• This is an original 35 mm color slide from my considerable archive, which I have built over many years.

• • Travis Bickle: Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.

Directed by Martin Scorsese, the 1976 neo-noir psychological drama Taxi Driver follows Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a lonely, insomniac Vietnam War veteran working the night shift as a cabbie in a morally decaying New York City. Alienated by the city's crime and sleaze, his deteriorating mental state drives him into a dangerous spiral of isolation and violent vigilantism, culminating in a bloody crusade to assassinate a politician and rescue a 12-year-old sex worker. 

FIVE SLIDES CAN BE SHIPPED IN ONE PACKAGE AT NO EXTRA COST

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35 mm SLIDES – UNBRANDED

During the 1980s, I travelled extensively throughout Australia, the United States, Europe, and Asia, establishing dealer contacts and supply arrangements for original movie memorabilia. In many cases, material was traded rather than purchased outright. STARS ROCK AND MOVIE POSTERS was among the first Australian dealers to actively sell Australian movie material into the United States, particularly Australian daybill posters, which were highly sought after because they often featured artwork different from their American counterparts. Through exclusive supply agreements and close relationships with several Australian film distributors, I acquired a wide range of promotional cinema materials. At the time, I was also wholesaling movie products to dealers throughout Australia.

One area that frequently raised questions among collectors was the absence of a studio name on some cinema slides. These unbranded slides are not bootlegs or modern copies. They originated from the Australian distribution system.

For major film releases, Australian distributors were often supplied with only a limited quantity of original studio-produced slides from the United States. To satisfy the requirements of hundreds of cinemas across Australia, additional duplicate slides were professionally produced locally from the authorized studio originals. The small number of studio-branded slides were often retained for distributor archives, supplied to key exhibitors, or allocated to preferred cinema clients. As a result, the majority of slides distributed for many major releases were unbranded duplicates produced by or for the Australian distributor.

Only one original slide is available, together with a photographic proof. Once sold, it is gone.

These unbranded slides formed the backbone of cinema promotion throughout Australia and are an authentic part of the film's original theatrical advertising campaign. 35mm slides are a thing of the past; studio marketing is now entirely digital, and even one-sheet movie posters are becoming rarities as studios have largely gone digital, making them easy to display on monitors throughout cinemas. Progress, change is inevitable, ironically making the slides even more collectible. And a true 'blast from the past’.

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