Hello everyone,
my name is Uwe, I'm from Germany and I recently joined the forum.
I have been collecting theatrical movie posters and lobby cards since the early 1990s. My focus is mostly material from Germany, the UK and the US. At the beginning I only collected posters for contemporary movies I liked and later started to get interested in the classics (Hitchcock, Saul Bass, etc.).
Just recently I discovered Eddie Shannon's beautiful
Film on Paper website and this inspired me to start looking at all the posters I own... and I have no clue how many I have. I stopped cataloguing via Excel in the early 2000s. Believe it or not, I worked for Disney's marketing department in Germany from 2004-2018 where I could secure quite a nice number of posters for all titles we released during that time. And when we had to clear the archives, I picked up some nice stuff as well...
Anyway, the way Eddie displays his collection is something I'm aspiring to now as well... I'm looking forward to joining the discussion and any advice / tips. I'm also hoping to find a good European linenbacking expert (so far I only know L'incartade in Lille, France), as I've got quite a few posters that need backing and/or restoration.
Cheers,
Uwe