Sunday, March 6, 2016

British Quad "Snow White" Posters 1938-1994

British Quad posters from the Snow White theatrical releases in the United Kingdom. All measure approximately 30" x 40" (76 x 102 cm). Quads were typically folded rather than rolled.

  • 1938. RKO UK premiere. Printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd. Netherfield, Nottingham, & London. Design and Illustration by Arnold Beauvais (based on the original Tenggren drawing).

Image via British Film Posters An illustrated History by Sim Branaghan (p.63), BFI Publishing 2006. Scan courtesy of Richard Holliss.



  • R-1944. RKO. Printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd. Netherfield, Nottingham, & London.

Image via Bonhams.


  • R-1954. RKO. [poster not yet found]


  • R-1964. Walt Disney Productions. This is the quad that was pictured in the 1964 pressbook. 

Image courtesy of the Richard Holliss Collection.



  • R-1964. Walt Disney Productions. Printed by Lonsdale & Bartholomew Ltd. Nottingham and London. This is the design that was actually used for the poster.



Images via Poster Mountain.



  • 1964. Walt Disney Productions. Printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd. of Nottingham and London. Double feature with The Legend of Lobo (1962); "Happy Holiday Programme." While the dwarfs all look the same as in the above poster, Snow has a slightly different rendering to her.

Image courtesy of the Richard Holliss Collection.



  • R-1972. Walt Disney Productions. Printed in England by W. E. Berry Ltd., Bradford.


Image via Heritage Auctions.



  • R-1980. Walt Disney Productions. Printed by Lonsdale & Bartholomew Ltd. Nottingham.

Image via Heritage Auctions.



  • R-1982. Walt Disney Productions. Printed in England by W. E. Berry Ltd. Bradford. 

Image via Heritage Auctions.



  • R-1987. 50th Anniversary. Walt Disney Company Ltd. through UK Film Distributors Ltd.

Image courtesy of Greg Philip of A Lost Film.



  • R-1987. Walt Disney Company Ltd. through UK Film Distributors Ltd. Folded. "Meet the Characters."

Image courtesy of the Richard Holliss Collection.



  • R-1992. Distributed by Warner Brothers. "Pink dress" design.

Image via pastposters.



  • R-1994. Buena Vista International (UK) Ltd. "Returns to Cinemas for the Last Time This Century." Note the Euro Disney theme park logo is included in its 1994 updated form as "Euro Disneyland Paris".



Also see some 1938 UK standees in an earlier Archive entry. Special thanks to film historians Richard Holliss and Greg Philip for their assistance with this Archive entry.

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