to the Tampa Bay area.

Here's a kinda interesting, brief history of the guy.

http://www.famouslyarrested.com/actors/pee-wee-herman.html

[Tob]

Not a poster, but I was watching an old highlights clip of Crystal Palace beating Chelsea 3-2 and noticed the advertising hoardings in the back ground. Seems a strange film to market at football fans in the 70s!

[Mirosae]

Well spotted! I seem to recall that the film didn't do that well at the box office.. maybe they were just trying hard to get the messages across.

[erik1925]

Congorilla (1932)

Looks like a nice pair of 3 sheets there and maybe a 6sh above the marquee?





Mad Love (1935)

Perhaps this photo was taken in a UK cinema, as the film was released there, as The Hands of Orlac

[monocle]

I do like that Orlac. It's amazing to consider just how much trouble they'd go to, to publicise a film. When I was a lad in the 60s, the Regency (the biggest cinema in town) was still putting on extraordinary displays for major releases. For 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' they had a giant detailed cut out of the car with expanding and moving wings fixed to the wall over the entrance. Now I wish I could find a photograph of that!

[erik1925]

Murder By the Clock (1931)

I like the large clock/hand motif and standee of actress, Lilyan Tashman, who is also featured in the same pose (art), on the US OS. Looks to be some LC and a HS to the right, in the display case, too.

 

[erik1925]

I do like that Orlac. It's amazing to consider just how much trouble they'd go to, to publicise a film. When I was a lad in the 60s, the Regency (the biggest cinema in town) was still putting on extraordinary displays for major releases. For 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' they had a giant detailed cut out of the car with expanding and moving wings fixed to the wall over the entrance. Now I wish I could find a photograph of that!

Sounds very cool, Nick. You should try and see if u can find a pic someplace. 

[monocle]

No luck so far Jeff, but I did come across this 1930s snap which shows the Regency had a bit of a history of making a decent effort!


By Dominic Alves from Brighton, England (Regent Cinema Facade) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons"

[erik1925]

Wow.. that is some 3D display there, Nick. Love the plane.

They knew how to go all out, it seems!

[Harry Caul]

Mad Love (1935)

Perhaps this photo was taken in a UK cinema, as the film was released there, as The Hands of Orlac

Cool!  Is that a UK quad below the display?  Pre-war quads are possibly some of the rarest paper I've ever encountered! 

[erik1925]

Nick, do you know the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road?

Here's that theatre for The Sound Of Music (1965). That is some display up top, too.  






And if the Orlac pic is from the UK, I would think there's a good chance it is a quad under Mr Lorre's chin. 

[erik1925]

I found and liked this image because of the several film posters that were in this theater lobby at the same time. The theater was the Regent, still located and operating, in Toronto, ON , Canada. The lobby photo is from 1930.

Included are a 3 sheet from the 1930, pre code film, called Hold Everything. It was the first musical comedy film to be released that was photographed entirely in the early two-color Technicolor process. It starred Joe E Brown.

Next, in the lower left area, in a frame, is a OS for another 1930, pre-code flicker, called The Devil's Holiday, starring British actress, Nancy Carroll. And last, what I think is a half sheet for Al Jolson's 1930 WB film, Mammy, with Lois Moran.

It's always fun to trip across this kind of stuff, especially if certain poster sizes or styles have not been seen or sold from these films recently, or at all.. (such as the 3 sheet for Hold Everything or the HS from Mammy.) A US OS for The Devil's Holiday did come up for auction and sell, in 2007, for $575.00 USD

     

[Harry Caul]

Mad Love (1935)

Perhaps this photo was taken in a UK cinema, as the film was released there, as The Hands of Orlac

Actually, I'm starting to think that isn't a quad... The giant head seems to be covering a door, which even a small door would be at least 28-30" wide, if not more.  Also, that appears to be some sort of chair rail along the wall -- standard height for those are 32".  If it was a framed quad it would be roughly the same height.

Paul -- I know you said before the war that quads could be found with both horizontal or vertical orientations.  Does that apply to double crowns too?  Could this be a horizontal DC?