Not much publicity given in this double-bill pressbook for The Human Duplicators. The poster imagery is attention-getting, but that's about it. My guess is that's where most of this movie's budget went.
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A superbly chilling movie from Disney.
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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)" »
Saw this 1931 Dracula French pressbook on eBay with a Buy It Now price of $8500.00. Here's what the seller, addsense, wrote about it:
"You place your bids on a very rare French ressbook(?!)/original material advertising for the distribution of Universal's first Dracula movie in France - movie premiered in France in January 1932, so this material must have been printed in 1931/1932. The advertising material addresses French cinema owners. It lists Universal's agencies in France responsible for the distribution of copies, and gives a short abstract of plot and cast. It folds out to a beautiful full-size poster with a modernist portrait of the prince of darkness in the back being surrounded by stills taken from the actual movie - outstanding compared to the other known movie poster designs in circulation elsewhere."
This large fold-out pressbook for Joan Crawford's Strait-Jacket contains the instructions for setting up the animated 40x60 inches Swinging Axe display "with ease."
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Great pressbook, especially page 8: The Mask Brings Screen Horror Up to Date. "The movie going public, perennially receptive to cinematic love and laughter, is equally fascinated by horror. So much so, in fact, that new processes [aka gimmicks] are developed to give screen horror more impact."
Dan Curtis didn't only do Dark Shadows, you know.
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