{"id":29076,"date":"2014-08-20T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T00:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=29076"},"modified":"2016-09-02T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:16:58","slug":"the-ambersons-poster-mystery-the-clincher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/the-ambersons-poster-mystery-the-clincher\/","title":{"rendered":"The AMBERSONS Poster Mystery: The clincher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cowboygirl_indian-plus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29079\" title=\"cowboygirl_indian plus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cowboygirl_indian-plus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cowboygirl_indian-plus.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cowboygirl_indian-plus-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poster-half-enhanced-300h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29078\" title=\"Poster half enhanced 300h\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poster-half-enhanced-300h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poster-half-enhanced-300h.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poster-half-enhanced-300h-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DB here:<\/p>\n<p>Bingo! Crowdsourcing pays off. Alert blogger<a href=\"http:\/\/goyacinema.blogspot.it\/2014\/05\/the-missing-picture.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Ivan Paio<\/strong> <\/a>found the original poster that&#8217;s tucked into the <em>Magnificent Ambersons<\/em> frame! It confirms that Welles used not a film poster but one advertising a stage show&#8230;that could have played the Bijou in 1912.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with our quest, you can go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/30\/the-magnificent-ambersons-a-usable-past\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/16\/the-fussbudget-report-an-ambersons-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/breaking-ambersons-news-did-you-say-buried\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Be sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/goyacinema.blogspot.it\/2014\/08\/hurrah-poster-poster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan&#8217;s site<\/a> for details, and give him a big hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ambersons-poster-walk-5001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29077\" title=\"Ambersons poster walk 500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ambersons-poster-walk-5001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ambersons-poster-walk-5001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ambersons-poster-walk-5001-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ambersons-poster-walk-5001-404x300.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 DB here: Bingo! Crowdsourcing pays off. Alert blogger Ivan Paio found the original poster that&#8217;s tucked into the Magnificent Ambersons frame! It confirms that Welles used not a film poster but one advertising a stage show&#8230;that could have played the Bijou in 1912. If you&#8217;re not familiar with our quest, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,77,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s-hollywood","category-directors-welles","category-hollywood-aesthetic-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29084,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29076\/revisions\/29084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}