Whilst Australia is a pretty big country it is sparsely populated, today
we have just 23 million, back in 1940 there was only 7 million.
Of course that was the heyday of movie-going, back then there was about
1600 picture theatres covering some 1200 towns/suburb (estimate based on
the 1950 count), and there there was only one screen per cinema. Today
there are less cinemas, around 300 but with more screens, a little over
2,000 screens today.
How many posters were produced per film is the unknown - based on first
hand information about printing movie posters and the above numbers we
can probably safely estimate around 500-1,000 One Sheets were printed as
a run by the printer (1,500-2,500 Daybills - which were more popular),
so not a lot. WoZ may indeed have been popular but it did not enjoy an
extended run of any note. It is possible that the poster was printed by
a second printer; we do know the printer of the Bidll un-restored
original was out of business by 1941, there is a different printer's
name at the bottom of the other poster which no one can identify at this
time.
David
Helmut Hamm wrote on 13/03/2015 5:15 AM:
David,
the differences are obvious, but more likely than not, there’s a
simple explanation. Australia is pretty large, and the movie was a
big-budget release from a major studio. Now the posters MAY have been
printed at a single facility, but there’s a good chance they were
produced at more than one machine and/or at different times. For all I
know, the movie was an immediate success, so additional posters may
have been needed pretty fast.
Cheers,
Helmut
Am 12.03.2015 um 19:06 schrieb David <shadow....@gmail.com
<mailto:shadow....@gmail.com>>:
Thanks Allen
All good information, although I don't think it was the evil drink in
this case that would explain all these the differences!
David
allen day wrote on 12/03/2015 10:26 PM:
Hi David,
I read the discussion and checked the pics provided. If there was
only one printer (and one printing company location) for all the
paper involved, it is obvious that the examples were manufactured at
different times. However, the subtle differences can be due to
different printers / locations / printing companies, as well as the
restoration process.
I used to be a printer some time ago (1970s), on machines as small
as an ABDick letterpress to as large as a Harris 35x45 or a Miehle
43x60. Large machines had their own platforms / walkways, and bars
so the printer would not fall off the machine to prevent serious
injury. All printers in those days were male and nearly all of the
older printers were alcoholics. Differences in finished product
(even in the same plant) could be due to (among others) different
machines, printers, registration, ink, plates, paper quality, what
time of day finished product was manufactured (printers were less
concerned as they continued to drink all day), indoor temperature
and air conditioning (yeah, humidity played a heckuva part in
printing). Now ... nearly every difference has now been corrected by
improved technology.
ad
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:52 AM, David <shadow....@gmail.com
<mailto:shadow....@gmail.com>> wrote:
There is some strong discussion going on in a forum about all
many the differences between an original Wizard Of OZ
un-restored one sheet sold on bidll.com <http://bidll.com/>
recently and the linen backed one apparently sold some 12 years
ago on HA.
http://vintagemoviepostersforum.com/discussion/866/wizard-of-oz-aust-one-sheet-spot-the-weird-differences
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