Thanks Peter. I knew about this, but I need something searchable. Eventually someone will do this to one of the newspapers, and it will be an invaluable tool for researchers like you and me!
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 8:42 AM, P Molitor <oldposte...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Bruce, > > The New York Times has a searchable archive available to subscribers. For > the tighter among us you can also search it and get a "preview" of the > results to get an idea if anything is there. Also, if they ran a review > you can usually read the entire thing for free. > > http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#// > > In the meantime you can use Google's News Archive. Their advanced search > is "being improved" at the moment so is unavailable, you can still access > their newspaper archives via: > > http://news.google.com/newspapers > > Although it is unsortable and extremely time consuming to slog through for > all but the most obsessive compulsive among us. > > I'm working on "Forbidden Adventure" right now and it's been an enormous > help. > > --Peter > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:28 AM > > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] Question re: Film Classics, The Hurricane with > Dorothy Lamour > > I checked, and sadly, none of the Universal Flash Gordon re-release > posters have litho numbers, so that is a dead end. The way to surely date > exactly when in the 1940s those movies were re-released would be to check > newspaper archives to see when ads ran for them, but that would be very > time-consuming, *UNLESS *there was a searchable online archive from a > major newspaper. > > Does anyone know if there *IS *a searchable online archive from a major > newspaper that goes back to the 1920s or 1930s? If there is, I would be > willing to pay to access it, to be able to answer questions like these. > Please let me know if there is. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:41 PM, luminita hascalovitz < > lhascalov...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Bruce, Did you have any luck dating those Flash Gordon reissue lobby > cards? Just curious. Best wishes, Lumi > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:18:16 -0500 > From: brucehershen...@gmail.com > > Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question re: Film Classics, The Hurricane with Dorothy > Lamour > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > > > First off, Channing, that one-sheet is definitely a 1945 re-release. > > Second, Phil, we DO assume that the one-sheets were printed at the same > time as the three-sheets and lobby cards, so yes, we can date most > re-release lobby cards with this method. > > But note that while sometimes three-sheets and one-sheets from the same > movie have litho numbers that are incredibly close, other times they are > very far apart, so that complicates things. And of course, every litho > company started their numbers over every ten years or so, so the same > number could be from three very different years, around a decade apart. > > > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Phillip Ayling <mro...@earthlink.net>wrote: > > Bruce, > A couple of weeks ago you asked Lumi Hazelton how she was dating some > Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe Lobby Cards as 1945, as you wanted to > have dating info for your database. > While many Universal and other mid-40's re-releases often don't have dates > on the lobby cards, in many cases those same re-release campaigns probably > had one-sheets or three-sheets with litho numbers. Without addressing this > one particular film, do you think it is reasonable in similar cases to date > the lobby cards to whatever dateable one sheets seems to be concurrent? > > Thanks for your thoughts and those of anyone else who may comment. > > > *From:* MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Bruce > Hershenson > *Sent:* Monday, March 17, 2014 4:42 AM > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] Question re: Film Classics, The Hurricane with > Dorothy Lamour > > When I get to work I will look up that litho number (not NSS number) in > our database, and I will be able to give you an exact year. We have been > recording every single litho (and NSS number for hundreds of thousands of > posters, so we can tell the exact year just from the litho number). > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Channing Thomson < > channinglylethom...@att.net> wrote: > > Thanks Bruce- the NSS # is #28615. I've listed the poster on EBAY guessing > 1945-1946. Here is the link: > > http://goo.gl/j8FKej > > Thanks, Channing > > On Mar 16, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We only sold it one time, as "R40s" here: > http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/933008.html > If there is a litho number, post it and I can likely get the year for you > from that (we couldn't do that back in 2006). > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Channing Thomson < > channinglylethom...@att.net> wrote: > > I have an original one-sheet for a Film Classics release of The Hurricane. > Does anyone know the year of this re-release and an approximate value? > Thanks, Channing > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > > > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the > eMoviePoster.com<http://emovieposter.com/>team > P.O. 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