Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-15 Thread Ron Moore
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 wrote: From: Phil Edwards Subject: Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards To

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Todd Feiertag
Hi Steve, These were definitely 11x14...I had the entire set from THE WEDDING MARCH (1928) and they were linen cards. Todd Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:24:23 -0600 From: stand...@ll.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Yes, Todd, I

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread S.F. Poole
it is linen-stock. Steve Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:53:13 -0500 From: toddfeier...@msn.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Hi Rick, Just for your info, there were other studios that used linen paper. One that comes to mind was Paramou

[MOPO] FW: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread S.F. Poole
From: rgv1...@live.com To: brucehershen...@gmail.com; mopo-l@listserv.american.edu Subject: RE: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:01:01 -0600 Thanks for all the input on the "linen/flat Warner paper controversy".It seems like what Bruce and Grey

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Todd Feiertag
xpost...@aol.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Warner Brothers linen lobby paper stock (I believe used by Warners between 1937 and 1942--the last title I'm aware of being Yankee Doodle Dandy)--is very tricky because as soon as you think y

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Garth Grieder
Does anyone know of a studio log/record of dates that titles were released, and subsequently re-released in American theaters? For example: Angels with dirty faces was released in 1938, and is known to be re-released nation-wide in 1948 and 1956. It seems that our answers would lie in a datab

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Bruce Hershenson
t; The paper from that period is exceedingly rare due to the later war paper > drives, but also most significantly, due to the fragile nature of the paper > stock. The linen paper is infamous for tanning and becoming brittle if not > stored in a stable environment. When folded, the ins

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Smith, Grey - 1367
almost always began to separate. From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of rixpost...@aol.com Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:10 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards Warner Brothers linen lobby paper stock (I believe

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Bruce Hershenson
This is almost 100% correct, but not quite. The correction is that the seeming "exceptions" are not exceptions at all (where the originals are non-linen, and the re-releases are linen). These solely occur in the rare cases where a pre-1937 title was re-released during the 1937 to early 1942 period

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-11 Thread Rixposterz
Warner Brothers linen lobby paper stock (I believe used by Warners between 1937 and 1942--the last title I'm aware of being Yankee Doodle Dandy)--is very tricky because as soon as you think you have it all figured out--you're thrown a curve ball. Usually, as in the case of Angels With Dir

Re: [MOPO] Linen vs. regular lobby cards

2009-12-10 Thread Phil Edwards
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