Posters in TV Shows

[cornershop15]

Following on from the threads I started for Books and Records in TV Shows/Films, I'd also like to highlight some of the Posters that have been included in both mediums. Practically every image interests me these days, especially when screencapping, from sets and locations to the props and vehicles used.

If I am successful they are added to a film or episode's Connections folder, which I create once I've found something on the Internet that resembles what's on screen. For example, a 1930s version of the cereal Force was in an episode of Shabby Tiger I watched last week, while in Dear Mother ... Love Albert Rodney Bewes was given a few Rupert the Bear annuals to read in hospital.

I didn't have any luck in finding the golfing poster that's briefly seen in an episode of The Mind of Mrs. J.G. Reeder (though I'm still willing to share my capture of it), but did succeed with one that features in this 'inbetween shot' from Special Branch - Exit a Diplomat (Note the presence of the radiator. 'Czechoslovakian' shoplifter Barbara Leigh-Hunt hides a passport behind another one!):

My failure to locate 'Don't Invite Crime' allows room for a wartime poster I spotted in The Pathfinders:


As it appeared in the episode Sitting Ducks (1972):


Any other Posters in TV Shows? I think Hugh might be good at finding a few, both on screen and on Google!

[HUGHJAMPTON]

I'll certainly give it a go, cornershop

[Steve Crook]

Check out Dad's Army episode The Lion Has Phones (1969) [3.3]
When Jones phones up the cinema (by mistake) they are showing One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) and they mention Eric Portman and Googie Withers. There is a poster for it on display. There is also a poster for next week's film, The Edge of the World (1937)

Steve

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Check out Dad's Army episode The Lion Has Phones (1969) [3.3]
When Jones phones up the cinema (by mistake) they are showing One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) and they mention Eric Portman and Googie Withers. There is a poster for it on display. There is also a poster for next week's film, The Edge of the World (1937)

Steve

I've got this episode, but not where I'm located at the moment, and unless someone else does it, it'll be a future post, Steve. IIRC, though, was not the poster for OoOAiM just plain script, with no artwork?

[Steve Crook]

I've got this episode, but not where I'm located at the moment, and unless someone else does it, it'll be a future post, Steve. IIRC, though, was not the poster for OoOAiM just plain script, with no artwork?

I don't have that episode to hand either. It could well have been.

I don't think it was as fancy as this one:


Steve

[HUGHJAMPTON]

I don't have that episode to hand either. It could well have been.

I don't think it was as fancy as this one:


Steve

Definitely not that one. I'll have a looksee next weekend

[Gerald Lovell]

Here's the posters to which you are referring from DAD'S ARMY:





The first is indeed made up, but I don't know if the one behind Gilda Perry and Linda James is real. A nice point is that you can just see John Laurie's name on the poster.

The episode opens with another poster, but I suspect this one is totally made up for the programme:

[Cooper S]

Jeff's flat in Randall and Hopkirk features some groovy 60s posters - possibly for rock concerts IIRC.

[Steve Crook]

Here's the posters to which you are referring from DAD'S ARMY:





The first is indeed made up, but I don't know if the one behind Gilda Perry and Linda James is real. A nice point is that you can just see John Laurie's name on the poster.

The first one isn't so much made up as a representation of a poster in use by a local cinema, printed on a blank giving the cinema's name. But all the details are correct.


The second one looks like a real poster. You can also see the names Belle Chrystall & Niall Macginnis. Although I suspect that it's actually from a later re-release of the film (and not just a 1940s re-release). They didn't usually put the director's name in the possessive form above the title like that until about the 1970s

But thanks for the screen grabs

Steve

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Here's the posters to which you are referring from DAD'S ARMY:





The first is indeed made up, but I don't know if the one behind Gilda Perry and Linda James is real. A nice point is that you can just see John Laurie's name on the poster.

Many thanks, Gerald for that The first one is the one I remember, that second one slipped by me Nice work

[Steve Crook]

Many thanks, Gerald for that The first one is the one I remember, that second one slipped by me Nice work

Dad's Army has lots of references to Powell & Pressburger films. At least one of the people involved was definitely a fan, and of course John Laurie was in Red Ensign, Her Last Affaire, The Edge of the World, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and went back to Foula with Powell and others in Return to the Edge of the World

Dad's Army episodes that reference P&P films:

Operation Kilt (1969) [2.2]
The Home Guard is defending against an exercise by the regular Army (Highland Regiment). The regulars try to trick them by starting their attack 1 hour earlier than agreed. Compare that to Colonel Blimp

The Lion Has Phones (1969) [3.3]
The local cinema is showing One of Our Aircraft is Missing and they mention Eric Portman and Googie Withers. There is a poster for it on display. There is also a poster for next week's film, The Edge of the World and of course the episode title is almost certainly a reference to The Lion Has Wings.

The Big Parade (1970) [4.1]
It begins with the Pikes, Wilson, Mainwaring and Jones at the cinema watching The Spy in Black ("I don't believe in Germans being in films; why couldn't they get a British actor?")

Put That Light Out (1970) [4.7]
This is mostly set in a light-house (I think you can work out the plot for yourselves!), Pike refers to "The Phantom Light with Gordon Harker"

Time on My Hands (1972) [5.13]
This is the one with the German airman on the church tower. Pike knows how to release a parachute because he's seen it done in One of Our Aircraft is Missing! However we don't actually see a demonstration, unsurprisingly.

Steve

[Steve Crook]

Should we just limit this to film posters?
There are lots of examples of film posters in TV shows (& films for the other thread).

I think it's hard to find any film set in modern times that didn't have some kind of poster in it.
I think that just limiting it to film posters would be much better, or splitting it into two threads

Steve

[Steve Crook]

Dad's Army has lots of references to Powell & Pressburger films.

BTW it wasn't just Dad's Army that has lots of references to P&P films.
I keep a List of references to P&P films in other films or in TV shows.
The Simpsons has lots of references to them as well

Steve

[HUGHJAMPTON]

BTW it wasn't just Dad's Army that has lots of references to P&P films.
I keep a List of references to P&P films in other films or in TV shows.
The Simpsons has lots of references to them as well

Steve

The Dad's Army references seem to be pretty unique, in that they haven't jumped onto the bandwagon after Scorsese et al endorsed Michael's films.

You'll have to get a thread going on that, Steve: who knows, there might be one or two you haven't got? Though, I doubt it

[HUGHJAMPTON]

The Blow-Up unusual design was used in the original magazine advert in Films and Filming, almost sure it was. I'll check it out when I stop by my collection later in the week.

That would be great, Rick, if you coud do that. Thanks
Oh, yes, have you any ides on the Fellini 8 1/2 poster?

[Rick C]

That would be great, Rick, if you coud do that. Thanks
Oh, yes, have you any ides on the Fellini 8 1/2 poster?

A brainwave just came over me. Here is a poster design of that type from the Moviegoods site. No details of its origin, but there are others on there of a similar type emanating from Italy and Germany only. But this is in English language though. I will nevertheless go through my stock during the week, and i am sure the advert has a London Pavilion logo too.



Maybe this original got the advertising standards people of the day a bit apopleptic!

[Steve Crook]

The Dad's Army references seem to be pretty unique, in that they haven't jumped onto the bandwagon after Scorsese et al endorsed Michael's films.

You'll have to get a thread going on that, Steve: who knows, there might be one or two you haven't got? Though, I doubt it

Remember that we have the P&P email list with about 500 people around the world (including quite a few members of this forum) already spotting them and looking out for them.

But the bandwagon you mention is already quite a crowded one. There's also a Famous Fans list of people who have either referenced the P&P films directly in their work or have said they've been influenced by them or that they just admire them. It's headed by Scorsese of course but it includes lots of other famous names. Some of them are quite surprising

Steve

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Remember that we have the P&P email list with about 500 people around the world (including quite a few members of this forum) already spotting them and looking out for them.

But the bandwagon you mention is already quite a crowded one. There's also a Famous Fans list of people who have either referenced the P&P films directly in their work or have said they've been influenced by them or that they just admire them. It's headed by Scorsese of course but it includes lots of other famous names. Some of them are quite surprising

Steve

Bob Holness, "give me a P&P"

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Juilet Harmer gives a nice rendition of the London derriere.

You're supposed to be focusing on the poster, Gerald

[Moor Larkin]

This one is amusing in that Drake is supposed to be in East Germany....

but on 425lines, nobody would ever have noticed.........