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Printers in Australia
Printers
Fortunately, Australia is one of the countries that put the printer on the bottom of their posters. The difference is the size of the market and the way printing was handled..which IS quite unusual. A lot of the printing was done by a process called Hand Litho
One oddity is that it is common for different printers to print different sizes... For example, 1946 Postman Always Rings Twice; Offset Printers printed the Australian one sheet while Simmons did the daybill.
Another thing to watch for... Australia was the main supplier for New Zealand posters. Because of drastically different censorship restriction, there were times that films were shown in New Zealand at totally different times than they were in Australia. This created a LOT of oddities, such as numerous restrikes and reissues - AND sometimes these were done by different printers.
Another oddity is that DURING a film release, it was not unusual for the distributor to have additional posters printed.... and sometimes even printed duo-tone... for the SAME release. This creates a collectors nightmare.
Since there is no real numbering system on the posters, at least the printer information will quite often help to date the poster.
We will attempt to document and show as much as possible to give you as much information as we can... Be sure to check the archive, as we will also try to document these oddities as we find them. NOTE: when you go to the archive, if you are a LAMP Member, be sure to log in so you can see the extra larger images. The link will appear just below the regular image once you log in if we have one available. We have a lot that is NOT online yet, so if you don't see what you are looking for, email me and if I have it, I will put it online for you.
Here are printers that we have compiled so far. Included are the tags and if they changed, the years that we have documented so far and a link to the films that we have in the archive attributed to them. As we gather more information, we will also start adding articles on the individual printers.
These are taken from samplings and so they are NOT conclusive, but they should be able to help with some dating.
Claymore Press Pty
Ltd.
link
to our archive
printed for Roadshow
1968 |
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F. Cunninghame &
Co. Pty
link
to our archive
printed for RKO and Universal
1944 |
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1950 |
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1956-1959 both tags used |
 
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W. Frocky Pty Co.
(?)
printed for MGM
1959 |
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Hacket Offset Printing
link
to our archive
printed for MGM
could these be the same as Hackett.... and they mis-spelled their own name???
1940 |
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Hackett Offset Printing
Co.
link
to our archive
printed for MGM and Paramount
1936-1941 |
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1941 |
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Hollander and Covett
Pty
link
to our archive
printed for Paramount
1944 |
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Jno. Evans &
Son
link
to our archive
printed for Independents
1922-1923 |
Jno. Evans & Son Syd
486-488 Kent St Sydney |
M.A.P.S. Litho Pty.
founded by David Seton
link
to our archive
printed for everyone including independants
| 1969-1974 |  |
| 1975-1983 |  |
Marchant & Co.
link
to our archive
printed for MGM and WB (First National)
1925 |
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1941-1943 |
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Offset Printing
Co.
link
to our archive
printed for MGM and Paramount
1942-1944 |
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1943 |
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1944-1946 |
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1947-1950s |
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John Richardson Studio
Richardson was both artist and printer.
We have tried to divide these by documenting when the Richardson Studio is
the only listing on the poster and when they are listed in addition to another
printer.
See Australian Artists
Robert Burton Pty
Ltd.
link
to our archive
Burton printed for just about everyone over the years, including Columbia, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, United Artists, Universal and even Filmways.
1960-1961 |
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1961-1968 |
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1972 |
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1975-1985 |
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Royelltone Prints
Pty.
link
to our archive
printed for Columbia
1961 |
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Simmons Ltd.
link
to our database
printed for MGM, Paramount and RKO
1936 |
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1938-1946 |
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Swift Printing
Co.
link
to our archive
printed for J. C. Williamson films
1925 |
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Victory Publicity
Pty.
link
to our archive
printed for RKO and 20th Century Fox
1945-1952 |
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1949 |
found on reissue  |
W & B Litho
link
to our archive
printed for United Artists
1981 |
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W.E.
Smith Ltd.
link
to our archive
printed for 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount and Universal
1924-1926 |
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1935 |
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1938-1943 |
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1943-1959 |
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W.
F. Schey Pty. Ltd.
link
to our archive
printed for MGM
1954 |
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1957 |
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a special thanks to John Reid at MovieMem.com - John has a GREAT selection of Australian posters so be sure check out his site.