That should, of course, be June 1974. On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Tommy Barr <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's an interesting point. Warner appear to have shown the movie at a > few drive-ins where in-car action seemed more important than screen-action, > so it had a short (for the time) initial lifespan ending in June, 1994. So > the Summerisle could possibly be considered the first general release > poster, though with a 1979 date in that case. Confusing, ain't it? > > Tommy > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Paul Gerrard < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I should add the Summerisle release is technically the first "general >> release", as I seem to remember the Warner release was a selective trial >> run that flopped. Does that make the Summerisle poster a re-release poster >> or not?! >> >> Paul >> www.movieposterstudio.com >> >> >> In a message dated 27/06/2015 16:49:55 GMT Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> The issue of authenticating and dating movie posters having recently >> been shown to be problematic in some (possibly many) cases I would like to >> invite discussion on another British film, *The Wicker Man, 1973*. I am >> indebted for much of the information on this to the excellent book, *Inside >> The Wicker Man : How Not To Make A Cult Classic* by Allan Brown. >> >> The original British one sheet with the Lion International imprint seems >> to be above reproach, but that is not the case with the USA one sheets. >> There appear to be three different one sheet posters, 1 from Warner Bros >> depicting the wicker man and 2 showing the Nuada sun god image, both the >> latter having different taglines. One is a Summerisle imprint and one an >> Abraxas imprint. Auction houses have treated and dated the posters >> differently, and often there is no consistency even within the same >> company. Heritage, for example, over the years have sometimes listed the >> Warner poster as National General, though they went bankrupt before they >> could release the movie, with a 1973 and a 1974 dating, and dated the >> Abraxas one as both 1979 and 1980. More interestingly, emovieposter have >> listed the Summerisle one as an original 1974 release. (I have been in >> touch with them and they have promised to research the matter and >> communicate their findings with previous purchasers.) I bought a Summerisle >> one from MoviePosterBid where it was listed as being a 1975 release (not >> complaining, Rich, I’m happy with the poster). >> >> >> Having consulted Brown’s extensively researched book the following are my >> best calculations of the various posters’ actual dates. >> >> >> Original U.S. release – Warner Bros., image of wicker man, ‘Flesh to >> touch . . .Flesh to burn!’ – 1974. >> >> >> Summerisle re-release – Nuada sun god image, ‘The residents of Summerisle >> invited Sergeant Howie to their traditional May Day festival. He didn’t >> expect to meet . . .’ - film due to open in November, 1978, but postponed >> until January, 1979. However, Brown states that prior to scheduled original >> release date ‘Summerisle Films had collaborated with Craig Millar . . . on >> a publicity campaign involving posters, badges and a lavish press kit’, so >> poster seems to actually date from 1978. >> >> Abraxas re-release – Nuada sun god, ‘Pure, brilliant, spine-tingling fun’ >> – opened 26th March, 1980, so poster date of 1980 seems reasonable. >> >> >> By coincidence, both HA and EMP had Summerisle posters listed in the >> same week very recently. Heritage had a folded, fine- , dated 1980, which >> sold for $50, and EMP had a rolled, good to very good, dated 1974, which >> sold for $300. It is a fact that the Summerisle poster is the rarest, which >> brings me to a question I had asked previously in discussions about the* >> Third Man poster*, though I was not referring to that poster >> specifically but in general. It is this - is a rare re-release poster >> worth more than an original release poster which is fairly easily >> obtainable? Just something else for MOPOers to think about. >> >> >> >> Tommy >> >> >> >> >> Tommy >> >> >> >> Tommy >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: >> https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 >> > > 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.
