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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: September 19, 2021, 02:44:09 PM »
Posts often look different on a phone than they do on a monitor, and when I got the chance to check out the above post on my phone I saw that the scan I'd posted of the magazine version of the cemetery still doesn't look nearly as bad as it does on my monitor. Interesting.
Something else also struck me. I'd forgotten this:
So chances are that cemetery still was probably one of the first official stills released to promote the film. And that probably explains why it appeared in so many magazines during the prerelease publicity. Though of course they could have also released stills from the funeral sequence featuring Thayer David, Diana Millay, Christopher Pennock, Clarice Blackburn and Monica Rich because stills of them in various combinations most certainly do exist. But apparently the extras portraying pallbearers and mourners was the mood MGM wanted to go with...
Something else also struck me. I'd forgotten this:
So chances are that cemetery still was probably one of the first official stills released to promote the film. And that probably explains why it appeared in so many magazines during the prerelease publicity. Though of course they could have also released stills from the funeral sequence featuring Thayer David, Diana Millay, Christopher Pennock, Clarice Blackburn and Monica Rich because stills of them in various combinations most certainly do exist. But apparently the extras portraying pallbearers and mourners was the mood MGM wanted to go with...