Original StudioCanal Film Posters Auctions

The iconic French film distributor StudioCanal is now selling off what they call ‘excess marketing materials’- in layman’s terms that’s original film posters, lobby cards, front of house stills and press books for hundreds of well-known and not so well-known films dating from the 1940’s onwards.

Over the years StudioCanal has acquired numerous historic film companies including many of the early British titans, to create their impressively vast catalogue of over 6,000 titles. Companies now under the StudioCanal wing include EMI Films, Cannon Films, British Lion Films, Anglo-Amalgamated, Associated British Picture Corporation, Ealing Studios, Pathe News, London Films, and the distribution rights to many of the Hammer films.

A by-product of the acquisition of these vast film companies’ assets, is all the unused and undistributed paraphernalia left over from the original releases. This has been locked away in dry storage for years in case it was needed, but now StudioCanal has decided to sell these fascinating items to film fans and collectors via Ebay. All items tend to be in good to mint condition as they have never been distributed to the public before.

The ‘excess marketing materials’ include such Hammer classics as Holiday on the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses and Love Thy Neighbour. Plus horror classics like The Theatre of Death, The Vengeance of Fu ManChu, The Beast Must Die and And Soon The Darkness. Plus real classics like Don’t Look Now, French Dressing and One Million Years BC.

Auctions start at 8pm on Thursdays and run for 10 days finishing at 8pm on the Sunday at: www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thebritishmoviearchive

Search the seller’s other items to see more paraphernalia available and keep checking in every week as there are thousands of items to be sold  – get yourself a piece of film history!