{"id":4016,"date":"2015-09-07T14:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2015-09-09T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:52:37","slug":"proto-playbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"Proto-Playbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, on this blog, I wrote about prolific British poster artist Tom Chantrell<\/span><\/a>. Although he might be more revered nowadays for his work for Hammer studios, it\u2019s his \u2018X\u2019-rated sexploitation material which I, unsurprisingly, adore the most. Chantrell designed the cinema artwork for Come Play with Me<\/em>, The Playbirds<\/em> and Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair<\/em> and earlier this year I purchased some of his original materials from a dealer. Chantrell, who died in 2001, often worked from movie photographs supplied by the distributor. However, in the case of The Playbirds<\/em> he was actually sent pictures by Mary herself. The photos below were used for\u00a0reference by Chantrell and are\u00a0stamped on the rear: \u2018Boots the Chemist, Norbury\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a><\/p>\n

From 1975 to 1978 Mary managed the Whitehouse Shop at 1539 London Road in Norbury, South London and was a regular face in the area. It\u2019s likely that Mary\u2019s photographs probably had to be developed \u2018under the counter\u2019 at her local Boots \u2013 which was located just down the road at number 1428 \u2013 but I\u2019m pretty sure the staff there were obliging, and well-used to far more explicit requests from the adult film star in their midst. Chantrell often created his stunning designs in stages, and the \u2018rough\u2019 black and white poster mock-up below (with the distributor’s synopsis) certainly shows a work-in-progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/p>\n

Although there were dozens of busy poster artists in the 1960s and 1970s, none could hold a candle to Chantrell. His artwork was always of the highest quality; even his signature\u00a0had a\u00a0flourish\u00a0of impeccable class…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/p>\n

All words and photographs strictly\u00a0\u00a9 Simon Sheridan 2015<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, on this blog, I wrote about prolific British poster artist Tom Chantrell. Although he might be more revered nowadays for his work for Hammer studios, it\u2019s his \u2018X\u2019-rated sexploitation material which I, unsurprisingly, adore the most. Chantrell designed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,38,22,7,18,42,130],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cinema-posters","tag-come-play-with-me","tag-confessions-from-the-david-galaxy-affair","tag-locations","tag-norbury","tag-the-playbirds","tag-tom-chantrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marymillington.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}