Chris
LAMP can say all they want about original plates, but it is a mistake
All Poster Forum is hardly the place to find the data if it was sourced from an incorrect source.
and the AFI site refers to the presses, not the original plates
to add info, there are reasons the posters were recreated, the main reason being copyrights and a lack of availability to materials allowing exact replicas.
On copyrights, the only way that the AFI & S2Art could claim copyright protection for the posters was by acquiring new art. The original posters are not under copyright and you cannot copyright the images today. So anyone could take an S2 print and reproduce it if it was a reprint, rather than a recreation. The recreations however are a new piece of art that enjoy full copyright protections and no one can lawfully reproduce any S2Art print without threat of civil action.
again, all explained by Jack Solomon