Re: [MOPO] Restoration or recreation?

[Dario Casadei]

Hi JR, Thank for the kind words ... Hmmm I don't have a wall clock in my studio and I lost count ( as usual ) and this is keeping my customers happy.  I can tell you that the tape removal was a day job, I was able to remove the tape with next to no paper loss, but very sticky and time consuming. Although almost paper was there, it was almost gone ... the condition of the paper was very poor, which made the submerge in the bath very very delicate. Aha!! and my mom says "son, nobody's going to ask .. How long, they're going to ask Who did it" Best, Dario. JR wrote: Dario,   WOW! That's an incredible restoration job -- thanks for showing us the pictorial sequence from bad to beautiful. You're a genius. Even as a "rescue job", this project would still fall within my personal parameters for a "restoration" because there was almost no paper loss to begin with, and the painting that had to be done to fix all those horrible tape residue stains doesn't look like it amounts to much more than 20% of the total image area of the poster (my trip-point for clicking over from restoration to recreation is around the level of 35% overpainting).   Care to tell us how many hours were involved in this beautiful restoration?   -- JR   ----- Original Message ----- From: Dario Casadei To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 17:13 Subject: Re: [MOPO] Restoration or recreation? Rather than love and hate, why not. " Forgotten relics from motion picture's past, Salvage, Restored and Treasured "  ... so you and your grand children can enjoy these wonderful poster. I personally think it is very important that we save as many old original movie posters that we can. This poster would not have survived much longer unless some serious rescue effort was undertaken. The tape had distorted the shape of the poster as well as gelled the paper right through and the poster was extremely dry and brittle. Foremost it was an rescue effort. Please enjoy the pictures in sequence. http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbreakers4.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbreakers3.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbreakers1.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbrakers3inbath.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbreakers2.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbreakers5.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/filmposters/ebaylist3/ghostbreakersallfinnishedyes.jpg Sincerely, Dario @ www.vintagemovieart.ca Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.