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Offline Silhouette

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2013, 09:20:54 PM »
Tarzan the Ape Man (1934 US 1S Style A):

A great movie especially as Maureen O'Hara gets her gear off...
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #26 on: December 05, 2013, 10:33:51 PM »
A great movie especially as Maureen O'Hara gets her gear off...

Oh, oh, O'Sullivan, dear boy.    ;D

O'Hara does that in Hunchback.

oh wait...
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2013, 10:47:07 PM »
Oh, oh, O'Sullivan, dear boy.    ;D

O'Hara does that in Hunchback.

oh wait...

Yah sorry, got excited by the gear off comment I was writing...hard to type with one hand.  :-\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bc7KDyLV80

And didn't O'Hara get her gear off in Lady Godiva (the version with Clint Eastwood)?
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2013, 09:42:40 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bc7KDyLV80


That damn chimp shoud have kept the dress, and let her wander naked the rest of the film...
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #29 on: December 07, 2013, 11:22:03 AM »
The Wings is from the 1929 release, NOT the 1927 release (not Gary Cooper's raised billing). Items from that release are often incorrectly sold or auctioned as being from 1927, but they absolutely are not.

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2013, 11:29:33 AM »
Is the pressbook from 1929 as well?  The window card is the Style C from the pressbook:




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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #31 on: December 07, 2013, 11:42:59 AM »
Yes, it is. I have that pressbook in my collection, and it says "After playing for more than a year...."!

See the Auction History page at eMoviePoster for examples of 1927 items, 1928 items and 1929 items (it had three major "re-launches" during those years, and never stopped playing during that time, so they are not technically re-releases).

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #32 on: December 07, 2013, 03:57:55 PM »
You're over doing the bleaching...they are starting to look 'minty white'
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #33 on: December 07, 2013, 04:05:10 PM »
You're over doing the bleaching...they are starting to look 'minty white'

Most of these have 80 years of acid tanning, so I'm using the "remove color cast" command.  You pick a spot that should be white.  Sometimes I may be picking the wrong spot.  Usually the borders should be white so that's a good start.  But ultimately the goal is to show off the art for non-movie-poster-people.  So I'm often cropping out some of the small text the bottom, whitening, saturating color slightly, "painting over" large sections, etc.  The purists can download the originals from LOC.

Cleopatra (1934 US 1S Style B): Here's one that EMP recently sold for $6,000+. Not a great poster design by itself but remember it was just one style:



Black Doll (1938/1940s-re-release US title LC):



Lemon Drop Kid, The (1934 US 1S): Obscure version of this movie, not a comedy contrary to the poster image:



Hell and High Water (1933 US 1S):



Bronze Venus, The (1943rr US 1S):

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #34 on: December 07, 2013, 06:26:03 PM »
Show's over. I think I've downloaded and repaired all of LOC's best stuff, especially stuff that can't be found elsewhere. If you want to download all the large 3000 pixel repaired versions, download these two ZIP files:

- http://www.posternirvana.com/Temp/LOC2.zip

- http://www.posternirvana.com/Temp/LOC.zip


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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #35 on: December 07, 2013, 09:05:20 PM »
Yes, it is. I have that pressbook in my collection

Goddammit, I need a copy of that for my research.

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #36 on: December 07, 2013, 11:28:26 PM »
But ultimately the goal is to show off the art for non-movie-poster-people.  

Just what exactly is this rare species you speak of?!
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #37 on: December 08, 2013, 12:36:49 AM »
You're over doing the bleaching...they are starting to look 'minty white'

I would love to see all these images in their "before"/original states. After 60-70+ years, slight tanning to borders (or overall) would be the norm on many of these beauties. In addition, many were printed on paper that was more tan or slight gray in color to begin with, and not pure white.

If the colors are retouched too vibrantly or when presented with overly white borders, this can make the poster look like a later, reproduced print.



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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #38 on: December 08, 2013, 12:46:31 PM »
And so there is no misunderstanding, the supersize image are great to see here, to be able to study and look at up close like this. Especially if other copies should appear and comparisons can be made, logo or printer's info etc.


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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #39 on: December 09, 2013, 08:43:57 AM »
I've created a showcase on MPC for these:

http://moviepostercollectors.com/MPC_Showcase_Library_of_Congress.html

Here are some of the original downloads from LOC in a zip file.  The original file sizes (50+MB) are too big to share so these are reduced to 3000 pixel JPEGs:

http://www.posternirvana.com/Temp/LOC-originals-3000pixelsJPEGs.zip
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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #40 on: December 09, 2013, 02:21:09 PM »
Funny, these 1200-1500 pixel (vertical) images look ridiculously huge on a smaller monitor. They look fine on my 1440 pixels (vertical) iMac monitor or on an iPad (2048 pixel vertical). The next generation iPad will be 3840 pixels vertical!

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #41 on: December 09, 2013, 03:00:17 PM »
Hey Mel are you sure you got the Wings correct. Here is what you say "Wings (1929 re-release window card), digitally repaired on left, original on left". Should it say this "Wings (1929 re-release window card), digitally repaired on left, original on right"????

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #42 on: June 01, 2017, 01:52:17 AM »




I've never seen many of the posters I found in 2013 at the LOC site (and cleaned up in Photoshop to make them look like they were originally printed). These images are also on MPC.guide here:

http://moviepostercollectors.guide/MPC_Showcase_Library_of_Congress.html

The original raw images were pretty rough as you can see:

























































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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #43 on: June 09, 2017, 03:29:07 AM »
The LOC is truly an amazing place.  Sounds like they have a heckuva database for uber rare film posters. 


I visited a few months ago and had an excellent tour guide.  There is so much history, architecture, and of course, books, etc.  It's great how anyone can get a library card and have access to the wealth of material there.



The main reading room is almost surreal.  I don't have a card, so I couldn't go inside there, but here's a shot from the rad overlook.


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« Reply #44 on: June 09, 2017, 05:25:27 AM »
Yep the Reading Room is surreal. I had an LOC card and read Veronica Lakes' autobiography there. The book is out-of-print and rare. Oh what was the last line, maybe "seeing out of one eye is sublime."

  https://journeysinclassicfilm.com/2012/09/17/old-hollywood-book-reviews-veronica-the-autobiography-of-veronica-lake/

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« Reply #45 on: November 20, 2017, 10:18:06 AM »
My greatest MPC regret is not insisting on viewing the top two thirds of the Met German 3S at the LOC.





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I cleaned up the LOC images, gave them a blue sheen, and added some livelier titles:



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Full size (27x41, 150 DPI) IMAGE HERE:

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #46 on: January 29, 2018, 11:51:26 PM »
I'm a little late to this thread, Mel.  Thanks for posting these images!  I've been to the LOC mainly looking at original art, though with your experience I'll check out some posters as well. Do you still need a LOC library card?  I have my old one.

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #47 on: January 30, 2018, 04:09:08 AM »
Fair play indeed for trawling through some of the old(er) threads...

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« Reply #48 on: January 30, 2018, 08:25:18 AM »
I'm a little late to this thread, Mel.  Thanks for posting these images!  I've been to the LOC mainly looking at original art, though with your experience I'll check out some posters as well. Do you still need a LOC library card?  I have my old one.

Great! Do us all a huge favor, and pls go the Movie Room (the large one, forget the exact title) and INSIST on personally viewing the Metrolpolis.They’ll give you heck, say that everybody else uses the computers, etc. But they can’t stop you if you’re determined! Offer to make an appt to view it and say you’re researching for a movie poster article you’re writing. Take some cell phone pics. Thx.

PS No knowledge of cards.

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Re: Library of Congress - Washington DC
« Reply #49 on: January 31, 2018, 12:28:11 AM »
Okay, Metropolis is on my LOC list next time even if another APFer beats me to it.  As a potential place holder, I could post an image side by side of two British original Metropolis programs?