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Amblin', the 1968 Steven Spielberg romantic hitchhiking travel adventure short ("He and she were thumb-trippin'."; "They had the makin's... and the tail-end of summer"; about a man and woman who are hitchhiking and who meet and become friends, and the movie has no dialog) starring Pamela McMyler, and Richard Levin. Note that the posters for this movie have "Denis C. Hoffman's Amblin'" printed in the lower right, and Hoffman was the producers of this short.

Note that this was Steven Spielberg's very first movie, and he wrote it in addition to directing it. It briefly played at the Loews Crest Theater in Los Angeles in December 1968, where it was on a double bill with Skidoo, and we don't know if any posters were created for that initial showing (either individual or as a double bill). It was the winner of the Silver Phoenix Best Short Subject Award at the Atlanta Film Festival in 1969, and again, we don't know what posters, if any, were used to advertise that film festival showing. We have auctioned a single black and white one-sheet that predates the 1971 NSS re-release one-sheet, and feel certain that poster is from exactly 1970, because the R rating on the poster says "under 17 requires accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian", and in 1968 and 1969, the R rating age was 16, and it was raised in 1970, and therefore we feel that poster was specifically created in 1970, because there was a color one-sheet created in 1971, when the movie was re-released and distributed through NSS. Of course, Spielberg had great affection for this, his first movie, and he named his production company "Amblin" after this movie!
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Important Added Info: Note that this one-sheet, which measures 27 1/2" x 41 3/4" [70 x 106 cm], represents a really wonderful discovery! THIS is the poster referred to in the description above as being the "single black and white one-sheet that predates the 1971 NSS re-release one-sheet", and we feel it is from 1970 exactly for the reasons given above. WE THINK IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS THE FIRST ONE-SHEET THAT WAS CREATED FOR THIS MOVIE, BECAUSE PRIOR TO 1970, IT HAD A VERY LIMITED RELEASE AT A FESTIVAL AND A SINGLE THEATER, AND IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE NO PRINTED ONE-SHEETS WERE CREATED FOR THOSE RELEASES. This poster has the same image as the 1971 re-release, but it is black and white, while the re-release poster has color added. The re-release poster has full NSS information along the bottom. There is one more really interesting difference. The 1971 re-release has "TECHNICOLOR" printed in the bottom left, and this poster has "IN FULL COLOR" printed in that same area. We don't know if the movie was changed in any way between 1968 and 1971, and we don't know if the difference between "full color" and "Technicolor" is just semantic, or an actual color difference. We have auctioned many posters from late 1960s and early 1970s low budget movies that were not from major studios, and they are very often printed like this poster, without NSS information, because such movies were often not distributed through NSS. The paper this poster is printed on is consistent with the paper from other late 1960s and early 1970s posters from low budget non-NSS movies. So while we can't say for 100% certain that this poster is from 1970 exactly, we think it is extremely likely that it is, for the reasons given above! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here.

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