{"id":13606,"date":"2014-11-30T21:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T02:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=13606"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:08:53","slug":"mockingbird-original-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/mockingbird-original-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"To Kill A Mockingbird: Original Newspaper Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Kill A Mockingbird received its 8 Academy Award nominations on February 23, 1963, just days before these\u00a0ads appeared in newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>The following three advertisements appeared in issues of\u00a0The State, The Columbia Record (South Carolina) on\u00a0February 27, February 28 (premiere) and March 1, 1963.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/statead1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"694\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/statead2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"621\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/statead3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<table id=\"table1\" border=\"1\" width=\"77%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"38%\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/tkamad1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"560\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"62%\">\n<p align=\"center\">very similar to poster:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/moviep2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"556\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Ads (above and below) appeared in western editions of\u00a0The New York Times. The film premiered in Los Angeles on\u00a0December 25, 1962, in order to be eligible for the 1963<br \/>\nAcademy Awards voting.\u00a0 The official premiere came at NY Radio City Music Hall, February 14, 1963.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/nytadtkam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"233\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below:\u00a0 ad from New Yorker Magazine<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/newyorkertkamad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"427\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/tkam%20newspaper%20ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\noriginal ad, above, from Denver newspaper<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Kill A Mockingbird received its 8 Academy Award nominations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-to-kill-a-mockingbird-popular"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36926,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions\/36926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}