Hi Bruce, Kirby, Sue And All Posting Memories About Jose' I still have all the catalogs and fliers from Cinemonde and they continue to be a great reference. Channing wrote the text to a lot of these catalogs. The real depressing thing is looking at the prices being so low now. Like for instance an insert from "It's A Wonderful Life" for around $250.00!!!. I wish I would have had more money to work with then. I remember looking in the shop at an insert from "The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre" for a few hundred dollar's. I should have purchased the one sheet from "Laura". I was broke then!!! I think it was about $200.00!!! Yes, Steve Shapiro did put out the first movie poster book of it's type. I remember that he photographed the "legendary" picture of Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman for the one sheet from "Midnight Cowboy" in 1969. Yes, Jose' knew a lot of these major people and he had connections. I didn't know he sold Steve Shapiro's collection. I enjoy reading all these memories of a kind generous man. He really loved this hobby of our's. Yes, he sure did bring awareness to the foreign posters. --Tom Pennock In a message dated 9/8/2008 5:32:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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 ____________________________________ Psssst...Have you heard the news? _There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com_ (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014) . 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