Back in the 1970's, I worked for a printing company which did ads and
such for a movie theater chain. The movie distributor in downtown
Atlanta would deliver the films in cans/cases with movie posters
folded inside. Every once the movie posters would not arrive, get
lost or whatever and they would asked up to do a "blue lines" in
sepia tone of the example poster they had, which was the cheapest
manner of making 3 or 4 of them. They were just like architect
building layouts, but in sepia tone on cheap paper.
For what it is worth. RDG
At 08:31 PM 01/23/2009, you wrote:
Bruce -
Many thanks for your informative essay.
Thus far no one has come forward saying they have or have seen any
type of one sheet on this title.
I think I'm going to consult with eBay's Mrs. Miniver on a price for this!
Here is my image...
<http://home1.gte.net/exit82a/minandbillsmall.jpg>http://home1.gte.net/exit82a/minandbillsmall.jpg
Best,
Glenn T.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Bruce Hershenson
To: <mailto:[email protected]>Glenn Taranto
Cc: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] For the experts
These are called "rotogravure" one-sheets. Most are from MGM and
from the very late 1910s through the very early 1930s. Instead of
the full-color style C & D one-sheets they did afterwards (A & C
were used for the 3-sheets), in this period MGM did a stone litho
full color "regular" artwork one-sheet, and a "rotogravure"
one-sheet, with photos (but sometimes cool deco designs).
They were called "rotogravure" one-sheets after the "rotogravure"
photo sections of Sunday newspapers that were then quite popular
(remember the song from "Easter Parade" which said, "In your easter
bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in
the easter parade. I'll be all in clover and when they look you
over, I'll be the proudest fellow in the easter parade. On the
avenue, fifth avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure. Oh, I could write a
sonnet about your easter bonnet, And of the girl I'm taking to the
easter parade.").
Most "rotogravure" one-sheets were sepia, but some were blue or
other colors, but always a single color. There were around 20 of
them in the legendary Dyas collection I auctioned. I also recall
Albert McFadden once found a bunch of these and there were a lot in
the William Randolph Hearst collection sold by the now defunct
Collectors Book Store many moons ago.
They are absolutely far more rare than the regular one-sheets (which
themselves are quite rare), but I would say it would be very rare
for one to sell for anywhere close to the same price (of course, in
some cases your chances of getting a regular one-sheet are slim and
none, and slim has usually left town).
How about an image? I bet most of us have never seen this.
Bruce
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Glenn Taranto
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Here's one for our experts.
Some of you might remember a while back I aquired a sepia toned MIN
AND BILL one sheet from a collection of posters from 1930.
I've been trying to ascertain if anyone has or has seen any other
original release one sheets on this title. None of the resources
I've checked indicate one ever having been for sale or auction. I'm
hoping to find out the true uniqueness of this poster.
Grey Smith has told me that the sepia toned one sheets are harder to
find than the color ones. As you may know Marie Dressler won the
Oscar for her performance in this film. A fact I hope will create
even more interest when it's finally auctioned.
Any help will be gratefully accepted.
Glenn T.
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