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8s171 5th SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL printer's test poster 1961 great Saul Bass art!

Date Sold 8/19/2018
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An Original Vintage Folded Film Festival Poster (measures 29" x 41" [74 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

The San Francisco International Film Festival (abbreviated as SFIFF) is among the longest-running film festivals in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the festival is held each spring for two weeks, presenting around 200 films from over 50 countries annually. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution.
Artist: Saul Bass
Important Added Info: This poster may be an uncut printer's test poster (often referred to as a "printer's proof")! Before a poster was printed in large quantities, the printer would print a limited number of posters as "test" posters. Because they needed to be shown to people at the studio, people in the art department, the stars, etc, they would print a number of test posters and distribute them to these people. Once these printer's test posters were shown to the various people in a position to "OK" them, the printer would print the full print run of the posters. As noted above, it seems quite likely that this poster might have been intended to be displayed without the thin white borders (trimmed to 27" x 41", and to create a "full bleed", meaning it would have no white borders at all), because that would have been much more striking, but we have never seen such a poster, so it is also possible that it was simply designed to be an odd size with unusual thin borders.

Condition: very good. The poster has minor fold and border wear and a few light creases scattered in just a few areas. There is a small, slightly raised diagonal line at center right that appears to be from a slight misprint of the poster. It is otherwise in pretty nice condition.
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