In one of the Magnificent 6 1/2 comedy shorts (England's version of The
Little Rascals), there is a scene where the kids are either in an alley or
down a small lane and posted on a building or on a fence is the British Quad
for EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN. I don't think this was a prop. Most of these
shorts where shot on location. I can not remember the title of the short.
Do any of our MOPO members in England know the title??
Larry Springer
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From: "Kirby McDaniel" <ki...@movieart.net>
To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:51 AM
Subject: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM
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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