JR Most of those Lincoln Center pressbooks were scanned decades ago, and the primitive scanning available then means many of the poster images are simply black blobs (and those dummies sold the pressbooks after they scanned them thinking they would never need them again). I am 100% certain of this.
I think a fair number of LAMP's 500 include the ones from our archive and Heritage's. But wouldn't it be wonderful if the very best ones (like GWTW, Wizard of Oz, King Kong, the great Universals, etc) were available for viewing? And while the poster pages are great, there usually are LOTS of cool articles and images on the rest of the pages as well. Bruce On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:09 AM, James Richard <[email protected]>wrote: > Todd,Grey and others: > > It's a shame the Lincoln Center Library has not made those archives > available online. Unless one lives in the NYC area, it's not much use, even > though tens of thousands of pressbooks is impressive. I'm willing to bet > there is a system for automatically digitizing microfilm. > > I did not realize Heritage was scanning the whole pressbook when auctioning > it and archiving it online. That's cool. > > Evan's suggestion that perhaps people with pressbook scans should simply > augment the database that is already up and running at > http://movieposterdb.com is a good one, I think. > > I also received a message for Ed Poole at LAMP letting me know that he and > Sue have also been working on this idea -- they have about 500 pressbooks > available online at LAMP right now and plan to add more. > > -- JR > > > Todd Feiertag wrote: > > In addition, the Lincoln Center Library in New York has tens of thousands > of rare pressbooks on microfilm that anyone can access. > > > Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 17:13:13 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [MOPO] Pressbook DATABASE online? > > To: [email protected] > > > > When Heritage sells a pressbook, in almost all instances, the poster > pages are scanned and remain in enlargeable format forever on the site in > our permanent auction archive. > > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > inbox. Learn > more.<http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1> > 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. > > 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.
