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Description: | This poster was used to advertise the Ealing Studio's 1951 film 'The Lavender Hill Mob'. Ronald Searle, who later found fame with the cartoons he drew for the series of films set at St Trinian's Girls' School, illustrated the background images.
S John Woods, who worked for Fox films in the 1930s, was recruited by the Ealing Studios in 1943 to manage its advertising department. Woods completed the collage design of the poster by superimposing a photograph of the two main characters over Searle's illustrations.
The plot of the film follows Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway's characters as they mastermind a bullion robbery and export the gold as souvenir models of the Eiffel Tower. T E B Clarke's filmscript won an Oscar. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | EMI Group plc | Subjects: | work Leisure Art and Design | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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