Author Topic: Universal Horror posters (Read 133643 times)

erik1925 · « **Reply #250 on:** March 12, 2013, 04:01:10 PM »

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

erik1925 · « **Reply #251 on:** March 12, 2013, 04:23:02 PM »

Man-Made Monster (1941); US OS

Posteroid · « **Reply #252 on:** March 12, 2013, 04:34:05 PM »

Quote from: Harry Caul on March 12, 2013, 03:33:53 PM

I noticed this poster has the MPEA logo like my Czech Phantom poster. Regarding my poster, Bruce said: "That MPEA guarantees it is 1946 to 1948 (long story as to why)"

GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN was released in Japan on October 4th, 1949.
So obviously in Japan the MPEA logo does not guarantee that the poster is from 1946-48.

Armin

Harry Caul · « **Reply #253 on:** March 12, 2013, 05:59:02 PM »

Quote from: Posteroid on March 12, 2013, 04:34:05 PM

GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN was released in Japan on October 4th, 1949.
So obviously in Japan the MPEA logo does not guarantee that the poster is from 1946-48.

Armin

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply the MPEA/Czech overlap applied for Japan as well... seeing that poster just reminded me to look it up.

Bruce · « **Reply #254 on:** March 12, 2013, 09:02:10 PM »

Quote from: Posteroid on March 12, 2013, 04:34:05 PM

GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN was released in Japan on October 4th, 1949.
So obviously in Japan the MPEA logo does not guarantee that the poster is from 1946-48.

Armin

It started in the end of 1945 in German, Japan and a few other places. Obviously it kept going until at least October 1949, based on your info.

But in Germany, many movies were released by MPEA a year or more prior to the official release to regular German theaters, so it is possible the same was true in Japan.

Harry Caul · « **Reply #255 on:** March 12, 2013, 10:01:41 PM »

Quote from: Bruce on March 12, 2013, 09:02:10 PM

It started in the end of 1945 in German, Japan and a few other places. Obviously it kept going until at least October 1949, based on your info.

But in Germany, many movies were released by MPEA a year or more prior to the official release to regular German theaters, so it is possible the same was true in Japan.

IMDB shows the MPEA distributing films in the Netherlands and West Germany through 1948, and in Austria through 1952.

This source says the MPEA was meant to help distribution in all foreign markets, but their focus really ended up on for Axis and Iron Curtain countries -- presumably because individual studios had a harder time negotiating on their own.

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In the late 1940s, the MPEA handled all distribution of Hollywood films in the dozen or so countries where these problems were most severe, including Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the East Indies, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. There were a few other trouble spots besides Great Britain, like France, Spain, and China, where the MPEA tried to facilitate trade and negotiated agreements but did not serve as the sole bargaining agent for the studios. By 1949, with the former Axis nations on the rebound and now becoming viable U.S. trade partners, the MPEA focused its attention more exclusively on the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries.

Read more: The Postwar Motion Picture Industry - Postwar America, the Global Economy, and the Cold War, Hollywood and Washington - JRank Articles http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/2937/The-Postwar-Motion-Picture-Industry.html#ixzz2NNgihEYO

Ari · « **Reply #256 on:** March 12, 2013, 10:08:41 PM »

My Spanish herald looks like that one sheeter

Bruce · « **Reply #257 on:** March 12, 2013, 10:16:44 PM »

Quote from: Harry Caul on March 12, 2013, 10:01:41 PM

IMDB shows the MPEA distributing films in the Netherlands and West Germany through 1948, and in Austria through 1952.

This source says the MPEA was meant to help distribution in all foreign markets, but their focus really ended up on for Axis and Iron Curtain countries -- presumably because individual studios had a harder time negotiating on their own.

Great info! So that Czech poster could be as late as 1952. I was wrong. I had extensive experience with MPEA in Germany, and foolishly thought it translated to other countries.

Harry Caul · « **Reply #258 on:** March 12, 2013, 10:26:57 PM »

Could be... but I was under the impression that the slim Czech format went away with the arrival (or shortly there after) of the Soviets in 1948.

Harry Caul · « **Reply #259 on:** March 12, 2013, 10:36:39 PM »

Actually, this source below makes it sound like the MPEA was gone from Czechoslovakia by late 1947/early 1948. If you read further into the article it says that Yugoslavia was the only Eastern Bloc country where they were able to negotiate long term distribution arrangements. So while their focus may have been on former-Axis and Iron Curtain countries, it doesn't sound like the MPEA were very successful with the latter. I still can't find much regarding their Japanese stint... although their presence would only be until the studios themselves got a foothold.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hPwdhDUGsqcC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=MPEA+Czechoslovakia&source=bl&ots=-Qou3oACPG&sig=Sj_6_NnRi2QPwY7hCJZqg7O_KQQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UOM_UffoKvao4AOl9ICIAQ&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=MPEA%20Czechoslovakia&f=false

CSM · « **Reply #260 on:** March 13, 2013, 09:48:06 PM »

Great research boys

erik1925 · « **Reply #261 on:** March 14, 2013, 04:11:25 PM »

Two RR Italian posters for Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, on which Bela Lugosi's name is glaringly absent from the credits. How could they have not included or forgotten Bela?

The first is a 2-foglio, the second, a 4-foglio:

Mirosae · « **Reply #262 on:** March 14, 2013, 04:39:08 PM »

WooW ....great colours..

erik1925 · « **Reply #263 on:** March 30, 2013, 01:27:30 PM »

A cool, Italian fotobusta for Son Of Frankenstein. Love the artwork on the left side. Primo!

erik1925 · « **Reply #264 on:** March 30, 2013, 03:36:37 PM »

2 pages from the May 1935 Universal Exhibitor's publication, showing various advert items, posters and some marquee set ups for Bride of Frankenstein.

CSM · « **Reply #265 on:** March 30, 2013, 03:38:02 PM »

indeed!

brude · « **Reply #266 on:** March 30, 2013, 03:39:37 PM »

Very cool stuff, indeed.

Dread_Pirate_Mel · « **Reply #267 on:** March 30, 2013, 08:23:30 PM »

All fixed....

brude · « **Reply #268 on:** March 30, 2013, 08:43:33 PM »

Cool gallery, Mel.
I'm curious about the three-sheet in the pressbook lower right.
Does anyone know if any of that style has survived?

Harry Caul · « **Reply #269 on:** March 30, 2013, 09:34:20 PM »

Quote from: brude on March 30, 2013, 08:43:33 PM

Cool gallery, Mel.
I'm curious about the three-sheet in the pressbook lower right.
Does anyone know if any of that style has survived?

I think we are too far down on the totem pole to be trusted with that kind of info

I hope it has though...

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #270 on:** March 30, 2013, 10:00:57 PM »

I don't believe the bottom 3 posters are extant

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #271 on:** March 30, 2013, 10:01:28 PM »

or the top poster either

CSM · « **Reply #272 on:** March 30, 2013, 10:21:00 PM »

The window card has the same basic image (including the Lugosiless likeness) as the six sheet:

Bruce · « **Reply #273 on:** March 30, 2013, 11:49:26 PM »

The window cards were made in advance of filming, at a time when W.C. Fields was still going to be Drac.

CSM · « **Reply #274 on:** March 31, 2013, 12:06:23 AM »

Quote from: Bruce on March 30, 2013, 11:49:26 PM

The window cards were made in advance of filming, at a time when W.C. Fields was still going to be Drac.

Learned something new today - thanks Bruce

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