Picturegoer — Week ending 17 April 1943
Claudette Colbert cover · The Moon Is Down pictorial · readers defend The Magnificent Ambersons
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 17 April 1943, with Claudette Colbert on the colour cover. Inside, a substantial pictorial presents John Steinbeck’s anti-occupation drama The Moon Is Down only days after its American release, while the facing readers’ page contains an unusually revealing defence of Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons and calls for wider access to the film.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good appearance for an original 1943 wartime issue, ungraded. The Claudette Colbert colour cover remains vivid and highly presentable, with moderate spine rubbing and small splits, light edge and corner wear, minor surface scuffing/creasing and ordinary handling wear. Rear and interior pages are age-toned but clean and highly legible.
- Completeness
- Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine rule unless the owner states otherwise. Front cover, rear page and one interior spread are supplied; no page-by-page collation has been performed.
- Date
- Week ending 17 April 1943
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- Illustrated film fan magazine; cover states “Every Other Thursday”
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original period publication
- Release context
- British wartime Picturegoer issue combining Claudette Colbert star imagery, immediate coverage of The Moon Is Down, reader advocacy for wider exhibition of The Magnificent Ambersons and Ministry of Food bread-conservation guidance
Catalogue note
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 17 April 1943, with Claudette Colbert on the colour cover. Inside, a substantial pictorial presents John Steinbeck’s anti-occupation drama The Moon Is Down only days after its American release, while the facing readers’ page contains an unusually revealing defence of Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons and calls for wider access to the film. Ralph Denton’s farewell “A Filmgoer’s Diary” adds a self-reflexive view of film journalism, while the rear page’s Ministry of Food “Precious Crusts” campaign links bread conservation directly to shipping capacity and the war effort.
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Archive Importance: 9.7 / 10 · Gold Star.
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