I pretty much fall in with Saul and Yafet...passion not pennies is the
motivating force...i alluded in an earlier post that I don't think years
down the line my
collection will be worth what i paid for it....as far as having a
preference on what i collect, though i have many posters I am particularly
passionate about lobby cards. A poster usually has to impart a feeling
about the whole movie ...Individual lobby cards excluding title cards often
take you right to the best scenes in the movie and evoke stronger feelings
in me than the posters. one example...i have posters and lobby cards from
bridge on the river kwai..if i look at the poster i might get a little buzz
but if I look at the lobby card of S.Hayakawa (forgive spelling if wrong)
slapping A. Guinness...fireworks...nothing but net...the big O...well
maybe not the big O..you get the picture..happy new year to all..Alan
Yafet
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01/04/2005 05:31 poster collecting. What's yours?
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Dear Saul and MoPo,
I have always collected stuff, from little on. Movie paper started
as an interest, grew to a hobby and is now a passion for more years than I
care to reveal.
My approach is similar to Saul's. Love the actress/actor. Love
the movie. Love the artwork. The movie is awful but is always good for a
few laughs or other exclamation points. To me, it's all very personal. I
do not collect for investment. My collection spans both ends of the price
spectrum and several genres.
Movie paper is also a tangible piece of the film. Rather like, "You
are there!" Moviegoers probably (unless the piece is unused) walked past
your paper and looked at it. Hard to duplicate that kind of feeling.
Nathalie Yafet
Saul H. Chapman PhD wrote:
Dear MOPO Brothers and Sisters,
I guess I've been collecting posters now for close to two and a half
years (not including my purchases of "Hard Day's Night", "Help", "Let
It Be" and "Yellow Submarine" 3-Sheets in the early 1980's). I
virtual newbie compared to many of the listserve members. I used to
collect fine art limited edition prints (lithographs, serigraphs,
silkscreens, etchings) and signed/autographed Beatles memorabilia,
but sold many of these and have moved over to movie posters (and an
occasional concert poster). I'd moved over to movie posters, not for
investment purposes, but because the images on the posters either
better fulfilled some nostalgic need or because the posters artwork
stirred me in some very positive way that the fine art limited
edition prints did not. Even with the influence of nostalgia pulling,
however, the poster still has to possess alluring artwork (whether of
the illustration type or photographic) for me to make a purchase or
bid. For example, even though nostalgia pulls me toward the purchase
of an Ingrid Bergman/Yul Brynner "Anastasia" poster (I really love
the movie), I find the artwork (at least in American release versions
of the poster) to be mind-numbingly boring. Hey, just my opinion.
Others can and do feel differently (but take a look at the French and
Swedish poster versions for this movie sometime). On the other hand,
I never saw "Viking Women and the Sea Serpent" and heard the movie is
really bad. I have no immediate plans to see it. However, the
artwork (which I just learned thanks to Sue at LAMP was done by
Reynold Brown) blows me away. It also reminds me of my own Viking
Woman (or rather, Little Viking Woman - my 7.5 year old who lives in
Iceland and is, technically half Viking and half American). I
purchased the half sheet and have it nicely framed in my living room.
Visual appeal means a great deal to me when it comes to movie posters
and the financial or popular success or failure of the film it
represents means very little to me. And I collect across genre.
That's just my approach to movie posters.
May I submit, I have fallen in love with the advance poster for
"Batman Begins" and have purchased an original DS OS. To me, this
photgraphic/Photoshopic renderings says unambiguously, "The Dark
Knight."
Happy collecting!
Saul
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