I did the same. I joined Crew Stories like Bruce and did a deep dive and couldn't find the screenshot image I web-hosted so others could see it here. I think it's fake news as far as giving people the impression that this happened last week - but I DO think this could've happened as far back as the 1990s or as recently as two years ago. Warners bought MGM's library in 1996. Two years ago, Warners (as Warner Media) - sold its movie properties to Amazon - but hung onto Turner's original MGM library of pre-1986 titles including pre-1950s Warners titles, pre-1950 RKO titles and a bunch of other studio and TV libraries. Everything post 1986 and ALL of UA's library including the James Bond series dating to 1962 was sold to Amazon two years ago. - d.
P.S. - That is Glass Bottom Boat on the floor in that picture. It would not be among the titles Warners would keep after its sale to Amazon. The whole thing is confusing. What matters is the idea of trashing movie paper. It would be hard to fake an image of posters being strewn everywhere in a cavernous hangar-type warehouse. Whether this happened two years ago or 30 years ago, who knows. ________________________________ From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> on behalf of Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2023 10:33 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Subject: Re: WB throwing away thousands of movie posters Kirby My first thought on seeing that image was "looks kind of fishy to me"! I joined that FB group and that post is not there. I went to that guy's profile, and it was not there either. And I found the same post in another non-movie poster group. Looks like one more of those "I remember when poster exchanges had Frankenstein and Dracula lobby sets" to me. But what do I know? Bruce On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:19 PM Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.com<mailto:ki...@movieart.com>> wrote: Could be; I don't remember. K. On Apr 8, 2023, at 10:59 AM, Roland Lataille <roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net<mailto:roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote: Didn't Warner acquire many of the MGM films years ago? On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:26:24 AM EDT, Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.com<mailto:ki...@movieart.com>> wrote: uhhhhh.... that is a half-sheet for THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, which is MGM, so why is that there if this is some kind of Warner's archive? Fake news? Kirby McDaniel movieart.com<http://movieart.com/> where ALL the news is REAL On Apr 7, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Alan Adler <m...@charter.net<mailto:m...@charter.net>> wrote: This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a good idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all the way up the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I thought the event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is disgusting. Why not just give it all to the Academy or any film school or sane group of individuals and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to book burning. And to then trash it in private when people wanted to save it by hiding their actions is disgusting. This act reeks of high-level corporate idiocy. I’ve seen this close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved beyond the days of trashing art and artifacts for the sake of expediency. I guess not. Alan On Apr 7, 2023, at 7:05 PM, David Kusumoto <davidmkusum...@hotmail.com<mailto:davidmkusum...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Yes, I saw that posted yesterday at the Crew Stories site - but I was unable to confirm the actual date this happened. [https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1340/Ft8LuR.jpg?trnonsuspmrk=1&trfcallwremmrk=1] ________________________________ From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>> on behalf of Roland Lataille <roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net<mailto:roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net>> Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 6:30 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>> Subject: Re: WB throwing away thousands of movie posters Friends of 70mm | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsof70mm> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsof70mm> [https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/23/logos/facebook.png?trnonsuspmrk=1] Friends of 70mm | Facebook 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.
