Daybill
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A daybill is one variety of Australia
n film poster issued to cinemas
at the time of a film's release. A daybill measures approximately 13 x 30 inches.
Until the 1970s, most daybills were printed as lithographs. In the 1960s some posters began copying American
printing
techniques to achieve a 'gloss' finish that suited the photograph
ic images that were becoming prevalent in poster design. Today, daybills are printed on thick glossy paper and are much more durable.
Daybills are sought-after by collectors
for their rarity and unique artwork
. Some of the more famous daybills include:
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n film poster issued to cinemas
Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
at the time of a film's release. A daybill measures approximately 13 x 30 inches.
Until the 1970s, most daybills were printed as lithographs. In the 1960s some posters began copying American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
printing
Printing
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
techniques to achieve a 'gloss' finish that suited the photograph
Photograph
A photograph is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of...
ic images that were becoming prevalent in poster design. Today, daybills are printed on thick glossy paper and are much more durable.
Daybills are sought-after by collectors
Collecting
The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector. Some collectors are generalists, accumulating merchandise, or stamps from all countries of the world...
for their rarity and unique artwork
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
. Some of the more famous daybills include:
- HalloweenHalloween (1978 film)Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. The film is set in the fictional midwestern...
(John CarpenterJohn CarpenterJohn Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...
, 1978). Features a unique image of villain Michael MyersMichael Myers (Halloween)Michael Myers is a fictional character from the Halloween series of slasher films. He first appears in John Carpenter's Halloween as a young boy who murders his older sister, then fifteen years later returns home to murder more teenagers...
. Australia was the only country to depict Myers on the poster. - The Empire Strikes Back (George LucasGeorge LucasGeorge Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
, 1980). Features artwork developed in JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, but considered superior among many collectors.