Tag: Vintage Classics
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Peeping Tom UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Title: Peeping Tom Formats: UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD, O-ring and Standards sleeves, exclusive booklet with UHD Blu-ray Distributor: StudioCanal UK Series: Vintage Classics Director: Michael Powell Actors: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley
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The Bells Go Down Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Title: The Bells Go Down Formats: Blu-ray and DVD, O-ring and Standards sleeves Distributor: StudioCanal UK Series: Vintage Classics, Ealing Studios Director: Basil Dearden Actors: Tommy Trinder, James Mason
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The Ship That Died Of Shame Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Title: The Ship That Died Of Shame Formats: Blu-ray and DVD, O-ring and Standards sleeves Distributor: StudioCanal UK Series: Vintage Classics, Ealing Studios Director: Basil Dearden Actors: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna, Roland Culver, Bernard Lee
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The Weak And The Wicked Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Title: The Weak And The Wicked Formats: Blu-ray and DVD, O-ring and Standards sleeves Distributor: StudioCanal UK Series: Vintage Classics Director: J. Lee Thompson Actors: Glynis Johns, Diana Dors, John Gregson, Jane Hylton
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The Lion In Winter UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Lion In Winter, directed by Anthony Harvey and featuring an all-star cast led by Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn, is released on UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD by StudioCanal UK.
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The Wicker Man Collector’s Edition , Steelbook, UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Wicker Man Collector’s Edition includes a bespoke rigid boxset featuring a pop-up inner, 2 posters, 4 art cards, and a 6pp Digipak for 5 discs that includes an audio CD by Katy J Pearson. Highly commended at the 2024 BASE Awards.
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The Third Man Collector’s Edition Packaging
The Third Man 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition includes UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray formats in a bespoke rigid box with a pop-up, containing artcards, a poster, and two booklets.
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The Conquest Of Everest Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A Vintage Classics title from Studiocanal, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging for The Conquest Of Everest. A creative brief to use the original assets to create a new set of sleeves and fit in with the existing Vintage Classics titles. As the originally supplied images were really poor quality, an illustrative version of the famous photo…
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Laughter In Paradise Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A Vintage Classics title from Studiocanal, Laughter In Paradise Blu-ray and DVD Packaging. A creative brief to use the original assets to create a new set of sleeves. These needed to sit alongside the existing Vintage Classics titles. Combining elements from the 1951 posters into a new composition that was flexible enough for the physical…
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They Came From Beyond Space Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Blu-ray and DVD packaging for They Came From Beyond Space for Studiocanal. A catalogue title, the brief was to create a new sleeve. The original theatrical posters were retouched and combined with new 3D lettering to create the Blu-ray and DVD sleeves. A mysterious meteor shower occurs above a field in Cornwall, and a team…
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Jules Verne’s Rocket To The Moon Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A Vintage Classics title, Jules Verne’s Rocket To The Moon, Blu-ray and DVD packaging for Studiocanal. The brief was to create a set of sleeves using the supplied assets that would sit within the Vintage Classics series. An original poster was retouched to create a version that was flexible enough to adapt to the changing…
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The Wrong Arm Of The Law Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Wrong Arm Of The Law is a Vintage Classics for Studiocanal. Taking the original 1960s artwork, it was recreated to obtain the necessary print quality and flexibility for the digital and physical formats, while retaining the comic style. 1963 British comedy directed by Cliff Owen (The Avengers) and starring the inimitable Peter Sellers and…
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The Gentle Gunman Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Another Vintage Classics, The Gentle Gunman Blu-ray and DVD packaging for Studiocanal. An Ealing Studios title that has been digitally restored. Adaptation of the original 1950s artwork, creating new backgrounds and layouts. Separating the title treatment from the main image enabled greater flexibility across formats, especially for the digital release. A brand-new restoration of the…
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They Who Dare Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
They Who Dare is a Vintage Classics title for Studiocanal, released on Blu-ray and DVD. A creative brief to use existing assets to create a sleeve to be adapted across formats. The rather restrictive nature of the existing images and posters provided the challenge. The limited natural palette, textures and choice of typefaces were used…
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The Sleeping Tiger Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A Vintage Classics title for Studiocanal, The Sleeping Tiger is available on Blu-ray and DVD. The creative brief requested using a particular image for the front cover. That was coloured and developed to recreate a 1950’s poster-style sleeve. The colouring and type used were similar to the original The Sleeping Tiger posters printed at the…
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West 11 Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
West 11 is a Vintage Classics title for Studiocanal, released on Blu-ray and DVD. Created fun inlay and O-ring sleeves based on supplied cover artwork.
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The Servant UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Servant standard sleeves and O-rings for StudioCanal using Edward Kinsella’s image, creating a title treatment and applying the design across design for UHD 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD.
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The Servant Collector’s Edition
The Servant Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal using Edward Kinsella’s image, creating a title treatment and applying the design across the slipcase and booklet. Collector’s Edition includes UHD 4K Blu-ray, 2 Blu-rays, 3 disc Digipak, Slipcase, 64-page Booklet and 4 Artcards.
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Kind Hearts & Coronets Collector’s Edition
June 2019 saw the 70th anniversary of the original UK release of KIND HEARTS & CORONETS, the jewel in Ealing Studios’ crown, and arguably one of the finest British films ever made. To celebrate this anniversary STUDIOCANAL released a stunning Collector’s Edition as part of their Vintage Classics Collection. The Collector’s Edition includes the restored…
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I Was Monty’s Double Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Creative packaging design for the Blu-ray and DVD sleeves for I Was Monty’s Double a Vintage Classics release for Studiocanal The original idea was to adapt the existing 1959 poster for this release. I really enjoy retouching and editing old poster and trying to emulate the brush techniques. However, the decision was made to keep…
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Odette Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Part of the Vintage Classics series for Studiocanal, Odette is Blu-ray and DVD inlay and O-ring sleeves. The brief was to portray Odette as a strong female lead character that previous sleeves had failed to represent. Making use of supplied poster artwork for the title treatment, I researched the film’s old posters (finding some beautiful…
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Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD packaging for the StudioCanal Vintage Classics 60th Anniversary release. The Vintage Classic releases for StudioCanal have a distinctive style (fro other examples see them here), using areas of flatter colour that resemble vintage posters. The packaging fro Ice Cold in Alex followed this style with a colour palette that conveys…
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The Agatha Christie Collection Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Agatha Christie Collection from StudioCanal is a set of films, released individually, as Vintage Classics on Blu-ray and DVD. The films making up the collection are Death On The Nile, Murder On The Orient Express, Evil Under The Sun and The Mirror Crack’d. The release of these four films featured the fantastic artwork of Johnny Dombrowski. These…
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Melody Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Packaging for the Vintage Classic Blu-ray and DVD StudioCanal release of Melody. Having worked on a previous release of Melody (see below for an early 2D packshot) that didn’t have too many assets available, I thought that the Remaster wasn’t going to be the easiest of tasks. However, despite early versions limited to the same images,…
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The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army is made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German,…
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Mandy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the White Suit). Born deaf, Mandy (Mandy Miller) is mute for most…
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The Proud Valley Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that will resonate with many. The look of this title works…
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The Man Between Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and mistrust. The action is here transposed to a divided Berlin,…
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The Blue Lamp Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the character, PC George Dixon – later to be immortalised in…
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The Sound Barrier Blu-ray and DVD packaging
The Sound Barrier is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic title. Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan. Starring Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick, the film is about the men who challenged the speed of sound. I like the simplicity of the sleeve, but the subtle elements the background ‘blueprints’ bring to the design. The…
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School For Scoundrels Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Enrol at the wacky College of Lifemanship where a senior host of great British comedians teach a completely uproarious course on how to come out tops in any social situation. Study with Alastair Sim and learn his valuable hints on the art of comic One-upmanship. Follow his expert advice to victimised Ian Carmichael about romance and you’ll be a top class pupil…
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Pool Of London Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
I enjoy working on the Vintage Classic titles, some can be a real challenge with limited assets, while others have some really lovely old archival posters that cry out to be used. With Pool Of London I loved the original title treatment, but I was little sceptical about using the poster image at first, however, I’ve grown to…
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Payroll Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Payroll has got a couple of lovely, if poor quality, shots with beautiful ‘film noir’ lighting. This is a film that I had previously worked on, and the assets were exactly the same, so it was just a case…
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Lion In Winter Blu-ray and DVD packaging
Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding a new successor to his thrown. I originally worked on…
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I’m All Right Jack Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A StudioCanal Vintage Classic, I’m All Right Jack stars the mighty Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas (he of the double-barrelled ‘uniname’). With a great supporting cast that features the likes of Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Margaret Rutherford and Liz Fraser. Directed by John Boulting it’s a satirical comedy lampooning the issue of industrial…
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The Happiest Days Of Your Life Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Creating the artwork for The Happiest Days Of Your Life on Blu-ray and DVD O-rings was a pleasure to work on. Featuring the wonderful actors Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell, it also features artwork by the brilliant Ronald Searle. The artwork is based on a old poster that featured the illustrations of Ronald Searle, however, this artwork only existed…
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Darling Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Darling is a Vintage Classic from 1965 starring the stunning Julie Christie and also features Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey. I was supplied with some good assets for this title, some nice posters and still photographs. The supplied posters were classic 1960s poster I’ve seen referenced in books, however, in the end we wanted to move…
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Comfort and Joy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Comfort and Joy wasn’t a film I was familiar with when I was sent the assets to work on. But when I saw the original artwork of a man with an ice cream on his face and I knew I couldn’t go far wrong! The original poster used different colours, but we wanted to use…
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Swallows and Amazons DVD and Blu-ray sleeves
Another Vintage Classics sleeve for StudioCanal, Swallows and Amazons is the 1974 film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s novel. Set in the 1920s, the story tells the tale of four children and their adventures on board their boat, the Swallow, whilst on holiday with their mother in the Lake District. The brief was to modernise the existing sleeve (it…