Melbourne Cup Special Poster Movietone News One Sheet Original Rare
About this poster: This visually striking piece has major historical significance in terms of what horse racing mean't to the Australian public at the time of the 1940s and 1950s.The poster with its striking colours,communicates the point that newsreel footage of the Melbourne Cup Horse Race was a major 'crowd puller' at cinemas around the country in this era.Talkie newsreels were rather like the television news of their day. Competition between Fox Movietone News and Cinesound to be the first to run the Melbourne Cup hore race story became the stuff of legend in the 1930s. By the mid 1930s the film was being developed on a plane bound for Sydney cinemas. The event would be shown on Sydney cinemas within several hours.This poster is one of the very few surviving Melbourne Cup Special posters from the ira of the 40 and 50s.
