OK -
I will jump in. I was interning for 20th Century Fox theatrical Marketing and
Distribution. I was spending one week out at the Branch office in Sherman
Oaks. They gave the intern the fun job to clean out the closet. Well, I
came across some Return of The Jedi posters and other FOX films and I asked if
I could take them home. YES! And that's what started it.
From my internship I joined Fox in exhibitor relations and of course my job was
sending out posters. And of course I got to keep a copy or two.
Then one year I asked NSS people for some posters as a present for my wife.
Winnie The Pooh and some Star Wars. Came in the mail. That really kicked
it into high gear.
My first significant purchase was a SINGIN IN THE RAIN one sheet. A co-worker
told me about these auctions you could buy older posters. Again, my wife's
favorite film. Got the poster. Took it to Sue to frame.
She looked it at it and said. Hey, this was once mine. Never folded version
that hung at MGM in the Art Director's office. __ And Sue and I have been
friends ever since.
And I now have over 1100 posters in my collection. And no more wall space.
Ira
On 3/18/20, 1:52 PM, "MoPo List on behalf of Alan Adler"
<mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU on behalf of m...@charter.net> wrote:
Okay -
We’ve got all this time -
We’ve got this great forum.
Let’s crank it up a bit.
Every one of us has a story about the first poster we ever scored and
changed our life.
Will start it off -
I was nine years old - it was 1957 - Asheboro, North Carolina - the
Carolina Theater -
Would take a cab from elementary school to go to the movies before walking
down the street to my parents dress shop and ride home with them.
Saw I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and was instantly transformed beyond my ears
into a frothing teenager.
Begged the manager of the theater for that poster.
He said they always have to send them back - they cost money - (maybe 35
cents pack then?) -
Begged the manager even more.
He caved and gave me the insert from Teenage Werewolf.
I was never the same.
Cobalt ink began to run through my veins.
Would stop to go through the garbage cans behind the theater before I went
to the movies.
Ah, the days of trash picking.
Oddly enough, when I started the Fox Archives -
Started going through the studio trash.
My wife began to call me an executive dumpster diver.
Eventually I curated the Fox Museum - THE HALL OF COOL STUFF - in Australia.
It contained nearly six million dollars worth of trash I salvaged and
stopped from being tossed.
Trash these days just isn’t what it was!
Alan Adler
Museum of Mom and Pop Culture
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