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Almost every official
general release or re-release of the James Bond films in the US from from
1963 to 1979 had a 6-sheet poster (81" X 81") created for in-house cinema displays and
advertising hoardings across the country. These colourful and highly
stylised posters are now collectors items and command high prices when
sold at auction. 6-Sheet posters were
usually printed in at least two sections and later assembled for
subsequent pasting onto small billboards during the release of the film.
For their original release
Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live And Let Die (1973) and The
Man With The Golden Gun (1974) all had 6-sheets produced for the
Eastern Hemisphere [not pictured] featuring the usual contractual reversal
of the producers credits and removal of US MPAA ratings. Studios stopped issuing
6-Sheet posters in the early 1970s, although some generic international
versions (with producer credits reversed for the Eastern Hemisphere) existed until the end of the decade. This size of poster was
eventually
discontinued in 1983. |
