Maybe Ed an Sue Poole could have a Bio area devoted to all these
Poster people Icons and Collectors/dealers like Jose. Carpio and the like.
It would give collectors a idea of how the hobby was started.evolved,
and who the players where
If each persons story was told.. Imagine the understanding we may have
of the Hobby, and how
it was formed and by whom.
When I hear these storys told,,, its cool as I see a thread. And while
many are still alive it would be good to chronical .. perhaps a Book
could come off it,
Or what about a documentry... visiting the Homes and seeing the
Collections On a DVD, wow
a tape featuring interviews and eye candy/// PLUS more,,,
My son could shoot it and edit it and we take a USA and Euro Tour..
thats a Idea.
sponsors anyone ? :)
Tom
Susan Heim wrote:
I am so sad to hear the news of Jose. I have known him since the early
1980's. In fact, in those days I worked in film and had access to many
"newer" posters. Most of my vintage collection is due in large part to
trading original rolled Star Wars posters and related material to
Jose. I traded 7 original Star Wars posters for my Rebecca one sheet.
That was one of my first trades with him. My Rear Window, Bond
material and many of my original 40's and 50's vintage one sheets came
directly from Jose. He was the nicest man and funny. I loved the shop
in San Francisco as there just wasn't anything like it at the time in
L.A. Channing was there too. I use to go to San Francisco all the time
in those days as it was only about a 4+ hour drive up the coast and
the first thing I did was go to see Jose. I still have all my original
Cinemonde catalogs. Jose was the one who turned me onto foriegn
posters beginning with many of my Belgian Hitchcock's and then the
French grandes. He was a wonderful and generous person and he will be
missed yet remembered, as Bruce said, with fondness as one of the
pioneers of this hobby.
Sue
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:28:26 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Jose' Carpio Was A Very Kind Man!
To: [email protected]
Tom. Great story! Channing DID run Cinemonde for years (I first met
him one day when I went to Cinemonde and director George Cosmatos was
there buying posters!), and he is one of the many many old-timers who
were connected to Jose. You also are very correct about his connection
to foreign posters. Back in those pre-Internet days, many of us
(myself included) knew nothing about non-U.S. posters, and Jose would
travel to Europe and come back with all kinds of treasures from movies
we all knew, but in other languages and sizes I had never seen (his
catalogs were always filled with words like "affiche" and "locandina"
and it all sounded so mysterious and exotic to me!
He carried around an address book that had the names and phone numbers
of everybody who was anybody in the hobby, and he knew exactly what
everyone had and what they wanted, and if you called him that you had
some great poster, or were looking for some great poster, chances were
decent he could make a few phone calls and get a deal going. He used
to joke that his address book was worth more than his gallery.
Glenn, he was such a force in the hobby! In the first years of live
auctions (including my own) he would request a dozen extra catalogs,
and he would mail them to his best customers and would show up at the
auctions with lots of bids from wealthy clients. There is so much more
I didn't mention. One of the greatest early collectors was Steve
Shapiro, who did the first real movie poster book (after the spiral
bound Kobal book) in 1979, called The Movie Poster Book. He had
purchased a lot of his posters from Jose, and when he decided to sell,
he consigned his entire incredible collection to Jose.
There are so many people in the hobby who were closely associated with
Jose. People like Channing, Kirby, Gary Vaughn, Tony Nourmand, Joe
Burtis, Crowell Beech (another major collector/dealer who recently
passed on), myself, and so many others. I doubt there was anyone who
was very active in the 1980s or early 1990s who did not have dealings
with the man.
Bruce
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Glenn Taranto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I must say, after collecting posters for 10 years now, this is the
first I've ever heard of the man and it sounds as if it were
entirely my loss.
My sincere condolences to all who knew him.
Glenn T.
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom A. Pennock <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 11:40 PM
Subject: [MOPO] Jose' Carpio Was A Very Kind Man!
Back in 1984 I talked with Jose' on the phone about a possible
James Bond trade. I told him I was coming out to California to
visit my brother there. I told him I would like to possibly
work a James Bond trade with him. I told him I had an extra
one sheet from "Thunderball" and a rolled 30" x 40" from
"Diamond's Are Forever". I was interested in a MINT set of
1964 lobby card's from "Goldfinger" that he had. I only had
about $50.00 in both of those poster's. I set up a time after
the holiday's to come up to San Francisco to meet with him and
discuss a trade. I remember looking for the shop in San
Francisco. I think Channing was the manager of Jose's store
"Cinemonde" at the time. I found the shop and Jose' was the
only one there. It was the day after New Year's. The prices
were so low back in 1985. I still have the catalog I got from
him. Anyway he looked over my one sheet and 30" x 40"
cardboard stock poster and said "these look fine to me". He
went back into the other room and brought out a "pristine" set
of lobby card's from "Goldfinger". I thanked him very much for
trading. He also unfolded a 1964 47" x 63" French one panel
from "Goldfinger" to let me see it. At that time I had zero
money and I wish I could go back now. I remember the
"Thunderball" 1965 "advance quad" he had for ONLY $190.00!!!
He was very kind to do this 007 trade with me. I have the "set
of eight" lobby card's from "Goldfinger" framed in gold
sectional frames now. Everytime I look at them on my wall I
think of Jose and how thoughtful and kind he was to me. An
even trade with no money involved. Very kind and rare. He also
deserves a lot of credit for identifying the foreign artist's
and making the foreign poster's popular. Liza Minnelli was one
of his customer's and yes the French one panel from "Gigi" is
far superior to any other paper on this title. She purchased
her Mom's poster's as well as poster's from film's her Dad
directed. Jose' did a lot to make these foreign poster's
popular. The book "Reel Art" is a perfect example of this.
Jose' Carpio was definitely a true legend in the hobby and yes
we ALL should be grateful for the awareness he brought about
in the hobby. For what he did for movie poster's in general.
He will be missed!!!
--Tom Pennock
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