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Tagged: On The Beach
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The art of poster-making flourished in Poland following the Second World War. There were two main state institutions that commissioned artists to create posters: Film Polski (Polish Film) and...
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Some of the most striking film posters in the NFSA collection originate from Poland.
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The NFSA has been collecting local and international posters of Australian feature films for many years.
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Fred Astaire, American film and Broadway stage dancer, singer and actor interviewed by Binny Lum in Ava Gardner's dressing room during the filming of On the Beach in Melbourne in 1959.
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German poster for On the Beach renamed Das Letzte Ufer (The Last Bank)
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Sunset-coloured poster 'Pa Stranden'. Image depicts a submarine and black vertical shape near bottom left with black and white images of the film cast in a column at right. Printed signature 'ABERG'...
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At the top is a large red square with text in white. The centre contains black and white portraits of the four main cast members, and diagonally across the bottom the title appears in black. The...
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Comprises landscape illustration of a lake with submarine in middle, 3 silhouetted figures and a green and purple sky. At the sides is a womans face on left and a mans face on right. At top and...
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French poster for On the Beach called Le Dernier Rivage for the release of the film in France.
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Linen-backed poster. Cream border, main image is a purple mushroom cloud with black outline and blue background. There is a yellow block of colour in the bottom right corner. Within the mushroom...