The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976 British one sheet — alternate blue/yellow EMI Films variant — Vic Fair — David Bowie
Original 1976 British one-sheet poster for Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie in his first major feature-film role. This is the striking alternate blue/yellow EMI Films-credit variant of Vic Fair’s celebrated design, with Bowie’s face suspended inside a circular landscape and triangular graphic structure.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- EMI Films Ltd
- Condition
- Very Good+ appearance; unfolded and unbacked.
- Completeness
- Complete single-sheet poster; no section is reported missing.
- Date
- 1976
- Film
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- British one-sheet theatrical poster — alternate blue/yellow EMI Films variant
- Dimensions
- 27 × 40 in (approximately 69 × 102 cm)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original 1976 British one-sheet poster; unfolded and unbacked
- Release context
- 1976 UK theatrical/distribution material; alternate blue/yellow EMI Films-credit variant
- Distributor
- EMI Films Ltd
Catalogue note
Original 1976 British one-sheet poster for Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie in his first major feature-film role. This is the striking alternate blue/yellow EMI Films-credit variant of Vic Fair’s celebrated design, with Bowie’s face suspended inside a circular landscape and triangular graphic structure. The sheet is unfolded and unbacked. Its unusual distributor credit and reduced-colour treatment distinguish it from the better-known full-colour British poster configuration; specialist documentation describes this alternate form as a rare variant and possibly an unused proof, although proof status is not treated as established fact.
Why this object matters
The original EMI one-sheet preserves Vic Fair's design in a distinctive contemporary colour/distributor state and remains exceptional film-promotion evidence. The unverified proof hypothesis and a different BFI quad do not distinguish this copy at 9.4; place it below the materially complete SEX package and near other consequential period design objects.
Evidence limits: Exact printing/proof status remains unverified; a reference to another poster format cannot authenticate this copy.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.2 / 10 · Gold Star.
This is a curatorial judgement, not a measurement accurate to one tenth or a market valuation. Read the explanation and its evidence limits together.
How Archive Importance is assessed →Use this record
Cite this object
Include the date you accessed this record when citing it.
Explore further
Connections use the catalogue’s named people, organisations and themes.