Re: [MOPO] RIP Donald Sutherland
Hey Kirby!It did! I agree it’s not Fellini’s best but I’ve seen it several times since (thanks to LA’s once thriving revival theater circuit) and it includes some of his greatest imagery - and Sutherland is amazing given he apparently got zero direction from the maestro. (And the Nino Rota score is arguably his masterpiece.)I didn’t realize the negative was stolen- I wonder if that’s why the original English language version (far superior to the Italian if only to hear as well as see Sutherland’s portrayal) has become much harder to see (if anyone’s interested, there used to be an excellent print on YouTube.)Sent from my iPhoneOn Jun 20, 2024, at 1:05 PM, Kirby McDaniel wrote:Ron, and mopolistas,And did FELLINI CASANOVA turn you into a randy young thing? I always thought that Fellini's choice of Sutherland for that role was very unusual to say the least. Not my favorite Fellini movie to be sure, but the Nino Rota score was sublime.There are so many good Sutherland performances, it's hard to pick one.We were lucky to see CASANOVA theatrically. I thought we might not see it at all when the negatives were stolen from Technicolor in Rome.Kirbymovieart.comOn Jun 20, 2024, at 2:20 PM, Ron Magid <00ad508bad52-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu> wrote:A very sad day!Among my favorite actors of all time – I first became aware of Donald Sutherland when he starred in Fellini’s Casanova, which played in English for one week at the Avco Center theater in Westwood, and had a profound impact on my budding childhood sexuality (I think I was 13 at the time.Sutherland then followed up with what is in my opinion, the best remake of all time Phil Kaufman‘s invasion of the body snatchers, which manages to function as both a remake and a sequel!So many other great performances followed– got to see him live at the Mark Taper Forum some years back and he was of course superb even though the play was not.Sent from my iPhoneOn Jun 20, 2024, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:RIP Donald Sutherland :(He was a superb Canadian actor from the 1960s to the present. While he gave wonderful performances in a number of movies, his main criteria for deciding to take a role seemed to be how much he was paid, because he appeared in lots of movies not worthy of his talents.Some of his movies include: JFK, MASH (as Hawkeye Pierce), Ordinary People, Dirty Dozen, Animal House, Don't Look Now, 1900, Cold Mountain, Kelly's Heroes, and The Hunger Games series (as President Snow). In 2015's "Forsaken", he played the father of his real life son, Kiefer Sutherland, who is also a wonderful actor, and in many ways has followed in his father's footsteps.See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/donald-sutherland-dead.htmlVirus-free.www.avg.com To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=1
Re: [MOPO] RIP Donald Sutherland
A very sad day!Among my favorite actors of all time – I first became aware of Donald Sutherland when he starred in Fellini’s Casanova, which played in English for one week at the Avco Center theater in Westwood, and had a profound impact on my budding childhood sexuality (I think I was 13 at the time.Sutherland then followed up with what is in my opinion, the best remake of all time Phil Kaufman‘s invasion of the body snatchers, which manages to function as both a remake and a sequel!So many other great performances followed– got to see him live at the Mark Taper Forum some years back and he was of course superb even though the play was not.Sent from my iPhoneOn Jun 20, 2024, at 11:33 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:RIP Donald Sutherland :(He was a superb Canadian actor from the 1960s to the present. While he gave wonderful performances in a number of movies, his main criteria for deciding to take a role seemed to be how much he was paid, because he appeared in lots of movies not worthy of his talents.Some of his movies include: JFK, MASH (as Hawkeye Pierce), Ordinary People, Dirty Dozen, Animal House, Don't Look Now, 1900, Cold Mountain, Kelly's Heroes, and The Hunger Games series (as President Snow). In 2015's "Forsaken", he played the father of his real life son, Kiefer Sutherland, who is also a wonderful actor, and in many ways has followed in his father's footsteps.See https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/donald-sutherland-dead.htmlVirus-free.www.avg.com To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=1
Re: [MOPO] 29 Years!
I don't post often but I read daily! Such a great group... Many thanks for all the insights and wisdom, Ron On Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 03:32:01 PM PST, Greg Douglass wrote: I was one happy camper the day I discovered MOPO and realized I could correspond with like-minded people (Poster Dorks) on a regular basis. I've seen nuclear flame wars, I've made friends, I've LOST friends, I've seen people get sick, seen people die, I've witnessed 10,000 ads, spent too much money as a result, been part of a spin-off group (remember Style B?), and I've stuck with it all through thick and thin. Many thanks to our fearless leader, Scott Burns. As the maxi-pad said to the fart, "You are the wind beneath my wings."Happy #29, y'all!Greg DouglassCoos Bay, OR Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 7:09 AM From: "Scott Burns" To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] 29 Years! Fellow MoPo’ers: Time is moving way too fast….MoPo marks its 29th birthday today. That’s amazing longevity for an Internet group. February 24, 1995 was the day of the first official MoPo post via the American University listserv. As is my custom, here’s my annual recognition of those 11 first-day MoPo members: Mahtab Moayeri, Michael Danese, Rob Ellis, Donna Tschetter, Goh Kai Shen, Evan Zweifel, George Nichol, Jeff Static (using AOL name Static555), Cindy Nemeth-Johannes, Adam Ehrlich, and myself. Michael, Rob and Evan are still with the group. Our subscriber numbers aren’t what they once were, but I’ll take quality over quantity any day. Thanks again to American University for keeping the listserv up and running and thanks to all of you for being here. Scott MoPo List Owner To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L=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.
Re: [MOPO] Norman Jewison died
Sad to hear even if he was nearly 100. One of my favorite directors, and like Robert Wise, comfortable and excellent in every genre. He will be mourned... Ron On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 05:19:17 PM PST, Christopher Quarles wrote: https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/norman-jewison-dead-moonstruck-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235882301/amp/ Sent from my iPhone 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. 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.
[MOPO] Movie/TV Title Artwork help
Howdy MoPoListas! Here’s an unusual quiz for you: A friend obtained a bunch of original artwork and signage used under the opening titles of various film and tv shows. He asked me to post these background art pieces to see if anyone recognizes what film or tv series they were used in? Any help - even your best educated guesses - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking, Ron Newer 137 - Copy.jpgNewer 141 - Copy.jpgNewer 164 - Copy.jpgNewer 167.jpgNewer 174.jpgNewer 190.jpgNewer 198.jpgNewer 200.jpgNewer 201.jpgNewer 202.jpgNewer 217.jpgNewer 224.jpgNewer 251.jpgNewer 270.jpgNewer 297.jpgNewer 307.jpgNewer 336.jpgNewer 348.jpgNewer 350.jpgNewer 387.jpg1930s -1940s maybe WB or Fox.jpg1940s.jpgBrick wall.jpg 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.
Re: [MOPO] Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022
Ignoring horror, Sci fi, fantasy and other genres has been largely the norm since at least the publication of the first major treatise on cinema, Arthur Knight’s The Liveliest Art. Knight was heavyweight critic at the then very influential Playboy magazine. Even Fredric March’s Oscar winning performance in Rouben Mamoulian’s 1932 masterpiece Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was omitted from Knight’s tome. While niche publications like Famous Monsters and Castle of Frankenstein and eventual critical volumes like Denis Gifford’s coffee table Horror Movies and William K Everson’s several studies helped the cause, it wasn’t until The Exorcist that a genre film was recognized as being worthy of Academy consideration (and it lost to The Sting, still foremost among the Oscar’s myriad black eyes.) Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 3, 2022, at 10:16 AM, S Yafet wrote: > > > Alternate reality list! Ugh! No classic horror movies, at all. Just to > mention one out of many dud choices. Watched or tried to watch A Journey to > Italy years ago. I love Ingrid Bergman but this thing put me to sleep. > You are right, Bruce. > Nathalie > >> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022, 8:38 AM Bruce Hershenson >> wrote: >> I am likely one of the only people here who saw all of the almost 4 HOURS of >> “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” in a theater. and it the >> ultimate case of The Emperor's New Clothes! >> >> How the 1,500 people who made this dreadful pretentious list did so, >> apparently with a straight face, is beyond me. Oh wait, there are very few >> comedies on the list, indicating these people completely lack a sense of >> humor. >> >> The order of the movies is flat-out ridiculous. But I am more bothered by >> the films and directors left off, than the ones included. And they were >> "bumped" off to make room for recent movies, movies by women, and movies by >> minorities. Shouldn't a "greatest" list completely ignore those factors? >> >> Just admit it is a list that is designed to get people to see many great >> overlooked movies, and I am fine with it. But a list of the "100 Greatest >> Films of All Time"? Not remotely close on ANY level. >> >> Sight & Sound’s top 100 Greatest Films of All Time 2022 >> 1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman, >> 1975) >> 2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) >> 3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941) >> 4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953) >> 5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001) >> 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) >> 7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998) >> 8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001) >> 9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929) >> 10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951) >> 11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927) >> 12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) >> 13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939) >> 14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962) >> 15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956) >> 16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) >> 17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) >> 18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) >> 19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) >> 20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) >> 21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927) >> 21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949) >> 23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967) >> 24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989) >> 25. (TIE) “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966) >> 25. (TIE) The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955) >> 27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) >> 28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966) >> 29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976) >> 30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019) >> 31. (TIE) “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) >> 31. (TIE) “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963) >> 31. (TIE) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) >> 34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934) >> 35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955) >> 36. (TIE) “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) >> 36. (TIE) “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931) >> 38. (TIE) “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) >> 38. (TIE) “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959) >> 38. (TIE) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) >> 41. (TIE) “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) >> 41. (TIE) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) >> 43. (TIE) “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) >> 43. (TIE) “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977) >> 45. (TIE) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) >> 45. (TIE) “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) >> 45. (TIE) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) >> 48. (TIE) “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970) >> 48. (TIE) “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955) >> 50. (TIE) “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959) >> 50. (TIE) “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992) >> 52. (TIE) “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976) >> 52. (TIE) “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) >> 54. (TIE) “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960) >> 54.
[MOPO] Looking for 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) ads from Spain
Hi all, I'm looking for the Filmax Spanish pressbook but would settle for local newspaper clippings... Please lmk... Ron 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.
Re: [MOPO] Frankie 1951rr 30x40, 90 watchers on eBay, "comes alive" in last 15 seconds.....
Interestingly, I acquired a near identical 30x40 from Jerry Fiore in the early 1980s, but with one major distinction: In place of the BoF Karloff portrait art, there was a huge b/w c/u photo of the 1931 Monster. I got lots of 50s Realart 30 x 40s from Jerry and they all had photographic art as part of the design, I believe tipped on vs. printed along with the body of the posters, which were silkscreened. I can't be certain if the '31 Karloff Frank image was pasted on or not as Jerry had the poster laminated onto a wooden board. Sold many years ago via Profiles in History IIRC... Cheers, Ron From: James Gresham <jamesalangres...@gmail.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Frankie 1951rr 30x40, 90 watchers on eBay, "comes alive" in last 15 seconds. Well, I will admit, I did get the poster that started this discussion: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ R1951-FRANKENSTEIN-Boris- Karloff-ORIGINAL-MOVIE-POSTER- 30x40-1-Sheet-Rolled-/ 122904356780 On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:45 PM, MoviePoster Collectors <moviepostercollect...@gmail.com> wrote: Good researchin' guys. And I suppose there is a teeny weeny - maybe even smaller than DT's hands - chance that somebody in this chain got it. Not me, BUT BUT got this rollin' in, after Poster Mountain fiddled with it: http://moviepostercollectors. guide/Storage/BoF-rr.jpg On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Jeff Potokar <jpotok...@ca.rr.com> wrote: Hi Kirby, I did a 2nd quick follow up, mentioning that same thing (the '47RR being Uni and not Realart), but that post has yet to appear on MOPO. Seems a lag from my email server to the listserv or something. Jeff Kirby McDaniel <movieartaus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting! Thanks, Jeff. But… this is Universal re-release, not Realart. > > Kirby McDaniel > MovieArt Austin > > > On Jan 25, 2018, at 9:28 AM, Jeff Potokar <jpotok...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > > > emp offered the pressbook the last time in 2016 for auction. > > > > The combo 3 sheet (and one sheet) can be seen here: > > > > http://www.emovieposter.com/ga llery/inc/archive_image.php?id =12660434 > > <http://www.emovieposter.com/g allery/inc/archive_image.php?i d=12660434> > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > James Gresham <jamesalangres...@gmail.com > > <mailto:jamesalangresham@GMAIL .COM>> wrote: > >> Greg that combo poster you refer to exists. When I was researching images > >> for the new book, *What Music They Make, *I came across a picture of it. > >> Unfortunately, someone was standing in front of it, covering a large > >> portion. I may still have that image somewhere. I believe it may have > >> been an R-47 3 sheet, but am not sure. I wanted it for the book, but could > >> never locate a clean picture. Jim Gresham > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:52 PM, MoviePoster Collectors < > >> moviepostercollect...@gmail.co m> wrote: > >> > >>> I checked with Jeff Potokar, a member here and admin. of > >>> allposterforum.com, and he wrote back that the 1951 Realart press book > >>> showed that it re-released both Frankenstein and Dracula in 1951, but not > >>> as a double bill. Each movie had its own 3 sheet, OS, HS and insert. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Greg Douglass < > >>> gregdouglassgui...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> ...and worth every penny. Not many of these puppies around, methinks. > >>>> By the way; about 20 years ago...shortly after Ebay began...I saw and was > >>>> bidding on a combo three-sheet of the Realart DRACULA+FRANKENSTEIN bill. > >>>> There was no picture...this is back when you had to take the photo, go to > >>>> the drug store, wait until 6 PM, bring the picture home, scan it, and > >>>> crop > >>>> it as best you could...but it was described as "somewhat faded". I was > >>>> bidding on my primitive cell phone. It was at $750 when I put in a bid > >>>> for > >>>> $801 at the last second. My wallet evidently spoke with my cell phone and > >>>> the phone picked that precise moment to take a monumental crap on me. I > >>>> often wonder: > >>>> Was it the real deal? Did one of you guys grab it for $750? I always > >>>> thought of it as either "the one that got away" or a monumental scam (the > >>>> seller had decent feedback). > >>>> Anybody? > >
[MOPO] Merry Christmas
Christmas is about sharing and spending time with family and friends. It's about creating happy memories with those you love. This time of year brings festivities and family fun. It is a time for reminiscing, looking forward and watching great movies. It's time to dust off your holiday favorites and start quoting them rather impressively. Here's to wishing you a very Merry Christmas and amazing New Year! Ron & Alexandra 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.
[MOPO] FA: Star Wars The Force Awakens 27x40 ds US international final style A
Hi Folks, We currently have on eBay an original double-sided 27x40" theatrical movie poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This is the U.S. international final style A. http://www.ebay.com/itm/131679840692 Have a great day! Ron & Alexandra http://motionpictureart.com #StarWars #EBAY #StarWarsForceAwakens 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.
[MOPO] Star Wars The Force Awakens
Hi Folks, We saw Force Awakens this morning and can truly say that this is the Star Wars movie you've been looking for. Go see this movie at least once. Our minds are still glowing :) Enjoy! Ron & Alexandra 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.
[MOPO] FA: Hunger Games Door Entrance Mat from Movie Theater
If you're looking for something special to add to your collection or home theater, this may be it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hunger-Games-Catching-Fire-Door-Entrance-Mat-Mocking jay-Jennifer-Lawrence-/131662863790? This is an original theatrical entrance mat, also known as floor or door mat, for the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). This mat is professionally printed and commercial grade with heavy-duty rubber backing for use both indoors and outdoors. Made exclusively for the Netherlands/Belgium and 39.5x58.5 inches in size. Have a great weekend! Ron & Alexandra MotionPictureArt.com <http://motionpictureart.com/> 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.
Re: [MOPO] Eric Caidin RIP
Oh No! So very sad to hear this. One of the truly great guys in this hobby - I have been doing business with EC since he opened the store on Las Palmas decades ago. I made him a Leatherface mask when I was a kid that he used to wear most weekends... Even though I was teenaged back then, he never treated me like a kid. Some great memories - following the very first midnight screening of ESB at the Egyptian, EC opened the store (then across the street) and gave free posters etc to everyone. I ran into him with Jack Hill in SF (just happened to be up there on vacation and happened to luck into some real culture) when they were premiering the restored Spider Baby at a local theatre... Saw him not too long ago at the new store on Hollywood, which I understand is closed or closing awaiting another relocation to Burbank, which I guess won't be happening now? You just think some people will be there forever... RIP Eric. - Ron From: Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 1:10 PM Subject: [MOPO] Eric Cadin RIP saw on Facebook that Eric has a massive heart attack 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Transporting 1sheet for sale @CHANNINGPOSTERS
Haha! Don't you just hate AutoCorrect. Now I understand Transporting, but am wondering what kind of dirty hobby TRANSPOTTING is ;) Ron -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Channing Thomson Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 10:05 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Transporting 1sheet for sale @CHANNINGPOSTERS Check out TRANSPOTTING MOVIE POSTER Danny Boyle-Ewan McGregor-Jonny Lee Miller-Dbl-Sided http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/361292633738?roken=cUgayNsoutkn=ui9hTE 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. 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.
[MOPO] FS: Baymax inflatable USA display/standee from Disney's Big Hero 6
CALLING ALL BIG HERO 6 DISNEY COLLECTORS! This is the inflatable that you may have seen at your local cinema! Complete US standee including cardboard stand and electric pump (220V). We have not seen this display/standee being offered complete including the two cardboard pieces and original pump. Very huggable and life-size. This is your chance to have your own personal Baymax just like in the movie! This item was never produced to be sold and only distributed to theaters for display in their lobby. Comes with grommets in various places to be made freestanding and has multiple inflation points. Made of high quality and sturdy vinyl. The original electric pump in box is included with 3 different nozzles and repair patch. Baymax without the stand, and usually in lesser condition, recently sold at prices between $450 and over $700 on eBay. This theater version is much more detailed and has a higher quality build than the one created for the Blu-ray release. Condition: Baymax has minor scuff marks and is a little dirty from being moved and patrons touching him. Some (light) traces of red from the cardboard part of the standee have transferred onto Baymax, mostly at his back and the bottom of his feet where he makes contact with the cardboard. We've cleaned him quickly. He can be easily cleaned with a magic eraser/melamine foam sponge. We leave further cleaning to the new owner. No punctures, tears, holes etc. The cardboard stand has a few dents and wear, but is overall in great condition. On the bottom part the front holes of the back piece are torn, but this is repairable on the inside and the holes are not really needed nor visible when the piece is placed. Photos were taken with the back piece on loose and it supported Baymax perfectly. There might be a few other (very) minor signs of usage here and there, but if they are not clearly visible in the photos, than they are not worth mentioning. Overall in perfect condition considering it was actually used and most imperfections don't really show and/or will not bother you. Size: Including cardboard stand the standee is approx. 234cm/92/7.85ft high, 142cm/56/4.85ft wide and 91cm/36/3ft deep. Baymax is approx. 195cm/76.5/6,5ft tall, 142cm/56/4.85ft wide and 84cm/33/2.95ft deep. Bottom cardboard piece is approx. 140cm/55/4.75ft wide, 93cm/36/3.1ft deep and 41.5cm/16/1.45ft high. Back cardboard piece is approx. 122cm/48/4ft high, 77cm/30.5/2.65ft wide and 35.5cm/14/1.25ft deep. Baymax weighs approx. 5 kilos and both pieces of cardboard together weigh approx. 7.5 kilos. Total weight approx. 12.5 kilos. Total package will weigh around 15 kilos, measure approx. 55x48x13 and will be shipped insured/registered. Optionally we can drop the cardboard stand or fold the two largest pieces so you can save on shipping. If interested, please contact us. Thank you for taking the time to read this message and have a great day. Ron Alexandra - MotionPictureArt.com http://motionpictureart.com/ http://motionpictureart.com/files/Baymax%20inflatable%20Disneys%20Big%20Her o%206%20Standee%20Display%20MotionPictureArt.jpg http://motionpictureart.com/files/Baymax%20inflatable%20Disneys%20Big%20Her o%206%20Standee%20Display%20MotionPictureArt%202.jpg 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.
[MOPO] FA: Inflatable Aunt Marge from Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban UK premiere
Inflatable Aunt Marge created by Bigger Than Life Advertising in San Diego for the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban UK premiere. http://www.ebay.com/itm/131463623934 Ron Alexandra - MotionPictureArt.com http://motionpictureart.com/ 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.
Re: [MOPO] 20 Years of MoPo!
Thanks and Congratulations. Without MoPo we would not have been where we are now. Ron Alexandra - MotionPictureArt.com http://motionpictureart.com/ From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Burns Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:09 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] 20 Years of MoPo! Well we made it to 20 after all! Today marks MoPo's 20th Anniversary. For the last couple of years, our anniversary has been preceded by a discussion about how little we actually discuss posters on this forum. This year it was John Reid's February 12th post, How MoPo has Changed, pointing out the lack of discussion or comment on movie posters. In 2014, in time for our 19th birthday, Helmut posted an analysis of MoPo posts (84% were either auction or for sale posts) and former member Bruce H. mentioned how 2 other poster forums are pretty dead. I find it just an interesting coincidence that this seems to happen just about every February 24th! But no matter.MoPo is still chugging along. We've survived longer than I ever dreamed (much longer than the majority of Hollywood marriages). On February 24, 1995 the first official MoPo post was distributed via American University's listserv. There were 11 members at the start, and as is my annual custom, I recognize these MoPo pioneers: Mahtab Moayeri, Michael Danese, Rob Ellis, Donna Tschetter, Goh Kai Shen, Evan Zweifel, George Nichol, Cindy Nemeth-Johannes (we lost Cindy in 2008, but her husband Jay is still a member), Jeff Static (AOL'er Static555), Adam Ehrlich and myself. In addition to Jay, Michael, Rob and Evan are still members. Last year I wondered whether MoPo would make it to 20, or if it even should. Well, here we are and I guess we'll soldier on.at least until American University decides to shut down their listserv! I do hate to see longtime members leave, (Poster seller Bruce Hershenson and the prolific Tom Martin are 2 examples of people who exited this past year), but that's the way of Internet forums. Thanks to all of you for keeping this relic of the 20th century alive for yet another year! Scott MoPo List Owner _ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-LA=1 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.
[MOPO] FS: Spongebob Dutch Exclusive + Frozen Sing-a-Long
Folks, we offer for sale the Dutch Frozen Sing-a-Long poster and the Spongebob 3D movie poster created exclusively for the Netherlands featuring an iconic Dutch windmill and wooden shoes. Price 15 Euros each + shipping Ron and Alexandra http://motionpictureart.com - Movie Posters and more. http://motionpictureart.com/files/images/spongebobNLposterexc.jpg http://motionpictureart.com/files/images/frozensingalong.jpg http://motionpictureart.com/files/images/spongebobNLposterexc.jpg http://motionpictureart.com/files/images/frozensingalong.jpg 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.
Re: [MOPO] ???s on PULP FICTION one sheet
Maybe this link can help you: http://movieposterauthenticating.com/wordpress/pulp-fiction/pulp-fiction-advance/ Best regards, Ron - http://www.MotionPictureArt.com -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Greg Douglass Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 4:44 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] ???s on PULP FICTION one sheet I found a one sheet from PULP FICTION while re-inventorying what's left of my poster stash in preparation for replenishing my supply of vintage horror sci-fi titles . Trying to ascertain whether or not it's a repro. I measures exactly 27 X 40, it is the post Lucky Strike lawsuit image, and Uma is reading a book called Pulp Fiction Any other tells I should know about before presenting this piece for ale as authentic? According to my research, I have an authentic post-Lucky Strike one sheet. I'm on the fence as to whether to keep it...I love that movie!...or sell it to satisfy my AIP addiction. Any ideas/input/suggestions would be much appreciated. Photos available upon request . Thanks, Greg Douglass -- Greg Douglass Guitarist- Lessons, Live Shows, Touring, Studio Work (760)212-3648 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Web site update and gallery opening
Wow Dominique, great collection. This is how all modern movie posters should look like. Ron Alexandra http://www.motionpictureart.com -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Dominique BESSON Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:56 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Web site update and gallery opening Greetings from France, I have now updated my website and added about 150 new posters. You can check on : http://www.dominiquebesson.com and go to the new acquisitions page. Please note that for all order over 500 Euro, FEDEX shipping is free worldwide. Otherwise, I just opened a new gallery in Paris. This gallery is dedicated to Mondo posters, you will be able to find more than 500 different Mondo posters. I think it is the first gallery in the world offering a so large choice for this new kind of posters. You can check my new web site at http://www.mondographics.net and follow us on Facebook at : facebook.com/mondomondographics Of course, I'm continuing to deal with vintage movie posters. If you're in Paris, feel free to visit us. Sincerely Dominique BESSON DOMINIQUE BESSON AFFICHES 7 rue Choron 75009 Paris France Phone : 33.613.451.355 http://www.dominiquebesson.com http://www.mondographics.net http://www.affichesdecinema.com http://www.chagall-posters.net 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Did you ever wonder how movie poster collectors are distributed over the globe?
Thanks Bruce, this is interesting information. Ron http://motionpictureart.com From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 1:34 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Did you ever wonder how movie poster collectors are distributed over the globe? http://www.emovieposter.com/online/20140612_piecart_of_emp_buyers_by_country.gif For those who want every detail, these are the ones grouped as All others (51 countries): Cyprus 9 Czech Republic 8 South Africa 8 Malta 7 Hungary 7 Israel 6 Turkey 6 Iceland 5 Lebanon 5 China 4 Russian Federation 4 Chile 3 San Marino 3 Luxembourg 3 Puerto Rico 3 Indonesia 3 Pakistan 3 Croatia (Hrvatska) 2 Andorra 2 Uruguay 2 Serbia, Republic of 2 United Arab Emirates 2 Romania 2 Costa Rica 2 Philippines 2 Peru 2 Malaysia 2 Cambodia 1 American Samoa 1 Slovak Republic (Slovakia) 1 Zimbabwe 1 Kenya 1 Azerbaijan 1 Bahrain 1 Saudi Arabia 1 Curacao 1 Guatemala 1 Ecuador 1 Guam 1 Kiribati 1 Colombia 1 India 1 Monaco 1 Nepal 1 England 1 Bermuda1 Any numbers that surprise you? -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site http://www.emovieposter.com/ our auctions http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/unparalled_customer_service.png Complete Buyer Protection http://www.emovieposter.com/unused/20120625ad_emovieposter_no_buyer_beware_buyer_warranty.jpg - No time limit on our guarantees NO buyer beware Hershenson Help Hotline http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/20120906_mcw_ad_hershenson_help_hotline_forsite.jpg - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth Customer Reviews of our company - Page 1 http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page1.jpg , Page 2 http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page2.jpg , Page 3 http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/buyerreviews_page3.jpg , which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from all others! http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/bruce01.jpg _ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-LA=1 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.
Re: [MOPO] NT : Mobile responsive websites for posters
Hi Ben, Our new website (http://www.motionpictureart.com) is also responsive. A lot of our traffic comes from mobile devices, so it was any easy decision for us to implement this. Best regards, Ron From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Wadley Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 4:22 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] NT : Mobile responsive websites for posters Hi to you all, I am currently considering getting a website re-designed and I would be keen to hear if any of you have your websites mobile responsive? By that I mean, can people view the poster images and text on Iphones and tablets easily without having to resize the images and text using your fingers. In programming terms, have you had your sites built in HTML5 code? Would love to hear if anybody has or not.. Kind Regards Ben Wadley All About Movies Pty Ltd Movie Memorabilia - Original Vintage Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Website: www.allaboutmovies.com.au Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AllAboutMoviesAu Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/AllAboutMovies1 Contact Details Ph: 07 / 3379 8566 _ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-LA=1 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.
Re: [MOPO] European bidders and non-us posters
We prefer US posters over non-US posters unless the non-US poster has a better/different design/artwork. In the Netherlands (where we are from) distributors/movie theatres have always used an eclectic mix of promotional materials from around the world but mostly US. Even nowadays they use a mix of US, UK, Dutch and Dutch/Belgian one sheets, bus stops and smaller sizes for showcases together with the occasional 11x14 US and Dutch/Belgian lobby sets. At collectors fairs we've visited in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany prices for US posters/lobby sets are usually (a bit) higher unless you get to the top titles and/or non-US posters that have different or far superior artwork. From a selling standpoint, we have been selling US and non-US materials all over the world since 1998 and we can't see a clear difference between non-US and US buyers based on their preferences for US or non-US materials. Ron and Alexandra http://motionpictureart.com From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Tommy Barr Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:33 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 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 https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-LA=1 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.
Re: [MOPO] origin of this conan the barbarian poster ?
Got to agree with Bruce. Looks like a subway poster. Here's a variation on this one: http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Conanthebarbarian4.jpg Ron From: filip de volder [mailto:runbuffy...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 12:31 PM To: i...@motionpictureart.com Subject: RE: [MOPO] origin of this conan the barbarian poster ? Hi Ron , thanks ! _ From: i...@motionpictureart.com To: runbuffy...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [MOPO] origin of this conan the barbarian poster ? Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 12:30:22 +0100 Hi Filip, can you send me the pic, maybe we can help. Ron From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of filip de volder Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 12:13 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] origin of this conan the barbarian poster ? Hi all , i have this conan the barbarian poster , measures 59x45 inch (approx. 150x114 cm) and i can't find what country its from , can anyone help ? my mopo email including a picture was rejected by the server so if anyone contacts me i can send the picture .thanks, filip 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. 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.
[MOPO] Paul Walker dead at 40
The star of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise and another person died in Southern California after the Porsche they were in crashed, his rep confirmed to the Daily News. Police said speed was a factor in the accident. Walker was attending a charity event in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles north of Los Angeles. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/paul-walker-dies-crash-repo rt-article-1.1533786#ixzz2mDFrdo6n http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/paul-walker-dies-crash-repor t-article-1.1533786#ixzz2mDFrdo6n R.I.P. Paul Waker 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.
Re: [MOPO] English Front of House Cards question
In my experience, I know there were both color and b/w FOH sets on Planet of the Apes and I believe House of Usher. (There are probably many more examples MoPoer can provide.) B/w sets always seemed to be much harder to find, not sure why.) From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia johnr...@moviemem.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 5:26 PM Subject: [MOPO] English Front of House Cards question Hi to you all I have quite a lot of English Front of House cards mainly from Htichcock and Tarzan films. Some are full colour but many others are black and white. I'm just curious as to whether the black and white cards were the only ones printed for titles like Psycho, Wrong Man, Strangers on a Train and some others or whether full colour cards would also have been printed. Regards John JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Websites: http://www.moviemem.com/ http://www.ozefilm.com/ http://www.ozeauction.com/ http://www.bodycorporatenews.com/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/moviemem Mailing Address: John Reid PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] FA: Ending tomorrow - Heritage has a fantastic selection of posters, lobby cards, and more!
I've been watching this auction the last couple of days. I think HERITAGE's weekly internet sales have been getting better and better and honestly, this weeks sale looks better than most other auctioneers major sales. I just noticed the lobby from House on Haunted Hill is currently sitting at $358!! That has to be some kind of a record for that scene. Of course it is one of the most frightening moments from any William Castle film and deserves to be recognized. Grey-- outstanding work! I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the auction does by tomorrow night. On Sat, 9/7/13, Carteron, Bruce - 1551 bru...@ha.com wrote: Subject: [MOPO] FA: Ending tomorrow - Heritage has a fantastic selection of posters, lobby cards, and more! To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 11:59 AM Heritage has 511 lots of some of the Best vintage movie posters closing tomorrow evening, Sept. 8th, at 10pm CT! www.ha.com/161336 Featuring a great selection of affordable posters, lobby cards, photos, press books, and related Memorabilia! Heritage has offered over 200,000 lots (all searchable with images, descriptions and prices in our free permanent auction archive) of some of the very rarest and most desirable items in the hobby. Serving almost 800,000 collectors, including over 40,000 Movie Poster bidder-members, HA.com is the place to go to buy your vintage movie posters! Heritage is always seeking quality consignments of vintage movie posters and advertising ephemera as well as vintage travel, advertising and propaganda posters. Contact us to learn how we can help you. https://movieposters.ha.com/c/acquisitions.zx or tel:1-800-872-6467 X 1367. Some of the Great Highlights this week include: Double Danger (Universal, 1920). One Sheet (26.75 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53107 It Came from Outer Space (Universal International, 1953). One Sheet (27 X 41) 3-D Style. http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53222 Words and Music (Fox, 1929). Swedish One Sheet (28 X 39.5). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53501 Out of the Past (RKO, 1947). Window Card (14 X 22). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53330 War of the Colossal Beast (American International, 1958). Lobby Card (11 X 14). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53486 Joan Crawford by Ruth Harriet Louise (MGM, 1928). Portrait Photo (10 X 13). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53232 Let It Be (United Artists, 1970). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53257 Return of the Jedi (20th Century Fox, 1983). British Quad (31 X 41) Advance. http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53355 You Only Live Twice (United Artists, 1967). One Sheet (27 X 41) Style A. http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53510 Casablanca (Warner Brothers, 1947). Trimmed Belgian (11.5 X 15.25). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53072 A Fistful of Dollars (United Artists, 1967). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53125 Help! (United Artists, 1965). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53183 Jaws (Universal, 1975). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53228 Tell It to a Policeman (Pathé, 1925). Three Sheet (41 X 81). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53434 The Lone Ranger (Warner Brothers, 1956). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53266 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (United Artists, 1968). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53160 Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney Productions Limited, 1959). British Quad (30 X 40). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53399 Diamonds are Forever (United Artists, 1971). International One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53097 The Wild One (Columbia, 1953). Half Sheet (22 X 28). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53496 Lolita (MGM, 1962). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53262 Taxi Driver (Columbia, 1976). One Sheet (27 X 41). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53432 The Mummy (Universal International, 1959). Lobby Card (11 X 14). http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161336lotNo=53302 High Plains Drifter (Universal, 1973). One Sheet (27 X 41).
Re: [MOPO] FA: Rarely, if Ever Seen Items! Ending Next Saturday!
Hey Rich! Very accurately stated. I'll be at the sale next week and looking forward to seeing that insert and all of the rest of the classic posters in person! On Sat, 7/20/13, Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com wrote: Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: Rarely, if Ever Seen Items! Ending Next Saturday! To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Saturday, July 20, 2013, 6:02 PM Grey let there be no doubt that you do indeed have the best movie poster auctions on the planet Other people try to claim the crown, but no other auction gets the prices you do, or the great posters that you do over the course of the year, you always sell the most by dollars sold and by selling fewer items than some other auctions do. The Frankenstein insert you are auctioning off next week is a true jewel of the hobby and I am certain that the owner consigned that poster to the right auction and you will get a price that no other auction would be able to Kudos to you sir Rich 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM
There are lots of cases of movie posters in the background of other movies. One of my personal favorites is in The Maltese Falcon. As Bogart arrives on the crime scene of his murdered partner, in the background we can clearly see a one sheet posted to a wall for Swing Your Lady-- a film Bogart hated and claimed he never made... It was just a guy that looked like him. John Huston was obviously having some fun at Bogart's expense. --- On Thu, 5/30/13, Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net wrote: From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 9:51 AM Last night I watched a DVD of the Ronald Neame film, THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956). There is a scene in the film where two cars are en route to a destination. In one of the shots, in the background, there is a billboard for HITLER'S CHILDREN. I couldn't make out much of the art on the poster, but the title was clearly evident. These kinds of contextual juxtapositions are common in movies today, but in this film that poster - it looks to be a British six sheet - could just as easily have been any 1942 film. Why HITLER'S CHILDREN? I can't help but believe there was a kind of knowingness in that choice. For those of you who have not seen the movie, it concerns an effort to deceive the German military as to the true location of Allied invasion of Europe. What do you remember about movie posters in films? When are they just props and when do they comment on something? Incidentally, the DVD from Netflix was a quite respectable transfer of a CinemaScope picture. Not Blu-Ray, though. Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com mobile 512 589 5112 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM
Yeah, I've had that happen. Years ago, when the Oliver Stone film JFK was being filmed,the Prop Master (one Grey Smith !!) called me looking for a one sheet for War Is Hell. That was the film playing at the theatre where Lee Harvey Oswald was taken into custody after the assassination of Kennedy. I found him one, went and saw the movie when it came out... and whadaya know? It never appeared on camera as Stone didn't angle the camera on the theatre poster case. But at least you know it was authentic to the time. --- On Thu, 5/30/13, Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net wrote: From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:31 PM I take this post in the spirit of levity in which I'm sure it was offered. I've had art director's (staff) call me and say, in effect, we don't care what it is, as long as it's from 1963 or whatever year!So, sometimes a poster is just a poster, isn't it? Kirby McDanielMovieArt Original Film PostersP.O. Box 4419Austin TX 78765-4419512 479 6680 www.movieart.commobile 512 589 5112 On May 30, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Jeff Potokar jpotok...@ca.rr.com wrote: In a film, posters (like any prop) are never just randomly selected or used just because. If a particular poster (or posters) is in the shot, the director has thought about this choice carefully, and not simply left it to the art director to just buy and tack up some posters to make the set look pretty. There will always be a reason or meaning of some kind (whether it is known to the audience or not. :) Jeff On May 30, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Kirby McDaniel wrote: When are they just props and when do they comment on something? 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. 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Forest Lake man finds poster worth thousands
That was hilarious! I love these stories. Sad for the guy who thinks he's got a major item, but ... still hilarious. --- On Wed, 5/22/13, Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net wrote: From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] Forest Lake man finds poster worth thousands To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 2:22 PM With a street value of 10 million dollars~! Kirby McDanielMovieArt Original Film PostersP.O. Box 4419Austin TX 78765-4419512 479 6680 www.movieart.netmobile 512 589 5112 On May 22, 2013, at 2:02 PM, MotionPictureArt.com i...@motionpictureart.com wrote: What are your thoughts on this: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/22380494/goodwill-gold-forest-lake-man-finds-poster-worth-thousands Ron Alexandrahttp://www.motionpictureart.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: listserv@listserv.american.eduIn the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Deke Richards
I had very similar and pleasant experiences with Deke - he was incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic and fair if tough, and would let me pore over his stock for hours on end in his smoke-filled back office. Cash was tight for me so we often traded and had a great time doing so. I can't remember the reason, but once Deke was over on my side of the hill and took me by the mansion he once owned in the toney neighborhood off Hilgard across the street from UCLA. I got the feeling his music industry fortunes had waned, causing him to downsize to the modest residence in Valley Village, but if so, Deke never complained. As Lionel Atwill once put it, He was a dear friend. He will be mourned. A Dios, Deke, Ron From: Rix Posterz rixpost...@aol.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Deke Richards In the late 80's and early 90's before Deke had moved to Washington, I used to go up to his house in The Valley here in the L.A. area and sell him posters I'd acquired. Had a lot of conversations with him not only about posters, but about his years in the music business as well. He was the last surviving member of The Corporation, a group of 4 or 5 Motown songwriters who wrote many of the Jackson 5's biggest hits along with Love Child for Diana Ross and many more. Later on, he became The Cryptkeeper. He was a really nice guy underneath his curmudgeonly exterior. Many times back then, my son---who was 7 or 8 at the time--would go with me up to his house. Through the years, whenever I spoke with Deke, he'd always ask how my son Jack was doing. Just last year...I think in August...I bought a lot of posters from him. At the time, I knew he was sick, but not to what degree. His nephew, Scott, was helping him with his poster business. Will definitely miss him. Deke was an original...truly one of a kind. Rick Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at http://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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] FIFTY ESSENTIAL GAY FILMS
I hate these kinds of lists - way too subjective and narrow. No Fassbinder? His films could have filled out the top 50 singlehanded (so to speak.) How about Something for Everyone? The Servant? Compulsion and Rope? - Ron From: Toochis Morin fly...@pacbell.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] FIFTY ESSENTIAL GAY FILMS What about James Whale? Or Charles Laughton and his NIGHT OF THE HUNTER? Love those! Toochis Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Michael Greenwood newswan...@hotmail.com wrote: What are the rules? 50 feature length? Mainstream? I can't take the list seriously when it's missing my kind of filmmakers like Kuchar, McDowell, Milligan and even my homegrown hero LaBruce is missing! These people! And if it is to be mainstream features, where is Reflections in a Golden Eye? Possibly the greatest film of all time!! Lists, who really needs 'em, outside of websites hoping to generate hits via the comments section?! Sincerely, M Ok, all you wannabe-gays, here's your chance to get with the gay film sensibility. Comments? http://www.out.com/entertainment/movies/2011/02/09/50-essential-gay-films?page=0,0 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at http://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. 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] TCM SCREENING OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
I attended the Fathom showing of The Birds at the Arclight in Hollywood. Truly one of the worst experiences I've ever had at a major theatre - I think largely due to Fathom's use of a satellite to cheaply beam the movie to the theatre (as opposed to in-theatre digital presentation, which has 99.9% worked fine in my experience.) I've seen The Birds projected on film before, and this was nothing like it. It was comparable to watching a large screen TV with many of the same issues: breakup of image, a moire pattern that developed occasionally, skipping dialogue. Fathom showed a trailer for an upcoming screening of Lawrence of Arabia promising audiences would get to experience it on the big screen - what a joke. Unless the disc is at the theatre, don't go - satellite technology is not ready for prime time (or at least Fathom's version of it.) - Ron From: Joseph Bonelli joebom...@yahoo.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] TCM SCREENING OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Kirby, Do you think the presentation was film or a digital beam-in?? Joe From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:00 PM Subject: [MOPO] TCM SCREENING OF TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD QUESTION for Mopolistas. Did anyone of you happen to see the TCM theatrical presentation of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (from Fathom Entertainment) at a theater tonight? I attended a screening in Austin at Regal's Arbor Theater. The transfer was exquisite, but the projection was too dark. I have a feeling that this was the fault of the exhibitor. Did any of you go in your community? Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 http://www.movieart.net/ mobile 512 589 5112 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at http://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. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at http://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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Gilda dress
My understanding is that dress was widely considered wrong (ie not the screen used one.) From: Neil Jaworski neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sun, July 10, 2011 11:52:06 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Gilda dress Hallo, good ol' Wikipedia comes to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dress_of_Rita_Hayworth In April 2009, the dress was to be sold at the auction house of Forrest J. Ackerman. In the description of the lot it was specified that the dress still had the label property of Columbia Pictures and Rita Hayworth sewn inside.[5] The initial price was estimated between $30,000 and $50,000, but the lot was withdrawn before it reached the auction.[6][5] Later, in September 2009, the dress appeared mysteriously in an auction on eBay with a starting price of $30,000.[1] --- On Sun, 10/7/11, walter reuben wal...@walterfilm.com wrote: From: walter reuben wal...@walterfilm.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Gilda dress To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sunday, 10 July, 2011, 17:38 Dear Bruce Because of the kind of dress that it was, Rita literally had to be taped into it every day before shooting started. It was that tight. It is a virtual certainty that it fell apart and was not saved. Unless a spare one was made, just in case, and not used. But it was such an expensive dress that I really doubt that. Walter On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: With all the publicity about the amazing price for the Marilyn dress, I wondered if the whereabouts of the Gilda sheath dress are known (if it exists). I figured someone here would surely know! Bruce -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions 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. 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. 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Any of you experts seen this Frankenstein ad anywhere before?
No, that's extremely different from anything I've ever seen or dealt with on
the title..
--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com
Subject: [MOPO] Any of you experts seen this Frankenstein ad anywhere before?
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Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 8:09 AM
http://www.emovieposter.com/images/announcements/pb_spirit_of_notre_dame_front_and_interior.jpg
This is an interior page from the pressbook for Spirit of Notre Dame. It
includes an
advance ad for
Frankenstein (billing it as The biggest picture of the year),
with art I have not seen anywhere else (and which likely has not been seen for
decades)! Any of you experts seen this Frankenstein ad anywhere before?
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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??
But aren't posters luxury goods? By that calculation, shouldn't all luxury boats (yachts?) be rising? Ron From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 3:06:31 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking?? At 02:59 PM 2/1/2011, Todd Feiertag wrote: For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history with over $5 Billion in sales. http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with many good ones going for pennies on the dollar. Interesting, isn't it? Too much supply flooding the market and not enough demand to absorb it all? Todd Todd, it's already widely reported that sales of Luxury Goods are at an all time high. The reason is of course because the super-wealthy are making greater amounts of money because all the companies they have invested in laid off millions of employees in 2008+2009 haven't hired these people back, and those they have hired back they've gotten at bargain rate salaries because of course everyone who isn't uber-wealthy is fearful of ever getting a job otherwise and will take whatever they can get. 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. 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.
[MOPO] North by Northwest question
The storyboard shown was drawn by the great Mentor Huebner. Alas, he was one of the most prolific of all preproduction artists, and his drawings were virtually all done in the same style and scale. So without further information it may be that we will never know what film this art is for. (It doesn't look like NxNW to me.) Happy holidays! Ron 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.
Re: [MOPO] Those wascky Warner Bros. Linen lobbies
Since I've been asked to weigh in on this-
As Bruce pointed out, many stars did indeed join the armed forces and were
unavailable for new pictures during the war years. However, another reason for
the reduction of new films was the US war depoartment. They enforced strict
rationing of materials on the US public and business and that included the film
studios and the film stock they had available. One only has to look at the
number of features Warner Bros. released from the mid 1930's through 1941 and
then compare that to the number of features the studio released in the war
years. You'll see a drastic cut in the number of new productions. That, in
turn, forced the studios to re-release some of their more popular features
during the 1942-1945 era.
Warners used a flat stock on their lobbies from the silent era through 1935
(approximate) and then converted to a veneer finish on most of the 1936-1937
features. Starting in late 1937 and then going through very early 1940 they
used linen stock. In 1940, they partially converted over to flat stock again,
however, they continued to use the linen stock on a few features into 1942. The
latest example of this I can recall is Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Okay- back to the c.1942 reissues on flat stock... Warner had to fill those
theatres with product so they reissued many of their most popular films
STARTING in 1942. So when you see flat stock Warner lobbies- for films that we
know were released on linen stock in the 1938-1940 era, the assumption is they
were released in 1942- 1945. On certain films (like The Frisco Kid) Warners
issued entirely new sets with different motif and inset stills. On other films,
(like Adventures of Robin Hood) they issued the same cards as the originals
just on flat stock.
As for Virginia City (1940)- I have linen cards on that title and those are
original. My assumption is that since Virginia City had three major stars, it
was probably re-released in 1942-1944. Those cards are printed on flat stock.
Here's another situation- For Bette Davis' Bordertown cards- the film was
released in 1935 on flat stock. There are also cards on linen finish and this
points to a reissue from 1938.
Also- the reissues didn't stop in 1944. During 1945- Warner Bros changed the
copyright information in the lower right corner of their posters and cards.
From the 1930's through 1944 it read This advertising material is the property
of Vitagraph Inc Starting in 1945 (and prior to their conversion to NSS in
1946) the copyright notice states, This advertising material is the property
of Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation... 1945 was the only year
Warner's used this copyright.
The flat stock lobbies from Adventures of Robin Hood use the Warner Bros.
Distributing Corp. copyright- which marks them as from a 1945 reissue. Also-
there are some Casablanca lobbies with the same information - and most of these
were reissues from 1945 that were first released in South America. A number of
these tumed up in the early 1990's as material was surfacing from Colombia,
Brazil, Argentina, etc.
As for the c.1942 reissue dates. I don't know of anyone researching the exact
year these films were reissued. I've often thought about doing the research
myself. I think most dealers and auction houses use 1942 as the circa year
since we know the reissues started at that point... but it could have just as
easily been 1943, '44 or '45.
And as a final note--- Warners experimented with other linen stocks as early as
1936 with Charge of the Light Brigade.
Hope that helps.
Ron MooreCinema Icons
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Re: [MOPO] What Auction Company Would You Use?
Hey Mike! Those were great suggestions from both Bruce and Allen but you might ask yourself a couple of questions first- such as- how fast do you want or need to move your items? And, obviously, you want to maximize your return so (other than Ebay fees) do you mind paying a consignors premium to an auction house or entity? If you’re not pressed for time, you could go the Ebay “Buy it Now” road and gradually sell some of your items. From my own observations, I see most “Buy it Now” items passing- probably because most of these items are priced at some pretty staggering numbers. I also think people aren’t looking at Ebay as much as they used to just due to the massive numbers of listings and it’s a major pain to sort through everything to find that “gem in the rough”. You could also offer them in the FS listings on MoPo. Rick Ryan, Kirby McDaniel, etc have had some success at this and you know that (unlike Ebay) the poster collectors are looking directly at your items. No listing fees either! Marilyn and Elvis posters seem to do very well with very consistent numbers at the various auction houses. I’ve had full sets of one sheets on both of those stars a couple of times and sold them at auction. I’ve also consigned literally thousands of posters to different auctioneers over the years and had a lot of mixed results. But I’m a number cruncher and love to study those results. I like to see who handles my material the best so I can get the best return possible. I started consigning with Superior Galleries, then Camden and Greg Manning Auctions. I tried a couple of items with Christie’s, etc. BUT the fees were terrible. Unless I had a “major” title where I could negotiate separate terms, besides the consignor rate, I got stuck with photo fees, insurance, buy-backs, etc. In one Camden sale I actually owed the auction house money at the end of the auction for letting them sell my items. Seriously!! I almost let Jose Carpio talk me into consigning to Sotheby’s until I ran the numbers and told him the only one coming out ahead on the deal would be Sotheby’s. I was recently contacted by Christie’s South Kensington and took a look at the numbers they were offering. Nothing had changed and the fees were extraordinary. I actually left the meeting wondering how they expect to compete with Heritage or Emovieposter. Today, an on-line presence, marketing, consignor/ buyer’s premium rates, timely payments to consignors, past results on items and treating the posters and the customers with integrity seem to be the most important aspects of choosing an auctioneer to sell your material. The ones I like the best are Heritage and Emovieposter. I’ve used them both and find that they both can handle these types of posters with a high level of professionalism. For your type of posters, they both have shown past results that are very comparable and I don’t think you’ll go wrong with either of them. --- On Sat, 11/6/10, allen day aday_5...@yahoo.com wrote: From: allen day aday_5...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] What Auction Company Would You Use? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010, 2:24 PM I second. I have been listing shhtuff on eeekbay every time that the site allows for free listings. It is mostly a waste of time because I do list items at higher prices (but these items are still lower than most 'Buy-it-Now' prices). To my surprise, some items do sell. ad --- On Sat, 11/6/10, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] What Auction Company Would You Use? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010, 2:34 PM You could create eBay auctions for all of them, and put Buy It Now prices at what you want to get (including their fees, so you net what you want to get) and they won't charge you anything to list them, so you can only win and can't lose, even if none of them sell. Bruce On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mike Laskowsky movie...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Due to unexpected health issues this year I have decided it would be best to sell off my movie poster and lobby card collection. Mostly Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, but many others. Many of the Monroe posters are linen backed and in fine or better condition. These were purchased through Heritage, Christie's East, Butterfield and others like Camden House. Remember them? Anyway, I watch Ebay and see that it is great to buy if you can find them at auction instead of Buy It Now, but not to sell. Who would you use? Your suggestions is greatly appreciated. All the best,Michael 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
Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY....
Hi Richard! Actually, you mentioned the wrong Ron. Ron Borst wasn't involved in the New Zealand find. That was me. And yes, I've made lots of great finds over the years. Ron MooreCinema Icons --- On Mon, 7/26/10, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: From: Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 12:01 PM Love reading these stories.Even if it's difficult to tell it apart from the MOST TEARFUL ENDINGS topic. There was a great account a while back, (successful in that instance) of Bruce and others chasing down a hoard. Would love to see them preserved in a book with a chapter for each of leading old school dealers/collectors' stories. Like Ron Borst's experiences, including the story of New Zealand treasure trove. And Todd, while he can't recall something like The Invisible Man cards, one can only wonder what he's experienced that he finds more memorable. It's great reading them on Mopo, but it's even more ephemeral here than paper. On 26 Jul 2010, at 11:33, James Richard wrote: Hmmm... seems Rick and Ron are kind of tied for the top horror story so far. At least we can put some kind of dollar value on Rick's missed treasure... but, on the other hand, who knows how many super-great posters were among the thousands in the cellar of the burnt-out theater that Ron missed by only two days? These stories are almost to painful to read... but still, I'd like to know about Phil's rolled up KING KONG insert... :) Call me a masochist. -- JR rixpost...@aol.com wrote: Out here in L.A, we have a Pennysaver-type publication called The Recycler.,About 20, maybe 23 years ago, I'd buy it every Thursday as soon as it arrived at my local 7-11...(back then, prior to the internet and announcements in movie theaters before the film starts stating things like original 1932 movie poster on The Mummy sells for a staggering, record-breaking $459,000!!yeah, back then the majority of the American public wasn't aware of the value of movie posters---so, I'd occasionally stumble into a great deal...quite a few times, in fact..). My most memorable example of the one that got away began on a Thursday afternoon when I bought a copy of The Recycler...just like every other Thursday afternoon. The only thing different about this particular Thursday is that there was an add in the Collectibles Old Things section saying something like: 7 Foot Tall Frankenstein...$75...that's all it said. My first mistake was assuming it was some semi-worthless inflatable Halloween statue and subsequently not calling the phone number IMMEDIATELY. Something distracted me and I became involved in a project around the house...I can't remember what. The one thing I DO remember is lying in bed at about 11 pm thinking about that ad and kicking myself for NOT EVEN CALLING to confirm that it was the piece of garbage I assumed it to be. I told myself I'd call the number first thing the next morning and barely slept a wink all night. The next morning around 8 am, I called the number. An older gentleman answered and said the prospective buyer was walking up his driveway at that very moment! He didn't know much about the Frankenstein statue that he had...only that it was very heavy, made of wood...and he insisted it was original. Of course, I told him to PLEASE call me if the prospective buyer didn't purchase it. He never called me back. I called him an hour later and he told me he was sorry but the statue was gone. Flash forward a year or soI was selling a poster or lobby card through The Recycler and received a call from a collector---a conversation ensued as it often did (does) when one movie poster collector talks to another. As it turned out, I was talking to THE GUY WHO BOUGHT THE FRANKENSTEIN STATUE abut a year previous. He told me it was used as a stand-in for Boris Karloff during the production of The Bride Of Frankenstein--- a huge wooden statue including Karloff's original wardrobe and a life-mask of the monster. He told me the life mask required a few hundred dollars of restoration (which he'd had done) and he was planning on putting it up for sale in one Auction house or another Flash forward another year somehow I learned that Guernsey's Auction was offering the Frankenstein stand-in statue with an opening bid of $50,000 (which seems like a truly measly amount by today's standards). Over the past 30 years, I've had many, many ones that got awaybut no other poster, lobby card, collection of posters, collection of lobby cards...NOTHING COMES CLOSE to the Frankenstein stand-in statue that I could have had FOR SEVENTY FIVE BUCKS! Somebody out there probably has it standing in their living room out there...the most prized piece in their collection...probably worth $500.000 or more
[MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY....
Hi All, Coming to this conversation a little late. I think I was the first one shown this figure way back in 1987 or '88. It was Ken Kramer who found the figure advertised in The Recycler. It had been part of a traveling carnival and the head and hands had been repainted a lurid green. Restoration was done by Dave Miller, who's a very accomplished makeup artist but - per Ken's instructions - was asked to essentially destroy much of Jack Pierce's work with new paint and resculpting. Ken was looking for $1 (may as well have been a million, I was a poor student at the time) and turned down my trade offer of a genuine ANH Darth Vader helmet and armor (which in today's market was actually the wrong choice for him but worked out well, at least $$$-wise, for me. 'Course I'd still rather have the Karloff figure...) I was not at the Ackerman sale, but per Forry and others, most of the buttons disappeared off the costume while it was on display there. Who now will dare to admit to having a BoF coat button? Per Ken, the piece ended up overseas somewhere and has not been seen since. Please add more to this Todd if you can. Cheers, Ron From: Todd Feiertag toddfeier...@msn.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 4:51:48 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Yes Rich, this BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN piece was added to the Forry Ackerman auction. Will try to write more on this later tonight. Todd Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:34:39 -0700 From: sa...@comic-art.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU wasn't it at the Forry Ackerman sale Todd?? same sale that Arlen Ettinger (the boss auctioneer) screwed me on a few bids what a cheating auction house those folks are At 04:21 PM 7/26/2010, Todd Feiertag wrote: Rick, It was Guernsey's and it was 1989. I was there. Will try to elaborate on this later tonight. Best, Todd Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:49:13 -0400 From: rixpost...@aol.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Hey, it might have been Guernsey's 1986. I'm 99.9% sure it was Guernsey's. Never saw their catalogue for the auction, but I remember reading about it is some antique magazine. I'm really surprised that apparently no MoPo members remember that thing. Rick In a message dated 7/26/2010 1:41:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, poverty...@pacbell.net writes: Regarding that BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN prop, it MAY have been listed in one of these two books I pulled from Cinemage's site. If anyone has copies of these maybe they could see if its there.: Comprehensive Collections Of Film Posters Lobby Cards, Illustration, Cartoons Animation. Guernsey's. NY. 1987. Large paper. Large 112pg. auction catalog of mostly movie posters. Illus. in bw only. Vg+. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 872] Book number: 4070 The Poster At Auction NY Guernsey's Nov. 1987.. fine-/1 tiny corn. crease to frnt. wrap. large auction catalog of 1700 vintage posters incld. war, circus,food,drink movies. 100's of bw repros. + 36 in color. Binding is wraps. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13 | JP¥ 1744] Book number: 000558 BTW - I recently looked up my lost PHANTOM OF THE OPERA underwater one-sheet and saw it went in Nov 2008 at Heritage for $135,000. Not too shabby. --- On Mon, 7/26/10, James Richard jrl...@mediabearonline.com wrote: From: James Richard jrl...@mediabearonline.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE ONE THAT GOT AWAY To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 3:33 AM Hmmm... seems Rick and Ron are kind of tied for the top horror story so far. At least we can put some kind of dollar value on Rick's missed treasure... but, on the other hand, who knows how many super-great posters were among the thousands in the cellar of the burnt-out theater that Ron missed by only two days? These stories are almost to painful to read... but still, I'd like to know about Phil's rolled up KING KONG insert... :) Call me a masochist. -- JR rixpost...@aol.com wrote: Out here in L.A, we have a Pennysaver-type publication called The Recycler.,About 20, maybe 23 years ago, I'd buy it every Thursday as soon as it arrived at my local 7-11...(back then, prior to the internet and announcements in movie theaters before the film starts stating things like original 1932 movie poster on The Mummy sells for a staggering, record-breaking $459,000!!yeah, back then the majority of the American public wasn't aware of the value of movie posters---so, I'd occasionally stumble into a great deal...quite a few times, in fact..). My most memorable
Re: [MOPO] Tales Of Lost Treasure - You Got One?
morning the man agreed to meet us at the theatre so we could take a look for ourselves. We wanted to see if anything could be salvaged. He unlocked the door and we went inside. Every time we brushed up against anything we got covered in soot and ash. As we went down the steps to the basement we held our breath with anticipation. The basement floor was still covered by about two or three inches of water- the last amount not picked up by the pumps after the fire department had used their hoses. Along the wall ran stacks and stacks of posters. The piles were about four feet high and ran the full length of the room, about thirty yards. Ken and I tried to pull some of the piles apart, but the water had fused them together into one massive block of paper mulch. “Yep, this whole room was underwater for about twenty-four hours,” the owner sighed. Ken and I knew there was no way the posters could be salvaged. We had looked all over New Mexico and Arizona for two months trying to find where the posters had been taken. And when we found them, we “missed” them by two days. Two days… I felt like Walter Huston at the end of The Treasure of Sierra Madre; laughing at treasures lost. We had made finds before and knew we’d find more posters in the future. This was just a slight setback in our quest. As we left Snowflake in the van’s rearview mirror, Ken tapped his foot to the tune on the radio and said, “If you can tell me who recorded this, I’ll give you my whole collection.” Ron MooreCinema Icons --- On Sat, 7/24/10, Michael Spampinato poverty...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Michael Spampinato poverty...@pacbell.net Subject: [MOPO] Tales Of Lost Treasure - You Got One? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 10:08 PM When I was around 12 years old our house was almost 100 years old and the attic was never really touched. When the time came to gut it and insulate it, add a floor (you had to walk between the beams) etc they cleared out a ton of old stuff. But what I found up there was a rolled up piece of paper. Upon opening it I was looking at a one-sheet from Lon Chaney Sr's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. It was a beautiful poster in beautiful condition. I still remember the colors. I stored it away rolled in my cabinet which, a few years later, my mother apparently decided to clean. Bye bye PHANTOM. In later years when I started collecting old film posters I scoured the place for that poster just in case. No luck. I was already a huge film buff (as mentioned in the Expanding Hobby thread) with a tremendous affinity for the old horror and sci-fi films, and I actually recognized this as something special. I think this find sank deep in my subconscious and help steer me to collecting old horror and sci-fi posters. Anyone else have one that got away? Pov May the holes in your collection be filled. 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Across the Pacific six sheet
As an interesting aside... Several years ago I spoke with the man who leased the posters used in Play It Again Sam to the production company. Although he got most of his posters back after the film wraped, he stated that the Across the Pacific six sheet somehow disappeared! He was never able to find out what happened to it. I've been collecting Bogart since 1971 and I've never run across the poster. To my knowledge it's not in collecting circles and is still missing. Maybe some prop master has it on his wall today. Ron --- On Tue, 7/20/10, Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net wrote: From: Kirby McDaniel ki...@movieart.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] AW: [SPAM?]: [MOPO] a casablanca 6 sheet? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 1:49 PM Is it CASABLANCA? I thought I remembered an ACROSS THE PACIFIC six in one of those Woody Allen films. MovieArt had a CASABLANCA six at one time, and we sold it to Jose Carpio who sent it on to somewhere Kirby On Jul 20, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Wolfgang Jahn wrote: In PLAY IT AGAIN SAM there’s what looks like an original worn Casablanca 6sheet (or 3sh?) over the bed in a scene with Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.Anyone noticed that? Quite some time since I saw the film last time though..Wolfgang Kinoart.net Von: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] im Auftrag von Michael B Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Juli 2010 19:05 An: mop...@listserv.american.edu Betreff: [SPAM?]: [MOPO] a casablanca 6 sheet? wow,,,a CASABLANCA 6 sheet. i dont believe i have ever seen the 3sheet. wanna predict the amount it will sell for? 35/40,000? inserts are 10/15?? michael In a message dated 7/20/2010 12:06:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gre...@ha.com writes:Yes, it did sell for $388.38! Many good deals were had by buyers and now is a good time to buy! This was the fourth time to have sold this portrait card and all being different copies. And though this would normally sell in this day and age at $500-700, there are always tremendous deals in a Heritage auction, as it is all about who is watching at that time and participating.Thousands of participants buy and bid with us every day and we receive less than 1% in returns of merchandise for any reason. Overall the Auction did almost $1.2 million and counting, with many great after-auction deals to be had and they are moving fast!We set some great records for the more rare and some not so rare material. Over 1200 bidders participated in the auction and for those of you from this group who did participate, thank you so much. And for those just watching, that is appreciated too. We have a tremendous November auction shaping up now so please be saving for what is sure to be an outstanding selection!Highlights we are hoping to include: Public Enemy- one sheetLittle Caesar- one sheet and Six SheetGold Rush - One Sheet and Twenty-four SheetAnimal Crackers - one sheet Style ARed Dust- six sheetFrankenstein- six sheetCavalcade – one sheetCasablanca –six sheet Notice: these are what are hoped for! ;-) From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] on Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:04 AM To: mop...@listserv.american.edu Subject: Re: [MOPO] Slabbed Lobby Cards at Heritage Holy Macaroni, how did THAT card (certified to be fine to very fine) sell for four hundred smackers? I sold that for $750 over 20 years ago! Like I have been saying, this is the best time in over 20 years to buy quality movie paper, even if you have to go through the annoyance of de-slabbing your item. BruceOn Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:Very nice, the best card. And very similar condition to the one sold last Nov, (though judging by pics, the colours appear to be stronger on yours), but at 2/3 the price. Since taking my new lobby out of the plastic only de-values it if/when it comes time to resell it We can probably reserve judgement on that. With this particular card, (albeit in a difficult climate), it doesn't appear to have had a particularly positive effect. On 19 Jul 2010, at 17:41, Reel Classics Posters wrote:As the purchaser of a slabbed lobby card from Heritage this weekend, and a collector who's younger and much less experienced in this hobby than most of you, I thought I'd throw in a couple cents... The slabbed card I bought ($325 bid --$400 all told) is the portrait card from MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939), CGC graded 7.0, Heritage graded Fine/Very Fine: http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7025Lot_No=83797 I'd never seen a CGC encapsulated lobby before this Heritage auction, and I actually emailed Heritage asking about it -- whether I'd be devaluing the card by removing it from the plastic, which I'm inclined to do so that when I frame it, it will look the same as my other framed lobby cards. (Though I have a large box of posters under my bed, I always buy
Re: [MOPO] The Scandal-plus cut, pressed washed, starched dried....
Hey Bruce! I was at the Heritage auction on Friday and Saturday. Dallas is so close to Austin so it's easy for me to travel there and actually attend. If you had come to the show, you could have actually compared the This Gun For Hire one sheet to the photo in the catalog- which I did. The colors were'nt punched up. Since the poster passed at the sale, there's still time for you to go to Dallas and check it out for yourself! I daresay you'd lose your $100 bet. Ron --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Scandal-plus cut, pressed washed, starched dried To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 8:57 AM I had a chance to look at the This Gun for Hire image, and I will bet $100 that either the image or the poster itself (or both!) have had mucho punching up! When you say, I know you err well on the side of unflattering in your listings, and I think it's a smart policy. And though you wouldn't punch up pics, I assume you still have to adjust for accuracy? know that our goal is ALWAYS to present an image that accurately represents the item you will receive. I have SO often received purchases where the buyer photographed it in such a way that defects were hidden or obscured (my favorite was one where the seller placed a drumstick on the top border, ostensibly to hold it down, but it also served to hide the rat chews in that area!). Of course, there is also the issue of auction images where no matter how much you zoom or pan and scan you still can't see the pinholes or foldlines that somehow magically disappear (until of course you get the actual item). I think this proves to be penny wise and pound foolish. If you are solely looking to sell one item, it may benefit you on that one item, but if you are in this for the long term, then you have to wonder if such deceptive advertising doesn't lose you the trust of many bidders, causing them to bid less on your items (or not bid at all) due to the fear factor. Bruce On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I'm not automatically assuming that example was punched up, it may well just be the case that the reds were originally extremely strong and have remained so, and that the online reproduction is accurate, (within it's limits). Washing, bleaching etc may have had the effect of intensifying the colours, dunno. (Though if that is how This Gun for Hire appeared when it was fresh off the press, in this instance I certainly prefer a little faded grandeur.) Generally, and especially with something in this price range I still think using some kind of a colour correction system like Pantone would be more professional, (with the colour bar appearing beside poster) rather than relying on adjusting by eye. I know you err well on the side of unflattering in your listings, and I think it's a smart policy.And though you wouldn't punch up pics, I assume you still have to adjust for accuracy? Even if you don't go near photoshop, presumably in some way, like adjusting lighting so repro appears true to the eye, as in the case of the Vertigo? On 17 Jul 2010, at 17:11, Bruce Hershenson wrote: I actually had one of my employees suggest to me that we should punch up the images of items we sell, and I told him that we NEVER do that (he is new, or he would have already known that). Of course, there is no way to know if others feel the same way (at least until you get your package and compare the item you get to the image you saw). Bruce On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I thought the This Gun for Hire went beyond strong colours and looked unflatteringly garish. Presumably not a result of restoration judging by the listing, but was it really actually that vibrant, or did the colour reproduction exacerbate it online? On 17 Jul 2010, at 16:44, Bruce Hershenson wrote: I personally agree with this. I didn't like the make it look perfect school of restoration even BEFORE the Haggard scandal broke. First, because the restorers were in effect hiding their restoration, making it impossible to see exactly what was done (and a long time pro like myself could spot some restoration that most amateurs would never see, creating a fear of restoration among many collectors). Second, because many of these items were SO restored that they looked almost like recreations. I LIKE the items in my collection to show at least SOME signs of age, unless they are in truly mint unrestored condition, because that is part of the joy of owning an original, knowing that it survived all these years. If you want a perfect looking item, why not just get a reproduction? But don't take your very good condition and have someone make them look like new. If you MUST restore, why not simply do minimal restoration to the areas that most need
Re: [MOPO] This Gun For Hire.
Well, I can't speak for your screen and how your colors are adjusted, but hopefully your computer is pretty accurate. However, I did look at the poster itself quite closely. The colors on this poster were simply blazing! The reds were not painted over as I could easily still see the dot pattern of the offset lithography. In fact, I have to say it was one of the best examples of this poster I've ever seen. For the record, I've seen Grey go way out of his way to make sure the colors in the catalogs are as close to the actual colors on the poster as possible. He has a very high level of integrity and, like yourself, wants to make sure that the potential bidders get an accurate image and representation of the poster so they can bid with confidence. I really wish you would attend the auctions yourself and then you could easily respond to some of the comments posted on MoPo that allude to images being doctored. If you could do that, I think you would see that this simply isn't the case. I think the bigger question here, is why the poster passed at the sale? Is it indicative of the economy? Is it simply the case of supply and demand that there are more of these one sheets available out there than previously thought? Could it be that although demand (and desire) is high for this poster, that the higher prices have already been achieved and as each buyer acquires the item, that there is a smaller pool of bidders still out there? Is it a generational thing- and now perhaps the younger generation entering this hobby don't have the appreciation or desire for posters of films in the 1940's- or follow film noir? And honestly, what else can we do to try to bring new blood into the hobby? Do we need new blood in the hobby? Do you think the hobby is growing or not? I really don't know the answer to those questions but I think they're the ones we should really be asking. As one of the hobby's most public faces, I'd love to hear your take on some of these issues. --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Scandal-plus cut, pressed washed, starched dried To: Ron Moore cinemaicon...@yahoo.com Cc: MoPo-L@listserv.american.edu Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 9:47 AM I trust you and believe you Ron. But why are the reds on the poster unlike the reds on any other example of this poster I have seen? Is it possibly from a variant printing? Or maybe I need to adjust the colors on my screen? Bruce On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Ron Moore cinemaicon...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey Bruce! I was at the Heritage auction on Friday and Saturday. Dallas is so close to Austin so it's easy for me to travel there and actually attend. If you had come to the show, you could have actually compared the This Gun For Hire one sheet to the photo in the catalog- which I did. The colors were'nt punched up. Since the poster passed at the sale, there's still time for you to go to Dallas and check it out for yourself! I daresay you'd lose your $100 bet. Ron --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Scandal-plus cut, pressed washed, starched dried To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 8:57 AM I had a chance to look at the This Gun for Hire image, and I will bet $100 that either the image or the poster itself (or both!) have had mucho punching up! When you say, I know you err well on the side of unflattering in your listings, and I think it's a smart policy. And though you wouldn't punch up pics, I assume you still have to adjust for accuracy? know that our goal is ALWAYS to present an image that accurately represents the item you will receive. I have SO often received purchases where the buyer photographed it in such a way that defects were hidden or obscured (my favorite was one where the seller placed a drumstick on the top border, ostensibly to hold it down, but it also served to hide the rat chews in that area!). Of course, there is also the issue of auction images where no matter how much you zoom or pan and scan you still can't see the pinholes or foldlines that somehow magically disappear (until of course you get the actual item). I think this proves to be penny wise and pound foolish. If you are solely looking to sell one item, it may benefit you on that one item, but if you are in this for the long term, then you have to wonder if such deceptive advertising doesn't lose you the trust of many bidders, causing them to bid less on your items (or not bid at all) due to the fear factor. Bruce On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Richard Evans evan...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I'm not automatically assuming that example was punched up, it may well just be the case that the reds were originally extremely strong and have remained so, and that the online
Re: [MOPO] Just Imagine 1930
I own the top 1/3 of a Just Imagine three sheet, which came from Forry Ackerman's collection. According to Forry, that element was the only poster he ever had on that title (though he may have had a lobby card as well?) Ron - Original Message From: Bubba Despres bu...@americandisposables.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 11:11:22 AM Subject: [MOPO] Just Imagine 1930 Anyone ever see a press book or one sheet for this film? Louie 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards
Sorry I'm so late replying on this one, but I've been out of town on biz. As for the Adventures of Robin Hood lobbies, all originals were on linen finish paper in 1938. The flat cards were from the 1945 reissue. There were also completely different cards issued for the 1948 re-release as well. The 1945 reissues were identical to the 1938 except for two things 1) very obviously the difference in paper stocks and 2) the clause on the bottom right of the cards states,Property of Warner Bros. Picutres Distrbuting Corporation. The originals from 1938, like all Warner cards from 1937 to 1944 states, Property of Vitagraph Inc., The only year Warners used the Property of Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation was 1945. I've been able to identify some re-issue Casablanca cards like this as well as the film was issued in foreign countries after the war. I've seen many examples of the Casablanca lobbies discovered overseas having this clause in the lower right border. Hope that helps. Ron MooreCinema Icons --- On Thu, 12/10/09, Phil Edwards p...@cinemarts.com wrote: From: Phil Edwards p...@cinemarts.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 11:21 PM All markings on the card are identical to the Linen stock cards, with no dating in the copyright info That was my experience when I had the ERLICH cards side by side. I've seen re-release cards for ROBIN HOOD (Flynn) that were on flat stock that looked exactly like their earlier linen-counterparts but were definitely re-release from the early 40's. Steve, what was this information based on as being 100% accurate? Phil - Original Message - From: Garth Grieder To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] FW: [MOPO] New to MOPO FS: Some Rare Items on eBay Steve, All markings on the card are identical to the Linen stock cards, with no dating in the copyright info Garth On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM, S.F. Poole stand...@ll.net wrote: Hi Franc- It is kind of confusing. I've seen re-release cards for ROBIN HOOD (Flynn) that were on flat stock that looked exactly like their earlier linen-counterparts but were definitely re-release from the early 40's. FOR GARTH: I'm curious if those ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES have any dating of year in the copyright info. in the bottom border? Steve 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. 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] What is Dip Shit really telling us? Let me translate...
So- what is Dip Shit (DS) really telling us? Let me translate... I KNOW fuckin' everything about this fuckin' fake poster and lobby card situation and I KNOW that fuckin' Heritage is doing fuck all nothing about it because they don't personally answer my fuckin' questions and kiss my fuckin' ass! Grey needs to report to me IMMEDIATELY!!! And when he doesn't give me the fuckin' answer I like, I'm gonna fuckin' rant on MoPo because I know how to say FUCK and I got an excuse now! I KNOW that fuckin' Jaime is guilty- because every fuckin' collector that's on MoPo has implied he is- and I have appointed myself judge, jury and executioner! Grey and those fuckin' attorney's at Heritage need a fuckin' personal lecture from me on how to conduct business and respond to all the fuckin' fuckheads on MoPo that get their panties in a wad beccause we all KNOW they ain't doin' nuthin to help us poor, poor, poor fuckin' collectors. It's a fuckin' conspiracy!!! And we're all poor, because we pay all those God Damn awful fuckin' fees. I KNOW those fuckers at Heritage have personally wrecked the US economy with their fuckin' fees and that's why we're fuck all poor. By the way, I'm God's gift to this hobby and I KNOW everything! NEXT- I would rather sell all my fucked up posters through Bruce's fuckin' auction because I KNOW I dont' have anything good enough for those fuckers at Heritage to take in their auction. That's 'cause I'm a cheap-ass fuck and I begrudge anyone that actually publishes a color catalog and wants to be paid for their fuckin' services! I sure wish I had a fuckin' formula for printing cash!!! SHit! Maybe I can get hold of Kerry for that one. GOD-DAMN!!! Whew! Oh-excuse the fuckin' shit out of me! Wait, I was supposed to stick with FUCK! I got carried away for a minute. I guess FUCK ME! Did I get that about right? Get off MoPo! IF you can't keep the discussion reasonable instead of going off on tirades we really don't need it. --- On Wed, 10/7/09, dsonesheets dsoneshe...@gmail.com wrote: From: dsonesheets dsoneshe...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] What is Grey really telling us? Let me translate... To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:45 PM So business as usual, Grey? Sure what it sounds like. No internal investigation, not even a temporary halting of using Jaime for your restoration EVEN TEMPORARILY until the issue gets settled? Man, for the amount of money you guys make, sure sounds like you're doing jack shit besides being more cautious, which is what we pay those god awful fees for in the first fucking place. Guess when you have a formula for printing your own cash you don't fuck with it. I would rather sell ALL of my material through Bruce on consignment then give a single buck to Heritage. In the middle of this crisis they're doing fuck all, and are just trying to keep their head down and hopefully dodge some media bullets, while giving nothing but double-talk. Weren't they always supposed to be overly cautious, being one of the largest movie memorabilia auctioneers in the country? And his comments in the media like sound like something Bull Durham coached him on. Just want to do what's best for the team, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. Let me tell you what Grey is REALLY saying: First, it should be known that I, Grey Smith, took many of the bullets from the opening volley of this conflict, and was ready to lay my life down for the cause, and I alone have worked to warn and help collectors with questions concerning these dastardly deeds. A grading and authentication (not authentification, which isn't even a word) service would definitely be of help but we don't really need it and for God's sake we don't want to pay for it, because We Are Heritage and want to maximize our profits, not piss them away. This is the way we've always done it, and this is the way we'll continue to do it. And since the fakes are so easy to detect, we won't be overly cautious on anything but some horror and a little sci-fi, which means we're not going to do a lick of work on 98% of the other material out there unless we get caught selling some more fraudulent material. We are Heritage. Your poster and lobby card distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. End communication. Did I get that about right? On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Smith, Grey - 1367 gre...@ha.com wrote: Sean and all MOPOers I am very certain that no individual has in their possession a forged poster that came from Heritage. As a matter of fact, I did first discover the fact of these fakes when an attempt was made to consign a forged Dracula title card from a respected horror collector and I promptly not only called the consignor but began speaking with horror buyers throughout the country that I know, to let them know what was found. I certainly know Sean and Jim Gresham will attest to that. I know that Jim G.
Re: [MOPO] The serial you never saw....
Thanks for posting the serial Earl! That really took me back. I grew up in Houston and it was guys like yourself and Roy Bonario (one of the serial's villains) that got me started collecting movie posters back in 1970. Was that Ken Donnell I saw too? Ron MooreCinema Icons --- On Thu, 6/18/09, Captain Bijou captainbi...@comcast.net wrote: From: Captain Bijou captainbi...@comcast.net Subject: [MOPO] The serial you never saw To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:21 AM Forty years ago, I was a drama student at the University of Houston (--Randy Quaid was a classmate of mine and we even appeared in a training film together for the Houston Police Department--), an avid comic book collector and a fan of the old movie serials...just like we used to see at our local bijous on Saturday mornings. I was also an aspiring filmmaker. I made 8mm and Super 8mm short ama-films for years. Sadly, most of those films have been lost through years. However, I did manage to hold on to my final film, Captain America, which featured friends and fellow students at the U of H in a heartfelt homage to the old movie serials. On weekends and evenings -- whenever I could get a cast and enough rolls of black and white film together -- we'd travel to such exotic locals as the Houston Ship Channel, the air conditioning plant at the University of Houston or Todd Shipyards in Galveston to shoot our serial. Unlike today, when broadcast quality movies can be created on one's laptop, we had only an inexpensive camera, a guillotine splicer -- to make tape splices that would not generally show up when projected -- and equal amounts of enthusiasm and imagination. Primitive the result was, to be sure. Years later, I added a musical track from a portable cassette player and narration which I improvised on the spot. Given the time and inclination, since the technology is already on my computer, I could now tighten up the edits, add dialogue and sound effects and re-score the music. One day maybe, I will... Naturally, I was Captain Americaafter all, I owned the suit and tights!! For a time, I aspired to be a stuntman and even knew some of the best in the business: Yakima Canutt, David Sharpe, Jock Mahoney and Tom Steele. To make the fights seem realistic, I had only to call upon my experiences growing up on the Houston's northside. I had, as they say, plenty of opportunities to perfect my technique!! Anyway, here it is for you to enjoy. If nothing else, it's proof positive that we were all younger and innocent once upon a time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4tHIyvs82Y Earl Blair CAPTAIN BIJOU www.captainbijou.com 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. 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.
Re: [MOPO] RIP David Carradine
David Carradine guest starred in one of the weirdest days of my professional life. I was writing for the shortlived and best-forgotten Heroes magazine, whose editors had ordered me to drive out to Warner Bros to interview Carradine on the set of Kung Fu: The Movie. This was either 1985 or '86. I'd been writing professionally for just a few months. I think I was supposed to arrive at 9AM but rode in around 10 and found the production on the Western backlot in complete chaos (way more so than usual on movie sets). No one seemed to know where David was, so I wandered the dirt roads of the faux Western town in search of Kwai Chang Caine. I eventually found my interview sitting in the makeup trailer, already in costume, just as his Eastern complexion was being completed. As I switched on my tape recorder, he jumped out of the makeup chair. "Follow me," he said, and I did - until my path was blocked by the enormous belly of one of the TV movie's producers. I tried to rejoin David but the producer stuck a giant beefy finger in my face and threatened to toss me off the lot if I prevented his star from getting to set on time. Forget that thus far I didn't have enough usable interview material for my lead, let alone a full-blown story - as far as he was concerned, it was all my fault his star was late. (Later I learned they blamed the journalist or the craft services people or anyone who they could yell out without fear that they'd hurt the production by walking off the set. As angry as he was, this producer would've blown David in Macy's window rather than have him disappear for another hour with the crew standing around.) I watched them shoot Carradine approaching a horse-drawn wagon some five times - then there was a technical problem and David disappeared through the crowd of extras. After another half hour of endlessly wandering the same dusty streets in search, I ducked through the alley betwixt the saloon and the livery stable - and found him.. Carradine was in mid-leap as the unit photographer's camera clicked away. "No, you missed it," David said. He jumped into the air, and as his feet flew toward the camera, he shouted, "Now!" A split second later, the camera clicked. "No, man," Carradine said, shaking his head, "shoot when I say, 'Now.'" He jumped. "Now!" ...click... click. Frustrated, Carradine jumped again. Again. Again. Again and again and again. The click was either too late or too early. Finally Carradine grew tired of torturing the man with the camera and I followed him toward his trailer, switching my tape recorder on. His daughter opened the trailer door just as he was starting to answer my next question. Carradine turned to me and asked, "Hey, you got a match?" I fumbled through my pockets. "Nope." The trailer door slammed in my face. (Later, I would bring matches, contraband, handi-wipes - anything that anyone might possibly need - to keep my interviewees talking.) That's how it was all day long - Carradine would emerge from his smoke filled trailer, I'd follow and get off a quick question, then he'd film a shot and disappear before I could talk to him. (Meanwhile, the fat producer was hounding me all the time to stay away.) I was desperate - if I didn't get my interview, I'd never work for Heroes magazine ever again. (Later, I discovered most of the time no one actually expects you to come back with a celebrity interview - they were kinda like suicide missions. That's why I ultimately specialized in writing about visual effects, makeup effects, cinematography, editing; I'd write about anything so long as there wasn't a movie star hanging around. I recanted a bit when I began writing for Entertainment Weekly and the late lamented Premiere; I found I actually enjoyed talking to actors - but by then the stars, or at least their publicists, were chasing me.) As the sun set and the crew went off to dinner (night shooting would follow), Carradine invited me into his trailer. I guess I passed the test. I had endured an entire day of TV production. He asked if I wanted a rum and Coke. I said I'd never had one. "You'll like it," he said as he passed me the glass. For the next hour, he answered all my questions. About returning to the role of Caine: "This is going to be the most successful TV movie in history." (It wasn't.) About his Mata Hari film, starring his daughter: "I'll film some every few years so we can watch her grow up on film." And about his eccentric father, one of my heroes, John Carradine: "He was just the best dad in the world." (Later, I would cherish this experience.) There was a loud knock at the door and when we emerged, it was that fat producer again, giving me the dirtiest look yet. "Don't yell - I'm outta here," I told him in a tone of voice that prominently raised the middle finger. I turned to Carradine, who was walking down the dusty road toward . "Nice to meet you, David," I called. His silhouette waved, then he shuffled into the fading light. Just for that
Re: [MOPO] OT: The Forgotten Man from GWTW and The Wizard of Oz
You think Fleming is forgotten - good luck finding anyone who knows the answer to this one: Who directed Casablanca? (Hint: he also directed, speaking of 1939, Adventures of Robin Hood - codirected by another great no one remembers...) 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.
Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?
One interesting - but likely temporary - roadblock to all this digitalism will be fear of hackers. Some time ago I interviewed someone at the forefront of digital projection systems, and her big concern (and that of the corporation she worked for) was that whatever $$$ the studios saved in making and distributing physical prints to theatres they would pay out in anti-hacking software, firewalls etc. Think how disastrous (also potentially hilarious) it would be if the tagline on movie posters in every theatre in the world could be altered with a keystroke... one such incident, if it indeed had a deep impact on the film's resulting box office, might make studios long for the good old days of paper posters. One last point, I think there will be paper posters printed for wild postings and convention giveaways etc for some time to come. Ron Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote: I've been saying for the past 3-4 years.. maybe longer .. that digital displays are the direction theatres will be headed first of all, printing, shipping and storing posters are an expense that studio owners would love to eliminate. Not to mention the employees needed for such a distribution network. these employees need to inventory, request out of stock posters from other warehouses, have to take those rolls of 50 and pull 1-5 posters to send out to individual theaters etc. shipping by truck after printing and then individually to theaters is a greater expense than printing them also, if a poster has a mistake, it has to be reprinted etc. a digital display can be controlled by one central location by the studio - out of the hands of theatre owners - to maintain a consistent promotion from the theatres in Westwood to those in Montauk and all the way to Japan, India and Australia with great ease. A simple program can be set up to change the language fonts When the studio wants to change the campaign, all they have to do is create it in the central computer feed it - simultaneously all over the world But then you go further. Digital displays can show trailers intermingled with posters and can draw people who were just walking past the theatre better than a static poster. Plus you can gang them up creating ever larger displays with multiple digital panels. How about driving into a mall seeing 20 digital panels fitted together to create an 8 foot by 20 foot display showing trailers that can be seen across the parking lot. Literally an outdoor cinema The benefits of digital displays for theatres are endless. You have a single upfront cost and then you never ship anything to the theatre again and the same system that is used to feed the displays can also be used to feed the film itself for digital theatres. another savings where does the hobby go? well, it would be hard to say that it doesn't drop some, and certainly newer collectors would be less likely Look at the comics hobby. Marvel DC publish fewer comics today than they did during the 1940s. As a matter of fact, if you total up all the comic books published and distributed for any month of 2008, it is fewer issues than a single issue of Captain Marvel sold during WW2. (during WW2, Captain Marvel sold 2 million copies @ month. Current publishing by all companies is less than 1.5 million @month. Another comic, Walt Disney's Comics Stories had a print run as high as 4 million for years from the 40s-50s) As a result of fewer comic book readers (due to social changes- less people reading anything), the comic book hobby is decreasing in size and has been doing so for about 15 years. The result is not the elimination of these hobbies, but serious compression is indeed in the future. At some point Marvel DC will cease paper publication as will all newspapers and magazine. The likely future is a mini-disc for a reader that you take wherever you go, in addition to just reading online of course. When this happens, millions of comics will devalue in a short period of time (a few years). Fewer collectors means more unsold titles and downsizing to just the most popular material for hardcore collectors and historians. Superman comics will always be collected at some level. the 1940s title Mystery Men will be a tiny niche for historically oriented collectors only. The same will be for posters. Younger people will stop buying posters. THat generation will have digital displays so they can change whatever they want to show Posters for the obvious titles will always sell. A poster after all is the same as an art print. so Frankenstein, Casablanca, Snow White will always sell. Getting Gerties Garter however, or My Side of the Mountain.. well they are hardly requested anyway. So the hobby will compress as our generations die off, much like that nearly forgotten hobby - pulp magazines Rich Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
[MOPO] Weird Shipping Requests
Recently I had a foreign buyer contact me while an auction was running about a lobby card asking if I would ship it in a tube. I told them that I would ship the item flat, gave them a very brief history of lobby cards, and sent them a link to learnaboutmovieposters.com so that they could learn more about lobby cards etc. They bid and won the item irregardless and then sent me an e-mail asking that I roll the item in a sturdy tube to avoid creasing. I simply repeated something similar to what a lobby card was and stated that by all means it should be mailed flat. They reluctantly told me that I could ship it how I felt correct but that they would hold me responsible for it's shipping condition, especially because they wanted it rolled as their other prints were. Honestly, the lobby card did well but it did not command an unusual price, I'm not sure exactly how to keep this buyer happy, but I am not going to roll it! Knowing that I am at the mercy of the buyer this person could mess me over in several ways and I hate that thought. And if I met their demands, the item would show up looking like crap. What do I do? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Dario/ poster restoration
I have to agree with Dario 100% on this one. I can't even imagine how many posters would have been lost to this hobby without restoration. And for the record, how many major works of art outside of posters would have been lost without restoration? The practice is perfectly acceptable in the art world - and therefore should be perfectly acceptable within the poster world. I find our hobby to be much closer to art than to other collectibles such as comics, baseball cards, etc. --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Dario Casadei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Dario Casadei [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Is tape on the back restoration? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:45 PM *Hi Bruce et All, Tape is definitely not restoration and Sean's listing was correct stating *It is completely unrestored *As well as pointing out the two tape bits which is considered a defect.* *P 90 Archival tape is great to keep tears from extending and perfectly safe to use, still I would not call it restoration. * *Us restorers hate tape! It must be removed prior to backing a poster, you can't back a poster with tape on the back. It can be a very sticky situation and further damage can accure before all tape and residue has been removed. Michael calls linen backing it, hiding a tear, I call it conserve and restore a Vintage Movie poster from sustain any further damage. I can't help to feel a bit sour, listening to Michale's unrepentant and anal views about Conservation and Restoration, week in week out! _As a temporary caretaker, it is your responsibility to take good care of your collection, to make sure it will not deteriorate. Posters were never printed on quality paper since they were ment to be trown away after use._ I can't speak for Bruce but when I read *As to the poster's condition, it was really not too bad, and could be easily corrected through linenbacking (although as we have all learned, that is to be avoided at all costs!). *I said Ha ha!! cheeky, Yes, we are reminded every week how bad it is!! and if you are a dealer and have a poster backed or in your inventory, most likely you are up to no good. I would feel very insulted if I was a dealer. Seriously, Shame on you, Dude. sincerely, dario. * Bruce Hershenson wrote: I was perusing Sean's fine listings Sunday, and I placed a bunch of bids, but lost them all (shouldn't I have won some since the economy is down?). But I noticed that on one card Sean wrote, It is completely unrestored and later noted, There are two small tape repairs on the back. This might have simply been a mistake on Sean's part (easy to make when selling so much), but I wondered if he (and the rest of you) possibly don't consider clear tape on the back of a card (which may well have been put there decades ago) to be restoration. And (in the spirit of the great buyers premium debate), does it matter if there is a single piece of tape, or many? Does the kind of tape used matter? Does it matter if it has yellowed? Does it matter if it has bled through to the front, even the littlest bit? Does it matter if it is brown paper tape, which was not put for any restoration purpose (many exchanges and theaters used to turn four cards of a lobby set in one direction and four in the other direction and then use paper tape to hold all eight together, so that two cards would each have two pieces of brown paper tape on the back). And most importantly of all, does size matter (does it matter if the tape is say, 6 inches or 9 inches in length)? Bruce Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely
Re: [MOPO] did I see that correctly
Both of the one sheets mentioned, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and Spellbound were both unbacked and in incredibly clean condition. I was at the auction, and to be quite honest, after seeing dozens of Creature one sheets over the last 30 years of collecting, I've never seen one this clean before. This was definitely following a trend that the rest of the auction was taking~ and that was unbacked and unrestored items that were in exceptionally clean condition were setting premium prices and records. Ron --- On Mon, 7/14/08, Michael B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Michael B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOPO] did I see that correctly To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 7:56 AM SPELLBOUND one sheet $11,000+ WOW i own an un-restored. and that price seems high. a bidding war, probably, among 2 collectors michael **Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live music scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus0005000112) Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] O.k....Where do you stand?
Love the discussion. It's been entertaining. However, one of the comments made earlier asked why weren't other fees included in the final price of a poster~ such as restoration costs and shipping? Those are options. IF you live in the same town where an auction is being held, you have the option of picking up the poster and not paying the shipping charges. Same goes for a poster you purchase that needs restoration. You have the option of restoring it or not restoring it. However, when it comes to auctions, you do not have the option of deciding whether or not to pay the buyer's premium. If you don't pay it, you don't get the poster. Therefore, it IS part of the final purchase price of the poster. Ron Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] bad pic, NO PURCHASE
I am also on Michael's side. Personally, I've had fantastic luck with WELN, and hope that that luck continues, but Michael is not wrong to want better pictures, nor is he wrong for naming names. Sometimes when a seller sells many items at once, they don't spend as much time and detail photographing and describing items as they should, at some level I imagine most sells professional or casual (myself included) have on occassion discounted some detail, purposeful or not. However, when pressed by a potential buyer for extra photos or description, how could someone not respond positively? I suppose because you don't really care or want to sell the poster? Hard to imagine. Ron P.S. Glad to see Claude posting semi-regularly, must have some free time, and he rarely does, so it's nice. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] posters you love, but havent seen the movie?
My collection is about half and half. I started off as a Bogart collector back in the early 1970's so I bought most of the posters and lobby cards. Some of the posters are quite nice but many, such as the wartime Warner Bros. films, are pretty boring. It didn't matter to me though as I just loved the films. I also collect great B Western posters from the 1930's that have incredible art but the films are almost unwatchable. So most of those, I've never seen. One of my favorite films was the Godfather- which we all know has a terribly boring one sheet. When I first saw the British one sheet I had to get that one to replace my US one sheet. And then of course, there are the Universal Horror posters. Wonderful posters for films that are sheer fun/ escapism. They're a perfect combo. Gotta love 'em. Ron Moore Cinema Icons Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] the ten most collected movie titles
If I were to attempt a list like this I would actually avoid most vintage titles. They might appear on the most poster collector's wish lists, but if I was just focusing on most collected movie posters I would think about titles like: Star Wars Caddyshack Scarface Pulp Fiction Goodfellas Cool Hand Luke Chinatown Godfather Okay, so that's not ten, but I imagine the number of collector's for those titles is a generally larger number than virtually any vintage poster, though obviously the price is much much lower. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Whatever happened to JR
Hey, I know he was a poster here from long ago. Was influencial with Style-B and obviously Movieposterbid.com Where is he? Is he lurking? Is he absent? Surenly I'm not the only one that misses him? - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] censor stamps on posters
Back in the early 1990's I acquired a large collection of posters from the provence of Quebec. The vast majority of these posters had the infamous Canadian Censor Stamps on them. After some experimenting, I mastered the art of chemically removing them without damaging the poster. If anyone says that painting over them is the only way to remove them, they are seriously mistaken. I've literally done hundreds of posters over the years. Ron Moore Cinema Icons --- Alan Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know censor stamps are supposed to be bad - but they are kind of interesting in their own right - if you can accept them for what they are. The Nazi censor stamps on movie posters increase their value to my eyes - adding a bit of cultural and political background to the piece. Alan On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Franc wrote: Censor stamps severely limit the value of the piece. If the piece is of value, I recommend finding a good restorer who can sand out the censor stamp and correct the effected area with some very minor touch-up. If he instructs you that the touch-up will have to be major or that the effected area with the stamp has to be cut-out and recreated, think twice about using that restorer. FRANC -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:51 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] censor stamps on posters what do censor stamps WITHIN THE IMAGE do to the value of a poster? michael More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit If You Dare! www.museumofmomandpopculture.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Economy affecting the dealers?
Hi Glenn and Rich! I find things to be a bit different. While I do have a number of clients in the entertainment industry, I believe the vast majority of collectors are not in the biz but are just fans of movies. So although Rich's business may have been affected by the strike, mine certainly hasn't. Also, as far as Heritage goes, I think Rich may be exaggerating slightly about who their clientele are. While everyone focuses on the handfull of posters that sold for substantial amounts of money- which makes it easy to say that they cater to the wealthy- you have to remember that there were over 1300 lots in the sale with something for everyone. All various genres and price ranges were represented. I know a number of people that won items and they are regular folks with regular jobs. They would not be considered super-wealthy and some of the items that were sold were true bargains. I don't think the economy has truly affected our hobby yet. And just to go one step further, I've also noticed over the years that when we have had some recessions (like back in 1986 or so), people still wanted their toys. They may have been late on their rent, but they had to have their posters. Maybe the pleasure their collectibles brought took their minds off of their troubles for a short while. Ron Moore Cinema Icons --- Glenn Taranto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard - I have often wondered how much of the hobby was tied to entertainment professionals as opposed to rich investors or civilians who may want a poster or two for fun. I think you've provided me with the answer. Glenn - Original Message - From: Richard Halegua Comic Art To: Glenn Taranto ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Economy affecting the dealers? Glenn when the Hollywood writer's strike then the Broadway stagehands strike began.. all business for us dried up like a grape in the sun I hope they get back to work soon so we can all eat of course ona serious side.. what Heritage did is to a wealthy market and does not reflect anything the rest of the market is where you see truth and if 90% of the people aren't making enough money.. well collectibles are certainly at the bottom of the shopping list Rich At 05:35 PM 11/19/2007, Glenn Taranto wrote: I've been hearing that the economy is starting to affect eBay. The Heritage auction seems to have seen some above average prices. Are people just sick of eBay or have any of the dealers on the list also seen signs of slowing? Glenn T. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Auction Houses Buyer's premium is it outdated
--- Kirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree with Kirby on this one. Saying the 20% buyer's premium is outdated is simply incorrect. It's just the method by which auction houses make their money. Whether you like it or not is simply a matter of personal preference. It seems like every year or so, this argument comes up again and again with the same viewpoint. Actually I've always found the argument a bit ridiculous as many other businesses/ individuals make their commissions and tips the same way. Every product on the market gets a % markup by the store after purchasing it from the distributor. Waiters and waitresses make their money by requesting 20% tips. What's the big issue of an auction house making a buyers premium? The auction house is bringing a very legit service to the poster community and they deserve to make money for that service. If you don't want to participate, then just don't do it. No one is holding a gun to your head and saying you have to buy this item from that particular auction house. If you want to wait until it shows up on Ebay, then just wait. Maybe it will show up and maybe it won't. That's the risk you take as a collector. Also, I've always seriously wondered about the mathematical skills some people lack when they don't take the BP into account. If you don't want to pay more than $1000 for an item then don't bid more than $800. After the premium that makes the item $960. How hard is it? And also, just for the record, Bruce Hershenson didn't start poster auctions. I will say that the market did take a major increase in value when he did get Christie's involved. And Christie's involvment did bring a lot of exposure to the hobby that wasn't there before, but there were other auction houses well before then including Camden in LA and Guernsey's in New York among others. I should just clip and save this post so I can paste it into a response next year. Ron Moore Cinema Icons This does not make sense. The only thing that matters is the FINAL PRICE you pay for an item, and whether you are satisfied with it at that price. Are you saying you would not bid $300 for a COOL HAND LUKE one sheet if there were a 20% buyer's premium on it? Or $2000 for a FANTASIA one sheet? The auction houses have done a great service to this hobby, and they must make a living. I dare say 90% of the people on this list own posters who prices have been raised 200% to 300% by this history of this hobby since Bruce Hershenson consulted for the first auction at Christies in 1990. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:19 PM, clinton crews wrote: How do you feel about the Buyer's premium put on auctions. Ranging from 15-23 % For me that is a deal breaker if any one of us added to the auctions we have Oh by the way you are bidding 2000 but you need to add 20 percent to your total. We would be kicked off ebay. I feel that with the ability to use a source like ebay auction houses. Have a lot more exposure then the did in years past. But they still add these high Buyer's premiums. Bruce at emovieposter most likely sells more posters then any group on the planet but he does not ding the buyers 15-20 percent when they win. I think if a auction house uses ebay or any other online service the Buyer's premium should be less maybe 3-10 % and less when the price goes above so many thousands lets say 5,000 they bring it down 4 percent. It just seems to me that you can only milk buyers for so much that is why the value of any poster can swing in price. Also I wonder do the auction houses charge the seller as well if so wow. They must make more then O.P.E.C. I understand there is some overhead but there must be a limit on that overhead. I am not trying to single out any group just the concept as a whole. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
Re: [MOPO] Auction Houses Buyer's premium is it outdated
Hi Bruce! My comments about your involvement in Christie's auctions were essentially to rephrase what Kirby was writing about as, when I read his comments, it appeared he was suggesting you ran the first poster auctions. I know Kirby is aware of the earlier auction houses though so maybe it was just odd phrasing. Anyway, I was also agreeing with him that when you did bring Christie's into the poster market, it did increase the value of everyone else's collections substantially as those early Christies' auctions really raised the bar on poster values. I would never even remotely suggest that the impact of both you and Christie's was in any way inconsequential on the hobby. And I'll also say (again) that by bringing Christie's into the poster hobby, I think this hobby was taken to an entirely new level and given the major exposure it so desperately needed. What you, Rich, Grey (and his team) at Heritage along with all the other dealers on Ebay, etc are doing is great! You're bringing new people into the hobby and that's what's needed: More Exposure. More Exposure. More Exposure!!! By the way, I just finished reading John Petty's comments about all the work Heritage puts into the marketing, catalogs, web site etc. Those guys bust their ass over there putting those catalogs together- as I'm sure you did when you were putting your catalogs together- and as I'm sure you are doing now with your internet auctions. While I don't work full time for Heritage, I do help out when I have the time. And while I'm there, I've seen the amount of work that goes into the process. I don't think enough people out there understand the time and effort that go into these auctions and catalogs and that the fees that are being charged are actually quite fair given the product being delivered at the end of the day. Hey, keep up the good work and have a great day! Ron Moore --- Bruce Hershenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron A correction on your correction: 1) I never claimed to run the first movie poster auction. I didn't even run the first movie poster auction at a major auction house. I did, as I have always clearly stated, run the first all-movie poster auction at a major auction house. I also ran the first million dollar all-movie poster auction. Of course, over the years since, those records have been shattered many times, and now those points are solely of historical interest. I have also sold 29 million dollars of vintage movie paper (actual verified sales) and I feel that is certainly a record, but do doubt that too will be shattered in time (so it is just a matter of time before my name completely vanished from the movie poster record book). These days I pass my time selling mostly inexpensive movie posters, to many hundreds of poster collectors each week. I no longer often sell very expensive posters, but there are quite a few auction houses and dealers (with yourself among the very top echelon) who do on a regular basis, and I am sure I am not missed at all. I have provided many hundreds of collectors and dealers who have LOTS of unwanted items a way for them to effortlessly dispose of them, while receiving more than any dealer would offer them for those items, and at the same time, I provide many thousands of collectors a way to affordably participate in this hobby on a weekly basis. I truly don't miss selling those mega-expensive posters at all, and I am glad to see that there are so many of you who do so so well that I am not missed at all in that arena! Bruce Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Record price for a press book?
No, the pressbooks for Bride of Frankenstein and Werewolf of London have gone for higher ~ and that's primarily because they look like slightly smaller inserts. Also, I sold a Mark of the Vampire presbook several years ago for over $7,000. Ron Moore Cinema Icons --- Joel Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The press book for Metropolis sold for over 6K with commission, is that a record for a press book? - Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Two Off Topic film Related Questions
I believe the Washington DC-set superhero show was (amazingly) called Super President. Boy do we need him now! Ron Shelly Whitworth-King wrote: Ahh, pipped at the post by Larry no less ... Here's a link that may provide more info, oh children of the night: http://www.horror-wood.com/rod.htm Shelly Original Message Follows From: Larry Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Larry Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Two Off Topic film Related Questions Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:17:38 -0400 Hi Channing - The title of the vampire film is RETURN OF DRACULA (TV title is CURSE OF DRACULA) Larry - Original Message - From: channinglylethomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:14 PM Subject: [MOPO] Two Off Topic film Related Questions 1) Does anyone know the 1960s cartoon (Saturday morning, probably CBS) that had a superhero who may have lived in Washington DC. They usually showed the White House in the cartoon but there was a modern high-rise building behind it. 2) What was the vampire film from the 50s that was in black and white but went to color when the stake was put through the vampire's heart? Thanks, Channing Thomson in San Francisco Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/853 - Release Date: 6/18/2007 3:02 PM Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. _ Tell Hotmail about an email that changed your life! http://www.emailbritain.co.uk/ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] QUESTION: SO MANY UNFOLDED PRE-1979 SHEETS OUT THERE CLAIMING TO BE ORIGINAL?
Hi Rick- Those are all Warner Brothers titles. I seem to remember a few years ago seeing a catalog from the Warner's store where they were selling one sheets on Dirty Harry, Rebel Without a Cause, etc. all were rolled and on glossy paper- and with the exception of Rebel (which was never issued on a glossy stock) these posters were identical to the originals except no NSS stamp on the back. Of course that would be easy to reproduce as well. Ron Cinema Icons --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Everyone, I've been collecting and dealing in movie posters for the better part of 30 years. It was always my belief that all US one sheets prior to, say, 1979 were folded, not rolled. Sure, you can say that some came as some kind of special issue if you belonged to a certain clubmaybe Star Wars or Star Trek---to be honest, I'm not sure. I just know in all my early years of collecting---the late 70's and early 80's, it seemed like you'd NEVER, EVER come across a rolled one sheet pre-1979---maybe tri-folded, but not rolled. (Mind you, Pre-1979 1/2 Sheets and Inserts might have been rolled, but NOT one sheets). Now, lo and behold, I've found websites of reputable dealers that over original rolled one sheets from such titles as The Wild Bunch or Bonnie and Clyde or Cool Hand Luke at incredibly high prices without an explanation HOW and WHY they are rolled. Twenty five years ago, I searched high and low for posters and NEVER, I mean NEVER uncovered rolled US one sheets on ANY pre-1979 or pre-1978, (whatever year they stopped folding them). Having been in this hobby so long, I can't help but make the observation that something strange seems to be occurring. I hate to say it, but I think some new dealers are misinformed and as a result, many collectors fairly new to the hobby are buying worthless reproductions that are REPRESENTED as original one sheets, not genuine, original one sheets. Please tell me--if I searched and searched as much as anyone 25 years ago to find posters, why in God's name weren't all those 1960's and early 1970's rolled one sheets around back then? To be honest with you, I don't like what I see. In my gut I feel like LOTS of people out there are being had. Any thoughts you might have would be welcomed. Rick Ryan ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Big Titled Horrormeisters Are Breathing A Sigh Of Relief YES?
Hi Freeman! And all other MoPo'ers Glad to hear you still don't believe I'm the anti-Christ! I'm actualy just your friendly neighborhood rare horror movie poster dealer. And don't feel alone when you say that the whole genre escapes you, there are many collectors out there who simply just don't get it when it comes to rare horror posters and the prices they command. But each to his own. (You will of course recall a certain King Kong standee I helped you with. I have to admit that while you thought the price Johnny paid was high for the Raven half sheet, I actually thought the price he paid for your post-war almost duo-tone foreign poster for the Wolf Man was high! That's all kind of amusing in retrospect. And while the prices that Heritage received for some of their horror posters were indeed world-record prices for those titles, I (and others) have already discussed this and felt some of the prices were lower than expected- such as the Frankenstein title card that hammered at a mere (!!) $28,000.00. A bargain? To horror guys- YES! To collectors of musicals... someone got reamed! Hey, that's the hobby and that's the biz. The Universal horror material is in a league of it's own and can almost be excluded from the rest of the hobby. My congratulations to Grey, as usual, for putting on a marvelous auction where it appears that this hobby has no limits and continues to grow with new collectors coming into the market. Ron Moore Cinema Icons --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heritage so far has grabbed some almost obscenely high returns on their high end horror pieces. This should put to rest those that wondered if high end horror was becoming too incestuous. With the death of two of the most well know collectors of the genre, it seems there still remains a healthy audience whether actual collectors or investors who still blindly pony up the big bucks as if Munster Money. Then of course in between auctions these same guys have no problem beating up independent dealers over $700 lobby cards of equal scarcity. Just a backslap of an observation you know I like to joke Anyway, I have to confess the entire genre is a language that escapes me. For instance THE RAVEN halfsheet. I had a truly eye-opening experience with Ron Moore who had acquired the halfsheet and from myself a truly beautiful Italian 4 foglio for THE WOLFMAN for Johnny Ramone, literally days before his passing. Meeting him at his hotel before he was leaving to meet with Ramone, to deliver again in my estimation a stunning Italian 4 foglio at a reasonable price. We talked a bit and then he said would I like to see what else is being delivered. Sure! So Ron proudly removes the halfsheet from its sleeve and shows me with his usual flourish. Now honest to God I looked at and mentally thought it was on par in appeal and value with House On Haunted Hill maybe a bit more given the age. But hell my 4 foglio ran circles around this rather banal halfsheet. Then he told me the price... Up to that point, Ron seemed to me a helluva a nice guy but I was so thoroughly convinced he was taking advantage of a very ill client.this halfsheet in my mind so completely unremarkable that I thought Ron was engaging in a horrific bedside gouging and I began to feel queasy and really creepy..it took forever to get back to WEHO from Burbank. I then immediately called my Horror mentor Ron Magid who went all a dither that I got to see such a rare Horror Holy Grail. Ohhh ahhh! okaay Yeesh!! ...But to hell with my ignorance I was so relieved that Ron Moore wasn't the Anti-christ. If you read the forward in the Hertiage Johnny Ramone Collection you will read a glorious first person account of just how much that halfsheet meant to Johnny Ramone. and the ulitmate disposition of the Wolfman 4 foglio. Well anyway another halfsheet of the Raven sold for 51,000.00 Its mostly the image of a bookthese people are fucking nuts freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com
Re: [MOPO] GREATEST SPORTS MOVIES
When it comes to boxing I've always been a fan of The Set-Up. But I can't believe nobody mentioned Hoosiers. Love that film. And hey, what about a great golf film? Caddyshack. Ron - Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT INSERT ON MPB IS 14 X 36
I personally consider reserves a waste of my time. When shopping if I see them I walk away. List a price you're willing to sell, if I'm willing to buy I click on your listing. Complicated. Attempt to trick me in there with a reserve so that I might fall in love with the product and bid away like a mad man? Nope, not for me. Just tell me the minimum you want and I'll let my finances and desire make the rest of my decision. - Ron - Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Best Universal Horror Classic poster?
Hi Andrea and Philip! Yes, I wish I still had The Mummy one sheet as well, but, you can't go back and on the bright side, I was able to put a downpayment on a house and add some more great items to my collection. As for other great finds, if you guys would really like to hear some, I have lots of them. Some of them are pretty entertaining- but long. I really condensed the one about the Mummy as there was a lot more to it. When I get a chance next week, maybe I'll type out a few. Some of them I actually acquired and a few got away, but they're all great stories! Ron Moore --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron! Amazing story...any other great story finds? Love these stories. Philipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Best Universal Horror Classic poster? Okay, so in all honesty I have had way more than my share in great poster finds over the years- but I've really hit the roads over the last 30 years to find them. One of the first finds included both style Pinocchio one sheets from 1940 for 50 cents each! Along with 3 Superman serial one sheets- I had to cough up a bit more for those. But for the best find of all... Sue will like this one! Back in 1992 I tracked down a rumor regarding an original Mummy one sheet. Now, I didn't really believe it was real until the guy who knew about it told me that next to Karloff's image the poster said, It Comes to Life! Well, you coulda knocked me over when he said that. It took me another 6 months to finally locate it and when I did... well I was expecting to see the regular Mummy one sheet- you know, the one you always see pictures of. The one Borst owns that's in his book Graven Images! But when I went to this guys house, there on his living room wall was the other style Mummy one sheet! The one no one in our hobby had seen before. For once, my usually stoic poker face slipped! The owner would not even discuss selling it. So, I asked where did it come from. I really had to dig into this mystery and it went all the way back to 1959 when the poster was located in a small town outside of Chicago. Apparently there were lots and lots of posters stacked inside of a junk dealers barn. Out of that find- a gentleman had kept 2 She Done Him Wrong one sheets, a Ladies They Talk About one sheet, and (Hey Doug Taylor- here's where it came from ) an original All Quiet On the Western Front one sheet! I was able to acquire them all. What happened to the rest of the stacks of posters, I was never able to find out. oh well After another agonizing 6 months, the owner of the Mummy one sheet finally let me buy it off of him. It was one of the best days in my entire poster collecting life. The happiness was short term though. I was inundated by phone calls from auction houses, people offering me cash in briefcases, calls from people I didn't even know- and they knew where I lived! The calls were coming in 3 to 5 times a day. It got to where I would walk by the poster, hanging magnificently on my wall, and I just couldn't stand to look at it anymore. After 6 months of harrassment, I sold it. So much for what could be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, posters in our hobby! There have been lots of more finds since then. I love the hunt! Ron Moore Cinema Icons --- Susan Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Mummy lobby card was a great find. I had someone offer me the original one sheet for Dracula back in 1982 or 1983 for $3500. Well, at that time, he could have been asking for $35 million and it wouldn't have been different. The guy explained to me that it would probably be worth quite a bit more in the future, and I agreed, but $3500 was almost 3 years rent to me in those days. He offered to go down to $3000. I told him he could go down to $300 and I still couldn't afford it. If I had only known, I would have borrowed from everyone I knew to buy it. I always hoped that guy never sold it and still has it to this day. You could see how much he loved the poster and hated to have to sell it. New question...Graphically, The Mummy and The Invisible Man one sheet are my favorite of the Universal Horror Classic one sheets. How about everyone else? Sue www.hollywoodposterframes.comhttp://www.hollywoodposterframes.com/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUmailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: [MOPO] Are The Inmates In Charge Of The Nuthouse? Hi, I've been collecting and dealing in movie posters for close to 30 years. Sometimes it amazes not only how much angry diatribe has taken over MoPo, but it seems as if certain members ,who act
[MOPO] Best Poster Fiend? publicly asking JR to calm down
I was really enjoying the Best Poster Find messages, noticed Susan posted with something very positive, and then saw JR in my in box. For a second my heart thought, wow, maybe the two really can live in peace. WRONG. JR hijacked one of the most positive threads I've seen in months and attempted to take it back to his own personal agenda.SO WHAT THAT SCOTT DIDN'T HANDLE THINGS WITH THE JR SEAL OF APPROVAL!Sorry JR, Susan Olsen seems very willing to let it go and talk about posters, can't you? I would rather talk about posters than I would whatever BADblood exists between you two. Let's drop who pounced first, let's forget public or private insults, let's get on with it. Are we keeping score as to who posted more negatives in 24-hours? Sorry, I stopped trying to keep score in life some time age.Frankly, I really enjoy talking or engaging in friendly debate with you, but it's time to let this go. Susan shouldn't be in some sort of "cooler" and you shouldn't be reading archives instead of e-mails. You've only hurt yourselves with these unneccesary "punishments."I don't see a long lasting olive branch between the two of you. But I do see two people that know a lot about movies and posters and I want both to post and to make others feel welcome. Is that too much to wish for? Ron How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Repros of #9 Lobby Cards?
The seller is the creator of the #9 lobby card series - that's why his cards are all mint. He happens to be a good friend and an honorable person, and is selling cards printed in the original run limited to 200 copies. JR wrote: I just noticed something while cruising through the real time price results at icollectmovieposters.com. There is a seller on eBay who seems to have an unlimited supply of the #9 Lobby Cards. The seller, Perry2181, seems to be pretty sophisticated. He accurately describes what the #9 series was all about -- and even though hekeeps offering these same cards over and over again(getting darn good prices for them), he restrains himself to making the offer only once a month or so: http://www.icollectmovieposters.com/start-movieposters/start-sold/Default.html... just put in #9 in the search window and go through the pages. Even though I've seen this seller'sauctions before on eBay, I didn't notice just how many of the #9s Perry2181 was selling over time. Now, since the original #9 Lobby Cards were ostensibly limited to a run of 200, how likely is it that this one seller would have so many original sets in his possession? I have been concerned about the possibility of fake lobby cards for some time because their size of 11x14 is easily done on modern color copiers and the modern machines can take card stock paper. So, I'm wondering if anyone has any info on these sales by Perry2181 or any idea on how likely it is that these are "originals". I use the term loosely, of course, as the original #9 Lobby Cards were in themselves fakes... created out of whole cloth to enhance... sort of... the original lobby card setswith all their dull, non-monster images. But considering the prices these sales are bringing in, truly "original" #9 lobby cards now have to be acknowledged as potentially valuable collectible items themselves -- if they are from that original 200 print run, that is. The current batch on eBay can be seen at: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZperry2181QQhtZ-1 -- JR Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] advertise MOPO in you ebay description
I think it's a find idea but I tend to think the line,"Nearly all the big poster collectors are members, plus tons tons of collectors"was perhaps meant to say or would be better read as,"Nearly all the big poster dealers are members, plus tons tons of collectors."Just a thought on my part. Ron All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Sellers NOT volunteering to send out Join MOPO flyers!
Well ever since joining MOPO and re-enjoying why I collected movie posters in the first place I've considered selling off a large portion of my collection, or perhaps consigning it. The jury isn't hung, but then again I'm Irish, when referring to hung someone should either be dead or likely embarassed. I've even considered true FS posts. Yes, direct to MOPO deals. Not someone stating FS when it is really FA, and no, having all of your auctions include Buy it Nows is not an FS. I guess really as a newbie to selling I'm a little slow and reluctant to dive into any site, and if I'm surrounded by collectors, maybe a post of a few dozen reasonably priced posters would be ok.Of course, I will include good photos and descriptions, to answer that argument.However, to offer a flyer to my buyer(s)to joinMOPO, well, it seems awfully over-the-top in a way since this is where I've found them.I did puruse the NSFGE site many talk about. Honestly, I found it regularly way off topic (not even film related), and ruled by one or two mouthy individuals, one that seemed to prefer any topic that related to the flesh than to one that related to a poster that I was most turned off.So I'm working on an old-fashioned Movie Collector's World styled listing that has good posters at reasonable prices, and with pictures and descriptions. With any success there will likely be many more to follow. Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Does a DVD release or remake alter poster prices?
Trying to play the game, I'll post a poster related question. Do you believe a DVD release or a film remake can change poster prices?Recently I've seen the alternate Wicker Man style that is the sun symbol and silhouettes beneath it hitting $100 and $150 easily. Is this a reflection of renewed interested from the remake? Or have I just not noticed that it's been achieving such a price for years? I've got no interest in the remake, nor it's posters, but does it spur interest in the original? And if so, does that interest continue if it's only a modest success?This can be for the better or worse depending on the film. For example, I recently followed a half sheet for The Strange Door. Great poster, mediocre film, and it didn't sell for it's $174.99 opening bid. Frankly, I thought the opening was more than a little high, but not my listing not my choice. This film did receive a so-so VHS release but it's going out in a Karloff collection from Universal in just a few weeks,Assuming a lot of people don't want to buy a poster fora movie they've never seen, perhaps this will help the value. Of course, it's not a great film, so maybe not? It seems that by default the more widely available a film is the more interest there would be in the poster. But what if the film is finally released and it's only quasi-good or worse? Or a remake? Does that really widen an audience or simply introduce it to a very modern and reprint happy trend? Your thoughts? Ron Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Poster question
Sorry but this comparison of 1500's maps to 1930's or laterlobby cards is bollocks. A few simple factors makes it so. The sheer surface space, the age, and the rarity, jump to mind. Say a rare lobby card from The Black Cat only comes up every other year, but every year a trimmed version appears. This is hypothetical, of course, I would hate to see a trimmed rare Black Cat lobby card, that trimmed card would be worth very little to me. I would rather save my money for that extra-rare prime condition card.While these complete cards are undoubtedly rare, they can be found and will be, again and again even if every again is a couple of years off. Oh sure, I have purchased filler cards of lesser condition, but I'm always willing to pay much more for that great condition item. These lesser conditioned items are very accurately described by JR. Rather like a Magazine or something like that, a placeholder, which I know I'm unlinkely to lose money on but also unlikely to keep. Have these map collector's been around much longer? Undoubtedly, but they were weened on maps not on comics, coins, or baseball cards. Condition means at least as much as rarity often anymore, and condition on a rare card means more and more every day.A rare lobby card in excellent condition will always be worth substantially more than the same card with borders trimmers, at least in my life time. RonP.S. I've got nothing wrong with anyone buying lower conditioned rare cards, if I did I would bea fool to own as many I do. The day a trimmed Murders in the Rue Morgue makes even 20% of an original, I'll be totally lost.Tait Maxfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Aloha, There is some strange affliction to trimmed lobby cards within the poster community. I would say that the antique map collectors have a better grasp on collecting when it comes to trimmed items. I sell rare maps in Maui for a livingyet i only collect movie posters and lobby cards. It is night and day for the two collector's facing the same question.Borders mean little in reality but to collector's that quarter of an inch white margin (or more)missing caneat their heart with regret. I hear it too often in the poster collecting communitythat a fraction of white around the card is crucial. A rare card is a rare card border or not. Is missing some white paper on the sides crucial? Never has been but is asthetically nicer, that is it. Collector's of the big maps from the late 1500's will pay an almost identical trimmed or not because they are rare and are hard to find in a ny condition. Lobby card collector's only pay a mild fraction perhaps 25% of the card's worth if it's trimmed regularly. You are doing one thing only . Helping out the knowingcollector's find some serious steals because you have an affliction. No doubt about it the future will show that this is an unwise move to skip out on great rare lobbies because of a little border trim. Map collecting has been around far longer and they know. Rare is rare border or not. Learn how to paper bond and fix it if it means that much. Steven Yafet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I do the right thing?Recently, I passed on a fairly rare lobby card that I needed because it was trimmed. Not just any kind of trimming, but cut neatly all around the title and stars' names. Never saw anything quite like it before.I was going to get it anyway and have it restored but I didn't. Sold for under $30.Something similar happened several years ago. I bought a damaged card and three months later, found the same card in near mint condition at a little local collectibles' show. It was a bargain, but I still have the other card (for which I overpaid, much to my shame)So, I thought that history might repeat itself.But, I am still having some doubts because the card was rare; the colors were bright and I liked it.Any opinions on this would be much appreciated.NathalieVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message
Re: [MOPO] Behind the Blow
I'll try to find a link, but I read it in one of the trades. If I stumble across it again I'll scan it for you. I read in the New York Post that Snakes Down the Drain promotional budget maybeen as much as $50 million, but most likely a substantial percentage of that was never spent as it would have been saved for adds for week two, three, four, and well, that seems kind of pointless now so they're likely to take their snakes and go home. Promotional budgets used to be easy to find, even bragged about, but they've become more tight lipped about it.Snakes on a Plane is basically suffering the same fate as Serenity, but this time New Line Cinema is suffering right alone with them while Universal more or less bailed on Serenity. To me they're similar because both had a rabid internet fanbase determined to give it a huge opening weekend and make it the number one film. However, a very vocal but ultimately small fanbase does not necessarily excite everyone else into watching. Opening at about $10 million, with a total of $39 worldwide it was considered a complete loss.But that rabid fanbase came out in force for the DVD. It sold more than 2 million copies on DVD after only a few weeks on the market, and produced more than $9 million in rentals. There's even been talk of a sequel, designed for the STV market, this is the reason I wouldn't be surprised by the same for Snakes on a Plane. I mean, if Bring it On has spawned not one but 2 direct to DVD sequels, and both have been extremely succesful, why not Snakes on a Train? RonJR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron,Thanks for the link to bigscreenbiz.com... lots of interesting stuff. Butwhere did you find the figure for the publicity budget for MI 3 --and is there a place where we canfind outthe PR budgetfor other films? I'm dying to know how much they spenton all those TV commercials for MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN... I mean SNAKES ON A PLANE. -- JR- Original Message - From: Ron Wisberg To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 19:47 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Behind the BlowThere is also a matter of booking agents that can be thrown into the mix and can alter everything. I know the closest theater to me has an agent that works a deal where studios get 65% of the first two weeks. If a distributor will not go for this then they will not show the film. The booking agent of course gets paid a fee for negotiating this but it's well worth it. This theater doesn't show any movie for more than four weeks (it'sa matter of number of screens) and for weeks three and four the studios receive 30%. I have been involved with the financial side of this theater and that's the way it operates. This was true for Kong, DaVinci, Lion the Witch and Wardrobe, Cars, as well asDescent and John Tucker Must Die, big films and small films alike.Will this be different for other theaters and other distributors? Yes. But at that theater if they won't do that deal they won't show the movie. A resource to find out more about that end of the business is here.http://www.bigscreenbiz.com/cgi-bin/ultimate.cgiSome distributors actually demand an up front advance on what the box office is likely to be. But that's generally for event films and theaters don't mind paying it, they'll get it back in the end if not through tickets then through popcorn. Of course, with the declining health of event films some are starting to drag their feet on this, and for good reason.This is all thrown out the window when it comes to foreign distribution. They operate in their own world. Even someone as big as Paramount doesn't distribute in most countries and they use foreign distributors that are going to take about 15-25% in addition to what thetheater takes. And this isn't just for a country like Chad, this is for countries like the UK.MI3 had a $40 million marketing budget and a $150 million production budget. A studio is going to walk away with about 40% of foreign distribution and about 55% of domestic. So rounding to $104 million from foreign and $73 million domestic. About $177 million. Of course, the film is profitable. Cable, DVD, pay-per-view, all of that will push it over the edge. Far over the edge. Of course, Cruise/Wagner Productions receives 10% of that profit when it happens, J.J. Abrams gets a small cut, and several others will at least get a taste.But studios don't want that much money tied up in a production for such a long time without huge and quick returns. Who can blame them? I'm sure they thought it was a no brainer that this would out perform MI:2. Perhaps they should use their brains a little more. RonJR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron (and others),Thanks for your take on this. In continuing my research, I did find this article:http://money.cnn.com/2002/03/08/smbusiness/q_movies/Which echoes what you said, but hassomewhat different numbers... specifically:"During the film's opening
Re: [MOPO] Behind the Blow
Box office take isn't that hard to find out but box office profit is much harder.It's basically done by number of weeks in box-office. The first two weeks a theater generally only receives 35%. There may be the rare 30% or 40% but it is rare. 35% for the first two weeks is a rule (unless wei're talking independents, and we aren't.) After those first two weeks theaters can take 70-80% depending on the week. Of course, theaters live off of concessions, but studios don't make as much as people often think. MI3 is a great example. The Studio lost out big on theatrical. Out of the $150 million it says it spent it is only reallyrecouping about 80 of the 150 domestically. The special editiion DVD for MI2 sold close to three million copies - each of those came with a ticket to MI3. Perhaps a fourth touch advantage, now most theaters don't accept those in the first two weeks, but after that point, the studio (yes the studio) is stuck paying the theater their 70% share. And they report it as box office. That's right that $8 ticket in that $15 DVD is actually reported as a full ticket purchase. HMMMBasically, on a film that scores roughly $150 million, with free tickets on the loose in droves, the studio is likely to receive back domestically about $70-80 million.If this were a film with great legs, that could could easily grow (ie. Meet the Fockers and Pirates of the Carribean).Of course there's overseas too but trust me, that's an even bigger cluster often.Plus add this in. If anyone has managed to watch a film within the last 5 years without seeing more than one production company involved I would be completely amazed. Most seem to have 6 or 7. They all get a cut. SOME even on the gross. If a film make $150 and the Cruise Production company (only used for example) get's 5% gross, well, that snatches 7.5 million from the primary financing studios. BUT wait, there is a democracy involved. Wouldn't the Cruise facility have had to put in 5% of the cost in order to get 5% of the gross? YES. You hit it on the head. Except Paramount footed the bill up to 10 million dollars. So Paramount under the guise of Tom Cruise productions (not his companies name) puts it's money in, and Tom Cruise takes his net or gross, take your pick out.It's this fun difference between net or gross profits within poduction companies that Hollywood has often relied upon for their confusing bookkeeping.Tonight I watched Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Give me that film and it's poster over this bollocks every day of the week. RonPS. Seriously, would love to have that poster. Leaving the PC now to watch Them, love that posters, it's in the main room right behind me while I watch the tele. JR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A question:Does anyone have any idea how much of the "box-office take" the studio which puts out the film gets? We are always tossing around box-office numbers as if the studio gets all of that money, but obviously this can't be so. I can't recall seeing any information on how much of the cost of a ticket gets back to the studio? I know that classic "Hollywood accounting" make it impossible to tell how much a film eventually makes, but surely there must be some relatively straight-forward way or formula for getting the money from the box-office back to the studio?-- JRVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Behind the Blow
There is also a matter of booking agents that can be thrown into the mix and can alter everything. I know the closest theater to me has an agent that works a deal where studios get 65% of the first two weeks. If a distributor will not go for this then they will not show the film. The booking agent of course gets paid a fee for negotiating this but it's well worth it. This theater doesn't show any movie for more than four weeks (it'sa matter of number of screens) and for weeks three and four the studios receive 30%. I have been involved with the financial side of this theater and that's the way it operates. This was true for Kong, DaVinci, Lion the Witch and Wardrobe, Cars, as well asDescent and John Tucker Must Die, big films and small films alike.Will this be different for other theaters and other distributors? Yes. But at that theater if they won't do that deal they won't show the movie. A resource to find out more about that end of the business is here.http://www.bigscreenbiz.com/cgi-bin/ultimate.cgiSome distributors actually demand an up front advance on what the box office is likely to be. But that's generally for event films and theaters don't mind paying it, they'll get it back in the end if not through tickets then through popcorn. Of course, with the declining health of event films some are starting to drag their feet on this, and for good reason.This is all thrown out the window when it comes to foreign distribution. They operate in their own world. Even someone as big as Paramount doesn't distribute in most countries and they use foreign distributors that are going to take about 15-25% in addition to what thetheater takes. And this isn't just for a country like Chad, this is for countries like the UK. MI3 had a $40 million marketing budget and a $150 million production budget. A studio is going to walk away with about 40% of foreign distribution and about 55% of domestic. So rounding to $104 million from foreign and $73 million domestic. About $177 million. Of course, the film is profitable. Cable, DVD, pay-per-view, all of that will push it over the edge. Far over the edge. Of course, Cruise/Wagner Productions receives 10% of that profit when it happens, J.J. Abrams gets a small cut, and several others will at least get a taste.But studios don't want that much money tied up in a production for such a long time without huge and quick returns. Who can blame them? I'm sure they thought it was a no brainer that this would out perform MI:2. Perhaps they should use their brains a little more. RonJR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron (and others),Thanks for your take on this. In continuing my research, I did find this article:http://money.cnn.com/2002/03/08/smbusiness/q_movies/Which echoes what you said, but hassomewhat different numbers... specifically:"During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales. By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent, said Steven Krams, president of International Cinema Equipment Co."I also found several references to how George Lucas managed to get a full 100% (!) of the box office take for the first two weeks of the last two STAR WARS films. So, apparently there is nothing like a "standard" deal and each film gets negotiate for how much the studio will get and how much the theater will get.For working purposes, it seems we would be safe enough to say that, on average, the studio gets 75% of the box-office take for the first two weeks, then 60% for the third, 50% for the fourth, on down to the where the studio is only getting about 35% if the film lasts 6 weeks. That gives us something to go on when trying to gauge "how much money a film made" in comparison to its reported "production budget" (which is, of course, often vastly over-inflated by Hollywood accounting practices). I don't think there's going to be anyway for regular folk tobe able to figure out with much accuracy how much a studio spendsfor publicity for a given film... the best we could do would be to come up with a guess.Still, I think it is reasonable to assume that if a film does twice it's production budget that it has at least broken even for the studio, particularly if it does that in the first 2 to 3 weeks, when the studio is getting the lion's share of the box-office take.On that basis, MI III made money:Production Budget =$150 million Total Box Office (11 weeks) = $393,162,011 ... looks like even figuring in $30 million for Promotion and cutting the studio's take of the remaining $63 million in half, that the film made AT LEAST 30 million in profit for Paramount (and that's *before* any DVD sales, pay-per-view, rentals and TV sales... which could easily bring in another $100 to $200 million). Seems like claims that MI III "didn't make money" are grossly exaggerate
Re: [MOPO] WSJ: Paramount terminates ties with Tom Cruise
I'll just say this, my word I've seemed awfully vocal recently, and now this.MI3 was much better reviewed than 2. It opened better than one (ignoring inflation) and made less than either. There is a factor here. Time of month released. MI3 came out a whopping, and excuse me folks, this is a huge amount of time, 2 weeks before when MI1 and MI2 came out. Dang, half a month. But, inflation, ticket prices, everything aside there's a stat that holds true, MI1's opening weekend was 25.1% of it's total take, MI2's was 26.9%m and MI3's was 35.8%. Now that's a big difference. When the film came out Cruise's production studio actually tried to claim that it was simply too early in the summer, it didn't open as well as MI2 only because it was a couple weeks earelier.SORRY. I don't buy it. Hey, Tom Cruise was all over the news when War of the Worlds came out, it's opening weekend? 27.7 of the total. Any wide release film that suffers from more than a third opening weekend syndrome is facing bad word of mouth.Leave it to a studio though to act on last years trend alone. Don't notice that for several years Cruise's openings were growing and overall box office takes were growing too, there was a bad year. That's enough. Been their policy for years. Isn't stopping with Cruise, just more apparent in ways. Ron Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Snakes on a Plane opens with anemic $15 mil.
Of course, there is a truth here, Snakes on a Plane cost half as much as WTC to make, and was never really designed for the theatrical market.A movie like this is basically glorified STV fare, and one must imagine it will do excellently there. WTC will do well on rentals, but Snakes on a Plane will do amazing on sales at the video level. Even the most recent American Pie sequel, STV, sold over a million copies, and the rental is huge. WTC will have a good rental, and decent television run. Snakes on a Plane will have huge rental and huge long lasting television run, TNT will still be showing it in 10 years with good ratings.One film is focusing on an older one time viewing market, it's a hard market to get into theaters and WTC has done very well at it. The other appeals to a younger, watch it until you puke audience. Was SoaP anemic? A little harsh. Considering it's only on the first lap of it's race. Something tells me it's got a long STV franchinse ahead of it, New Line is very likely to milk this for years to come. Afterall, it opened better than their franchise Final Destination, and it's had two theatrical sequels. RonDavid Kusumoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I was always skeptical a film like this would open with monster numbers. Forget about the Internet blog hype. Its premise suggested it could be afflicted with the "Arachnophobia" syndrome at the box office, e.g., a movie of greater interest to GUYS, but NOT to most women, with a gross-out factor that skews different than for even couples who are inclined to chase the horror genre.** You could canvas 10 of your relatives and friends to get a good idea as to who would be inclined to PAY to see this. Opening at $15 mil. ensures "Snakes" will pull in numbers that are lower next week. Even if the film was across-the-board-critically acclaimed, there was no getting around the "ick" factor with general audiences.** Similarly, look at Oliver Stone's "WTC." It's putting up good numbers and despite my mixed feelings about it, people are not inclined to PAY to see a film like this when there's a choice between it and "Talladega" for a fun time out. "WTC" -- even if it had been as partisan as Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" -- tests an audiences endurance to pain, no matter how good it is, no matter how good you feel when you walk out.-koose.=="Snakes on a Plane" fails to charmSunday, Aug 20, 2:19 PM (ET)By Dean GoodmanLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So much for the Internet hype. "Snakes on a Plane," a camp thriller that generated an unprecedented tsunami of online hysteria during the past year, crawled into the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box office with estimated ticket sales of just $15.3 million, its distributor said on Sunday.New Line Cinema had hoped the movie would open in the low-$20 million range, a spokeswoman said. While the Time Warner Inc.-owned studio was disappointed, she said the film would be profitable. Hailed by celluloid cognoscenti as being so bad that it's good, "Snakes" cost about $30 million to make, a relatively modest sum.The sales figure covers actual data from Friday and Saturday, as well as an estimate for Sunday. It also includes $1.4 million from Thursday-evening screenings.Samuel L. Jackson plays an FBI agent trying to regain control of a plane that the Mafia had filled with poisonous snakes in order to kill a protected witness. The only problem was that the title so handily summed up the film's plot that there was little incentive to see it, said Brandon Gray, an analyst at boxofficemojo.com."This tells you that you need to have a compelling story or premise to get an audience for your movie," he said.Senior New Line executives were not available for comment.The project had been in development since 1999, going through several studios, rewrites and directors. It became a cause celebre last year when Jackson publicly assailed New Line for changing the title to the nebulous "Pacific Air 121."The studio backed down, empowering Jackson and adoring online fans to complain that the film was not violent enough. Scenes were added ratcheting up the gruesome quotient. The bloggers' victory ensured plenty of media coverage, seemingly turning the little B-movie into a preordained must-see hit.But filmmaking-by-Internet committee has its limits. Industry surveys in recent weeks indicated only modest interest among the moviegoing masses. New Line found itself both playing up the film's unusual backstory and playing down its sales expectations. It did not screen the movie in advance for critics, a common tactic when a studio fears the reviews will be less than complimentary.The box-office champion for the previous two weekends, "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," slipped to No. 2 with $14.1 million. The total for Sony Corp.'s Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy rose to $114.7 million.Director Oliver Stone's September 11 drama "World Trade Center" held steady at No. 3 in its second weekend with $10.8
[MOPO] Snakes ON A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plane
Have I seen this film? NOWill I see this film? Honestly I am likely to rent it.Do I care? No, but it should be clear this was Snakes on a Plane on day one. There was a brief perious of time that studio executives wanted to change the name to something more conventional. Samuel L Jackson threatened to boycott promotion if that happened. He was determined that Snakes on a Plane be about and called just that.The better reviews for this film have generally called ita great example of everything bad filmmaking should be, no plot, not interested, but lots of fun. Of course many would and will complain.Frankly studio expectations were overblown. They'll make money on this. It's destined for a reasonable theatrical run,excellent DVD run, and a really good television run both pay tv, cable, and network. Why not have bad cheap movies today? There hasn't been a previous decade without them. Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Music to the ears of the popCORN crowd
I've just got to say, when if comes to filmmakers today.Kevin Smith - A total wash, not even a one hit wonder, more of a one hit blunder (he likes to claim he has two hits, but not really). Boring and more interested in himself than in making a good film. Clerks 2 is his best film to date (a summer film this year) but that being his best film is like saying The Unearthly was better than Beast of Yucca Flats.Quentin Tarantino- I'll fight for him stronger. Reservoir Dogs is a good film even if it is a rip-off, something he himself has pointed out interview after interview. Pulp, blah, Jackie Brown, good story but overall blah, but theKill Bills? Damned good stuff. Wes Anderson- Sorry, he's one of the best filmmakers of over 40 years. Bottlerocket? It was really a bore to me other than a showcase for Luke and Owen Wilson. Rushmore was a really amazing piece. Royal Tenenbaums even more so. It's like it dares people to watch it once, or even twice and dislike it. It's smarter than that. If you watch if three times and don't find the brilliance, well, you should seek help. Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou, this could be argued as his first simplefeel good, don't have to think about it to get it film, and while it lacks the depth of his earlier work, it is excellent.But there's still Darren Aronofsky and Richard Kelly and David O. Russell. To claim these modern pioneers don't understand the big picture of film, is only to admit your own shortcomings. Ron Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Great movie, Bad poster....Bad movie, Great poster
Bad movie/Great poster - 99 and 44/100% dead. Do you Yahoo!? Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] STOP
No real post, just a note of applause to JR and MoviePosterBid (though I know he's no longer directly involved.) To MoviePosterBid it was a fun auction with really great items.And to Jr, you're one of the least hypocritical people I've gotten to know, even just online. You've always spoken in a certain way about reserves and just because MPB had MANY items not meet them, you didn't discredit yourself by suddenly being pro-reserve.It's nice to see in any business someone actually sticking to standards. Richie seems to believe in reserves, that's his right. You certainly believe in MPB and that's you're right, but you aren't a fan of reserves, and you can be respectful of Richie and his methods. Frankly, it's refreshing. Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] MOPO VENTING Not Poster r related
Honestly, I'm slightly surprised anyone books directly with airlines or hotels anymore. No amount or traveling seems to earn customer respect today. Recently I booked a flight and motel through Expedia. My experience was HORRIBLE. Horrible.I wrote Expedia a strongly worded letter about it all. They REFUNDED my trip, and gave me a $100 coupon for use through their network,To me, that's quality customer service above and beyond. Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Private vs Public posts
I'll likely be the only one to respond in this way but, I got a great deal of giggles out of the answer and response nature of some of the answers and responses that were made, especially considering the one desperate to make this a wide spread issue was some how clueless to the fact that replies were directected to them and then only. It only made some responses stronger and stronger, and those were not theres.So while I personally don't agree with personal attacks and do feel strongly on personal politics (though I don't judge others by them and honestly prefer not to know if it isn't pertinant), I got a great many chuckles and a few belly laughs.I'll take a chuckle at what's been done even if I'm alone.Ron Groups are talking. Were listening. Check out the handy changes to Yahoo! Groups. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Superman, another opinion
I am a fan of the original Superman films, but I'm confused how anyone could call this film a remake. Are there huge similarities, yes, but so what? Are there huge similarities one comic to the next? Sure, and without complaint.One thing, to be clear, this film takes place 5 years after Superman 2. Bryan Singer decidedlyignored parts 3 and 4 and that was ok,I ignored part 3only minutes after I saw it (only to be reminded over and over again by it's seemingly never ending poster supply on ebay) and never saw 4. And to only notice Bryan Singer for his work in the X-Men films is insulting. The Usual Suspects remains one of the greatest directed films of the 90's, and both X-men and Superman show what can happen if you take a very smart director and give them comic book material. You get a fun, and enjoyable, and yes, overall intelligent and geniuine, though not genuis, film.The cast is fine and the script in a dialogue sense if passable. Bryan Singer does share story credit and not screenplay credit. I'm sure he's at least somewhat responsible, but fair is fair, he didn't write this. And so what if he did? It's not award worthy but it's not poorly written. The story is really rather strong, but not without obvious large, okay, some huge, but action film plot holes. Superman Returns is pure fun.Why call it remake that the returning hero takes Lois Lane on a late nice New York flight again. Have you never gone back to someone you left? And if you did did you not attempt to relieve the more magical moments of your time together?Well if you did, that makes you a remake. If you and you're exes most magical moment was a beautiful wine and cheese picnic on the top of your favorite hill and you try to recreate that, you aren't recreating. You're a brainless remake.Give me a break. In this film, and there's no real spoilers in this, Superman is trying to rewin Lois from a mortal, but very smart, capable, and rich, version of himself. So he recreates some classic scenes the two shared. Okay,maybe some very mild spoilers here. My real regret was that Lex Luther wasn't a big enough deal, theres a humorous moment as people discuss how important it is Superman hasn't been news for 5 years, and Luther is discredited beause he hasn't been news for 5 years. Of course, researching him at that point might have well, spoiled things, but it's a popcorn film, get over it.Give this film a break ultimately. It's a fun film designed to remind people that a man can fly. Is it better than the first? Worse? Equal? Who cares! It's fun. I don't regreat watching it, and I feel bad for anyone who did and couldn't just enjoy it. Ron Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Poster Shows in Texas?
I know at one time there were a couple of poster shows that happened in Texas. I always frequented the Big D show in summer and there was a Houston show around December I think, maybe called Stargazer or something like that? Anyone know if any of these still exist?Ron How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Doris Day title
You're looking for Julie, it's mid-50's I believe.Michael Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,A friend described to me a Day title that showed recently on TCM and I can't figure out what it was. Day plays a stewardess who ends up having to fly the plane. This film is a drama that supposedly postdated her classic comedy period. Looked on IMDB, but didn't see anything like it.Can anyone id this film?Thanks, Michael, CinecitypostersVisit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com___How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing ListSend a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-LThe author of this message is solely responsible for its content. How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] movie posters in movies
The Majestic shows some posters, my favorite is probably the one sheet for Sand Pirates of the Sahara, the phoney movie within the movie of the film. The attention to detail in making it seem like a real B poster from the era, even the NSS number looks authentic enough. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] To List or not to List
Zeev, It's obviously easier to just read the email over and see if there's anything one wants. Also, since I'm pointing out a resistance on my part to jumping over to eBay every time I see a vague FA: 8 billion great lobbies on eBay, wouldn't it be in sellers' interests to make things as easy for this buyer as possible? Who knows, my position may represent that of many MoPo members who may never comment on this post - but even if it's just me, I am a motivated buyer when I see something I want, so sellers please take this lazy bones into account. How much harder can it be to list your FA items in your posts? (As for the posts being long, those of you who don't want to read 'em can follow the link no doubt provided.) Cheers, Ron Sometimes a List of items offered on eBay would result in a very long post, and some Sellers don't want to impose, or don't have the time. Secondly, if you don't have the time to look at the list on eBay, (Phil has provided a LINK), how can you make time to go over the list in the email? What is the difference where you view it ? Sorry, I think its just an excuse. If you don't have the time to view items on ebay, of course the Seller looses. BUT SOMETIME YOU MAY LOOSE AS WELL !! Zeev Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] FA: Lobby Sets Auctions finishing in next 24 hours
Hi all, Been meaning to write the list for many moons regarding these kinds of posts - so no offense meant to Phil! Is it too much to ask sellers that in future FA or FS postings they actually include the items they're selling - I can't speak for others on the list, but personally, I rarely have time to check out a sale list on eBay, but I always have time to scan an email posting to see if there's anything I might be interested in (excellent example: (abe)'s postings for auctions, with item #s and descriptions, from which I've actually bid and won several items.) Again, I'm just trying to point out my personal preference, which would undoubtedly lead to my purchasing (or at least bidding) on many more MOPO-posted auctions. How do the rest of you feel about this? Ron Phil Edwards Cinema Arts wrote: Hello All, We have approximately 70 lots of lobby card sets ending in the next 18-30 hours on eBay. Thanks for your time and taking a look. If the link below doesn't work, then our user ID to search is cinemarts. As always, we'll combine shipping from our eBay auctions, eBay store and website stocks at www.cinemarts.com. Regards, Phil Mila Edwards eBay auctions: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ100QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQrdZ0QQsascsZ1QQsassZcinemarts Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] DEAR OLD OLD OLD OLD FREINDS and all the Ships at Sea!!!
Sadly, I'm afraid I don't know Mr. Tom Martin. But somehow I think he's a hoot at a party. Then again I also figure he goes through twelve keyboards a year or at least twelve period keys.You . know what. I mean. In all. gest. really Perhaps.. angel dust. How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] WTB Incredible Shrinking Man one-sheet
Very interested in a one-sheet for The Incredible Shrinking Man. Condition is important to know about but not the only deciding factor.Please respond with information. US one-sheet is all I'm looking for. Ron Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] MoviePosterBid and posters at all
I've got a few questions about movieposterbid.com. I hope I'm not out of line by airing anythingpublicly as I'm still very new to this list and only recently reentering some sort of poster community. I'm a collector from some time ago before ebay was a vapor in a pez collector's mind.Shortly after online auctions took over I took a long break. Recently I've been considering liquidating or at least reducingmost of my collection and those of you that sent me responses to my consignement question don't feel ignored I simply have enough posters that I want to go slow and make sure I make the right choice. I did look into selling personally on ebay but I was concerned that the time commitment and my personal hectic schedule would be a problem because while I love the idea of throwing a few up and letting the market decide and then working things out with the seller is kind of nice, ebay seems like such a crapshoot full of scammers and lowballers that I don't feel I have the time for it. So I was sent a couple e-mails about considering MoviePosterBid.com. They were friendly and short and I've been checking into the site. The disheartening thing is I'm seeing good quality posters there and virtually no bids. Is everyone bidding at the last minute? Is this kind of variety and title quality really sitting unviewed for days? When I first heard of it it seemed like an SAT analogy Movie Collector's World is to BigReel as MoviePosterBid.com is to Ebay. But what I'm sadly observing as a veteran turned outsider is that Movie Collector's World is alive if not well and BigReel is in a sad state and that MoviePosterBid.com on the surface doesn't seem to do much business and Ebay is an online skimmers delite. Basically I'm interested in MoviePosterBid. I feel the lower pressure world of poster minded individual to poster minded individual that got me collecting in the past is what I'm looking for. But if for some reason a collector's interest auction site can't make it I'm not sure a specific interest auction site can. In it's own funny way when it comes to my collection I think I would enjoy liquidating down to 15 or so posters and then having the thrill of rebuilding again. I would think interested individuals would be more mouthy as they once were. I've seen many adds for auctions in my brief time back andvery few want adds,maybe the whole dynamic really has changed. There was a time that there were a great deal of Paid for want adds in Movie Collector's World.I haven't beena subscriver to MPW for some time so perhaps things have changed again.I've got so many fond memories of doing everything in my power to seek out posters that I wanted, but now it feels as ifmany collectors aren'tvocalizingand it seems strange. Is it really a matter of why ask for today what some unknown might auction tomorrow? Again, I'm re-new and perhaps some of you have shouted for titlesuntil you were blue in the face and I'vemissed it. But I know there are a lot of subscribers and very few "I would like to buy" posts while it seems they would be more common.I alsoknowconcepts that make sense to me like MoviePosterBid.com don't seem to have a lot ofmovie posterbids on the surface. So what's the deal? All last minute? Not much interest? Gauging interest.. Ron Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Consignment
Was looking for some good sources to use for consigning posters, any help would be appreciated.Ron Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1/min. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Consignment
My mistake for not being more clear, I want to sell some posters but don't have the time personally, so I was looking for some possible sources to consign them for me.RonKirby McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry - you want to consign or have posters consigned to you?Kirby McDaniel Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1/min. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
