For a period during this time, NSS had a set up in UK, hence the NSS info.
Perhaps Richard Evans can avail us of his research skills and let us know when
the NSS UK operation was in existence.
These 8x10 colour and black and white sets, which are different to press stills
in that they have proper contractual credits on them and in ten majority of
cases were lithos and not photographic reproduction due to the mass production
nature of their required use, and in some more rare instances had an "artistic"
title treatment were always called Front of House Stills, or Front of House
Colour Sets, abbreviated to FoH stills/sets.
While technically the majority of them were not stills in the photographic
sense, they were called stills, presumably because before they were printed as
lithos, they existed as a photographic still.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: [MOPO] Question on Bruce's auction
Hi to you all
Bruce has some interesting items listed in his current auction that he refers
to as "stills" and he notes:
Note that although these stills were "printed in Great Britain", they have
full NSS information. Perhaps they were intended to be used in both countries
(we have heard from collectors who saw these color stills in U.S. theaters at
the time the movies were released, but we have not heard from any English
collectors as to whether they were used in England at that time). If any
English collector knows if these were or were not used in English theaters when
the movies were released, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
I have seen similar "stills" for A Clockwork Orange and various other titles.
I wouldnt really call them stills as they are basically like smaller lobby
cards on lobby card stock but that is just my opinion. Does anyone have any
more information on these stills and answers to Bruce's questions.
Regards
John
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