Loved your post; no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't shake the image others have always had about paper and book collecting as being high on the "geek factor" thermometer. I may not have looked like a geek, but the tag stuck. Pimply faced, too cerebral, editor of school paper, no girlfriend; a social loser, in otherwords. Flash forward many decades later; things turned out OK, considering no one believed I'd ever make it as a broadcast journalist. I do draw the line, however. I won't dress up like a "in character" at those Trek-fests or comic-conventions.
-d.
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From: Greg Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Greg Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Real" Movie Poster Collectors Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:12:12 -0800
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 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
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