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Times Square UK Lobby Cards, 1st Set (post 1 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail I first encountered lobby cards from this series several years ago in the collection of DefeatedandGifted, and I assumed they were Australian, partly because that’s where she was, and because they used the American form of the logo which was used on the Australian movie poster while listing EMI as the distributor. The movie…
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Tajms Skver – lobby card poster 3 of 3, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The last of the Yugoslavian lobby card posters features four images we’ve seen before: Johnny at the mic, Roberto watching Nicky watching Pammy dance, Pammy watching Nicky sing, and Aggie Doone’s debut, which hasn’t appeared on this site, but if you follow the links you’ve seen it at Karen Dean’s (DefeatedandGifted’s) page. …
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Tajms Skver – lobby card poster 2 of 3, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Another four “lobby cards”, printed together on one poster, having been cut together and reprinted from an earlier series of lobby cards that I didn’t have when I found these. Unlike the first one, I think we’ve seen all these images previously, but, I’ll have more to say about them later.…
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Tajms Skver – lobby card poster 1 of 3, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail I originally thought that these were uncut sheets of lobby cards intended to be separated into individual items, but after digitally doing exactly that I’ve come to the conclusion that, no, they were intended to be displayed just as they are. First, there’s not enough interior border area to cut them apart evenly, unless…
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Tajms Skver – lobby poster, Yugoslavia, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The main Yugoslavian poster used the art from the U.K. poster which was used throughout Europe. But Zeta Film also produced at least four more promotional pieces, which I believe to have been made for display in theater lobbies, based on their size and artwork. This poster is smaller than a standard one-sheet,…
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Times Square movie poster, Australia, February 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The Australian movie poster featured the glorious Mick Rock photo of Robin that graced the earliest piece of Times Square advertising, which is possibly my favorite image used to promote the movie. Once I’d found this I was looking forward to having it framed, but unfortunately not only are the Australian…
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October 1981: Times Square… Great TV Entertainment…?
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail According to the October 1981 issue of Great TV Entertainment, the official schedule for Showtime and The Movie Channel, Times Square was shown six times on The Movie Channel, on October 25, 27, and 31. I could have sworn it was shown many times more than that; the showings must have continued into November,…
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Times Square Hits US Cable TV, October 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail A year after its brief run in theaters, Times Square made it to HBO, and I watched it every single time it ran. This was before my family had a VCR, but my dad had access to a Sony Porta-Pak open-reel video recorder, and I recorded the movie across four reels, during four broadcasts,…
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Filmstar, Vol. 1 No. 6, Thailand, October 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail I would think that by October of 1981, a year after its initial release in New York, and two or three months after its Thai release, Times Square would have long since closed in Thailand and become a distant memory. But that didn’t stop Filmstar magazine from running an article…
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Times Square movie poster, Thailand, 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Movie posters in Thailand are an art form unto themselves. Google “Thai movie posters” and you will go down a rabbit hole you may take days to emerge from. Thai film distributors discard the authorized promotional materials and commission original painted montages in glorious colors. Some of the pages I looked…