Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-02 Thread Mark A. Price
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Then I too discovered Ebay and went in.

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My first: 2 lobby cards: from Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Mole
People, bought from Texas dealer Tanner Miles via his mail order catalogue
circa 1974. I still remember opening the package at age 14, and those 2
lobbies are on the wall of my office as I write this. All of my early
posters came from his mail order catalogues. Them was the days!  2 days ago
I opened a package to find my newest poster. It had been in a frame for
years. And on the back of the card, a blast from the past: 2 ink-stamps from
its previous owners: Tanner Miles and Forrest J. Ackerman. --Tom

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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-02 Thread Richard Auras
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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-02 Thread Saul H. Chapman, Ph.D



Three 3 Sheets ("Help" "Let It Be" "Hard Day's 
Night") and a one sheet ("Yellow Submarine") all at the same time in 
1980.  I think they may have come from Jerry Ohlinger's store in NYC.  
After that didn't pursue or think about a poster until 2002 when I inncocently 
just went looking for  "Joan of Arc" {Bergman) and "Last Temptation of 
Christ" one sheets.  I made the mistake of checking out eBay and got 
snagged ... HARD.
 
Saul
 
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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-02 Thread John Waldman
My first poster was a Diamonds Are Forever subway poster.  Bought at Cinevent for $5, and I still have it.  John WaldmanMichael Danese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai. The cost was$5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it. It was about1970 at an antique shop in Philly. That did it for me. I've been addingever since!Michael DaneseVisit 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.
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[MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-02 Thread Tom Johnson
My first: 2 lobby cards: from Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Mole
People, bought from Texas dealer Tanner Miles via his mail order catalogue
circa 1974. I still remember opening the package at age 14, and those 2
lobbies are on the wall of my office as I write this. All of my early
posters came from his mail order catalogues. Them was the days!  2 days ago
I opened a package to find my newest poster. It had been in a frame for
years. And on the back of the card, a blast from the past: 2 ink-stamps from
its previous owners: Tanner Miles and Forrest J. Ackerman. --Tom

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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-02 Thread Shelly Whitworth-King

Hi Dave

First post, eh?  Have you been ... dare I say .. lurking?  HEAVEN FORBID.

Shelly

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Hi, all. This is my first MoPo post.

My very first poster dates me back to the 70s as well. It was a one-sheet
for Ralph Bakshi's Heavy Traffic. I got it when I was a member of my college
film society. I think it was an extra copy we got by accident, otherwise it
would've been returned to the distributor. Either that or it was a spare.
Anyway, still have it, though it's in pretty rough shape. Gotten a better
copy since then.

Hope I did this right. Never posted to a listserv before.

Dave Rosen
Posteropolis

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> Great question Michael...of course it may "date" a few of us... :)
>
> I'd like to break this down into 2 parts--the 1st poster I ever owned and
> the 1st poster I ever paid for.
>
> My local movie theatre manager started giving me one-sheets when I was in
> High School writing reviews for the school newspaper. I "needed" them for
> the credit information when I was writing my reviews, or so I told him!
(I
> hadn't ever heard of a press book at that time, not that my small-town
> theatre would have had one anyway!)
>
> He gave me the one-sheet for "Paper Moon," which I still have today. I
> wanted "The Poseidon Adventure" but he'd already given it away.
>
> The first one-sheet I ever PAID for was "Summer of '42" which I bought
via
> mail order from Marc Ricci's (sp??) Memory Shop in New York. I think I
paid
> $2.75 for it. Incidentally, "Sumer of '42" was the first R-rated movie I
was
> able to see "on my own", so buying the poster seemed logical.  Of course
the
> movie is rated PG today.
>
> Scott
> MoPo List Owner
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: MoPo List On Behalf Of Michael Danese
> Subject: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?
>
> My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost
was
> $5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
> 1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
> ever since!
>
> Michael Danese
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[MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Wong
Hi again,
My very first posters were a Casablanca R49 lobby set and an Enforcer os that
my sister bought me around 1970 from Cinemabilia? when she moved to New York
to pursue a dance career.  I gave one of the cards to my best friend in
college (with whom I was having a contest to see who could see the most Bogart
films).  Still have all the rest of the cards.  The Enforcer went in a trade 
that
netted me a beautiful Pola Negri window card.
Good question, Michael, Cinecityposters

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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Scott Burns
Great question Michael...of course it may "date" a few of us... :)

I'd like to break this down into 2 parts--the 1st poster I ever owned and
the 1st poster I ever paid for.

My local movie theatre manager started giving me one-sheets when I was in
High School writing reviews for the school newspaper. I "needed" them for
the credit information when I was writing my reviews, or so I told him! (I
hadn't ever heard of a press book at that time, not that my small-town
theatre would have had one anyway!)

He gave me the one-sheet for "Paper Moon," which I still have today. I
wanted "The Poseidon Adventure" but he'd already given it away.

The first one-sheet I ever PAID for was "Summer of '42" which I bought via
mail order from Marc Ricci's (sp??) Memory Shop in New York. I think I paid
$2.75 for it. Incidentally, "Sumer of '42" was the first R-rated movie I was
able to see "on my own", so buying the poster seemed logical.  Of course the
movie is rated PG today.

Scott
MoPo List Owner



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Subject: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost was
$5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
ever since!

Michael Danese

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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread JR
A lot of leading theme questions lately. Is it a virus or what? While some
theme questions can bear interesting fruit, I'm not quite sure why anyone's
first poster would be of much interest to anyone else... unless one is looking
to elicit stories about how people got into collecting movie posters in the
first place. In which case, why not ask that question?

-- JR

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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Greg Douglass

I actually already wrore about my first poster...the one sheet from
MACABRE I bought...but I then started buying tons of stuff from Theater
Poster Exchange back in 1964. Lobby sets were $2.50, one sheets 75
cents, half sheets & inserts were either 50 or 75 cents. All prices were
the same , regardless of the title. I had lots of major 50s sc-fi/horror
title in a little trunk in my bedroom. (Unfortunately, I sold most of it
off in the mid-to-late 1980s...just before the prices exploded!)
   I met a great guy named Malcolm Willits in Hollywood during a family
vacation, and he was very supportive in my interest in cinema material
(my parents just thought I was nuts!) He sold me a DEVIL COMMANDS one
sheet for five bucks, and lots of other wonderful material in his store.
In 1964/65, he turned me onto someone who had original Universal
material for sale. The prices were outrageous!!! Why, they wanted as
much as fifty bucks for stuff from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE WOLF
MAN! I tried to borrow the money from my Dad to buy some of the
material, but he just said absolutely not and tried to get me interested
in collecting something more normal...like..stamps or coins.
   Bo-o-oring!
   Boy, if I just had a time machine to take me back to Hollywood Blvd
in 1964, I'd pony up that fifty bucks fearlessly , come back to 2006,
sell the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN poster, and buy my Dad a nice house.
That'll show him!
   The hobby has certainly changed price-wise in the last 40 years, but
it's remarkably similar in many ways!
Greg D



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Great question Michael...of course it may "date" a few of us... :)

I'd like to break this down into 2 parts--the 1st poster I ever owned and
the 1st poster I ever paid for.

My local movie theatre manager started giving me one-sheets when I was in
High School writing reviews for the school newspaper. I "needed" them for
the credit information when I was writing my reviews, or so I told him! (I
hadn't ever heard of a press book at that time, not that my small-town
theatre would have had one anyway!)

He gave me the one-sheet for "Paper Moon," which I still have today. I
wanted "The Poseidon Adventure" but he'd already given it away.

The first one-sheet I ever PAID for was "Summer of '42" which I bought via
mail order from Marc Ricci's (sp??) Memory Shop in New York. I think I



paid



$2.75 for it. Incidentally, "Sumer of '42" was the first R-rated movie I



was



able to see "on my own", so buying the poster seemed logical.  Of course



the



movie is rated PG today.

Scott
MoPo List Owner



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Subject: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost was
$5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
ever since!

Michael Danese

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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread toons
Hi, all. This is my first MoPo post.

My very first poster dates me back to the 70s as well. It was a one-sheet
for Ralph Bakshi's Heavy Traffic. I got it when I was a member of my college
film society. I think it was an extra copy we got by accident, otherwise it
would've been returned to the distributor. Either that or it was a spare.
Anyway, still have it, though it's in pretty rough shape. Gotten a better
copy since then.

Hope I did this right. Never posted to a listserv before.

Dave Rosen
Posteropolis

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> Great question Michael...of course it may "date" a few of us... :)
>
> I'd like to break this down into 2 parts--the 1st poster I ever owned and
> the 1st poster I ever paid for.
>
> My local movie theatre manager started giving me one-sheets when I was in
> High School writing reviews for the school newspaper. I "needed" them for
> the credit information when I was writing my reviews, or so I told him! (I
> hadn't ever heard of a press book at that time, not that my small-town
> theatre would have had one anyway!)
>
> He gave me the one-sheet for "Paper Moon," which I still have today. I
> wanted "The Poseidon Adventure" but he'd already given it away.
>
> The first one-sheet I ever PAID for was "Summer of '42" which I bought via
> mail order from Marc Ricci's (sp??) Memory Shop in New York. I think I
paid
> $2.75 for it. Incidentally, "Sumer of '42" was the first R-rated movie I
was
> able to see "on my own", so buying the poster seemed logical.  Of course
the
> movie is rated PG today.
>
> Scott
> MoPo List Owner
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: MoPo List On Behalf Of Michael Danese
> Subject: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?
>
> My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost was
> $5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
> 1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
> ever since!
>
> Michael Danese
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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Offaleater
A Dawn of the Dead Aussie 1 sheet and Martin (the blood lover) Daybill.
After that went on to Hammer daybills from a little old ladies shop.
Ari

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> Probably a stack of Universal daybills when I was 11 (in 1961)
> The guy at U-I ad sales in Sydney gave them to me and said, "and
don't
> come back", advice I never took.
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> The guys at Paramount were much nicer and the guy at BEF was terrific.
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> Wish I still had all that stuff now. *sigh*
>
> Phil
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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Tom A. Pennock



My first poster was from a man in California by the name of John Cawley Jr. 
He used to publish a magazine called "Private Screenings" in the early 1970's. I 
believe he worked at  Walt Disney Studio's in the animation department. He 
had an ad in his publication for a James Bond 1965 re-release one 
sheet of "Dr. No & "From Russia With Love" (double bill) for only 
$6.00   I was not aware of the way the poster looked so 
I wrote to him and he kindly sent me an 8 x 10 color photograph of it. He 
said he took photo's of all his posters and had 8 x 10's made. I can't 
believe Mr. Cawley was so kind for only a $6.00 sale. Anyway I bought the one 
sheet and it is displayed to this day on my closet door in a silver neilsen 
frame. In December I bought the 1965 insert as a companion to celebrate my 40 
years of being a 007 collector.
 
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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Greenwood
For me it was the lovely Raquel Welch throwing elbows on the one sheet for
'Kansas City Bomber'.  How could I not buy it?

All the best,
Michael

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> My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost was
> $5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
> 1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
> ever since!
>
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Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Phil Edwards Cinema Arts

Probably a stack of Universal daybills when I was 11 (in 1961)
The guy at U-I ad sales in Sydney gave them to me and said, "and don't
come back", advice I never took.

The guys at Paramount were much nicer and the guy at BEF was terrific.

Wish I still had all that stuff now. *sigh*

Phil


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My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost was
$5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
ever since!

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[MOPO] What was your very first poster?

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Danese
My first poster was an insert from Bridge on the River Kwai.  The cost was
$5. which I thought was a small fortune. I still have it.   It was about
1970 at an antique shop in Philly.  That did it for me.  I've been adding
ever since!

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