🧵A somewhat niche thread.

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🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners.
I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives.
#1: Dr. No

#cinema #socialhistory

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Dr. Who & the Daleks / A Shot in the Dark

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Dracula / The Fly

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Help! / Mozambique / Darby O'Gill and the Little People / The Toast of New Orleans

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Ryan's Daughter / Love Story

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ABC Minors Matinees

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Shaft / Puppet on a Chain

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Genevieve / Witchfinder General / Doctor Faustus

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / Planet of the Apes

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Blue Hawaii / Tom Thumb / Mysterious Island / The Pirates of Blood River

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Carry on Cruising / Tarnished Angels

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Traffic / Cabaret / Where Eagles Dare / Midnight Cowboy

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Shenandoah / You Only Live Twice / Triple Cross

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Poor Cow

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Doctor Zhivago

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I've too many postwar examples to post all here, but here are a couple of pre- (or on the cusp of) war examples:

Bachelor Mother / Hell's Kitchen / Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever / Three Smart Girls Grow up / Beau Geste / Five Came Back / Treasure Island

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy / Ali Baba Goes to Town / The Three Musketeers / Ex-Champ / ?

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I think this is the oldest I've found. 1933.
Accidents Wanted / Midnight Patrol (Laurel & Hardy) / My Woman / The Thrill Hunter

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@Richard_Littler Is that "On the Buses" between Dr Who and the Levenshulme Fair?

I realised as I was writing that "Dr Who and the Levenshulme Fair" sounds like it might have been one of those really creepy episodes where people at the Levenshulme Fair have been hypnotised and are behaving not-quite-normal enough to be sinister.