Movietone News Melbourne Cup Special Poster One Sheet Original 1942
Movietone News Melbourne Cup Special Poster One Sheet Original 1942 exceptionally 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.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.The first talkie newsreel of the Melbourne Cup Horse Race was made of the 1930 event, won by Phar Lap. Phar Lap fans greatly enjoyed the opportunity to see the champion win Australia's biggest horse race. 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 story became the stuff of legend in the 1930s. By the mid 1930s the film was being developed on a plane bound for Sydney. 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 30s-50s.
