I agree, Phil, 100%. The posts about quads and other foreign posters during the past week have been a nice change of pace; you could go back 10 years and find very few MoPo discussions about quads in particular -- vs. the number of discussions about U.S. posters. I've certainly learned more about quads during the past 10 days than my entire life esp., the historical stuff involving post-war Britain -- and the past and present use of posters in the Tube. Anything that's interesting to me is never exasperating or too lengthy. If it's dull, I just hit delete and move on. -d.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:54:17 +1000 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: BQ-AD-NZD: quads and daybills---keeping it simple To: [email protected] Maybe we should have another section along with WTB/FS/FA called BQ and folks who find posts about British quads exasperating needn't read those. We should also have DC, so if you are not interested in that format of British poster you can ignore as well. Similarly Australian daybills can be AD, but as New Zealand has produced a few daybills locally and not utilised part of the run from Australia, we can also have NZD. Scott (who has a lot of spare time, as we all know) can now devise a whole series of acronyms which we must use so if we don't want to read it, we don't have to. I thought the main aim of MOPO was to discuss movie posters from wherevever they may be. The discussion on the MEAN STREETS quad is extremely informative in many ways. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:25 PM Subject: [MOPO] quads and daybills---keeping it simple all the posts about british quads seemed so lengthy and exasperating. wouldn't it suffice to say that a BRITISH QUAD is a poster printed in the UK to advertise british films and films of other countries at theatres in britian (UK) ? wouldn't it suffice to say that an AUSTRALIAN DAYBILL is a poster printed in Australia to advertise Australian films and films of other countries at theatres in Australia ? isn't that simple? for every film there is always one poster that has the best artwork and mood, which may not be the country where the film was made. maybe it is the the quad, maybe the daybill, mabe the USA one sheet........ just keeping it simple. ugh. michael 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.
