My first vintage poster was for the 1938 RKO film SKY GIANT starring Richard Dix. I've been trying to climb out of the rabbit hole ever since!
My favorite poster is a toss up between my Swedish one sheet and US window card for the 1933 Columbia film SO THIS IS AFRICA starring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. There's something about the artwork for that campaign that has me under its spell. I'm so grateful I was able to obtain a pressbook for that movie. The ad mats are simply wonderful. SO THIS IS AFRICA had the best come on line in all of filmdom, "TWO BIG SEXPLORERS GO BIG DAME HUNTING"! No wonder this pre-code film was heavily censored! GT PS: Always looking for any other material on this film! On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:42 PM Susan Heim <filmfantast...@msn.com> wrote: > People always ask me what were the first posters I got. Well, I remember > always looking at the posters in the window at the theater when I was > growing up, but just never put two and two together to think I could own > one of > them. When I was in my first year of college I went to visit my best > friend who was at USC and his roommate was a film student and I walked into > the dorm room and my whole life changed. There was this gorgeous Chinatown > one sheet on the wall and I remember gazing at it and asking where in the > world he got that. He told me about Larry Edmunds book store on Hollywood > Blvd. I was there early on the following Saturday morning before they > opened with $20 in my pocket that I had allotted myself to spend. I spent > the day going through boxes and wound up getting an original poster for > Chinatown, Funny Lady (I was working on the first Filmex in L.A. and Funny > Lady > was the opening night premiere) and I got a one sheet for Spellbound. > Each one sheet was $6 each. The killer is, in hindsight, there were two > copies of Spellbound in the box but I didn't think about buying two copies. > > > That was it for me and I spent so much time over the years at Larry > Edmunds, Ron's shop in Hollywood, Eric Caden's shop on Las Palmas and so on > and so on. When I began to subscribe to Movie Collector World and the Big > Reel, I met a whole universe of fellow collectors and know most of them to > this day. I truly believe we all have the collector gene. I still love > movie posters and, while I don't really buy any anymore, I still love to > watch every > auction and see all the beautiful posters and even a few new ones that > surface every once in awhile. > > I often get asked what is my favorite poster in my collection and that's a > hard one. I could narrow it down to maybe 5 of them.....*How about you > guys? What is your favorite poster in your collection?* > > Sue > Hollywood Poster Frames > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Alan Adler <m...@charter.net> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:35 AM > *To:* Susan Heim <filmfantast...@msn.com>; mopo-l@listserv.american.edu < > mopo-l@listserv.american.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...? > > Howdy - > > Put me down for 1957 and a poster from I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF begged > from Bob White, the manager of the Sunset Theater in Asheboro, North > Carolina. > > The amazing thing is that posters were trash back then - only worth > pennies - the price of manufacture and rental to NSS - but just plan > disposable other than that - time and changing culture has made them art. > > Maybe in New York or LA old paper had some small bankable charm in the old > days - but growing up in a small town in North Carolina - I was nothing > more than a pest digging trough trash cans for garbage. > > My father supported my habit - he loved movies and helped me appreciate > the art of the posters despite the lack of dollar value - He also > understood the touchstone the posters were for further enjoyment of the > film. > > I’d find a room full of posters and my father would rent a U-haul and hire > a couple guys to dig them out so I could bring them home. > > But in those days - where I lived - most people thought I was just plain > not right in the head (many still do) - but there was an odd aloneness to a > hobby that no one else practiced or understood. > > After ten years of collecting, one day when I was in my early 20’s on a > trip to DC I walked past a small poster store. > > The first one I’d ever seen or heard of. > > I did a double-take and almost fainted. > > In that single moment I realized there were other people out there that > saw value in old movie posters, too. > > And I was no longer alone. > > I was vindicated. > > I went in the store and had everything they had. > > If only there’d been a Dracula or two I could have gotten them for a few > bucks. > > But the line from Treasure of Sierra Madre sums of my feelings for those > days. > > “Thanks, mountain!” I say. > > The movie poster gods have been good to me - and I’ve been grateful for a > lifetime. > > At 71, I still sort and file nearly every day. > > And thanks to a bad memory, every time I open a box I have the thrill of > finding something I forgot I had! > > Alan > > > > On Apr 13, 2020, at 5:08 PM, Susan Heim <filmfantast...@msn.com> wrote: > > Great question Glenn.. I know I have customers who started collecting the > the 1950's. I have one customer who's father was good friends with someone > who ran a National Screen Service and, on weekends, they would drop > by to see the friend and the friend would give my customer, who was about > 10 or 11 in those days movie posters and lobby card sets. So, for any > given film, and he particularly collected Elizabeth Taylor and Alfred > Hitchcock, > he owned the one sheet, 40x60, 30x40 and lobby card set for each of their > films, all in mint, never used condition. My customer kept up with the > friend over the years, and developed other film poster interests all the > way back to the 1920's, and collected hundreds of posters. It's really > amazing to hold in your hands a mint copy of something that is 60 or 90 > years old when you go to frame it...... > > I know Ron Borst started collecting pretty early.....when I first started > collecting back in 1973, I knew other collectors that had been collecting > since the 1940's finding posters in old bookstores in Hollywood. > > Sue > Hollywood Poster Frames > > ------------------------------ > *From:* MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> on behalf of Glenn > Taranto <exit82afi...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2020 11:59 PM > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > *Subject:* [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...? > > Hello All - > > OK, Admittedly too much time on my hands... > > Have any of you ever wondered (or know) who is considered the earliest > know poster collector? Forry Ackerman, perhaps? > > I can just imagine some kid standing in front of a Paramount theatre and > staring at a Metropolis one sheet wishing they could own it. > > GT > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistserv.american.edu%2Fscripts%2Fwa-american.exe%3FSUBED1%3DMoPo-L%26A%3D1&data=02%7C01%7C%7C55a668294b5449ab068008d7e00bcd3c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637224213595356665&sdata=j4rFirUGRdV54ORP4X1k2UCUAvo1PxoI%2F8QzmE%2BEYjM%3D&reserved=0> > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistserv.american.edu%2Fscripts%2Fwa-american.exe%3FSUBED1%3DMoPo-L%26A%3D1&data=02%7C01%7C%7C55a668294b5449ab068008d7e00bcd3c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637224213595366673&sdata=864YBCpfI%2F0upkqJ7ncqLMIa9aGkFcpRv%2F5evsZZABw%3D&reserved=0> > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > 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.
