The iconic French film distributor StudioCanal is now selling off what they call ‘excess marketing materials’- in layman’s terms that’s original film posters, lobby cards, front of house stills and press books for hundreds of well-known and not so well-known films dating from the 1940’s onwards.
Over the years StudioCanal has acquired numerous historic film companies including many of the early British titans, to create their impressively vast catalogue of over 6,000 titles. Companies now under the StudioCanal wing include EMI Films, Cannon Films, British Lion Films, Anglo-Amalgamated, Associated British Picture Corporation, Ealing Studios, Pathe News, London Films, and the distribution rights to many of the Hammer films.
A by-product of the acquisition of these vast film companies’ assets, is all the unused and undistributed paraphernalia left over from the original releases. This has been locked away in dry storage for years in case it was needed, but now StudioCanal has decided to sell these fascinating items to film fans and collectors via Ebay. All items tend to be in good to mint condition as they have never been distributed to the public before.
The ‘excess marketing materials’ include such Hammer classics as Holiday on the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses and Love Thy Neighbour. Plus horror classics like The Theatre of Death, The Vengeance of Fu ManChu, The Beast Must Die and And Soon The Darkness. Plus real classics like Don’t Look Now, French Dressing and One Million Years BC.
Auctions start at 8pm on Thursdays and run for 10 days finishing at 8pm on the Sunday at:
www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thebritishmoviearchive
Film posters going live 8pm Thursday 12th August until 8pm Sunday 20th August include:
Genre Film Item Number
Horror/Thriller Theatre of Death 224566880262
Horror/Thriller The Vengeance of Fu Manchu 224566880265
Horror/Thriller The Beast Must Die 224566811166
Horror/Thriller Don’t Look Now 224566858282
Sci-Fi The Land That Time Forgot 224566877162
Sci-Fi The Final Programme 224566877154
Sci-Fi One Million Years BC 224566869506
Classics The Railway Children 224566880271
Classics The Elephant Man 224566877156
Classics French Dressing 224566858272
Comedy Up Pompeii 224566880254
Comedy The Likely Lads 224566877157
Comedy Steptoe and Son 224566875487
Comedy Steptoe and Son Ride Again 224566875468
Comedy Holiday on the Buses 224566861774
Comedy Mutiny on the Buses 224563222938
plus hundreds more…………
Search the seller’s other items to see more paraphernalia available and keep checking in every week as there are thousands of items to be sold – get yourself a piece of film history!