Hi John,
I brought up the issue of Clockwork Orange cards a while back on NSFGE.
There's a lot of variety, including:
X cert set of 8
X cert set of 13
X cert set of 14 (that set described on Heritage as "mini lobbies" but
the FOH size and with two cards numbered as 10)
All those 3 sets printed in UK.
R release I've noticed printed in USA, though don't know whether that
same rule applies for all of either X or R.
Rich H contributed that there's something like 8 different sets.
On 6 Dec 2010, at 19:36, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote:
Hi Paul
I dont have the card now to have a close look at it so not entirely
sure about the "X" cert. From memory, there were 13 cards in the
Clockwork Orange set and they were all heavy stock (like lobby
cards) unlike the thinner FoH cards.
Thanks to all for the information.
Regads
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Gerrard
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question on Bruce's auction
John, isn’t that the US ‘X’ certificate on the Clockwork Orange -
with 17 age limit in small print? (for UK, it would be 18 if shown
at all.)
The credits on those particular Green Slime stills and the others in
Bruce’s auctions do seem to be specifically aimed at the US market,
rather than both countries. UK credits would have a censor
certificate; they would tend to show ‘National Screen Service Ltd’
rather than ‘Corp’; and to my knowledge the NSS numbering system has
never been used domestically in the UK (shame!). The images seem to
be the same as the UK Front Of House sets (except as you’ll know the
UK sets usually consisted of 8), so presumably the same animal from
the same place to save on costs, but with different credits
overprinted.
Further to Phil’s and Rich’s useful info on NSS in the UK, and for
any distributor-o-philes out there, there’s some more detail in Sim
Branaghan’s ever trusty book on British Film Posters. According to
his research, the UK branch of NSS only started to take over paper
publicity from 1958 onwards (prior to that they handled trailers).
His estimates for the switchover are:- MGM 1958; Paramount 1961; Fox
1962; Columbia 1963; EMI and Warners 1969; Disney, Rank, Universal,
United Artists 1971. Which ties up with what I’ve seen of NSS
disclaimers starting to appear on British material. Congrats again
to Sim for an incredible book.
Paul
www.movieposterstudio.com
In a message dated 06/12/2010 03:37:01 GMT Standard Time, [email protected]
writes:
Thanks for the information Phil
Just to be sure that we are talking about the same things, the cards
I am talking about actually use photographic images/scenes from the
movie. Here is one of the Clockwork Orange cards that I am talking
about....
http://www.johnreid.helpinghost.com/CLOCKWORKORANGEFOH10.jpg
Note that it has NSS information and the British "X" rating.
The cards in Bruce's auction are pictured here...
http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2032907
Regards
John
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