Lobby cards - show us yours

[MoviePosterBid.com]

oh.. lobby cards.. showing ya mine

[50s]

Re Rich's new packaging... Getting better, but still room for improvement... B+


PS, hope you don't forget to leave one out and need to open it up again

[erik1925]

I think it was a bit light on the foam peanuts. Don't be cheap, Rich. 

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Re Rich's new packaging... Getting better, but still room for improvement... B+
PS, hope you don't forget to leave one out and need to open it up again

well, look, if you can mail 8 lobby cards in one bag, why not one lobby card in 8 bags?

maybe I should have put the all folded up package into one more bag and sealed that before I put it into the box(es)

[50s]

maybe I should have put the all folded up package into one more bag and sealed that before I put it into the box(es)

Yes, that a step in the right direction, but you need a Do Not Bend sticker on the package

[MoviePosterBid.com]

you need a Do Not Bend sticker on the package

I printed those out after I shot the photos

here's another system we're considering

even though I've only have 2 damaged packages in 5 years and no lost packages, I still get inquiries from Chicken Little who is always afraid his purchase will not get to him safely

so again, if a lobby card set can be sent one lobby card per bag in 8 bags, how about one lobby card, in 8 segments in 8 bags!



so, I had this other order ready to go to Chic and this was my solution







so each segment goes into it's own bag with board and each bagged/boarded segment will ship separately, each in it's own package, so that he is guaranteed to at least get one segment - if not all eight - and everyone will be happy

[eatbrie]

Yes it is. Why not ask us to put each card in a separate bag? Or each set in a mylar sleeve?

You did it for years, Bruce.  Out of my 500+ lobby card sets, I'd say 300 came from you and 250 were sent in their own plastic sleeves.  I'm not asking you for the moon, just for something you used to do and after you said that you'd go out of your way to make customers happy, which is not entirely true.

T

[BruceH]

You did it for years, Bruce.  Out of my 500+ lobby card sets, I'd say 300 came from you and 250 were sent in their own plastic sleeves.  I'm not asking you for the moon, just for something you used to do and after you said that you'd go out of your way to make customers happy, which is not entirely true.

T

I also used to start all auctions at 99 cents and now they start at $1. Do you want a rebate of one cent times however many auctions you won?

How about if I look up the number of sets you won and send you that many bags?

[Simes]

we've been trying to figure out even better ways to ship lobby cards and I thought I would use this order to Australia for my pilot test and see what materials are best used to get a lobby card there safely

That was fucking hilarious.

Maybe it just caught me at the right time, after an evening of dining and wine-ing.  Nonetheless, good effort with the 'story'.  Thumbs up.

[jayn_j]

damnit.  Another cool bragging thread down the tubes.  And I actually had a new one I wanted to show off

[Crazy Vick]

supercool card that one.

[jayn_j]

A set of 11x14 LC for The Stunt Man (1980):

Cool set.  I was wondering why mine didn't have the crashing airplane.  Turned out mine is missing card #2.

[erik1925]

Thanks jay.. it is a pretty cool set. And the only full set of LC that I own.

When did it become more common practice in more modern sets, where there was no longer an "official," title card, like was done in earlier years?

Not having ever owned a full set, I was surprised that card #1 looks the same (in style) as card #8.

[jayn_j]

Thanks jay.. it is a pretty cool set. And the only full set of LC that I own.

When did it become more common practice in more modern sets, where there was no longer an "official," title card, like was done in earlier years?

Not having ever owned a full set, I was surprise that card #1 looks the same (in style) as card #8.

The title card appears to have disappeared in the early to mid 1960s.  It also appears to have been somewhat gradual as I have some mixture in the early part of the decade.  But there do seem to be exceptions.  I did a search on movie and sorted by release date.  The search shows stuff from late 90's and 2000s, such as Sixth Sense, Phantom Menace, Starship Troopers, Disney's Hunchback, and so on.  Looks like a couple of titles every year until US cards became very uncommon.

[erik1925]

The title card appears to have disappeared in the early to mid 1960s.  It also appears to have been somewhat gradual as I have some mixture in the early part of the decade.  But there do seem to be exceptions.  I did a search on movie and sorted by release date.  The search shows stuff from late 90's and 2000s, such as Sixth Sense, Phantom Menace, Starship Troopers, Disney's Hunchback, and so on.  Looks like a couple of titles every year until US cards became very uncommon.

Thanks again.

That's too bad that it was decided to phase out actual title cards. Those really seemed to give a sense of the word, "set" and I've always enjoyed the LC images from the 1920s, '30s, '40s etc where the title was splashed boldly on the TC, along with other production and actor credits as well as often having really nice (and different) artwork.

[jayn_j]

Thanks again.

That's too bad that it was decided to phase out actual title cards. Those really seemed to give a sense of the word, "set" and I've always enjoyed the LC images from the 1920s, '30s, '40s etc where the title was splashed boldly on the TC, along with other production and actor credits as well as often having really nice (and different) artwork.

Not always (is anything absolute?), but...
The most common artwork for the title card was a reduced size version of the half sheet.  Probably 50% of the title cards I have handled follow this.

[erik1925]

I will now more closely look at TC and HS art for the comparisons.

Thanks again, jay.

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I will now more closely look at TC and HS art for the comparisons.

Thanks again, jay.

Jay is right of course - but this is for later 40s & through the 1960s era.

in the 30s-40s, most companies did have a different formation of art for the tc & hs(s), but at some point, the A style HS started becoming the same image as the TC with it's common matches being in the 1950s

[Simes]

The title card appears to have disappeared in the early to mid 1960s.  It also appears to have been somewhat gradual as I have some mixture in the early part of the decade.  But there do seem to be exceptions.  I did a search on movie and sorted by release date.  The search shows stuff from late 90's and 2000s, such as Sixth Sense, Phantom Menace, Starship Troopers, Disney's Hunchback, and so on.  Looks like a couple of titles every year until US cards became very uncommon.

Boringly referencing only that which I know, Quantum of Solace (2008) had a title card.  It's predecessor, Casino Royale, had two title cards.

[erik1925]

Boringly referencing only that which I know, Quantum of Solace (2008) had a title card.  It's predecessor, Casino Royale, had two title cards.

Simon, does this mean that CR had 2 sets of cards offered? Or were the 2 different title cards placed in each set?

[jayn_j]

Simon, does this mean that CR had 2 sets of cards offered? Or were the 2 different title cards placed in each set?

Casino Royale International LC was a set of 12, with 2 title cards.  Here is an image from Bruce's archive

[jayn_j]

Occasionally I find cards while building sets that have the same number, but the image is different.  Both will have the same NSS number.  Most common on sets from the 70s.  I always assumed it was domestic vs international release, but am never sure.

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Occasionally I find cards while building sets that have the same number, but the image is different.  Both will have the same NSS number.  Most common on sets from the 70s.  I always assumed it was domestic vs international release, but am never sure.

Godfather 2 has 2 #7 cards
one features Pacino & Fredo in Havana, may have been a plot reveal and was replaced

[Simes]

Simon, does this mean that CR had 2 sets of cards offered? Or were the 2 different title cards placed in each set?

Sorry sir - I missed this.

But I see it is answered.  CR had one set, with two TCs.

[Crazy Vick]

been to costa rica a few times, pura vida baby