Moonraker

Moonraker was criticised as being one of the more silly Bond films but I thought it was the best Bond ever. It was a little bit racy (hey I was fourteen), it had lots of spaceships and explosions and it had Roger Moore. Yes, Roger Moore.

 

On the back of the clipping: remember when shops shut at noon on Saturdays?

Prophecy

Anyone remember this one? It came hot on the heels of Alien and was directed by John Frankenheimer. I never saw it and still haven't but I cut out the clipping anyway as I really liked the image (an obvious 'Alien egg' rip off)

September 15 1979

On the back of the clipping: before cutting my Dad's newspaper to pieces, I would always read the 'Rap Around' music news column.

The Muppet Movie

Through years of watching Sesame St and later the Muppet Show TV series, the Muppets were well ingrained in my DNA by the time this movie came along. Seeing it was probably an uncool thing to do as an early teenager, but I felt I was never too old to enjoy the Muppets.

From The Herald December 1979

On the back of the clipping: you don't see many too many in-depth record reviews for classical music these days.

Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

This poster promised more than the film (basically some TV episodes edited together) could deliver but I still enjoyed it. It was from the production team behind Battlestar Galactica and the sound effects, music and special effects were embarrassingly similar.

The Herald Aug 8 1979

On the back of the clipping:

Warlords of Atlantis

I never saw this film but that didn't stop me cutting out the ad. I love that 'Are You Being Served?' is the second movie. Guess they thought let's shove on any old mismatched film, no one's going to turn up anyway. And they didn't ...in droves.

Warlords of Atlantis (AKA Warlords of the Deep) clipping from the Melbourne Herald, Aug 10, 1979

 

The back of the clipping is far more interesting. You can buy a Bay gelding for $500, very handsome and great for kids.

Battlestar Galactica

Every mega-successful Hollywood blockbuster is inevitably followed by a flood of knock offs and Star Wars was no exception. It started with Battlestar Galactica. I was lucky to see the movie version and I loved it every minute of it. I didn't know or care that it was in reality a few TV episodes thrown together to exploit a crazed market eager to throw its cash at anything that even vaguely resembled Star Wars. And it was in "Cine-Fi" sound.

From The Herald, May 24 1979

On the back of the clipping - Marcia, Grease and the Shaft 'Sinema.' Yep, it's the 1970s alright.

Star Wars

My newspaper movie clipping collection began with Star Wars back in 1977. Actually this one is from 1978 (imagine a film lasting that long at the cinema these days!) as my original October 1977 Sun newspaper clipping disappeared at some point over the years.

From The Herald (Melbourne, Australia) September 1978

This is the back of the clipping. Note the ad for the very crappy 1970

version of Spiderman and the fun mix of ads for family entertainment and exotic dancers.