Mid-auction analysis - OMGs!, LOLs!, WTFs!, whatev....

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Wait, wait...are you guys suggesting daybills sometimes have inferior artwork?! 

jeez.. do I have to dig up the photo of the daybill artists again?
oh.. isn't that one of them sleeping in Louie's avatar?

[erik1925]

They have inferior artwork most of the times, but they are not alone in that poor-drawn hell.

Look at the people in this argentinean one sheet for Phantom of the Opera sold recently at EMP:



Maybe Bruce didn't add in the description that it was heavily restored. By the spanish lady:

What year is that Arg PO Opera, Matias? The image is too cropped to know what it is from, in general, right?

And the other... well.. that was some older woman who went crazy with a paint brush in a church... and no one stopped or flogged her.   

[CSM]

They have inferior artwork most of the times, but they are not alone in that poor-drawn hell.

Look at the people in this argentinean one sheet for Phantom of the Opera sold recently at EMP:



Maybe Bruce didn't add in the description that it was heavily restored. By the spanish lady:

Perfect correlation

[erik1925]

Perfect correlation

No doubt.

 

[Mirosae]

Maybe Bruce didn't add in the description that it was heavily restored. By the spanish lady:

Hey...hey..You.. SHOW some respect  .. This is now a piece of ArT''

 

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Ok, so can the restored '51 Frankie beat its unrestored 2006 price?

BTW: $6,089 in 2006 is now worth $7,072 in 2013 dollars.



UPDATE: Sold for $6,268, so it sold for slightly less than in 2006 (considering inflation). 

[Bruce]

Read the entire full detailed condition descriptions of each (not shown here), and I think it is clear the older one was in better condition, so of course it sold for "more" (which it only did with your inflation adjustment).

I always give hugely detailed condition descriptions on posters like these (just as I did on both of these years apart), and I am always 100% honest in what I write, both so there is no chance of a return, and so I can sleep well at night.

[eatbrie]

A question for those of you who actually like Frankenstein (I don't), someone who buys a poster like this, does he/she actually buys it for the art or for the rarity.  Rarity, I get.  Art, I don't.

T

[CSM]

I like the art.  Are the Real-Art re-releases really that rare?

I think it's more a case of the artwork being appealing to many and original release paper being prohibitively expensive.  Seems to me higher those truly rare original release Universal Horrors go the more it bumps up a lot of the later re-releases in turn...

[Bruce]

I like the art.  Are the Real-Art re-releases really that rare?

I think it's more a case of the artwork being appealing to many and original release paper being prohibitively expensive.  Seems to me higher those truly rare original release Universal Horrors go the more it bumps up a lot of the later re-releases in turn...

Realart (one word) paper IS really rare. Think about it. On the first releases, they played in almost every theater in the country (for example, the theater in tiny West Plains had Dracula in 1931). In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a tiny fraction of those theaters showed the re-releases.

A few years ago I had a great collection of high grade Realart cards and many went for astronomical prices, because even the old-timers had never seen some of them even one time!

[eatbrie]

Thanks Chris.  I still don't get it.  I find the art hideous.  To each his own, I guess.  I'm more a Bieber kinda guy.

T

[Zorba]

 I'm more a Bieber kinda guy.

T

 

[brude]

A question for those of you who actually like Frankenstein (I don't), someone who buys a poster like this, does he/she actually buys it for the art or for the rarity.  Rarity, I get.  Art, I don't.

T

I love FRANKENSTEIN.
So as a fan of the film, art/rarity wouldn't be a real factor.
I'd be buying it for the title.

[eatbrie]

I love Dracula, I love the Werewolf, I love every damn creature except Frankenstein.  There is nothing in the creature that is appealing to me, which is why I will never own anything on the title.  More for others, right?  In any case, since my want list is over 2,000 titles, I don't think I will ever miss not owning it.

And Bieber, Jesus dude, where did you find that picture.  Funny and repulsive at the same time. 

T

[Bruce]

That's weird, because Bride of Frankenstein was far and away the best movie of all of them.

[CSM]

And Bieber, Jesus dude, where did you find that picture.  Funny and repulsive at the same time. 

T

I'd be more concerned about where Bieber got the Polaroid of you and what he was doing with it in bed!   

[Zorba]

Lets be nice. After Oil, beer, William Shatner, Frigid cold air and Rush..... He is Canada's greatest export! 

[erik1925]

I love FRANKENSTEIN.
So as a fan of the film, art/rarity wouldn't be a real factor.
I'd be buying it for the title.

+1

Same here, Ted.

Maybe some of the "baked and crispy" members don't get Frankie....

But many do...LOL 

[eatbrie]

Btw, can you please stop mentioning pot.  Each time you do, I have to run outside to smoke more.  It's a little subliminal.

T

[CSM]

Btw, can you please stop mentioning pot.  Each time you do, I have to run outside to smoke more.  It's a little subliminal.

T

Does this help?

[eatbrie]

I just pulled out the bong!



T

[CSM]

Always glad to help.  Just don't bogart it next time...

[erik1925]

Btw, can you please stop mentioning pot.  Each time you do, I have to run outside to smoke more.  It's a little subliminal.

T

Being sublime is an art.

 

[stewart boyle]

"And I saw his face,Now I`m A Beleiber"..Pass the bong.

Stew

[guest8]

I am a little surprised that these aren't going for more already!!!