Ed,
As you know I've been a sponsor and an advertiser on your site
since its inception. Imdb.com is a great site and they have
lots of quick information about film, but they are completely
inadequate when it comes to posters. And even if someone
sent them thousands of images, they do not have the inclination
to publish them in an accurate and meaningful way. At least
they have not shown that they do.
I did send them a correction one time, and they did make the
correction on the site.
Learnaboutmovieposters.com is a great site, and thanks for all you do.
I will continue to advertise on it.
Kirby
On Mar 22, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Smith, Grey - 1367 wrote:
Ed,
Your website is without a doubt the most informative site on the net.
Without a doubt and we certainly appreciate it!
-----Original Message-----
From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ed
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: Did you ever see this cool Rope 1958 re-
release one-sheet with Hitchcock pictured?
I REALLY Don't understand....
WE answer the question... WE document the posters... WE write 1000s of
articles to help collectors... WE spend 12-14 hours a day document6ing
printers, plate numbers, NSS numbers, artists, and everything else
associated with movie posters to help the hobby.... and what do we
get...
"perhaps you should send http://movieposterdb.com a large quantity
of images
of vintage posters..
GOOD IDEA!! Send 'em a MILLION... that way you'll have a MILLION
images that
you have NO CLUE what they are. You don't know if they're reissues,
odd
styles, magazine ads, video boxes and just some fan art.
I REALLY Don't understand....
ed
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-----Original Message-----
From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Evan
Zweifel
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 6:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: Did you ever see this cool Rope 1958 re-
release
one-sheet with Hitchcock pictured?
Yes, and the GOOD content is there for same reason.
If you use the site -- and I suspect that you do -- and you have
information
that is pertainent to a particular movie, you have an obligation to
uupdate/add/correct/rate/revievw it. And that goes for everyone on
this
list. Otherwise it won't get any better.
You do realize that imdb is a movie database (for a community
supported
movie poster database, see http://movieposterdb.com) -- and as such,
I don't
that imdb pretends to have an opinion on minty white inserts. If
you wan't
to participate, perhaps yoou should send http://movieposterdb.com a
large
quantity of images of vintage posters.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 4:27:00 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: Did you ever see this cool Rope 1958 re-
release
one-sheet with Hitchcock pictured?
Maybe the errors are there in the first place because they let just
anyone
"get yourself a login and edit away"! Sometimes you get what you pay
for. If
you have people who know next to nothing about movie posters listing
them
for auction well of course they will list minty white inserts as real.
Bruce
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:57 PM, < [email protected] > wrote:
What do you mean "they"?
Feel free to get yourself a login and edit away. Don't complain
unless you
are willing the help.
Its the best there is on the internet and like all user supported
databases
(including wikipedia), you get what you pay for.
Feel free to start your own.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" < [email protected] >
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:03:42 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: Did you ever see this cool Rope 1958 re-
release
one-sheet with Hitchcock pictured?
imdb is RIDDLED with errors, and they don't care about fixing them.
Thanks for the info.
Bruce
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:12 PM, ed < [email protected] >
wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I checked with imdb and they have WB with US rights and MGM with
International rights in 1948, but that has to be wrong. I loaded the
material that we have on hand on this title and we have several
countries
that Rope was shown in 1948 and they all have WB as the distributor.
I found
NO original release material by MGM, so MGM had to acquire the
rights AFTER
the original release.
I also checked the 1962 NSS log that we have and as of 1962, WB had
the
rights in the US and there was no sign of a rerelease, so MGM had to
have
had the International rights only. We have several countries showing
MGM as
the distributor in the 50s up to the Japanese reissue in 1962 and
French
rereleases in 1963.
Then I have no other releases on file for this title until the 1983
rerelease with Universal as the distributor. Universal distributed
both US
and International.
I hope this helps,
ed
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From: MoPo List [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of
Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 6:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] FA: Did you ever see this cool Rope 1958 re-release
one-sheet with Hitchcock pictured?
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] FA: Did you ever see this cool Rope 1958 re-release
one-sheet with Hitchcock pictured?
One of the coolest Hitchcock one-sheets is NOT first release! Take a
look at
http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=1
352022
In 1958, MGM acquired the distribution rights for this Alfred
Hitchcock
classic from Warner Bros. (I am not certain if it included
distribution
rights within the U.S., or only outside the U.S.). They printed a
really
cool all new posters and a title card that have a giant image of
Alfred
Hitchcock looming above Jimmy Stewart (and they also used the image
for the
Argentinean release). The posters were "Litho in U.S.A.", but are
undated,
and some dealers have mistakenly sold these posters as original
release
international posters, but they are definitely from the 1958 MGM re-
release.
In the 1960s, Universal acquired the rights to this movie, and they
re-released it in 1964 and 1965.
Bruce
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