Bruce Hershenson is running two daybills for BUTTERFIELD 8 at the moment.
They are easy to differentiate in printing, as clearly one is short a plate
(see lack of detail in Liz's negligee as one example).
The version with SUITABLE ONLY FOR ADULTS at the bottom of the poster was
printed for use in Australia. That's the Australian censor rating.
The one without that censor rating was printed in Australia for use in New
Zealand, as the NZ censor stamp clearly indicates. NZ had a different rating
system to Australia, with different terminology and different standards.
Ad sales material for NZ was supplied out of Australian distributors - even for
films banned in Australia but passed for NZ, such as some of the early Hammer
horrors. This was particularly true of daybills - a format commonly used in
both Australia and New Zealand.
For one sheets, either regular US domestics or US internationals were used, of
if it were a British film then UK internationals were frequently used. In other
cases, Australian one sheets were used, and were printed without the Australian
rating, or with the Australian rating over-stamped or over-sniped.
This is about the 29th time I have explained this on numerous forums and
privately to dealers over the years. It will probably be the last. Why does
everyone have such a short memory about this stuff, especially people who
handle this sort of material all the time in volume and over many years -
either the consignors or the sellers?
Regards,
Phil E.
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