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JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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"
To:
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
>
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