[MOPO] FA: 562 oversized movie posters of all types close in 13 hours, lots of good titles, 46% are still $5 or under

2013-05-30 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Three times *EVERY *week we auction hundreds of items that sell for low, low prices (we actually sell lots and lots of items for $1 and $2, and around half of all that we auction goes for $14 and under). But Thursday night's 562 "very oversized" and "oversized" items (they ship in a large flat pack

[MOPO] http://picasaweb.google.com/posterazzi/ClintEastwood#

2013-05-30 Thread rodxmorgan
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[MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Kirby McDaniel
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, b

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Ron Moore
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 h

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Neil Jaworski
there was an interesting thread about this on britmovie.co.uk a couple of years ago. http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/general-film-chat/106555-posters-films.html i can't think of many off the top of my head, but i remember last time i watched Play It Again, Sam that i was scouring the b/g for

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Tom Martin
> >I have some of the Roger rabbit posters that where feautured in the movie produced by Jeff Killian,, u cant remember the titles.. but they where in the movie. > > Original Message >From: cinemaicon...@yahoo.com >To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >Subject: Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Tom Martin
>cinema paradiso has a casablance on a wall in the projection booth in the film// > > > Original Message >From: cinemaicon...@yahoo.com >To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >Subject: Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM >Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:11:32 -0700 > >>There are lots of cases of movie po

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Kirby McDaniel
But also some "knowingness" vis a vis the Mary Astor character? On May 30, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Ron Moore wrote: > 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 m

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Matt Johnston
There is a thread on this exact topic over at APF. My favorite was a post by Rich showing a city scene from Fritz Lang's "Spione" (1928) that had (6) 3-sheets for Metropolis pasted up on the wall! Thread (Posters in films and television - a game): http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Neil Jaworski
wow, that "Spione" image is both wonderful and deeply upsetting. i can never quite bring myself to look properly at this image of Saul Bass running amok... http://thespacesinbetweendotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/450.jpeg From: Matt Johnston To: MoPo-L@LI

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Richard Evans
That's a great one. UFA bunging up worthless, leftover posters as set dressing. Really like the use of the "Call Me Bwana" poster in From Russia With Love, though presumably a studio mock up. Sent from my iPad On 30 May 2013, at 16:57, Matt Johnston wrote: > There is a thread on this exact t

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Adrian Cowdry
The best poster within a film for me was Call Me Bwana in From Russia With Lovea Saltzman-Broccoli movie within a Saltzman-Broccoli movie and of course it is a front for the hideout of the Bulgarian assassin Krilencu...Anita Ekberg's mouth is the trap door..."She should have kept her mouth s

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Greenwood
My favourite is in the Blob where the theatre is showing Daughter of Horror and you can see the rare (?) poster for this great, obscure movie in the box out front and it's the actual movie playing onscreen during the shots inside. Great continuity!! All the best, M

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Jeff Potokar
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

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Simon Oram
Jean Luc Godard was so impressed with the Italian poster for Vivre sa Vie that he had it planted into the background in Le Mepris: http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image//a7334d1c253ca1162458d4193f9dc6c0e06036_r.jpg Simon -Original Message- From: Richard Evans Sent: Thursday,

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Sean Linkenback
The last Oliver Stone movie "Savages" had several Universal horror one-sheets in the background including the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and a few others. (Guess when you run a pot-growing enterprise, you naturally decorate the offices with Universal Horror poster

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Kirby McDaniel
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 McDaniel MovieArt Original Film

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Larry Springer
In one of the Magnificent 6 1/2 comedy shorts (England's version of The Little Rascals), there is a scene where the kids are either in an alley or down a small lane and posted on a building or on a fence is the British Quad for EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN. I don't think this was a prop. Most of these

[MOPO] Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!

2013-05-30 Thread rodxmorgan
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Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Ron Moore
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

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Kirby McDaniel
And, if I remember correctly, we sold the production something for MARY, MARY. That was a while back! On May 30, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Ron Moore wrote: > 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 fo

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Neil Jaworski
If this new project is also 1963 perhaps that's also Kennedy themed... You should send them a load of Great Escape paper and bill them accordingly. From: Kirby McDaniel To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2013, 22:09 Subject: Re: [MOPO] POST

Re: [MOPO] FA: 562 oversized movie posters of all types close in 13 hours, lots of good titles, 46% are still $5 or under

2013-05-30 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Call me crazy but I think the 562 "very oversized" and "oversized" itemsclosing tonight include a whole lot of really great ones, and I just looked them over and I saw lots and lots of real bargains, even on the best items (and there are still 104 items at $1 or with no bids (19%), 128 items at $2

Re: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM

2013-05-30 Thread Marty Davis
Back in the early to mid-1980's, Case Western Reserve University (in Cleveland, OH) continuously ran unbelievable and erudite film programs.  They had a series of about 12 silent films directed by Japanese master, Yasujiro Ozu.  Among those dozen films were five or six films that had American 1-

[MOPO] Website Update

2013-05-30 Thread Alan Heimann
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