Austurbæjarbíó poster, 1983

You will, all of you being complete Fall obsessives, be familiar with the poster advertising The Fall's gig at Austurbæjarbíó, Iceland, on 6 May 1983.


I've wondered for a long time what the photo represented. And this week it reached the top of my trivia research list. Was it some comedy troupe, or a photo from some dadaist theatre production?

Making no headway, I posted it to the Fall Online Forum. And someone pointed out it looked like an illustration of a "chair carry" technique in a first aid manual.

Then someone else found this, in an American First Aid text book:


Which was all I needed to help me track down the source, which turned out to be a 1940 corrected reprint of the 1937 revised edition of the *American Red Cross First Aid Text-Book*. It might be in other editions, but that's the edition in the Internet Archive.





I like solving little trivia mysteries like this.

Dan