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Movie Posters => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chop-Top on March 22, 2011, 01:52:44 AM
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For me, it was when I was staying at a Disney World hotel in 2003. In the room I was staying in, there was a framed Fantasia poster on the wall next to the bed. After a couple of days in the hotel room, I said "I think this is an original poster". I also noticed it had a linen backing-at that time I didn't know what that meant. Then, on the last day of the vacation, I went to MGM's Sci-Fi Drive-In Restaurant and saw more vintage movie posters used for decoration. I then noticed even more in the hotel lobby. After I came back from the trip, I threw all of my money into posters on Ebay for 6 months. I then stopped collecting until early last year and have been collecting for about a year again.
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I stumbled into a vintage poster shop in the Netherlands a few years ago... I saw a French 1-panel for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly and I was floored. I ended up buying my first poster on the spot, a Belgian Once Upon a Time in the West. When I got back home I found eMovieposter and bought my first couple polish posters... the rest is history!
Turns out Wim knows the owner of that Netherlands shop quite well!
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I think Holiday needs to change the smiliey code for that BED icon to something like 'bed1' because everytime anyone types BED it will appear. I put BED in capitals to prevent it appearing.
I got into movie posters only because I was hosting an 80's party and wanted some posters. I thought Id check out ebay and found a nice large French 1 panel of one of Madonna's concert tours playing in Paris. When I received it I was impressed with the size and color. Tried to find somewhere to take it to have the folds removed and ended up at a restorers store. I saw awesome advertising posters in varing stages of backing, so started collecting them. There were also some movie posters too. From there I decided to check out ebay and started from there, then looked for poster forums... I still like the stuff now on ebay almost as much as I did back then. Ebay hasn't degraded for me as much as for others it seems.
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Around 1999 or 2000 I could not find my copy of Return of the Living Dead. It was long out of print on VHS and not released on DVD so I started poking around the internet and came across an original poster for sale. When it arrived in the mail I was really impressed with the quality and the novelty of it surviving so long after its original purpose.
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When I was a wee little kid in '66, I went to see ONE MILLION YEARS BC at a matinee and fell in love with Raquel Welch in a fur bikini. The manager gave the poster to me the following week. I started pestering local theaters for their posters and then in '68, BARBARELLA sealed my doom. I've been hooked on posters and ladies since.
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Back in college, I took a date to the opening night of Star Wars. All the multiplexes were jammed, so we went to a small town theater instead. On the way out, I took a shortcut through the alley and there on the side wall of the theater was a style D. I absolutely fell in love with it, but nothing more happened.
Fast forward to 1989. My wife and I happened into a poster shop in Denver. Not Hollywood Posters, but the other one over by Denver University. Wasn't thinking movies, but they had a style D available for the lordly sum of $20. Was folded, pinholes and somewhat worse for wear and I bought it and three other movie posters on the spot. Kind of out of character, because I don't tend to collect much sci-fi and until recently, this was my only SW material.
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I more or less tried making this thread and only got Holiday and CSM to reply. Nobody likes me. </3
Anyway, mine was because of a girl. I never bothered to take home posters that came into the theatre, even when I was offered good ones (Basterds, namely) because in the last decade the only piece of decorative material I owned was a bumper sticker slapped on my wall. Then I started courting a co-worker via the weekly staff previews because I no other way for having a valid reason to be around her. After things took off and we started dating we started considering the first preview we went to our unofficial first date ("Where the Wild Things Are").
It was a popular poster among the staff. We only got in two of the teasers, the unanimously respected as the best, and there were eleven of us. One of the people who got one had quit and the other I hated. But I gave him $25 and he gave me the poster. That was the first movie poster I ever owned.
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I more or less tried making this thread and only got Holiday and CSM to reply. Nobody likes me. </3
"Only"??? Psssssh...
Mine started with a Temple of Doom daybill - and then shit hit the proverbial fan
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I was up late one night surfing dvds for classic movies and came across some posters. Light bulb went on. "Hey I have some bare walls and movie posters would be perfect". Dove in that next day and bought a couple of cheapies off of ebay.
Opened the tube and it was all over.
I was just going to get maybe 6-7 posters to hang. Now I have about 250 pieces of paper and thats in 18 months. Granted most of them are only good for tp and arent worth as much as I paid for them but I like them. Too much probably. ;D
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Being that I was interested in movies (especially Steven Spielberg) I soon saw some of the posters for movies like Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan and thought it would be neat to own an original movie poster to these films and others. My problem was that I had no idea where to get them (I knew eBay was full of fakes/reprints) so when someone told me that people get them by asking the manager at their local movie theater I decided to give that a try.
Sometime in 2007 I went to the movie theater, found the manager (whom I would later become friends with, along with other theater staff) and talked to him a little bit about my interest in movies and wanting to acquire some movie posters to start a collection. He led me into the break room where the staff took their breaks, and there was a box full of movie posters. I couldn't believe it. He told me I could take whatever I wanted. At the time any movie poster was really cool to have (Charlie Wilson's War, Alvin and the Chipmunks, P.S. I Love You, Bee Movie etc.) so I took what I could carry and had a big smile on my face. The manager also let me have some trailers (35mm film reels) which I thought were so cool.
Later on I learned about how to get the better posters, which involved a waiting list. I asked how I could get on it, and the manager and staff told me that usually only people that work at the theater get on the list by first come first serve. I was getting to know the manager and staff better and they were now my friends. They allowed me to be on the list even though I didn't work at the theater. I am the only person that gets posters that doesn't work at the theater.
I have gotten a few good posters this way - Inglourious Basterds, Toy Story 1 & 2 Double Feature 3D, Toy Story 3, and Harry Potter 6 and 7 (Part I). The sooner I request a poster, the better chance I have of getting it. Sometimes I would still be the first to ask, but someone else offered something so they got it. So it's still a chance I won't get them, but 50% of the time I will get the poster I really want.
I also started to buy a few posters but I don't do that as often as I am scared they are fake/reprinted. Once I know they are legit and real I will buy if I like them enough. I have purchased a Schindler's List poster someone here helped me find and told me it was legit, and I also bought a Raiders of the Lost Ark poster a while back (2008) when someone told me of a really trustworthy dealer that sells authentic movie posters, and because this person knew the dealer, I got a discount. That was really nice I thought.
~ Juli
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"Only"??? Psssssh...
Aw, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to minimize you. Let me rephrase it in a way that's more flattering:
THE ONLY KICK-ASS MEMBER BRAVE ENOUGH TO RESPOND BESIDES HOLIDAY WAS THE ALWAYS SENSATIONAL, UNFORGETTABLE, BOLD AND BODACIOUS CSM.
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Got a little bored with comics and decided to start reading about poster collecting. Reading lead to websites, which lead to questions, which led to forums…
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Got a little bored with comics and decided to start reading about poster collecting. Reading lead to websites, which lead to questions, which led to forums…
So, Angelo...
Do you now collect posters or are you still in the research phase? wynk
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Aw, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to minimize you. Let me rephrase it in a way that's more flattering:
THE ONLY KICK-ASS MEMBER BRAVE ENOUGH TO RESPOND BESIDES HOLIDAY WAS THE ALWAYS SENSATIONAL, UNFORGETTABLE, BOLD AND BODACIOUS CSM.
That is much, much better! Now I can go back to perching comfortably on my pedestal...
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So, Angelo...
Do you now collect posters or are you still in the research phase? wynk
I'd say Angelo is in the "cautious/discriminate" stage - which is really the proper place to be! ;)
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I'd say Angelo is in the "cautious/discriminate" stage - which is really the proper place to be! ;)
I agree. I tend to pass up many more posters than I buy. Having a better idea of the market for the stuff I collect helps, and my tastes have matured(narrowed) a bit since I first started. That being said, I'm still prone to putting in a tracking bid in one of Bruce's auctions and end up winning ;D
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My initial trigger was when I was working for a small film transfer company, right after college, in Malibu, CA. Every now and then material from the studios would come into the office, including OS posters. I think Ive mentioned that many of these posters were destined for the trash can, and rather than have them just thrown away, I would ask if I could have/rescue them. The answer was usually a yes.
So the trigger and bug were planted but then went a bit dormant. I would occasionally wander into poster/film/book shops on Hollywood Blvd or in Santa Monica and browse, picking up an occasional still.
Then, in 2004 or so, a fellow co-worker (he is an ass't film editor) mentioned something to me about his poster collection. He was obsessed with Polish posters, especially, and literally had Hundreds and hundreds in his collection. He lived close to me, and I went over one day, to look at the photos he had taken of most of his collection. He had the pics in a photo album. He also showed me the room and many of these posters, that he had also backed, were in neat piles in a spare bedroom. He also had a number of things framed in his living room and hallway, including a French 1P for Beauty and the Beast (1946) and a US insert for Sunset Blvd (1950).
The trigger was again pulled and the poster spark rekindled.
I've been on the collecting ride ever since.
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If I'm going to be really honest, I'd say it's women, pretty women. As a teenager, I had a whole list of women who I found attractive, starting with Brooke Shields in Endless Love and continuing with Nastassja Kinski in everything. Naturally, I wanted their faces on my walls, and magazines were not big enough, so I went for posters.
T
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I love Return of the Living Dead. I saw it when I was young and forgot about it. When I got older I could not remember the title, only bits of the movie. When I found it and watched it again, it became a favorite. I was looking for the VHS (yes, the VHS), which was out of print. I ran across the poster and bought it, not realizing it was an original. When I got it and realized it was an original poster that hung in a theater, it was a great feeling. Owning a piece of history related to the movie I loved. I was hooked.
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The Interview :(
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The Interview :(
Why the :( ?
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Interesting stories.
Jeff, it's cool that you were able to acquire those that would have been thrown away, otherwise. Being close to the scene out there in Cali would surely be inspiring, also.
T, did you have a framed, or displayed collection, back in the day?
CJ, that is cool, to discover that the poster you acquired back then is a piece of history.
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For me, it started when I was looking for some posters from my favorite movies, in 2008. I had been getting back into movies, after a rough couple of years, and combined with being "in the money" again for the first time in a few years, I figured I'd pick up some originals. Then the searching for better deals led me to more obscure stuff, and it became a fun way to pass some time, and it's been a good trip since then.
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For me it was a fluke. I had never purchased anything collectible or really perused ebay. Its very weird I used to be very minimalist, anti-hoarder type..., just wanted a few essentials (fishing gear, guitar, books) and the rest was all excess. I don't know why I was on ebay one day and saw an old pre WW1 propaganda poster. I actually had my dad (who had an account) bid on it and I won. Then I had him bid on another...and another. After about 7, I created my own account. I remember coming across EMP early on, and being like "nah, not for me." Soon though, my interest in war posters came to include movie posters and now all posters in general. I also collect and hoard a lot of useless shit now. Very weird. Its like I'm turning into my dad! Scary. Next thing you know i'll be talking to you guys about daily fluctuations in gas prices!
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Why the :( ?
Well the poster is "cool" I think, but the reasons surrounding the initial thought were not pure at heart. Lol
First off, the obvious was the news surrounding it. And I heard they were going for a lot, so like everyone else I thought it would either be a quick buck or just curious about the prices to check it out. And then I begin to think about other cool posters I'd seen displayed and was like, yeah that would be fun to display in my "theater" room. So after finding a "Christmas" labeled Interview (not for eBay prices... Lol) then I went looking for the Interstellar IMAX "Ship on Water" One Sheet. So Interview popped my cherry, but as a movie fan in general it opened up the idea of collecting posters to me.
I never did sell the Interview poster, and currently have both the Fall and Christmas labeled one sheets. I don't display them, due to limited display room and they are also "brighter" than my usual poster in the led frames. But still started it all!
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T, did you have a framed, or displayed collection, back in the day?
Yes, I did when I was a teenager to about 25. Then I grew out of it. I didn't have that many posters back then, and I wasn't collecting per se. Just putting pretty girls on the wall. I didn't start really collecting until 2000 (I had 70 posters in 2000) and never displayed my collection from then on.
T
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Well the poster is "cool" I think, but the reasons surrounding the initial thought were not pure at heart. Lol
First off, the obvious was the news surrounding it. And I heard they were going for a lot, so like everyone else I thought it would either be a quick buck or just curious about the prices to check it out. And then I begin to think about other cool posters I'd seen displayed and was like, yeah that would be fun to display in my "theater" room. So after finding a "Christmas" labeled Interview (not for eBay prices... Lol) then I went looking for the Interstellar IMAX "Ship on Water" One Sheet. So Interview popped my cherry, but as a movie fan in general it opened up the idea of collecting posters to me.
I never did sell the Interview poster, and currently have both the Fall and Christmas labeled one sheets. I don't display them, due to limited display room and they are also "brighter" than my usual poster in the led frames. But still started it all!
The news coverage of The Interview, and its poster, may have resulted in a lot of folks venturing into the poster world. And a few of them may have gotten "stung" with the vastly inflated prices of the posters, for the brief time when there was all the hubbub about the movie being banned and everything, but often times that initial "sting" is just part of the entire experience.
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Yes, I did when I was a teenager to about 25. Then I grew out of it. I didn't have that many posters back then, and I wasn't collecting per se. Just putting pretty girls on the wall. I didn't start really collecting until 2000 (I had 70 posters in 2000) and never displayed my collection from then on.
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Cool. What ladies/movies were featured, if you don't mind me asking? Do you have any photos of the posters and/or your old home?
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Cool. What ladies/movies were featured, if you don't mind me asking? Do you have any photos of the posters and/or your old home?
I suggest maybe these actresses were up on the walls:
(http://i0.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/040726-scoop-whoopi-hmed.hmedium-tm.jpg?zoom=3&resize=300%2C195) (http://i0.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cher1-tm.jpg?zoom=3&resize=201%2C300) (https://listen2uraunt.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dustin-hoffman_tootsie.jpg?w=233&h=300)
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I'm sure there are some nice posters featuring these ladies. Ms. Goldberg seems like an OK person, and Cher has aged gracefully, IMO. Who is on the right?
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Who is on the right?
She has the prettiest smile of the three of them
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You have a problem with Toots? Too close to home? Great movie, btw. Sydney Pollack as the agent, Bill Murray as the roommate, super hot Jessica Lange (and best supporting actress)... I love that movie.
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Brandon, I'll think about your question. Great one.
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Dustin Hoffman as Dorothy Michaels.... aka Tootsie YES!!
Such a fun and well acted movie. Let alone with costars Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr and Bill Murray. Its one of my faves! happy1
(Let lone the theme song, "It Might Be You," sung by Stephen Bishop) clap clap clap
Advance US OS:
(http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/q719/spitfire3992/DSC02015_zpszjgrr3xk.jpg)
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Some interesting responses so far.
For me I owned a comic book shop in the early 90's before the great comic crash and bought some as part of a bulk memorabilia buy from someone. From there I started buying mostly my favorite movie, Star Wars until I had a really awesome and pretty complete US collection. Got bored with it and left the hobby for several years until later a very large chunk of my collection was stolen. After the insurance came through I set out to replace what I had lost or at least as much as I could and it blossomed from there into the full blown addiction that it is today. There are days where I really do need an intervention... or more walls, maybe both.
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You have a problem with Toots? Too close to home? Great movie, btw. Sydney Pollack as the agent, Bill Murray as the roommate, super hot Jessica Lange (and best supporting actress)... I love that movie.
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Brandon, I'll think about your question. Great one.
You could start an epic, new thread.
Dustin Hoffman as Dorothy Michaels.... aka Tootsie YES!!
Such a fun and well acted movie. Let alone with costars Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr and Bill Murray. Its one of my faves! happy1
(Let lone the theme song, "It Might Be You," sung by Stephen Bishop) clap clap clap
Advance US OS:
Tootsie! I knew I had seen the face before. Classic.
nice.thread
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Some interesting responses so far.
For me I owned a comic book shop in the early 90's before the great comic crash and bought some as part of a bulk memorabilia buy from someone. From there I started buying mostly my favorite movie, Star Wars until I had a really awesome and pretty complete US collection. Got bored with it and left the hobby for several years until later a very large chunk of my collection was stolen. After the insurance came through I set out to replace what I had lost or at least as much as I could and it blossomed from there into the full blown addiction that it is today. There are days where I really do need an intervention... or more walls, maybe both.
Great story Mike, thanks for sharing. Good to see where you and other fellow members got the bug. I see that most of us were self-starters. May I ask? Just curious.. Do you still keep or collect some comics? I understand that these too are very collectable.
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I collected a bunch I got from my old job 2001-2008ish....Didnt know too much back then about how much there really is to know (everyone pinned eveything on the walls in their offices and once and a while you would hear the sound of about a dozen posters releasing from the walls and crashing to the floor because the pushpin gave up trying to hold up that much weight. This is when I saw my first lenticular too. Had a Species on the wall for a long time. My boss gave it away to someone randomly one day when I wasnt there Doh.gif. So, I would take some home here and there and stored them flat and unmoved till 2013. Posted about 100 extra copies of everything on ebay. (Modern junk as Mel informed me lol) Like do you know anyone that wants 200 Matrix advance character posters in sets of 7? Let me know lol. Met Holiday on there and I have to say thanks to Holiday for the invite to join APF that lit the fire...or should I be cursing him? Ha undecided! hmmm.gif
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Cool. What ladies/movies were featured, if you don't mind me asking? Do you have any photos of the posters and/or your old home?
Your question led to a funny little exercise, Brandon.
I went thru my collection and realized that I had lied. Girls is not what led me to collecting, more like horror and sci-fi. For sure I remember that the first poster to ever be on my wall was The Blue Lagoon, which I don't own. That was my Brooke Shields moment. The first time I ever thought a girl was pretty. After that, all the posters below were at one point or the other up in my room. They're all French, of course, since I lived in Paris.
The funny thing is, as much as I remember having these posters up on my wall, I didn't own any of them when I "officially" started collecting in 2000. I re-bought them all. I guess when you're a kid, you don't really think about collecting stuff. I probably destroyed them all or lost them.
Most recent on top.
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I've gotta ask about the "probably destroyed or lost" comment.
That's a slew of posters to have been pitched or lost, not just one or 2.
Do you remember what happened to any of the first copies you ever owned?
Or maybe your parents dumped them all when you left and went off to college?
Or is it all a BIG dontknow.gif
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I bought a couple dirt cheap posters for the walls of my dorm room from emovieposter back when they listed on eBay. This was some time back around 2002-2003. Years passed without me buying another poster, nor even really giving much thought to movie posters.
Then some time in 2008 I happened upon an article about seller dissatisfaction with eBay's fee increases, which mentioned Bruce's then-recent exit from eBay to begin his own auctions.
As I read the article, I remembered purchasing from emovieposter all those years ago and decided to check out the new site. The first auction I looked at had this Danish 39 Steps which I was compelled to buy. The rest is history. Who knew curiously reading an article about eBay fees would end up being so expensive? ;D
My first "serious" poster purchase from 2008:
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I've gotta ask about the "probably destroyed or lost" comment.
That's a slew of posters to have been pitched or lost, not just one or 2.
Do you remember what happened to any of the first copies you ever owned?
Or maybe your parents dumped them all when you left and went off to college?
Or is it all a BIG dontknow.gif
I honestly don't remember, Jeff. I know that at some point I decided that I didn't want posters on my walls anymore. My poster displaying days were officially over. Might have something to do with college. Too big? Not cool enough? Those posters were never to be seen again. My feeling is that I tossed them. Or my mother did, but not without my consent. They were probably in bad shape anyway, with pin holes and tape. The new ones are mint.
T
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Great story, T.
Reason I was asking is that I still have some rolled posters at my parents house from when I was a teenager (and my family will mark our 50 year anniversary of moving there on April 15th of this year).
So I need to snag those, as the likely first inklings and start of my poster collecting "madness."
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Good post Deke. Is that still your favorite?
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For me it started at 1970s comic conventions, which should probably have been called "cool old paper, art, and movie room conventions". Also, my mom's first cousin ran a small town movie theatre in Kansas and I could sit in the projection booth with him and look through the posters. I'd sure like to go back and whisper some ideas into my 12 year old ears! Okie
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I was looking for a way to squander my childrens inheritance. Just wait til they find out there is no money left, just closets full of old movie posters.
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Ever since I was a little kid whenever my parents and I went to the movies I would stare up at the posters hanging in the lobby and if it was a good movie or a poster with nice art I would think to myself "that would look so cool hanging on my bedroom wall". But I had no clue how to acquire it, being a child. As I got older I started to seek out the manager of some local theatres and ask about getting the poster after the film left town. And, to a man, it was the same answer every time - "No, no we have to send them back! You can't have it! No!" Naturally, being denied what I wanted only made me want it that much more. A few years later a friend told me that he knew the manager of a local theatre that would sell us posters. I didn't believe him, so I decided to test him. I told him there was a movie showing there now called "Theatre Of Blood" which had a nice poster and I would like to get it. Fine. 2 weeks later I went to my friends house and in the living room there was something rolled up in the corner. He pointed to it so I went over, opened it up and, holy shit, a Theatre of Blood 30x40! In the flesh! This opened the floodgates for me since I then found out about some outfit called National Screen Service where all these goodies came from. Every single poster experience I had, from opening a poster store, acquiring long wanted posters, and making a decent living from them leads back to that day with Vincent Price leering at me holding that bloody eyed skull. It will be the very last poster I relinquish, if ever. Thank you, Vincent.
BTW, that day my friend got the better end of the deal. I got the 30x40 to Theatre Of Blood but he got the 30x40 to High Plains Drifter!
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Cabman: what a great story you have and tales of the good ole days. Man, I miss those days.
ihatefakes: Is there perhaps a little bit of that in all of us collectors? I guess we'll just have to educate the little ones on their at least two step to liquid paper inheritance?!
Okie
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When I was 12, I mixed a pot of fake p.uke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the p.uke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life. But, when I looked up, I saw a this poster on the wall for Pale Rider. I knew right then and there if I could ever have one of those for myself on my wall, then I would try. And that is what started me collecting posters.
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^ it's like looking up and seeing Jesus. What a beautiful experience, thanks for sharing
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Yeah, Schan, you went all mystical on us! I teared up a bit. Hey, OAFCON is October 2-3, same place as always. Hope you can make it! Okie
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Yeah, Schan, you went all mystical on us! I teared up a bit. Hey, OAFCON is October 2-3, same place as always. Hope you can make it! Okie
I plan on being there. I saw on the site which tables are yours, and will try to stop in and say hello!
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Yeah, Schan, you went all mystical on us! I teared up a bit. Hey, OAFCON is October 2-3, same place as always. Hope you can make it! Okie
We were there from 210 to 305.......like last time you were out doing a presentation or something. The Dawn Patrol 24sh is stunning, btw!
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Darn, sorry to have missed you, Schan. Wish you could have stayed longer. Yeah, I was part of the original comic art presentation. Okie
We were there from 210 to 305.......like last time you were out doing a presentation or something. The Dawn Patrol 24sh is stunning, btw!
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Maybe it's as good as any thread to jump on in and introduce myself. Hi all, my name is Corey. I am fairly new to the realm of poster collecting, maybe a little over a year buying a few low-ticket posters here and there. (At this point doing a lot of research haha -- too worried about getting ripped off). For me that catalyst of course would be first, love of movies. But second to that I work in printing. (unfortunately not movie posters..), but commercial printing nonetheless. I worked first on the printing presses, now more in the art/graphic department. I just come at it from a love of printed paper and all the processes involved; old and new. Especially beautiful older stone lithography. I love to see the sheer scale and size of some posters, and think of all the labor that went into producing something so striking. And the challenges one would face doing such great work in the 30s or 40s. I hope to gain some more valuable information here
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Maybe it's as good as any thread to jump on in and introduce myself. Hi all, my name is Corey. I am fairly new to the realm of poster collecting, maybe a little over a year buying a few low-ticket posters here and there. (At this point doing a lot of research haha -- too worried about getting ripped off). For me that catalyst of course would be first, love of movies. But second to that I work in printing. (unfortunately not movie posters..), but commercial printing nonetheless. I worked first on the printing presses, now more in the art/graphic department. I just come at it from a love of printed paper and all the processes involved; old and new. Especially beautiful older stone lithography. I love to see the sheer scale and size of some posters, and think of all the labor that went into producing something so striking. And the challenges one would face doing such great work in the 30s or 40s. I hope to gain some more valuable information here
Hi Corey - welcome to the forum! welcome1
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Maybe it's as good as any thread to jump on in and introduce myself. Hi all, my name is Corey. I am fairly new to the realm of poster collecting, maybe a little over a year buying a few low-ticket posters here and there. (At this point doing a lot of research haha -- too worried about getting ripped off). For me that catalyst of course would be first, love of movies. But second to that I work in printing. (unfortunately not movie posters..), but commercial printing nonetheless. I worked first on the printing presses, now more in the art/graphic department. I just come at it from a love of printed paper and all the processes involved; old and new. Especially beautiful older stone lithography. I love to see the sheer scale and size of some posters, and think of all the labor that went into producing something so striking. And the challenges one would face doing such great work in the 30s or 40s. I hope to gain some more valuable information here
Double whammy of a trigger. Perfect hobby for you!
I love seeing all the 30’s and 40’s paper in person too. Welcome to the forum.