Hi, Steve, I spent an hour pinging around on the Internet to see if I could find some evidence that this was a poster that Warners used in 1970. I could not.
The photographic style that was the general-use poster has been attributed to Richard Amsel, but the campaign is credited to Bill Gold. The poster Dave has does not read like a teaser, so to assume it was a 1970 poster would position it like a "style B" or whatever. I don't ever remember seeing it at the time used in theaters. And I would have noticed it because this film - like Yellow Submarine - was like Christmas Morning to a kid enamored with rock music and the counterculture. The teaser that was used - at least the one that was used widely - was the concert-goers on the hood of the car. The Kinekor poster is South African -- but that's not the poster that Dave has. Here is my very intuitive sense of it. If this was a 1970 WOODSTOCK film poster, we would know it by now. How's that for fuzzy? Kirby On Nov 30, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Steven F. Poole wrote: > I certainly have no info. to weigh in on this topic..... HOWEVER, this really > must be a tough issue on that poster......first time I've known Kirby to be > stymied ~~!!! > Steve > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kirby McDaniel > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:09 PM > Subject: [MOPO] Woodstock Poster - Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery > > Here is that poster -- distributed by Kinekor. > > Notice text is in brown on this one.... > > I'm stymied -- but I don't think this was around for U.S. distribution in > 1970. This bird on guitar was not that > iconic at that time. I'm sure Warner's wanted what they got - hippies in the > river! And rock stars. > > But I don't know for sure. > > Kirby > > > http://www.impawards.com/1970/woodstock_ver2.html > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
