All of the above is correct.And Tommy, I do agree that U.K. buyers tend to buy a lot of U.,S. posters, both because they are in English and because you can't find virtually any pre-1970 U.K. posters . But otherwise I find that most French collectors prefer French posters, Japanese collectors prefer Japanese posters, German collectors prefer German posters, etc. and most U.S. collectors prefer U.S. posters.
"Prefer", not "buy exclusively"! Bruce On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Toochis Morin <fly...@pacbell.net> wrote: > This American will always buy foreign paper over US if the image is nicer. > > I'm still trying to buy a French DARK PASSAGE, CASABLANCA and any KING > KONG if I can afford it. So I'll keep dreaming. > > The Haunting - French is great as is Planet of the Apes and the Japanese > Apocalypse Now. > > I love German and Swedish silents to 1930s which I have a few. The art is > lovely. One of my faves: Kiss Before The Mirror. > > Toochis > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Adrian Cowdry <jboh...@aol.com> wrote: > > In my humble opinion and my experience US Buyers are not big fans of > foreign language posters - there are exceptions of course and I will not > put forward examples but even if the art is far superior many US > collector/buyers do not like to buy European language posters. > > There are exceptions of course but for example say Magnum Force - the quad > is far superior to the US One sheet yet the Americans will only buy the US. > There is this inherent country of origin mentality.Most movies are of > course US made - Seven Year Itch will always be American Paper yet the UK > DC is far batter than any US paper. > > There are some recent discoveries in Italy of some awesome titles which > when they emerge will have tongues out yet many American collectors will > over look these posters - For me this is a travesty that makes people blind > to the art on show. > > A good example is Oceans 11 - the US Insert and three sheet are the better > art world wide with the rat pack walking down sunset strip - the US one > sheet is quite boring - the Italian Two Foglio is superb and a great study > of Sinatra and the rat pack. Hud is another the Italian 4 Foglio is one of > the best study's on Newman (except his eyes have been coloured brown) - but > far superior to the US paper. > > Empire Strikes Back - the Australian Daybill is the green Millinieum > Falcon art - truly beautiful. > > So I think Grey is possibly correct about doing a Sunday auction of > European paper - but I also feel that American buyers need to be a little > less narrow minded - yes that is a sweeping statement but the majority of > the end buyers are a little narrow minded on this subject. The dealers are > very open to the art on show - but if it doesn't sell then a dealer ain't > gonna buy it. > > > *This Never Happened to the Other Fella....* > > Adrian Cowdry > jboh...@aol.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tommy Barr <tommymb...@gmail.com> > To: MoPo-L <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:33 > Subject: [MOPO] European bidders and non-us posters > > OK, here's the thing - Bruce is of the opinion that having special > Sunday auctions of non-US posters will be a benefit to European bidders. > While I do not wish to seem ungrateful, that suggests that if you are a > non-US citizen then you buy non -US posters. Does Bruce base that on > empirical data or simply geographical assumption? Although UK based I > mainly collect US poster formats, with the occasional Daybill or Quad. I > would be very interested to hear from other non-US bidders as to whether or > not they agree with Bruce's view. > > Tommy > > ------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. 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