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Okay ignoring Bruce as an issue any issue,
how or where Gary is it determined that this particular piece is a
repro? I say that because I happened to have overseen the marketing
at The CINEMA III in NYC located in the basement of The Plaza which in its
final three years where in fact it made more money renting to the
Plaza for meeting space than the films playing. But in its day when indeed
specialized films played exclusively in one house for all of
Manhattan. independents and at times some of the larger studios
would create special runs of posters just for that market. Their
primary use, wild-posting.
Barbet Schroeder's trippy, excursion
to Papau New Guinea with lots of pig clubbing (that's all I remember save for
the bursts of laughter speckled through out audience at times
uncontrollable, no doubt due to the shrooms mixed in with their Snow
Caps) opened in late spring of I thought '72 some have it
as '77 anyway I have never heard this poster questioned especially in view
of the fact it was printed.
I still have several examples of
onesheets that actually measure 27 x 43 or 44 where along top or
bottom Coming Soon To The Baronet/Coronet, (Mommie Dearest) or
ZIEGFELD (Barry Lyndon). To make the special printings
affordable, it was actually more cost effective to print up a set standard
amount which was I believe 1500 or 2500 so obviously hundreds could be
left over. Case in point, while in DC and working for Circle
Theatres and Circle Films. who were also the major partners behind
CINEMA 5 years earlier, I threw out at least 800 onesheets
for THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, and hundreds of SEVEN BEAUTIES,
JABBERWOCKY, GREASER'S PALACE AND f*ck me running who knew...... the
black versions of GIMME SHELTER. All had theatre ID's so not
much use in sending anywhere else unless out of standard posters and we
needed the closet space..........ohhhh the horror.
freeman fisher
8601 west knoll #7 west hollywood, CA 90069
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