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A Pacific Title Title-Card for Marlon Brando in Mutiny on the Bounty
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A Pacific Title Title-Card for Marlon Brando in Mutiny on the Bounty
MGM, 1962. Acrylic on glass, mounted against a dark background, framed to 23 1/2 x 35 in.
Marlon Brando took on a challenge when he played the role for which Clark Gable was nominated for an Academy Award, that of Officer Fletcher Christian in MGM's 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Brando made the role his own, however, under the superb direction of Lewis Milestone and in the tropical Tahiti location. Brando was so taken with the location that he eventually purchased his own private island in Tahiti in 1966. The land is now occupied by a resort called "The Brando," with oceanfront villas.
Pacific Title Company was founded in the 1920s to provide title sequences for silent films. When the industry transitioned to sound, Pacific Title pivoted to focus on opening and closing credit sequences. The artists at Pacific painted title and credit material on large sheets of glass, which were then filmed before a painted backdrop or composited over a film's introductory shots. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Pacific Title and Art Company produced the lion's share of titles for the Hollywood film industry, until technological advances made the glass plate process archaic. The company archived its work over the decades, creating a living history of the American motion picture industry. This example comes to us directly from the Pacific Title archive.
Provenance: from the Pacific Title archives.
23 1/2 x 35 in.
Marlon Brando took on a challenge when he played the role for which Clark Gable was nominated for an Academy Award, that of Officer Fletcher Christian in MGM's 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Brando made the role his own, however, under the superb direction of Lewis Milestone and in the tropical Tahiti location. Brando was so taken with the location that he eventually purchased his own private island in Tahiti in 1966. The land is now occupied by a resort called "The Brando," with oceanfront villas.
Pacific Title Company was founded in the 1920s to provide title sequences for silent films. When the industry transitioned to sound, Pacific Title pivoted to focus on opening and closing credit sequences. The artists at Pacific painted title and credit material on large sheets of glass, which were then filmed before a painted backdrop or composited over a film's introductory shots. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Pacific Title and Art Company produced the lion's share of titles for the Hollywood film industry, until technological advances made the glass plate process archaic. The company archived its work over the decades, creating a living history of the American motion picture industry. This example comes to us directly from the Pacific Title archive.
Provenance: from the Pacific Title archives.
23 1/2 x 35 in.
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