>cinema paradiso has a casablance on a wall in the projection booth
in the film//
>
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>From: cinemaicon...@yahoo.com
>To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM
>Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:11:32 -0700
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>>There are lots of cases of movie posters in the background of other
>movies. One of my personal favorites is in The Maltese Falcon. As
>Bogart arrives on the crime scene of his murdered partner, in the
>background we can clearly see a one sheet posted to a wall for Swing
>Your Lady-- a film Bogart hated and claimed he never made... It was
>just a guy that looked like him. John Huston was obviously having
>some fun at Bogart's expense.
>>
>>--- On Thu, 5/30/13, Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net>
>>> Subject: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM
>>> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>>> Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 9:51 AM
>>> Last night I watched a DVD of the
>>> Ronald Neame film, THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956). There
>>> is a scene in the film where two cars are en route to a
>>> destination. In one of the shots, in the background,
>>> there is a billboard for HITLER'S CHILDREN. I couldn't
>>> make out much of the art on the poster, but the title
>>> was clearly evident. These kinds of contextual
>>> juxtapositions are common in movies today, but in this film
>>> that poster - it looks to be a British six sheet - could
>>> just
>>> as easily have been any 1942 film. Why HITLER'S
>>> CHILDREN? I can't help but believe there was a kind of
>>> knowingness in that choice. For those of you who have
>>> not
>>> seen the movie, it concerns an effort to deceive the German
>>> military as to the true location of Allied invasion of
>>> Europe.
>>>
>>> What do you remember about movie posters in films?
>>> When are they just props and when do they comment on
>>> something? Incidentally, the DVD from Netflix
>>> was a quite respectable transfer of a CinemaScope
>>> picture. Not Blu-Ray, though.
>>>
>>> Kirby McDaniel
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