The age of the choices may be at least partly because it wasn't just
number 1 poster you wish you could own, but the one "you know you
never will".
Has to be remarkably rare/non-existent, and/or astronomically highly
priced for a poster collector to take such a negative attitude, surely?
Doubt it would have a grip on us if we liked things too easy.
There's only one remaining poster that I really, really want, and
that's from the 60's.
And that, is only going to be near impossible to find.
Cheers,
Rich
On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:22, James Richard wrote:
Hmmm... one thing I've noticed about these #1 poster choices is that
almost all of them are for *very old* posters. Is that because MOPO
is filled with oldsters whose tastes were formed way back when or is
it because the old posters were, as a rule, simply much better-
looking and evocative "art"?
My own choice falls into the oldster category. It would be the style
b one sheet from the 1924 Douglas Fairbank's THIEF OF BAGHDAD. At
least I *think* it's the style b... I've seen it attributed to also
being style A, C and D. Hmph. I've only found two sales for it
(Bruce back in 1992 for $30,000 and again in 1997 for $17,250). It's
impossible to find a really good quality picture of this poster as
far as I can tell. Everyone keeps reusing the same old couple of
crappy photos of it. Even the one in Bruce's image archive is awful.
I guess I could settle for a window card, which Heritage has sold a
couple of for $5,000 or so, but it wouldn't be the same (and yes,
even the Heritage photos are lousy). There are a couple of "museum
quality" art prints of it kicking around for $300 or $400, but it
does not look like they got the background color correct when they
printed it (and it is the background color that makes the whole
atmosphere of the image work). Best picture I've found of it so far
(and it's only half good as far as the background goes):
http://www.moviegoods.com/assets/product_images/1020/264735.1020.A.jpg
-- JR
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