Hi Hope,
I'd go along with both Todd, JR and Robert here, although being
completely accurate... CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - THE SPECIAL
EDITION was actually a first release of the film in that form and with
that title due to re-editing, additional footage and new title.. but
that's a nit-picky thing.
Interestingly, in regard to JR's comments on terminology, having been in
and out of the film industry for the last 25 years, the term "re-issue"
for films that are "re-released" has been in common use within the film
industry in both England and Australia for as long as I can remember.
Perhaps that's peculiar to those two countries. There are a couple of
others terms that might interest people. In Australia, industry people -
whether in distribution or exhibition, don't refer to a film they are
distributing as a "movie" or "film"... they use the term "show". So you
might ask an exhibitor what they thought of a particular film/movie, or
how well they did with it, and the response might be, "It's a good show"
or "We did well with that show."
Similarly, it's only in relatively recent years that one sheet posters
were called and referred to as "one sheets" here in Australia. They were
always called by industry folk, "one sheeters" or "three sheeters" or
"six sheeters".
Phil
JR wrote:
Hope,
You were completely correct -- anyone who suggests otherwise is trying
to claim that only the first release of a film can produced an
"original" movie poster and that just isn't logical. Very simply: Any
movie poster that was produced by the studio and sent to the theaters
to be used to advertise the film in question qualifies as an
"original" movie poster.
By the way, this gives me an opportunity to comment on something that
has been bothering me:
Movies are "released" -- they are NOT "issued".
"Re-issue" is the wrong term to apply to a movie poster. I don't know
how it came to be applied to movie posters, but I've been seeing it
thrown around a lot lately. It is an incorrect application and the
term "re-issue" should never be used to describe a move poster. There
is no such thing as a "re-issue" of a film -- the correct term is
"re-release" and a poster produced to advertise the re-release of film
should be correctly described as:
"an original movie poster for the 1954 re-release of GONE WITH THE
WIND" ... or whatever.
-- JR
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*Subject:* [MOPO] A question for you pros
I have advertised posters on ebay as "original movie posters" even
though they are re-issues. I had hoped by putting them in the
appropriate years catagory buyers would know they were re-issues.
My logic was that since they were printed and sent to movie
theatres by
the advertising distributor they were originals and not copies, just
another and subsequent printing.
I've received notes from one of the pros in the business
suggesting that
I was misleading the buyers.
Do you agree? Should I be saying, "original re-issue" in the subject?
What do you think. What would you say.
I have added the following note to my 2 posters in question:
This Poster is an original re-release from 1980. It was made by the
distributor after the initial original posters were printed.
I appreciate your comments since I pride myself on my honesty and
integrity and am always willing to learn.
many thanks
Hope
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