I mjust say I never saw or heard then referred to as "lobby cards" by UK dealers or collectors, and the US collectors way back then called then front of house stills, soemtimes "colour sets"if all 8 or more were there, and they were peculiallry British about the use of the term.
I first notice "mini lobby cards" as a term in the early days of eBay. In the UK, "lobby cards" were quite specifically to be understood as 11x14s. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: Ari Richards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question on Bruce's auction I've seen them listed as "UK Mini Lobby cards", "Mini Lobby cards", UK stills and usually FOH stills as mentioned. re photo Vs litho, I would assume Phil means these cards are printed, (using photographic images) rather than exposed/processed, the way photographs are. Not surprising that theres a UK Clockwork orange set, knowing what Kubrick was like in regards to "quality control". Ari. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia <johnr...@moviemem.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Mon, 6 December, 2010 2:33:43 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question on Bruce's auction Thanks for the information Phil Just to be sure that we are talking about the same things, the cards I am talking about actually use photographic images/scenes from the movie. Here is one of the Clockwork Orange cards that I am talking about.... http://www.johnreid.helpinghost.com/CLOCKWORKORANGEFOH10.jpg Note that it has NSS information and the British "X" rating. The cards in Bruce's auction are pictured here... http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2032907 Regards John JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Website: www.moviemem.com PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Edwards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question on Bruce's auction 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 JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Website: www.moviemem.com PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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