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JM Cozzoli

A horror and movie fan with a blog. Scary.

French Pressbook: Dracula (1931)

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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.”

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TV Series Promo: Happy Town (2010)

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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.

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Mexican Lobby Card:
Superman En La Selva Secreta

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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.

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