Here’s a pressbook you can’t escape, from Paul over at It Came From Hollywood.
“In 1992, I bought a rather huge clutch of pressbooks from a collector who was getting out of the business. This was a “cold” buy, meaning I had no idea what I was getting for my money. I paid $200 for the collection. A king’s ransom back then, and because I lived the life of a carefree single gent living in the City of Chicago at the time, what I bought and when actually had escaped me over the years. Fast forward to 2021. Thirty years later. I finally (believe it or not) get around to digitizing those pressbooks, and I discover that, slipped into some pretty standard large-sized Paramount pressbooks, was this UFD Dawn of the Dead nugget. I was absolutely floored because I had never run across a Dawn pressbook in my life. I hadn’t even viewed one online.
“In 2023, I published the complete Dawn pressbook in It Came From Hollywood Book Four. I received some positive feedback on it as fans of the movie were, for the first time, ogling the actual pressbook. Now, three years later (and 33 years after I acquired the original book), I am happy to share the Dawn of the Dead-U.S. Pressbook (1979) with visitors to Zombo’s Closet, where it will be archived for generations to come.” (ZC Note: Thanks, Paul! George A. Romero’s DOTD is a classic.)
