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Movie / film posters

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| Posters - Movies | Posters - Psychedelic, Pop Art & Politics |  The following is a list of blogs and webpages by the present author on movie / film posters and related materials. The listing is arranged chronologically according to posting date, with the most recent at top. Poster Collection , 23 May 2025. A listing of Michael Organ's poster and picture collection, comprising some 500+ items being mainly movie posters, but also music and event posters, and historic prints dating from 1809 to the present day. [Blog] Snow White 2025 posters , 22 February 2025. Commentary on some posters for the Disney live-action film. [Blog] Hayata Dönüş / Return to Life 1949 , 12 September 2024. Discussion of the 1949 French film dealing with the post-WWII return home of prisoners of war, and its Turkish poster. [Blog]    Picnic at Hanging Rock - movie posters ,18 August 2024. Concerning the 1975 Australian film directed by Peter Weir and based on the book by Joan Lind...

Posters - Psychedelic, Pop Art and Politics

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| Posters - Movies | Posters - Psychedelic, Pop Art & Politics |   |  Home  | Publications |  The following is a listing of blogs and related material by the present writer dealing with psychedelic posters mostly from the 1960s. A number of artists feature, including Martin Sharp, Victor Moscoso and Lee Conklin. See also Movie Posters . The listing is arranged according to most recently. Pink Floyd Woolwich Polytechnic 22 March 1968 poster , 3 October 2025. Investigation into the artist responsible for the creation of the poster which is a design after Marin Sharp. [Blog]  Bob Masse 2005 poster - Pink Floyd, Marquee, London, 15 March 1996 , 24 September 2025. Discussion around the production date of this Art Nouveau rock concert poster. [Blog] Toby Zoates Art - Posters, Painting and Performance, Part 4, 2024-Present, 2 September 2025. Part 4 of the brief summary of the art and performance career of Toby Zoates. [Blog] Poster Collection , 23...

Christopher McCullough's Thunderbolt documentary 1965

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Captain Thunderbolt : 1951 film | 1968 documentary | Annie Rixon | Copyright | Historical References | Mary Ann Bugg | Script | Compiled by Michael Organ and Graham Shirley Sydney Morning Herald , 3 June 1968. Contents Introduction Production Christopher McCullough  Annie Rixon incident References ------------------ 1. Introduction During 1968 Opus Films of Sydney, Australia, produced a dramatized documentary for television on the life and times of bushranger Captain Thunderbolt , aka. Frederick Ward (c.1835 - 1870). The director was Christopher McCullough , formerly with Cinesound and the Commonwealth Film Unit. Thunderbolt was filmed in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, and in and around the Rocks area of Sydney. The last known public screening took place on Channel 9, Sydney, on 29 May 1970. As a "dramatized documentary" running to over 1 hour - or some 90 minutes according to the National Film and Sound Archive o...

Poster collection

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  Movie Posters: A Matter of Life and Death 1946 | Australian 1906-71 + MO Collection + Australian stone lithographs | Captain Marvel | Cinema Art Films | Collection | Die Grosse Wette 1916 | Don't Look Back 1967 | King Kong 1933 | Le Doulos 1962 | Lost Horizon 1937 | Metropolis 1927 + US Press Book + Japan 1929 | Ned Kelly Polski + List | Ostatni Etap 1948 | Pandora's Box 1929 | Polish Film Posters | Robert Detheux - Belgian | Smiley 1956 | Snow White 2025 | Steel City Pictures / Greetings from Wollongong | The Healer 1935 | V for Vendetta 2019 | Variety 1925 | Smiley , 1956. French stone lithograph poster. Listing The following is a chronological listings of a personal poster collection, being primarily film related. It includes approximately 520 items. Those marked in yellow at the date location have been misplaced. Date Film Title / Subject / Art print title Dimensions (inches) Description 1809 ...