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Another 2-fer
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailTwo more UK black and white press photos on a single 8 x 10 print. Like the previous one of these, we have here one familiar picture and one new one. At least I’ve never seen the top photo before, of Nicky waiting for her cue from Johnny to start her performance. Or…
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“Nick & Slick”
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailTwo UK black and white press photos on a single 8 x 10 print. Who exactly printed these, and why, are mysteries, as I haven’t yet come across any publication that used them, but their country of origin is made clear by the captions announcing Times Square’s release in the UK. A bigger mystery is…
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Times Square UK Press Kit (post 3 of 4)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailFirst, some pictures. UK Press Kit photo #5 is another headshot of Tim Curry, this time as Johnny appears at the end of the film as he’s watching the concert though his telescope on the deck outside WJAD. The most interesting thing about this photo is, at first glance it looks like TS-79-28/8…
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Times Square Soundtrack Promotional Video
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailApparently, in 1980, RSO sent this videotape to record retailers to play in-store to promote the soundtrack to Times Square. It features the two songs performed in the film, “Your Daughter Is One” and “Damn Dog.” The fact that the lyrics to “Your Daughter Is One” consist primarily of curse words and racial slurs guaranteed…
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Soundtrack Promotional Poster OP-200
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“O” is for “oversized,” I assume. This image is the same size as the image of the last poster, but trust me, the actual poster is double the size — just as tall and twice as wide. At four feet wide, it may be the largest poster in my collection; the UK “Quad” movie poster…
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The U.S. Movie Poster
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail The final design for the movie poster retains the two overlapping askew rectangles from the poster side of the double-sided poster. That poster had a black rectangle over a purple rectangle over a red background; here it’s changed to yellow over blue over white. The colorized collage of Nicky and Pammy remains, but Pammy’s…
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The Mystery of the Double-Sided Poster, Side Two
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailFully opening the two-sided poster reveals my favorite version of the image most associated with Times Square. As I mentioned last time, I find the red background more visually pleasing than the yellow used on the movie poster and soundtrack album cover. There are several other differences in this version, as well. The Seiniger designers…
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Times Square Press Material folder (post 4 of 5)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail On the left is the same photo as this one, cropped differently and of course without the autograph. On the right is the photo that may be the one used the most to promote the film. We’ll have a better idea about that once I’m done with all this stuff. Until just now,…
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Times Square Press Material folder (post 3 of 5)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“… in one of those inexplicable chance occasions, out of the blue, Robin Johnson appeared…” Four more stills from the Times Square U.S. press kit. I don’t really have anything to say about these, but when have I let that stop me. It means nothing, but I notice in the first pic, Pammy’s dad…
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Odds and Ends
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailBefore moving on, I mentioned some time ago some pictures I’ve only seen on the Web and not found any physical copies of. So, here they are. Some of them anyway. I’d found a bunch of these at Cineplex, having been digitized by Baseline Research, but as I was assembling this post I found that…