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Does anyone know of a site which holds galleries of film certificates (specifically in my case the BBFC Certificates for the Star Wars Films)?

I'm trying to demonstrate what a viewing of Star Wars would be like for me in 1977 to my godson who has gone off Doctor Who (for the time being) and has gone Star Wars crazy.

I have the Rank advert blocks and a trailer for Close Encounters (can't think what the other films advertised would be).

But I would really like the certificate shown before the film started.

If they actual certificate cant be found if someone has a U certificate of that era I could make a mock up.

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I was hoping we'd find something like that via this thread, but nowt as yet. Googling for 'BBFC' images is frustrating too - you'd think they'd be more commonplace!

Where'd you get your Rank ads, by the way? Off Youtube, or do you have a better quality source?

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Can't help you with the BBFC certificates, but as for other films being advertised, this might be useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_film

I have always found wikipedia's year lists to be very useful for putting films into the context of their time (which is something I always like to do.

 

The Spy Who Loved me came out that year, not sure what month, but that might be a cool trailer to show along side CE3K's trailer.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Jonno said:

I was hoping we'd find something like that via this thread, but nowt as yet. Googling for 'BBFC' images is frustrating too - you'd think they'd be more commonplace!

Where'd you get your Rank ads, by the way? Off Youtube, or do you have a better quality source?

Yeah off youtube but to be frank my local Odeon played that ad reel on a loop for so long that the degredation in quality only adds to the realism ;-)

 

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Can't help you with the BBFC certificates, but as for other films being advertised, this might be useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_film

I have always found wikipedia's year lists to be very useful for putting films into the context of their time (which is something I always like to do.

 

The Spy Who Loved me came out that year, not sure what month, but that might be a cool trailer to show along side CE3K's trailer.

I'm starting to think that Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo might have been advertised during my first encounter with the big white wedge shape in the sky.

I definately remember seeing trailers for ABBA The Movie, Pete's Dragon and The Deep sometime in my childhood too.

Thanks for the link C3PX.

 

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Sometimes I really like to get into the era when watching a movie. I really like to grab several films from the same year, and to watch them all in the course of a week or so. Wikipedia has made this even easier. I now also like to check wikipedia for important things that were going on that year. Kind of silly, but it puts the films in fun context, bringing myself a bit closer to the mindset of the original audience.

 

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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C3PX said:

Can't help you with the BBFC certificates, but as for other films being advertised, this might be useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_film

I have always found wikipedia's year lists to be very useful for putting films into the context of their time (which is something I always like to do.

 

The Spy Who Loved me came out that year, not sure what month, but that might be a cool trailer to show along side CE3K's trailer.

BTW, they had a certain movie appearing on that list as Star Wars: A New Hope.  I fixed that, with the explanation of that being added in 1981, thus the film released in '77 was simply Star Wars.

 

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Have other UK folks been enjoying the BBFC centenary cards as much as I have? They've been resurrecting the old styles one by one, and they're currently up to the lovely 1970s versions (which automatically make the films that follow that much more exciting).

More info here: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/about/bbfc-centenary/

I've emailed to see if they're prepared to provide some hi-rez versions.

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It was a nice surprise when I went to see Cabin In The Woods (which was the first film I saw at the cinema released this year).

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When I saw Pirates: in an adventure with scientists they showed the one of the early 1940s film classification cards at the beginning. I instantly recoginised it due to it appearing before every film in my Ealing  studios collection (plus I had watched Whiskey Galore for the billionth time before seeing Pirates, and that had the same card.)

 

It made me think about the type of logo 'gag' filmmakers have for the studio vanity plates when they make films set in a certain era. e.g. When a filmmaker uses an old version of a logo relative to the year it's set.

 

Concerning Star Wars, when they showed the Original Unaltered film print at the Senator theater the print had a BBFC card, but bear in mind that it has the title 'A New Hope' attached to it so it's probably from the 1981 retitled version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OEctWVF4J_w#t=175s

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My first time it looked like that but with just Star Wars.

This is how it looked when I saw the double and triple bills though.

Back then people still smoked on the left and right aisles so you would get these two pillars of smoke which caught the projector light and swayed and swarmed like an unnamable alien miasma (masked the smell of the hot dogs though).

Why?

Why Hot Dogs with a film?

It's insanity!

Choc Ices I can get my head around, even crusader nuts but Hot Dogs?

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Bingowings said:

My first time it looked like that but with just Star Wars.

This is how it looked when I saw the double and triple bills though.

Back then people still smoked on the left and right aisles so you would get these two pillars of smoke which caught the projector light and swayed and swarmed like an unnamable alien miasma (masked the smell of the hot dogs though).

Why?

Why Hot Dogs with a film?

It's insanity!

Choc Ices I can get my head around, even crusader nuts but Hot Dogs?

Hot Dogs I'm fine with, because it's a quiet food source. Popcorn, on the other hand, is the real offender for me. You're trying to watch a film and it's a very dramatic moment and the all of a sudden you hear 'scrunch scrunch' rustle rustle 'scrunch scrunch scrunch!'

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greenpenguino said:

Hot Dogs I'm fine with, because it's a quiet food source. Popcorn, on the other hand, is the real offender for me. You're trying to watch a film and it's a very dramatic moment and the all of a sudden you hear 'scrunch scrunch' rustle rustle 'scrunch scrunch scrunch!'

I love popcorn, if you're careful it's way quieter than crisps.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

^ and careful should never be used in the same sentence. Ever.

Maybe back then the Popcorn was not burned 90% of the time like now.