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National Screen Services, 1969. Staple-bound brochure (size is 11” x 17”), 12
pages (including covers).
Condition for this pressbook is very good+ with fold mark across the centre,
slight edge wear, slight wear to corners and spine ends. No cuts.
This pressbook is complete (NO cuts), contains a synopsis of the film, a full
page of newspaper articles, examples of various posters and lobby cards,
promotion ideas (including the awfully bad idea of "a tie-in with a local
motorcycle club...").
The film, "Hell's Angels '69", featured founder of the notorious Oakland
chapter, "The original Hell's Angels led by Sonny Barger and Terry the Tramp
shake up Las Vegas!".
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Pressbooks were advertising brochures sent directly to theatre owners from
the period around 1910 through to the 1970s (they were replaced by the more
elaborate presskits). The main distributor of pressbooks during this time was
the National Screen Service (NSS). On occasion a pressbook could contain film
info for a double feature but the vast majority of pressbooks were dedicated to
a single film. The pressbook would contain examples of available posters,
photos, and lobby cards (which they could order from NSS), and prepared
newspaper articles that the theatre owner could clip out and send to the local
newspapers (so be careful when buying, some pressbooks could have cutouts). Some
of these pressbooks also contained ideas on promoting the film, usually the
cheaper the film the more ideas to promote.
BOOKS CAN BE COMBINED TO SAVE ON SHIPPING!!!
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