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Robert George

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This has been languishing in my WiP folder for months. Finally finished.

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Robert George

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That's a custom cover I made. I was stuck for a design I liked and finally got around to finishing the cover today.

The disc I saw when it came out.

Remarkable job, BTW.

(this new forum formatting probably made it seem like my post was not just about a custom cover?)
 

Robert Harris

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That's a custom cover I made. I was stuck for a design I liked and finally got around to finishing the cover today.

The disc I saw when it came out.

Remarkable job, BTW.

(this new forum formatting probably made it seem like my post was not just about a custom cover?)

So you screened a 2015 release, but used 1994 credits on the packing?

I confuse easily.
 

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I think that the cover looks very nice. Like most here I prefer the original poster art to the current fad of covers that mostly show only one or two of the main characters.
 

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In the post any day now should be the MFL 50th Anniversary Release single-disc edition from Spain to replace my original US copy which won't play properly after the Ascot Gavotte sequence. I'm hoping this edition will prove ok!
In any case, it would be great if you could post your artwork in a 'flat' version which we could copy and print from as an alternative cover. ...
 

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Does anyone else associate that classic pink poster with the smell of the pages in the original "My Fair Lady" program? I still have the copy I got at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver when I saw "My Fair Lady" first-run, and it's long since lost that fresh glossy-paper smell (I just stuck my nose in the middle of it to check), but once in a while I'll catch a whiff of that identical odour from some printed material, and it takes my mind directly back to 1965.
 

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Does anyone else associate that classic pink poster with the smell of the pages in the original "My Fair Lady" program? I still have the copy I got at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver when I saw "My Fair Lady" first-run, and it's long since lost that fresh glossy-paper smell (I just stuck my nose in the middle of it to check), but once in a while I'll catch a whiff of that identical odour from some printed material, and it takes my mind directly back to 1965.
Is your original program copy in a glossy hardcover? Mine is.:)
 

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I'm a book smeller from way back, but I have no particular olfactory association with movie program books.

Now, of course, I'll have to check my MFL one...
 

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Is your original program copy in a glossy hardcover? Mine is.:)
No, it has a card stock cover. I scanned all the pages somewhere on the old HTF a couple of years ago. As I recall, the program was free with admission, as was the "Mary Poppins" program that I got a few weeks earlier. A few weeks before that, though, no such luck with "Lord Jim".
 

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The book that came with the Canadian "Let It Be" album in 1970 had the exact same smell.
Probably generated from the same printing press.
BTW, is it known if these movie books were made available only with Roadshows?
 

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Probably generated from the same printing press.
BTW, is it known if these movie books were made available only with Roadshows?

In my experience, yes. But I have a few smaller things (e.g. very abbreviated programs, mostly containing cast and crew credits, etc.) that were handed out for regular films, from when I was catching them first-run while living in Hollywood, U.S.A. in the 1970s.
 

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BTW, is it known if these movie books were made available only with Roadshows?

For the most part yes. Although sometimes there were different movie programs for the same movie title depending on when and where you saw it. Some were hardcover and some soft. See the programs for This is Cinerama below:

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