Thunderball had a massive advertising campaign that went on for the best part of 1965.
Thunderball remains one of the big box office blockbusters even now. The paper had several re printings a good and obvious example is the one sheet, an original first release first strike of the poster has 007's jetpack above the art work line and into the border. An original release second strike poster has the jet pack cut off at the border. The Lobby cards went through several printings and it is not unfeasible that the images were mismatched to the cards legends and numbers on reprinting. NSS was never the most careful of printers. New film print this lot...second release print this lot again. When the print plates were replaced with the images they would undoubtedly get mismatched. Also the different printing locations in the US...at least three would have one printer plate up the numbers with the images in say California and the numbers would be miss-matched to the images in New York. Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:54 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Thunderball Mis-numbered Cards - Any Thunderball experts out there? Another example is Circus World. These cards (and posters) were printed at more than one location in the 1950s and 1960s, and they received the images which they then dropped into stock "templates", so while they were likely told which card was to be numbered which, mistakes were sometimes made, as Rich noted. Rich, on the linen vs flat Warner Bros cards, every expert I know agrees that the flat cards are re-releases. In 1942, all of Warners top stars had enlisted, and they spent much of 1942-1944 re-releasing their best titles, and the cards were all flat finish (which included those that had been linen on their first release, like Robin Hood). Many of these re-release cards are sold as originals. Bruce On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> wrote: Alan this happens a bit more often than you think I know that right now I have a title with 2 cards listed and both have the same # unfortunately I can't remember what title it is, so I can't locate the listings easily I have had mis-numbered sets for Maracaibo and one of the Elvis titles of the early 60s and someone just sold 2 cards from King Creole on fleaBay that were both numbered the same. There are others I have had that I just can't think about another issue: the group was once talking about WB linen-paper cards vs matte cards and if titles came in both styles I currently have a card from Juke Girl listed in linen-paper I have the same card in matte coming up later this year Rich At 05:01 PM 10/5/2010, Alan Adler wrote: Hi Folks - Any Thunderball experts out there? I have 2 mint sets of 1965 T'ball lobby cards in hand. In one set the 2 card is the close-up and the other set the 2 card is the foot nibble shot - Then in other set the numbers are revered - the 2 card is the close-up. Anybody know anything about this anomaly? Is one permutation more rare and valuable than the other. In all my years, I don't think I've ever seen the same lobby with different numbers like this. Please email me directly at [email protected] as well as Mopo posting since my Mopo digital connection is dodgy and I really do want to hear about this one! Thanks for your time and expertise! Alan Adler Museum of Mom and Pop Culture 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. -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 28 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions 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.
