{"id":2937,"date":"2016-12-17T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2016-12-17T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:31:46","slug":"uk-movie-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/uk-movie-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Another UK Movie Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UK-Times-Square-ad-1981_1080px.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UK-Times-Square-ad-1981_1080px-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Ad from a UK newspaper promoting &quot;Times Square&#039;s&quot; opening Text: NOW!  ABC  Shaftesbury Ave  Tel: 836 8861  Licensed Bar  DOLBY STEREO  STUDIO  OXFORD CIRCUS  Tel: 437 3300  DOLBY STEREO  SCENE LEICESTER SQ (WARDOUR ST)  Tel.439.4470  ABC  BAYSWATER  DOLBY STEREO  ABC  EDGWARE RD.  ABC  FULHAM RD.  TIMES SQUARE AA  &quot;GO SLEAZE!&quot; ...IN TIMES SQUARE  ROBERT STIGWOOD Presents &quot;TIMES SQUARE&quot;  Starring TIM CURRY\u00b7TRINI ALVARADO And Introducing ROBIN JOHNSON  Also Starring PETER COFFIELD\u00b7HERBERT BERGHOF DAVID MARGULIES\u00b7ANNA MARIA HORSFORD  Executive Producers KEVIN McCORMICK\u00b7JOHN NICOLELLA  Directed by ALAN MOYLE  Produced by ROBERT STIGWOOD and JACOB BRACKMAN Screenplay by JACOB BRACKMAN  Story by ALAN MOYLE and LEANNE UNGER  Associate Producer BILL OAKES An EMI-ITC Production  Soundtrack available on RSO Records and TAPES RSO  Released by COLUMBIA-EMI-WARNER Distributors Limited.  EMI  A Member of the THORN EMI Group. ALL OVER LONDON FROM SUNDAY AT ABC AND OTHER LEADING CINEMAS  (SEE LOCAL PRESS FOR DETAILS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/10\/UK-Times-Square-ad-1981_1080px-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/10\/UK-Times-Square-ad-1981_1080px-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/10\/UK-Times-Square-ad-1981_1080px-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/10\/UK-Times-Square-ad-1981_1080px.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is almost identical to the <a href=\"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/?p=2950&#038;preview=true\">ad from my last post<\/a>, which appeared a in an unknown film magazine, but it promotes the film&#8217;s wide opening &#8220;All Over London from Sunday.&#8221;  The previous ad has the premiere date, Thursday, 15 January, so it must have been published first.  Either way, <em>Times Square<\/em> was probably out of all those theaters in two weeks&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>My notes say that this particular ad came from the <em>Record Mirror<\/em>, but they don&#8217;t say why they say that.  All I have is the ad itself, and there&#8217;s nothing on it to indicate what page of what magazine it was cut from.  I think the ad on the back may give a little weight to the argument, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/UK-t-shirt-ad_Record_Mirror_Jan_1981_1080px.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/UK-t-shirt-ad_Record_Mirror_Jan_1981_1080px-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"From a January 1981 Record Mirror. Back of a movie ad for TIMES SQUARE.\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/09\/UK-t-shirt-ad_Record_Mirror_Jan_1981_1080px-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/09\/UK-t-shirt-ad_Record_Mirror_Jan_1981_1080px-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/09\/UK-t-shirt-ad_Record_Mirror_Jan_1981_1080px-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/rjnet-wordpress\/2016\/09\/UK-t-shirt-ad_Record_Mirror_Jan_1981_1080px.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If T.I.T.S was still in business, how many of these shirts would you buy, right now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:right\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:85%\">\n<em>[&#8220;Times Square&#8221; UK movie advertisement]<br \/>\nadvertisement, ID: 300193993, 29.1 cm (W) x 20.12 cm (H) (work);<br \/>\n1080 px (W) x 747 px (H), 96 dpi, 485 kb (image)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>1981<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Inscription:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:75%\">\nNOW!<br \/>\nABC<br \/>\nShaftesbury Ave Tel: 836 8861<br \/>\nLicensed Bar<br \/>\nDOLBY STEREO<br \/>\nSTUDIO<br \/>\nOXFORD CIRCUS<br \/>\nTel: 437 3300<br \/>\nDOLBY STEREO<br \/>\nSCENE<br \/>\nLEICESTER SQ (WARDOUR ST)<br \/>\nTel.439.4470<br \/>\nABC<br \/>\nBAYSWATER<br \/>\nDOLBY STEREO<br \/>\nABC<br \/>\nEDGWARE RD.<br \/>\nABC<br \/>\nFULHAM RD.<br \/>\nALL OVER LONDON FROM SUNDAY AT ABC AND OTHER LEADING CINEMAS<br \/>\n(SEE LOCAL PRESS FOR DETAILS)<br \/>\nTIMES SQUARE AA<br \/>\n&#8220;GO SLEAZE!&#8221; &#8230;IN TIMES SQUARE<br \/>\nROBERT STIGWOOD Presents &quot;TIMES SQUARE&quot;<br \/>\nStarring TIM CURRY\u00b7TRINI ALVARADO  And Introducing ROBIN KOHNSON<br \/>\nAlso Starring PETER COFFIELD\u00b7HERBERT BERGHOF\u00b7DAVID MARGULIES<br \/>\nANNA MARIA HORSFORD<br \/>\nExecutive Producers KEVIN McCORMICK\u00b7JOHN NICOLELLA<br \/>\nDirected by ALAN MOYLE  Produced by ROBERT STIGWOOD and<br \/>\nJACOB BRACKMAN\u00b7Screenplay by JACOB BRACKMAN<br \/>\nStory by ALAN MOYLE and LEANNE UNGER<br \/>\nAssociate Producer BILL OAKES  An EMI-ITC Production<br \/>\nSoundtrack available on RSO Records and TAPES  RSO<br \/>\nReleased by COLUMBIA-EMI-WARNER Distributors Limited.<br \/>\nEMI  A Member of the THORN EMI Group. <\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:85%\">\n<em><strong>Times Square<\/strong> \u00a91980 StudioCanal\/Canal+<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is almost identical to the ad from my last post, which appeared a in an unknown film magazine, but it promotes the film&#8217;s wide opening &#8220;All Over London from Sunday.&#8221; The previous ad has the premiere date, Thursday, 15 January, so it must have been published first. Either way, Times Square was probably out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128,69,138,80],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-times-square","tag-128","tag-advertising","tag-record-mirror","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robinjohnson.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}