Posters in Films

[cornershop15]

I started a thread earlier for Posters in TV Shows, so it naturally follows that I should do the same for Films.

I am indebted to our Christoph as his query about a Harry H. Corbett film, soon identified as The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), led to my providing some screencaps for that thread and, through being reminded of a scene where Harry ascends an escalator, given me the incentive to get this one going sooner than expected.

Among the assortment of posters he passes are advertisements for recent films Love
Story and Death in Venice, as seen here. The one in the middle is for Slix swimwear:

So it was the novel that was being promoted ... The film poster doesn't have the garish colours of the cover's title here. I have a compilation CD called All You Need Is Love and the artwork is clearly influenced by this design. I suspect the Death in Venice ad is also for a book tie-in. The portraits of the stars are almost identical but the lettering is different. The joined up style is on other posters, however, and has been retained for the DVD release.

A better view of Harry H. Corbett and the Death in Venice poster, with Love Story just about visible.


More from this scene in the The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins segment Lust soon.

On the subject of posters from other films that were in a film, I recall seeing Paul Newman as Hud in Midnight Cowboy and The Sound of Music in Sweet Charity. There was also one from a Humphrey Bogart movie (Casablanca surely?) in Woody Allen's film Play It Again, Sam. And there must be a few Lord Kitchener and Uncle Sam Posters in Films ...

[wadsy]

[moonfleet]

Tim Robbins in Griffin's office/The Player/Robert Altman



New game: guess the half-hided posters titles

[Rick C]

Is the thread for film posters in films? Don't have my scanner working but someone may have the vid to get a cap from; of Tom Courtenay in 'Otley' imitating the pose of Julie Andrews in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" next to the poster itself. Shepherd's Bush or Notting Hill Gate tube station I think.

[Steve Crook]

Is the thread for film posters in films?

I was wondering the same thing. There are lots of examples of film posters in films (& TV shows for the other thread).

I think it's hard to find any film set in about the 1940s onwards 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

[Rick C]

I started a thread earlier for Posters in TV Shows, so it naturally follows that I should do the same for Films.

I am indebted to our Christoph as his query about a Harry H. Corbett film, soon identified as The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), led to my providing some screencaps for that thread and, through being reminded of a scene where Harry ascends an escalator, given me the incentive to get this one going sooner than expected.

Among the assortment of posters he passes are advertisements for recent films Love
Story and Death in Venice, as seen here. The one in the middle is for Slix swimwear:

So it was the novel that was being promoted ... The film poster doesn't have the garish colours of the cover's title here. I have a compilation CD called All You Need Is Love and the artwork is clearly influenced by this design. I suspect the Death in Venice ad is also for a book tie-in. The portraits of the stars are almost identical but the lettering is different. The joined up style is on other posters, however, and has been retained for the DVD release.

A better view of Harry H. Corbett and the Death in Venice poster, with Love Story just about visible.


More from this scene in the The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins segment Lust soon.

On the subject of posters from other films that were in a film, I recall seeing Paul Newman as Hud in Midnight Cowboy and The Sound of Music in Sweet Charity. There was also one from a Humphrey Bogart movie (Casablanca surely?) in Woody Allen's film Play It Again, Sam. And there must be a few Lord Kitchener and Uncle Sam Posters in Films ...

I'm convinced that the Love Story adverts IS for the film and not the novel. Bottom right hand corner logo "Paramount" refers to the name of the cinema in Regent Street, not just the distributor. Love Story opened at both previous-Plaza twins (Paramount+Plaza) on 9 March 1971, and whereas at the Paramount it continued on its own until 1st December, the Plaza showing closed on July 7th. Sure I have a colour ad of this in my collection. Will chase this up this coming week also.

[vincenzo]

In Rabid Marilyn Chambers passes a cinema showing Carrie (the poster is plainly visible). Coincidentally Sissy Spacek was considered by David Cronenberg for the Chambers role.

The original Hills Have Eyes poster can be seen in the early basement scene in The Evil Dead.

[Rowdon]

There's a nice scene in A Single Man (2010) set against a huge poster for Psycho.

[Rowdon]

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Is there a chance either of these designs could be later creations and therefore anachronisms, issued after the period films were depicted?

Not being an expert on the variations of movie posters, Rick, I'm going to chicken out at even guessing at that, and leave it in your capable hands

All I can offer at this moment is that That'll Be The Day was released in '73, so, there's 15 years to play with in the case of The Duke Wore Jeans and 23 years with Cinderella. The phrase needle in a haystack springs to mind.

[Rick C]

Not being an expert on the variations of movie posters, Rick, I'm going to chicken out at even guessing at that, and leave it in your capable hands

All I can offer at this moment is that That'll Be The Day was released in '73, so, there's 15 years to play with in the case of The Duke Wore Jeans and 23 years with Cinderella. The phrase needle in a haystack springs to mind.

This actually touches on a project that i have had going for a few years now called "Posters in the Picture" whereby just ordinary photographs (or newsreels!!) of street scenes for example by chance catch in the frame a hoarding or a next-door cinema (to a town hall, for example) where the frontage of that cinema picks up the advertising of the day. Maybe it will all end up on Flickr where an international casual audience can participate.

I'm doing my own index of the stock on the CinemaTreasures website and that of Mawgrim(Odeon Cavalcade) but that's just the beginning. For example, here's a study from one of the professional photography sites taken in 1969 where we have whoppers of posters from The Lion in Winter and OHMSS, but the purpose of the scene in the category in which it was filed is of the motor-cars of the day just off Piccadilly Circus in London.




Will it not be too long now before i get a visit from men in white coats, I wonder?

[Steve Crook]

Is there a chance either of these designs could be later creations and therefore anachronisms, issued after the period films were depicted?

That is quite a common goof in any film set in the past, even by just a few years

Steve

[Rick C]

That is quite a common goof in any film set in the past, even by just a few years

Steve

Hughjampton and me are on the case as we speak, Steve. Hugh is keeping an eye on the Walt Disney portfolio as in Cinderella previously mentioned, whilst I'm in charge of the Mary Millington-type ones, in case there are any *boobs* that went unnoticed at the time by Lonsdale and Bartholemew!

[moonfleet]

Le Mépris / J.L Godard

[Reeldigger]

Whenever I watch Gorgo I'm always on the look-out for that huge 24-sheet of Hammer's The Mummy in the scene where the T-Rex-like monster is being hauled on a flatbed truck through Picadilly Square.

[theuofc]

... The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) ... a scene where Harry ascends an escalator...Among the assortment of posters he passes are advertisements for recent films ...Death in Venice, as seen here. :

...I suspect the Death in Venice ad is also for a book tie-in. The portraits of the stars are almost identical but the lettering is different. The joined up style is on other posters, however, and has been retained for the DVD release.

A better view of Harry H. Corbett and the Death in Venice poster...


More from this scene in the The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins segment Lust soon.

Hello, Cornershop,

I just saw this. An interesting thread. Thanks for pointing out the posters for Death in Venice. I wasn't aware of their being in the film. They certainly support a later filming and release date of Nov. 1971 for TMSDS since Death in Venice was released in March 1971, early enough for posters to be present.

Happy holidays,

Barbara

[Rick C]

Hello, Cornershop,

I just saw this. An interesting thread. Thanks for pointing out the posters for Death in Venice. I wasn't aware of their being in the film. They certainly support a later filming and release date of Nov. 1971 for TMSDS since Death in Venice was released in March 1971, early enough for posters to be present.

Happy holidays,

Barbara

"Death in Venice". London Premiere: 1st March 1971, Warner West End.(The larger of the two Warner Leicester Square twins). Then Warner Rendezvous (as seen here) 2 March to 21 July, 1971.

[theuofc]

"Death in Venice". London Premiere: 1st March 1971, Warner West End.(The larger of the two Warner Leicester Square twins). Then Warner Rendezvous (as seen here) 2 March to 21 July, 1971.

Not to date you, Rick but more an envy question...you didn't happen to attend that premiere of Death in Venice, did you?

[Rick C]

Not to date you, Rick but more an envy question...you didn't happen to attend that premiere of Death in Venice, did you?

"Date"...as in "age" or "rushing me off to Malibu to get married" (as it happened in The Graduate or whatever)?

Wasn't in the locality at the time Barbara, but I do have the film adverts from premiere day which I can post up in due course. Just needs getting into my store which is locked up at a local college until new term starts a week or so away.

[theuofc]

"Date"...as in "age" or "rushing me off to Malibu to get married" (as it happened in The Graduate or whatever)?

Wasn't in the locality at the time Barbara, but I do have the film adverts from premiere day which I can post up in due course. Just needs getting into my store which is locked up at a local college until new term starts a week or so away.

The latter certainly sounds like more fun, but alas I meant the former. Thanks so much for the film adverts re: the premiere of Death in Venice, whenever you can and do.

Best,

Barbara