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Sue,
Thanks for the detailed comparison info on this question, which pops
up again and again. It would be great to have all three pictures on the
LAMP site! BLADE RUNNER is another one of those posters that was
originally printed during the transition phase as the studios moved away from
using the NSS exclusively. Some of the original BLADE RUNNER posters were
printed by the NSS, and others were printed by the studio at the same time, but
without the NSS tag in the middle at the bottom of the poster . Both versions
are originals, printed at the time of the film's original release for use in
promoting the film. As for the 3rd version... I am not quite so forgiving as you
and Ed -- I consider the third version to be more than "questionable" -- I feel
it is a fake which was printed up in very large numbers. I do not hesitate to
call it a fake because it was clearly intended to pass as the original NSS
version, but the forger blew it. The forger used the studio version to make
his printing plate but he had a picture of the NSS version and wanted to make it
look like that, so he pasted in the NSS info in the middle and then, not looking
close enough to realize that the genuine NSS version did not have the
letters "NSS" in front of the number like the studio version did, he went ahead
and left the letters in place on his fake. Finally, he could see
that he needed to put in the name BLADE RUNNER in front of the NSS number,
but didn't even get it properly aligned with the number (this shoddy alignment
is something the NSS would not have done at that point in time, since they
had long-before stopped hand-lettering the numbers on their posters). The
final proof is that if you compare good-quality pictures of the fake to the
other two, you can see that there is about 1/4 of an inch less of the original
painting displaying on both the right and left sides of the fake (at least on
the ones I've seen close up and in-person).
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:14
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Blade Runner
authentication
Hi Steve
This is Sue from LAMP. We have images of
three different versions: They all have the same artwork and have the US
ratings box, but with different information in the lower border.
Here's a breakdown of the differences reading across the lower bottom from
left:
Version 1 - which we have tagged as the NSS version:
Nothing in left corner; the words "Litho in USA" and the NSS tag in the
middle; the title "BLADE RUNNER" and the NSS number "820007" (doesn't have
the letters NSS) in the right lower corner;
Version 2 - which we have
tagged as the studio version: "Printed in USA" in left corner; nothing
in the middle; and "NSS 820007".in the right lower
corner.
Version 3 - which we call the "questionable" version:
"Printed in USA" in left corner; in the middle in smaller print has the
words "Litho in USA" and the NSS tag; the title "BLADE RUNNER" and then "NSS
820007" (but these two are not lined up) in the right
corner.
I have asked Ed to update this record in the Movie
Poster Data Base showing the different images of these. It'll take
him about 20-30 minutes so you can check to see the images then. Here's
the link:
http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/posters/db/poster.asp?pid=2171
Hope
this helps.
Sue
dsonesheets wrote:
Good
evening,
Anyone know the specs on an original, rolled Blade Runner
onesheet? It looks like this one has the NSS paragraph at the bottom
middle and an NSS number on the lower right. I seem to remember that
there were two styles printed (same artwork) - an NSS one and a
studio-printed one. Any help?
Thanks!
Steve Zammar
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