Bob. Absolutely. Dan has done tremendous and vital work for the movie poster collecting community for many years, carefully documenting how to tell reprints and fakes from originals -- and never really received sufficient credit or recognition for it. Some people have even criticized him for doing this work, which blows me away. I can imagine that at this point he's pretty burnt out... I do hope someone else takes over and at least keeps the current information available to the public. It would be a shame if all the work Dan has put into this over the years just disappeared.
But I can certainly understand him wanting to move on to spending time and money on other things. I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Dan Rickard for all the work he had done in this field and for undoubtedly saving me some money personally. -- JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 20:20 Subject: [MOPO] Sad news... > Dear Mopo: > > Sorry, I haven't been around much in the last few months - I've been so busy > with work, I haven't had a moment to do anything else (so, I've totally been > neglecting my movie-poster-duties). Greg Ferland even mentioned something a > month or two ago about fake Taxi Driver 40 by 60s (I concur, by the way - > and I've also seen Taxi Driver LCs that I'm sure are fake), but I haven't > had a minute to post... > > Anyways, I come bearing bad news, unfortunately! :o( > > Here is a message for everyone from Dan at MoviePosterAuthentication: > > > Just to let you know........... > > For those of you who do not know me my name is Dan and in the past I have > researched some of the poster > designs,concepts,advertising campaigns,release patterns as well as bought > many known originals,reprints,bootlegs and compared printings and documented > what I have found on my site called www.MoviePosterAuthentication.com to > help out people buying as well as selling. > > Begining this week I will begin selling off some of the posters (Casino and > 7 others) from the site on E-Bay due to a shortage of funds.Once I do this I > will be taking down the information as I have a rule about "actually having > the posters on hand" in order to have a section about them.These sections > will not be brought back on my site.This will give some of you a great > chance to buy them up and post the info on your own site based on your own > information.I will also be selling some titles that I had planned to build > sections for as well (Lord Of The Rings,Army of Darkness,Godfather > 2,Halloween,Das Boat and others). > > The site expires this fall and depending on how much money is raised I will > either continue the site with some of the other titles I really wanted to do > (Revenge Of The Jedi,Pulp Fiction,Raiders Of The Lost Ark) or I will sell > the site content and domain to someone else (I have had 2 offers) and > concentrate expanding and creating a new site "Vancouver Movie Theatres" > with free web space. > > Thank you for your time > Dan Rickard > MoviePosterAuthentication > www.movieposterauthentication.com > Authenticating Movie Posters 1970-2000 > > > It's a sad day in the movie poster community! > > Cheers, > > Bob > > 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. > > > 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.
