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David,
I agree it's interesting about the hands... that's why I think
it was produced by the original owners/distributors (such films weren't made by
"studios" as such), as they had access to the original artwork/photography when
they made this smaller poster. But the only way I can account for the smaller
size is as a video poster, which traditionally were smaller than the 27x41
theatrical one sheets to save money. Now, this doesn't mean that the video
poster wasn't used in a theater in San Diego. Why?
Hmmm... that requires a bit more explanation. Suffice it to
say that back in the days my flamin' youth I lived in Hollywood and ended up
hanging out and partying with a lot of people involved in the X-rated film
business. I didn't make or distribute such films (but I did write a couple of
scripts. Yes, they had to have scripts back in those days. They had to be able
to at least pass for having plot and character to even be shown). In other
words, I smoked but I never inhaled. Anyway, the point is I knew a lot of people
in the business and had a pretty good idea of how it operated.
One thing they didn't do because they weren't movie studios
and had very limited budgets: They never printed up more than one size poster...
a standard-size one-sheet. There were no half sheets, inserts, lobby cards or
any other size variant printed up for theatrical used that I'm aware of. Maybe
someone will now pop up with some examples now and prove me wrong, but I
never saw anything but standard one-sheets made for X-rated films during that
era.
And while there was one big "chain" of Adult Theaters in
Southern California (the Pussycat Theaters), most were individually owned and
operated. And they economized. Big time. They used and re-used what they had on
hand or could scrounge up.
Such theaters also would run particularly popular titles on a
regular basis (and DEEP THROAT was the biggest, and first, porno
"blockbuster"), bringing them back to their screen every 5 or 6 months for
years. There weren't any official "re-releases" as such... they just kept the
popular films in continuous circulation for years and years. Even after the
first video tapes came out, adult Theaters continued to thrive for quite a
while, because the tapes were prohibitively expensive for the first few years.
And so, DEEP THROAT would have continued to be shown at theaters even after the
video tape came out (and the smaller poster printed up to publicized the
video release came out).
As you know, one-sheets deteriorate pretty badly when they are
passed around and used at theater after theater continuously for almost 10
years. There's a good chance that the guy running the theater in San Diego where
DEEP THROAT was showing (and where your friend got his poster), simply got hold
of one of the video posters to use at his theater because there weren't any
decent copies of the old, tattered one-sheet around to use at that
point.
All of this is still a best guess based on personal
experience. I don't know for sure. But I never saw any of those original x-rated
films from the late 60's and early '70's that went out to the theaters with
anything other than standard-size one-sheets, so I don't know what else that
25x38 could be.
-- JR
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