According to BFI:
National Screen Service Ltd.
List of alternative names
N.S.S.
NSS
National Screen
National Screen Services
Started trading
1930 (Great Britain)
Ended trading
24/12/2008
Nationalities
British
Activities
Production (184)
Titles (70)
Special Effects (8)
Photography (1)
Notes Also opticals, titles, etc The American parent company was
founded 1919; the British off-shoot started early 1930s.
On 6 Dec 2010, at 03:07, Phil Edwards wrote:
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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