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.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Available for research.
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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