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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jul 17, 2018 3:00:37 GMT -5
This probably won't help in finding HIM, but here's a link to a web page on a now deceased film-maker who claimed that she financed her films by stealing money from the 55th Street Playhouse in NYC when she worked there as a cashier. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/10/22/daniella-shreir/on-chantal-akerman/In documenting the story of Ed D Louie and HIM, just about anything relating to the 55th Street Playhouse might be of interest. Also, checking over the Cinema Treasures listing for that movie house, One man posting to the message board claimed, in the early 2000s, that he had seen HIM, and that he was surprised that a man he knew claimed that 15 years earlier, the other man had seen a trailer for HIM on VHS. I suppose film detectives should start compiling a list, and getting a total count of people who have claimed to have seen HIM, even if they posted under fictitious user names on Internet message boards, regardless of how long ago, and even if they are no longer living, and could not even be identified in the first place. As noted elsewhere, some people claiming to have seen HIM, might have confused what they saw with I SAW JESUS DIE and other films of the 1970s era.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jul 17, 2018 3:16:24 GMT -5
Boston After Dark is another magazine that reportedly had a review of HIM. On the Wayback machine, my search did not turn up Boston After Dark, but did turn up the Bay Area Reporter, a 1977 issue in volume 7, so that newspaper apparently started in 1970, and would have had ads for HIM when it played in San Francisco. archive.org/details/BAR_19771027?q=The+Bay+Area+Reporter+1974
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 17, 2018 12:47:53 GMT -5
I like the ad for the "Lion Pub".
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jul 17, 2018 14:02:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 15:26:34 GMT -5
I like the ad for the "Lion Pub". This was good.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 16:06:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 16:06:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 16:08:30 GMT -5
I also got a smile out of this.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 19:07:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 19:08:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 19:16:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 22:55:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Jul 17, 2018 22:56:41 GMT -5
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jul 17, 2018 23:39:37 GMT -5
Deeky, I think I read somewhere that someone remembered HIM playing at the Nob Hill cinema which did advertise in the Bay Area Reporter, so that is one house to be looking for.
And, there were claims the film did play on the West coast in 1975-1976, although I'm not sure if it was supposedly in SF or not.
I would think that the search engine for the BAR might have him listed if a person knows how to use it, which I am not at all adept at doing.
I had discussed with someone how search engines create their lists, and was told that they looked for regular typesetting, rather than the kind of lettering in movie ad mats.
I would think that there would have been some discussion of HIM in the BAR. The Nob Hill ads are large, but the Mattachine Society film club's ads have small type and need to be enlarged to keep from missing anything. although they have a lot of film titles in regular typesetting rather than from ad mats, so that would be a plus in doing net searches.
On the other hand, whoever told me that about how lists for search engines are made, might have been incorrect in what they told me.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 18, 2018 1:37:20 GMT -5
And a few more from that same year.
Ha! An actual ad for Sons of Satan!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 18, 2018 1:39:14 GMT -5
This sounds like the stuff of legend:
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Post by Jack Holman on Jul 18, 2018 7:35:16 GMT -5
Looked through 1975 and the first few issues of 1976 last night with no luck. Nob Hill Cinema is indeed the theatre I've seen mentioned whenever a San Francisco screening comes up. I've read that the screening was advertised in the San Francisco Chronicle, but never could find any free archives that go back as far as the 70s.
The thing about these unconfirmed screenings is that there isn't anyway to really disprove them. Someone who's misremembering something or even someone who's lying seem about as credible as anyone else. So it's entirely possible that various screenings that never occurred will leave film detectives chasing their own tails. Still, that's not gonna stop me.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 18, 2018 8:44:10 GMT -5
If all we have to go on is "west coast" checking the L.A. papers may be an interesting avenue to pursue.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jul 18, 2018 10:25:18 GMT -5
Looked through 1975 and the first few issues of 1976 last night with no luck. Nob Hill Cinema is indeed the theatre I've seen mentioned whenever a San Francisco screening comes up. I've read that the screening was advertised in the San Francisco Chronicle, but never could find any free archives that go back as far as the 70s. The thing about these unconfirmed screenings is that there isn't anyway to really disprove them. Someone who's misremembering something or even someone who's lying seem about as credible as anyone else. So it's entirely possible that various screenings that never occurred will leave film detectives chasing their own tails. Still, that's not gonna stop me. Thanks for the post, DoubleU. One thing that I have noticed, in the past when searching newspapers on Google Archive, is that with just about all of the free newspapers available, that there are always some issues that are incomeplete, or missing. Counting the issue numbers, and dates, it seems to me that there were two issues a month of the SF Bay Area newspaper, and not all numbers are accounted for. In surfing the Washington DC Blade, sometimes the page counts given on the beginning page do not match what I actually see displayed when surfing through the reader, which is enabled by checking the Flip View button at the top. digdc.dclibrary.org/cdm/search/collection/p16808coll24/page/6I do plan to continue to pursue Boston After Dark, as well as the Boston Phoenix on the Way Back Machine, which I think the Bay Area newspaper is archived on.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 19, 2018 15:16:15 GMT -5
Did anyone ever claim to see it in Chicago?
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