Sorry for the delay. I'm out of town and just got to the email. You're thoughts are well-taken JR, to an extent. It's hard to translate the theory that all posters are mass produced and given endless distribution, to posters throughout the world. For instance, this is not the case with Japanese posters, especially the larger b1 sized posters which I tend to collect.
Also, while movie posters may be be produced for the consumer market, they are produced more often as a size smaller than 27x40. Also, they typically are not produced as double sided posters. The main thing I want to suggest an alternative to, however, is your statement of "if there is a need for yet another movie poster discussion group...." We are NOT a "movie poster" discussion group. We are a group that discusses all posters, hence the name, allposterforum.com Holiday Begin forwarded message: > From: James Richard <[email protected]> > Date: December 20, 2009 4:31:31 AM EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] Dissing the last couple of decades? > Reply-To: James Richard <[email protected]> > > No, we are not discounting material from the last two decades, but the > studios and distributors certainly are. Modern movie posters are produced in > staggering quantities compared to the number of posters which used to be > produced for films 20 or 30 years ago. Besides needing vast quantities to > accommodate the new business model of achieving saturation global release > within a few weeks, modern theatrical movie posters are now also printed and > sold directly into the consumer market as retail items for $9.95 each. And > they keep printing up new batches as long as demand remains steady. > > And there are now tens of thousands of movie poster collectors and dealers > picking up multiple copies of modern movie posters in rolled mint condition > for a few bucks each and socking them away against the time "they come into > their own" -- something that didn't happen much before 1975 or so. > > All of this combines to prevent most modern posters from ever becoming > "collectibles" in the classic sense of the word, which is to say that damn > few of them will ever be hard to come by, and will be readily available in > like-new condition 20 or even 40 years from now. Certainly they are > collectible as commercial advertising paper for whatever artistic appeal they > may have, but I can't see them "coming into their own" as collectibles > compared to the limited-quantity posters of earlier decades. There will be > (already are) exceptions, of course, such as the occasional very > limited-quantity special advance-version, etc. And I've been surprised to see > the theatrical posters from the LORD OF THE RINGS films going for as much as > they have recently, a mere 10 years after their initial release. I mean, > they've printed up zillions of those things. And I think some of them are > still being printed to this day. > > But your point is well taken: If there is a need for yet another movie poster > discussion group/forum, it would be for one with a dedicated focus on > post-1990 posters. > > -- JR > > Holiday Russell wrote: >> And are we to discount material from the last to decades as uncollectable? >> That seems rather closed-minded. There is a new generation of collectors >> like me who concentrate on hypermodern material because the classic material >> is mostly unatainable but for the wealthy. Moreover, the posters that you >> so quickly discount and insult now will, over the next decades, come into >> their own. Great collections are not built upon only classics - they are >> built upon individual vision and tastes. Whether or not you like the >> subject of the collection, I defy you to find another of its ken. >> Btw, you reviewed a collection of 3000 posters in how much time to allow you >> to pass judgment on me, sir? >> >> > > 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. > 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.
