I did see that response Dave. Sent from my iPad
On 30 Dec 2013, at 14:24, Posteropolis <[email protected]> wrote: > I also mentioned WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR the other day in my response to > your post here on MoPo. (But I have the feeling most of my posts aren’t even > making it onto the board for some reason. Which means you likely won’t see > this either.) > > Dave > > From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce > Hershenson > Sent: December-30-13 7:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] Odd 1945 Pinnochio re-release one-sheet at auction closes > Sunday afternoon along with 998 other folded one-sheets! > > I posted this on Facebook and animation expert Jerry Beck said the reason for > the one-sheet featuring Jiminy Cricket was likely because "When You Wish Upon > a Star" had become a huge hit after the movie came out, and that makes sense > to me. > > But Helmut's observation is also correct. We often forget that theaters would > have lots of posters on display, sometimes cutting them up and re-arranging > them into home-made special displays. > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Helmut Hamm <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously, the onesheet in itself is pretty boring, to say the least. > However, imagine both the one-sheet AND the three-sheet combined on display > in front of the cinema: Completely different story. To me, both posters in > combination work extremely well. With the large puppet on the 3s and all the > secondary characters on the 1s, the overall impression must've been really > nice. > > Helmut > > > The first time I saw this 1945 Pinocchio re-release one-sheet many years ago > I thought it quite odd for two reasons. > > First, it was from just five years after the initial release, and yet the > movie was re-titled to "Wonderful Adventures of Pinocchio", but what was much > more odd was that the poster almost doesn't have Pinocchio on it (see the > below image)! > > > > I guessed at that time that maybe the movie wasn't so popular the first > go-round, and so maybe they were trying to get it off of just being about the > wooden puppet and onto the great secondary characters (which might also have > explained the name change). > > But then recently I auctioned the three-sheet from this 1954 re-release, > which I had never had before, and it has the same re-titling, and yet it has > a huge image of Pinocchio (see the below image) so that seems to shoot the > above theory! > > > > The R54 three-sheet sold for $443. The R45 one-sheet (closing tomorrow at > http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3235865) > is currently at $105. > > There are also 998 other folded one-sheets closing Sunday at > http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/4/15.html, and with less than a day > to go, there are still over half the items at $5 or under. > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. 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