Look...it's very simple....a movie poster collector is someone who
amasses original cinema advertising material on an ongoing basis. "Real
movie poster collector" is a ridiculously subjective term. I have been a
poster collector since 1963; that's 41 years of buying and selling
vintage material, almost all of it pre 1970. I spend several thousand
dollars a year on movie material. That makes me no more of a "real"
collector than Amanda, whose tastes run to modern movies and modern
stars. Remember...when I started collecting, "modern" films were AIP's
THE RAVEN, KING KONG VS GODZILLA, and PIT & THE PENDULUM, and the
"uppity-ups" back in the Sixties thought getting those titles was kind
of silly. Even the 50's AIP posters...junk like ATTACK OF THE 50 FT
WOMAN.... were frowned upon as valueless crap by the "real" collectors I
dealt with as a kid. Screw 'em then, and screw 'em now. Collectors
should collect what makes them resonate emotionally; heck, I'll bet
anything that whoever won the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN lobby card loved the
movie as a kid. (For forty big ones, I would hope so....).
Phillip, relax and enjoy the diversity that is MOPO. Granted, you
and I have similar tastes, we both spend too goddamned much money on
paper every year, and we're pretty snobby in my own way about what I put
into our mutual little Stashes of Trash every year. But remember...in
the eyes of the rest of the world, we are ALL Poster Geeks. There are
well-to-do Poster Geeks, like Claude, there is Bruce Hershenson, (the
Bill Gates of Poster Geeks), there's Amanda, the Gen X-Alternative
Poster Geekette...we're all Geeks on this bus. That's what makes MOPO,
and Style B, so doggoned interesting.
Let us wave our geek flags high and save the pissing contests for
things other than our shared obsession.
Greg Douglass
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