Film
On Any Sunday
1971
Japan B1 / (29" x 41") / Single Sided
Japan
Very Fine – Very Fine plus – Rolled (as issued)
Bruce Brown
Bruce Brown, David Evans, John Norman, Malcolm Smith, Mert Lawwill, Steve McQueen
“Motorcycle sport and the men who ride”
One of the more unusual and certainly an uncommon Steve McQueen movie posters. Truly dynamic photographic action imagery by John Bechtold for Bruce Brown’s 1971 motorcycle sports documentary “On Any Sunday”. Eye-catching and memorable the ‘blurred’ motorcycle imagery perfectly evacuates the speed speed and excitement of the race. Very scarce and becoming hard to find due to the Film’s very limited release and low advertising budget in its day. Now an iconic and much admired motor sport movie showing just why Steve McQueen was the true King of Cool and equally as talented, whether on two and four wheels. Presented rolled (as issued), it displays to very good effect with only minimal handling wear and represents a fantastic piece of McQueen, Motorcycle and cinematic movie memorabilia.
Trivia: The film was financed by Steve McQueen who also used his influence to allow filming at Camp Pendleton, (a marine base in California), when permission was originally denied to Bruce Brown.
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“A documentary following the lives of motorcycle racers and racing enthusiasts, including actor Steve McQueen. First asking the question “Why do they do it?” this film looks at the people who devote (and sometimes risk) their lives to racing on tracks and off-road courses around the world.”
“Motorcycle sport and the men who ride”…Five years after Bruce Brown achieved wide success and critical acclaim for his surfing documentary about “the search for the perfect wave” titled “The Endless Summer”, he created what is generally thought by most knowledgeable people to be the most entertaining and true to life motorcycling movie ever made, “On Any Sunday” (1971)….To call this film simply a documentary on motorcycle racing would do it a grave injustice. With cameras on helicopters and on the motorcycles themselves to capture the insanely dangerous nature of what it’s like to ride “the mile,” a dirt oval on which riders attained speeds of well over a hundred miles an hour on the straights and near triple digits in the turns, or the bone jarring and torturous intensity of motocross racing, or the unimaginable physical toll it must take to finish the Mexican 1000 (now called the Baja 1000, a 1000 mile race across the Baja California peninsula), after watching this movie you’ll feel more like a participant than a spectator . . . at least I did….Mr. Brown doesn’t stop with dirt racing either. He’ll take you from road racing with the A.M.A. (American Motorcyclists Association) to racing on ice in Canada with three inch spikes on all of the tires–a line from the movie comes to mind, “It would be like getting run over by a buzz saw, you’ve never seen grown men crawl so fast”–to The International Six Day Trials (now called the ISD Enduro), a six day off road race during which the rider cannot accept help from anyone and can only use what he has with him or on his motorcycle to fix any problems that may come up. On Any Sunday will take you all over the world and show you, as effectively as the medium possible can, what it’s like to participate in these events.The movie also shows, as I believe was Mr. Brown’s intention, a side of the motorcycle culture that could not be more different than the outlaw/renegade perception that many Americans had of motorcyclists at the time. The stars of the film (including the legendary Steve McQueen, who financed the film) are portrayed as responsible hard working American citizens who love the feeling of freedom and the joy that riding a motorcycle gives them.
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Mint
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Fair
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LOBBY CARD
11 x 14″ printed on heavy stock paper. Used as display in theatre lobbies. Originally made in sets of eight. Some sets have a title card, which contains credits and artwork, essentially a mini-poster. The remaining seven cards are coloured photographic credits and poster artwork showing different scenes from the movie.
WINDOW CARD
14 x 22″ printed on heavy stock paper with the top 4-6 inches usually left blank for the local cinema owner to fill in the cinema and the date it was due to play. Largely discontinued during the 1970’s.
HALF SHEET
22 x 28″ printed on heavy stock paper. The image displayed is normally a smaller version of the main poster, although some do have different artworks and sometimes come in two versions.
INSERT
14 x 36″ printed on heavy stock paper. Inserts usually have the same artwork as a one sheet. Popular with collectors since they are smaller and easier to frame. Normally come tri folded or rolled.
STYLE Y/FORTY BY SIXTY
40 x 60″ printed on heavy stock paper. Rare since they were primarily used for major motion pictures only. Designed to be used outside the theatre, on an easel, normally at a drive-in movie theatre.
ONE-SHEET
27 x 41″ printed on paper. This is the most common size of poster, intended to be displayed in a glass “marquee” case. It is the most sought after size by collectors. Since the 1980’s most posters are sent to the theatre rolled and maybe slightly smaller measuring 27″ by 40″ and with the advent of backlit light boxes a growing number of modern movie posters are available double-sided and the more traditional single-sided.
THREE-SHEET
41 x 81″ printed on paper. These were printed on two or three separate sheets designed to overlap, few survive. Used for larger advertising spaces, normally posted on walls, perfect for huge movie theatres the drive-in, where people could see them from a distance. From the 1970’s on, three-sheets were sometimes printed in one piece and issued as “international” versions to be used abroad.
BRITISH QUAD
30 x 40″ Most common poster size used in the UK. British Quads are horizontal and may have different artwork to the US one sheet. Like a US one sheet they normally come in two versions. Like a US one sheet they are usually supplied single-sided or more commonly now as a double sided poster.
BRITISH ONE-SHEET
27 X 40″, printed on paper. Very rarely used size.
ITALIAN LOCANDINA
13 x 28″ six inches shorter than the US insert, very nice size to frame. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry.
ITALIAN PHOTOBUSTA
18 x 26″ Glossy, high quality, used as lobby cards in Italy. Size may vary, either vertical or horizontal format. There are also double Photobusta or mini Photobusta.
2-FOGLIO (DUE)
(DUE): 39 x 55″ This is the standard poster size used in Italy. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry.
4-FOGLIO
(QUATTRO) 55 x 79″ Very large Italian poster printed in two pieces, often contains very beautiful artwork.
FRENCH
47 x 63″ (GRANDE) or 24 x 33″ (PETITE) French movie posters normally come with different artwork to either the US or the UK. Like the Italian’s some of the artwork is extrememly beautiful.
