promotion – Page 7 – Robin Johnson

Film Review, Vol. 30 No. 10, October 1980

1 February, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“‘I’d sung in a choir when I was 12,’ Robin chirps…” Assuming that any periodical dated October probably hit the stands in September, here’s a British magazine devoting an entire page to Robin, a month before Times Square’s premiere, and four months before it would

“I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”

2 January, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

But, I will anyway, ’cause that’s how I roll. The first is a not-quite 1 1/2 inch button with the Times Square logo on a black background. As far as I know these were never for sale, and were most likely given to radio stations and theater owners to give

Forward Into The Past

15 December, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Back issues of Screen International are surprisingly hard to come by. That’s why I’m posting this so far out of the chronological order I’ve been trying to adhere to… I didn’t have this until last week (as of this writing). And I don’t even have the entire issue; I just

Times Square – DJ Copy

14 October, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

… was the title of the soundtrack sampler released in Japan. The picture sleeve is very thin paper, practically newsprint. The image is one used in the film strip on the UK soundtrack sampler. Unfortunately, I cannot read Japanese, and Google Translate does a very bad job of translating Japanese;

TIMES SQUARE Trailer

5 October, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

… was, for some reason, the title of the promotional soundtrack sampler in the UK. It’s a much more attractive package than the US sampler, with a strip of stills across the top emphasizing that yes, there’s a movie involved, as opposed to the US white sleeve that seemed to

“Special Preview of Selected Cuts”

26 September, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This 6-track, white-labelled, white-sleeved record was used by RSO to promote the Times Square soundtrack in the U.S. As there was no art, it may be the most boring promotional item released. It would have been distributed to radio stations, and copies were later handed out at the film’s premiere

Soundtrack Promotional Poster OP-200

8 September, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“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;

Original Soundtrack Album Cover Promo Display

21 August, 2015 Sean 2 Comments 1 category

This was the very first item of Times Square memorabilia I ever got (although, like the double-sided poster, not this specific copy of it). I saw the film twice at the Quakerbridge Mall, which had two record stores in it (later there were three, if you can imagine such a

AFD Campaign Pressbook (pages 7-20)

12 August, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The remaining 14 pages of the AFD Campaign Pressbook consist of the poster reconfigured to fit every imaginable size of newspaper movie advertisement. I’m not posting all of them (because webspace is neither infinite nor free), just enough to give you an idea. The back cover gives a contact at

AFD Campaign Pressbook (pages 5 & 6)

3 August, 2015 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“TIMES SQUARE. It’s a movie. It’s a musical. It’s a way of life.” The photos on Page 6 of the AFD Campaign Pressbook are a cropped version of TS-104-17A/7, and TS-28-28/7. There, now that’s out of the way… Pages 5 and 6 breathlessly present all sorts of fantastic ideas

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