Hi Kirby-
I believe your intuitive sense: "If this was a 1970 Woodstock poster, we
would know it by now" is the best common sense analysis of not only this poster
but any one that there is a question about veracity. No offence to Dave
implied here. I certainly do not have any vested interest in knowing if this
Woodstock piece is authentic or not (not my thing as a collector). Its just
that if something like this is before the "eyes" of the poster market on a
forum like MoPo and there is so much of a difficulty establishing it to be the
real deal, then it does not seem to be something that probably is in fact the
real deal.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirby McDaniel
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Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Woodstock Poster - Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery
Hi, Steve,
I spent an hour pinging around on the Internet to see if I could find some
evidence that this
was a poster that Warners used in 1970. I could not.
The photographic style that was the general-use poster has been attributed to
Richard Amsel, but the campaign
is credited to Bill Gold. The poster Dave has does not read like a teaser,
so to assume it was a 1970 poster would
position it like a "style B" or whatever. I don't ever remember seeing it at
the time used in theaters. And I would
have noticed it because this film - like Yellow Submarine - was like
Christmas Morning to a kid enamored with rock
music and the counterculture.
The teaser that was used - at least the one that was used widely - was the
concert-goers on the hood of the car.
The Kinekor poster is South African -- but that's not the poster that Dave
has.
Here is my very intuitive sense of it. If this was a 1970 WOODSTOCK film
poster, we would know it by now.
How's that for fuzzy?
Kirby
On Nov 30, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Steven F. Poole wrote:
I certainly have no info. to weigh in on this topic..... HOWEVER, this
really must be a tough issue on that poster......first time I've known Kirby to
be stymied ~~!!!
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirby McDaniel
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:09 PM
Subject: [MOPO] Woodstock Poster - Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery
Here is that poster -- distributed by Kinekor.
Notice text is in brown on this one....
I'm stymied -- but I don't think this was around for U.S. distribution in
1970. This bird on guitar was not that
iconic at that time. I'm sure Warner's wanted what they got - hippies in
the river! And rock stars.
But I don't know for sure.
Kirby
http://www.impawards.com/1970/woodstock_ver2.html
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