UNIQUE FILM ARCHIVE CREATING INTEREST AROUND THE WORLD
A unique film archive from an Australian publication ‘Movie News’ will be offered in the forthcoming Curious and Collectable auction at Dore & Rees. Comprising approximately 1,680 manila A4 alphabetically ordered envelopes containing film studios press releases photographs, press material, editorial magazine material and transparencies of well over a thousand actors dating from the post-war period and up to the 1980s.
"Movie News" was a full-colour Australian film industry magazine of film-related previews and reviews of movies and film soundtracks, celebrity profiles, quizzes, crossword puzzles, and industry gossip, first published by "Hoyts Theatres Limited". The magazine was bi-monthly and its long-time founding editor-in-chief was the late Cathy Donaldson who was succeeded by Robyn Oneile in 1981 not long after it was purchased by Cinebill, the movie division of Playbill Australia. The magazine was sold in Hoyts cinemas and drive-ins throughout Australia, as well as by subscription. In the 1970s Australia's other major cinema chain, Greater Union Organisation, produced a rival bi-monthly magazine entitled "Movie", which featured the then current year as part of its title ("Movie 78", "Movie 84" etc.). Its founding editor was John Fraser, also later succeeded by Robyn Oneile after the closure of "Movie News" due to the major impact of the advent of home video on cinema attendances and movie magazine sales. Movies' home-viewing technology brought about the demise of the lucrative drive-ins' market which had been a major area of the magazines' sales. "Movie" magazine continued for a few more years, under the editorship of Terry O'Brien, but the same factors that caused the cessation of publication of "Movie News" eventually saw the end of "Movie" magazine as well.
Lot 500
FILM: A UNIQUE MOVIE PRESS ARCHIVE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FILM MAGAZINE 'MOVIE' (which later became ‘Movie ’82, ’83 etc)
ESTIMATE: £3,000 - £5,000
NOTE: This archive is not sold with any inferred copyright.