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2015-06-27 Thread Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art
I have wondered about the white poster with the central image for some time. I had maybe a dozen or so of them and I never kept one so I can't access it, though I can look at the picture of course when I listed the poster the first I checked the other sites for added info and as noted in

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2015-06-27 Thread Tommy Barr
That's an interesting point. Warner appear to have shown the movie at a few drive-ins where in-car action seemed more important than screen-action, so it had a short (for the time) initial lifespan ending in June, 1994. So the Summerisle could possibly be considered the first general release

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2015-06-27 Thread Tommy Barr
That should, of course, be June 1974. On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Tommy Barr tommymb...@gmail.com wrote: That's an interesting point. Warner appear to have shown the movie at a few drive-ins where in-car action seemed more important than screen-action, so it had a short (for the time)

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2015-06-27 Thread Tommy Barr
The issue of authenticating and dating movie posters having recently been shown to be problematic in some (possibly many) cases I would like to invite discussion on another British film, *The Wicker Man, 1973*. I am indebted for much of the information on this to the excellent book, *Inside The

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2015-06-27 Thread Paul Gerrard
Hi Tommy, Designer Craig Miller may still be on this forum - I asked him about it once - so he may wish to provide some info first-hand, but what you have appears to be broadly correct. I'd got the Abraxas release of the restored cut at around 1979, but if you've found a firm release date

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2015-06-27 Thread Paul Gerrard
I should add the Summerisle release is technically the first general release, as I seem to remember the Warner release was a selective trial run that flopped. Does that make the Summerisle poster a re-release poster or not?! Paul _www.movieposterstudio.com_