Animated Strait-Jacket Display Pressbook
This large fold-out pressbook for Joan Crawford's Strait-Jacket contains the instructions for setting up the animated 40×60 inches Swinging Axe display "with ease."
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Mexican Lobby Card:
Commando Cody, Hydrogen Hurricane
This gorgeous Mexican lobby card for Commando Cody’s television episode, Hydrogen Hurricane (1955) uses blue on white energetically.
TV Series Promo: Happy Town (2010)
This short-lived television series on ABC, channel 7, showed a lot of promise. Here's my review of the first episode I wrote in 2010. Unfortunately, Happy Town lasted for only eight episodes. Six of them aired on televsion and the last two were shown on the Internet. Rummaging through my archives I found these promotional materials for the show. There are also a coffee mug, water glode, and t-shirt that were sent along with them. If I keep rummaging I'll probably find those, too.
As you can see, promotional materials were neatly tailored to reviewers. They even spelled my name right. Sweet.
Mexican Lobby Card:
Superman En La Selva Secreta
An interesting Mexican lobby card collage layout you often see with superhero subject matter. Comic book illustrations–the usual movie scene is replaced by a hastily cut out comic book panel–and jungle illustrations are colorful but irrelevant to what's being shown in the theater. In this case it's probably a showing of television episodes of George Reeves' Adventures of Superman.
Movie Pressbook: The Mask (1961)
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."
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Mexican Lobby Card: Commando Cody
Radar Men from the Moon
Here’s the Mexican lobby card for Commando Cody’s Radar Men from the Moon, Los Hombres Radar De La Luna. (See other Commando Cody lobbies: Hydrogen Hurricane, Captives of the Zero Hour , Cosmic Vengeance.)
Mexican Lobby Card: Atom Man vs. Superman
The Mexican lobby card for Atom Man vs. Superman (1950). Noel Neill played Lois Lane in the George Reeves' Adventures of Superman (1952) television series, too.
Mexican Lobby Card:
Monster from the Ocean Floor
The Mexican lobby card for Monster from the Ocean Floor (1958).