Re: [MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era

Thanks, Philipp.  The focus of the book, however, is original posters created for individualtheaters.  While Brown's work is stunning, It looks like it was created for the studios. I appreciate the reply, though. Chris At 04:54 PM 4/18/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many pieces availabl

Re: [MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era

There are many pieces available from Reynold Brown, one of the best movie artists of the 50s. They also made a tv documentary of his life. This is the only documentary about a movie poster artist ever. His son Franz Brown has a website.   http://www.geocities.com/chapulinas/   I hope this hel

Re: [MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era

Great well I have many books tht cover Theatres and design like staring at 1919 also I have the 1924 american cinematographer dedication on the Building, I have a stack of motion picture weekly  from the 1914s era the great Book on the Fox theaters that sells fo like 800.00 and is thick and detai

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s than the opening bid on eBay!   Cheers, Bob - Original Message - From: Chris Berthelsen To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:32 PM Subject: [MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era Hello... This is my first post to the group.  I discovered M

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Thanks, Tom... I think I've seen the Smithsonian article.  It was about that time people began discovering Madalena.  A Hollywood documentarian was in Rochester, NY on business and happened to see an exhibition of Madalena's work at a local bank.  He eventually bought much of the collection. Your

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  hi Chris - thats  great that your wifes doing That book!  I had a article that was done on Batistie by I think smithsonian magazine in the 80s.. also the earlie advertisements are of great interest. A local busineesman that was Founder of Stron electric that makes lamphouses for 35mm Movie proj

Re: [MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era

[MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era Hello...This is my first post to the group.  I discovered MoPo while posting a message to the movie memorabilia group at eBay.  That posting was prompted by an auction I noticed Friday.  I don't know how much interest there is i

[MOPO] Original hand-painted posters from the silent era

Hello... This is my first post to the group.  I discovered MoPo while posting a message to the movie memorabilia group at eBay.  That posting was prompted by an auction I noticed Friday.  I don't know how much interest there is in original regional posters from the silent era (I searched the MoPo