Original Pure Shit poster

by Bob Daly

Thanks to producer Daniel Scharf for providing us with this original poster
for our favourite film, Pure Shit (1976) by Bert Deling.

The poster was designed by Bob Daly, who also designed a known poster for Circus Oz in 1982.
He was part of the Australian Performing Group around the Pram Factory in the mid-1970s,
a number of whom worked on the Pure Shit film.

The poster has an advertisement for some screenings of the film, at the Playbox Cinema, in May 1976.
According to the OzMovies website, the particular screening on May 7, 1976 was actually the film's
World Premiere (after an aborted screening at the Perth Film Festival in 1975), and on the night before the
big screening, the Vice Squad raided the venue and tore down and confiscated all copies of this poster,
and then proceeded to officially ban it.
The film itself did screen without being banned though, but in the famous truncated title Pure S.



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A lot of great info about Pure Shit can be found here.



Bob Daly designed a known poster for Circus Oz in 1982, and had a connection with the Australian Performing Group around the Pram Factory in the mid-1970s.




Published March 4, 2021 (originally published 1976). © Bob Daly, 1976.