Rich,
Yeah, I just noticed that myself. I checked out the picture in last
year's Heritage auction on this 3-Sheet at
http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=695&Lot_No=85001
...and, sure enough, the bottom third of that linen-backed poster had a
slightly larger white border than the top two pieces did. How weird. I
guess when the poster was printed they somehow used different paper for
the bottom part and it shrinks more during the cleaning/backing process?
Or else the printer just plain screwed up and printed it slightly
smaller? Crazy.
-- JR
Richard Evans wrote:
Also note that the borders of the blow-up portion don't match up with
the borders of the rest of the poster.
Actually that's the only accurate part, borders never seem to match up
when these are backed.
Been better off printing out one of those nice
big Heritage images, enough people have been selling repros on
ebay using those.
Looks like "restorer" didn't think of that, and preferred to use a
blow-up of postage stamp sized reproduction from a catalogue, then
touched it up with a paint brush stuck in his anus.
Should have just left it, and tried to find a nice lonely top section.
Rich
On 12 Jul 2009, at 21:43, James Richard wrote:
Yeah. It's obvious that the bottom third was taken from the one sheet
(or maybe something even smaller) and simply enlarged many hundred
percent -- the little dots of the original printing process are
*huge* at the bottom of this 3-sheet; look at the binoculars and
James Stewart's left hand. . And that the color, brightness and
contrast ratios don't even come close to the original parts of the
poster. The faces in the bottom third are fuzzy and washed out.
As is, I couldn't see anyone wanting to pay more than $200 or $300,
tops. Given the large amount of wall space that 3-sheets take up to
display, I wouldn't want this Frankensteinian patchwork job at all.
-- JR
Neil Jaworski wrote:
anybody got a view on this extraordinary item?
http://cgi.ebay.com/REAR-WINDOW-Original-US-3-SHEET-1954-movieposter_W0QQitemZ180378610134QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item29ff6729d6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:3|66:2|39:1|293:1|294:50
<http://cgi.ebay.com/REAR-WINDOW-Original-US-3-SHEET-1954-movieposter_W0QQitemZ180378610134QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item29ff6729d6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:3%7C66:2%7C39:1%7C293:1%7C294:50>
we're in the area of amateur arts & craft at this point no?
neil
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