Brochure

Component identifier:

Item 22

Content Summary:

Issue by the Gaumont Company Ltd., Denman Street, London, 1920. This is an announcement to the various motion picture houses and distributors. [Folio]

Wrappers. 12pp. Design in colour on front cover. With frontispiece and 8 tinted drawings to illustrate verses selected from the book. Foreword by C.J. Dennis. Length of film is given as 6 reels-5899 feet. The brochure reprints comments from various London papers on the merits of the film. It is being presented by arrangements with E.J. Carroll and Barrington Miller. The overall size of the brochure is 13" x 10.1/2". Inserted is transcript in autograph by Hal Gye of poem written by C.J. Dennis to advertise the premiere of the film: 'I dips me lid: the Sentimental Bloke writes his own advertisement'. Bound in decorated boards.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased from Harry Chaplin in 1981.

Names:

Chaplin, Harry F.

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