You Can't Escape Forever (Warner Bros.) (1942)

A NEW SLANT ON LOBBY PHONE GAG Blow up still EF 509 from Vitagraph Exchange set and set it up in back of table in lobby as shown. Balloon copy explains stunt, which invites patrons to phone the neighbors about the swell entertainment on your screen. Use usherette during busy hours. 'YOU CANT ESCAPE FOREVER’ RALLY Build a prison cell of compo board, with effigies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito inside. Add copy as shown in illustration. Idea is to set your quota of war bond sales for month, scaling the amounts at side. As you reach each figure in war bond sales, prison bars lower. You thus dramatize fact that the more bonds sold . . . the sooner the Axis will be put behind bars. Place this display in lobby or in prominent spot in town. "YOU CAN'T BUY STAMPS HERE — HELP Sabai PUT THE AXIS BEHIND BARS! MYPLiSM ty Vd Your Bonds and Stamps tell ‘em You Can't Escape Forever MARRIAGE SERVICE Announce a stunt in lobby and newspapers offering free marriage service to those who wish to tie the knot during your run. Announcement reads: "You Can't Escape Forever... So Why Not Now!"' Promote some household gifts, such as furniture, kitchenware, trousseau, etc., from local merchants to be presented to the couple whose male member is the first to enter the armed services. Get radio and newspaper coverage. Behind this story of high-jinks and high comedy is the first screen expose of the vicious Black Market. That's red meat for action Daily Gazette/ 1H EXTRA ': RKE SE BLACK MA EXPO eee Lid Off Ri George Brent packet Vicious Ration Ae ae eer URDER FORPROFIT RING NAB M George Brent Delicious: >; New Laugh Thriller r ; ESCAPE FOREVER DAYS — STRAND AU in Warne ‘YOU CAN’ STARTS FRIDAY —1 fans—so yell about it loud .. . like this: Tabloid Throwaway Prepare a tabloid locally, made up as shown, for distribution on street, in lobby and as newsstand giveaway. Scene used is mat 203 on page 12. Window Streamer Print extra quantities of this tabloid on heavier stock and post as streamers on store windows, especially those participating in scrap salvage drives, such as food shops (tin cans); butchers (waste fats) and garages (rubber). In these latter cases, tie in posters with anti-black market posters suggested below. City Campaign Against Black Market The wartime necessity of rationing gasoline, foods and other products, has brought into being the most vicious and despicable of all crimes—the black market, where these products are sold surreptitiously at profiteering prices. Contact local consumer groups and OPA (Office of Price Management) office to sponsor an anti-black market poster campaign, as suggested at right. Lobby Display The two big angles are sold solid in the lobby display suggested here. Animate the display with transparencies on ''Sockful'' and ''Armful'' so that they light up. FP chat es / wl ‘. WR Ud BN wt o ' 0' GEORGE BRENT @ BRENDA MARSHALL in WARNER BROS.’ Swell New Hit! _, Stills required available. Order "EF Set-piece Stills"—set of 3—25c—from Campaign Plan Editor, 321 W. 44 St., N. Y. C. GET IN THE SCRAP To Scrap the Black Market HELP WIN THE WAR—OBEY THE LAW DO NOT BUY IN THE BLACK MARKET AMERICA WARNS THE RATION RACKETEERS You Can’t Escape Forever Black Market Bared Set up an exhibit in lobby, in public library or other public building, or perhaps on a truck to roam streets. Exhibit should be sponsored by leading local consumer group or OPA office. Banner line: "AMERICA WARNS THE BLACK MARKET—You Can't Escape Forever! Help Win the War—Obey the Law!" Exhibit then shows how the Black Market operates and warns the public against dealing with these ration racketeers. News Montage Under the heading: AMERICA WARNS RATION RACKETEERS — You Can't Escape Forever!—show a montage of newspaper clippings dealing with this | wartime menace. Add stills from your Vitagraph Exchange set plus playdate and picture credits. Also suggest to local editor a feature series carrying title suggested above exposing the operations of the black market mob. Local radio station might go for this, too.