that's right, you heard me say it... Movie Poster collecting is fun!
now admittedly, all collecting is fun, if you're the person
collecting, but I don't collect Beanie Babies, Colored Glass, thos
fancy plates or especially comic art anymore (even though at one time
I had one of the very best collections of comic art in the world, and
I still have some incredible items). so none of that collecting would
be fun to me
I collect movie posters now. It's the proof that I have evolved into
an intelligent homo sapien. Or maybe it should actually be "Poster Sapien".
It's fun.
I've gotten it down to a few simple categories and have pretty much
stopped buying "just anything I like" also, so that I can focus on
those things that I have always collected more heavily. For instance,
most of you should know I collect Raymond Chandler. That does not
just include the movie paper, I also have all of his pulp magazine
appearances (save one. a later issue) including his first editions
and his first appearances in Black Mask magazine. I was lucky with
those (the Black Mask). I had about half, then I shared a collection
with another dealer and all the early Chandlers I needed were there
including the first, which is nearly impossible to find and goes for
big bucks. The first editions are tough. Big Sleep, Farewell My
Lovely and High Window (the first three) go for big bucks, and I
really don't want to fade the cash for them. I was super-lucky to
score Lady in the Lake on ebay only a few months ago, an ex-library
with the dust jacket, for only $167!! It would cost $2000-$4000 to
find a decent copy. Don't know how I won that one.
But of course, the major collection habit now is the posters and I
have about 200-250 pieces for the 14 films that he either worked on
the screenplay, or were adapted from his novels from the Falcon Takes
Over to the Big Sleep (1975 version). Maybe 300 pieces (not including
stills, which are another 200-300). Though don't get me wrong.. I
still need about 1/2 the US paper alone in sizes. I don't have a Big
Sleep lobby set, or Double Indemnity. Thankfully at Cinevent I scored
the Big Sleep one sheet that I needed (I only need the D.I., Blue
Dahlia & Strangers on a Train one sheets now) and it is raw, just how
I like my posters. Of course, what's even better is that I wound up
having something he needed, so no cash had to move it's position.
Total Score!!!
I still need some window cards, a small number of inserts, not many
lobby cards (does anyone have Falcon Takes Over cards for sale or
trade?), some half sheets and while I have some of the oversized
paper (my favorite of my oversized paper is the Murder My Sweet
40x60) and I have a good bit of non-US paper, I will happily try to
buy or trade for anything I need, should any one of my fellow
Mopolian Poster Sapiens have something. The titles are at the end of
this email.
the other 2 areas I am particularly focused on are my collection of
Las Vegas and gambling related material. Man is that collection
jacked! I easily have 1500 lobby cards, about the same number of
stills and probably around 500 posters of various sizes from various
countries as well as the attendant pressbooks and other odd items;
and the third area is Fritz Lang, but I don't collect everything
Fritz. I collect his pre-1940 stuff, and his heavy noir titles. I
have no interest in stuff like the Return of Frank James, Western
Union or American Guerilla in the Phillipines.
No I don't have any original 1920s German paper, though I'm hopeful!
But I do have other material that is impressive. Or at least I'm
impressed : - )
collecting movie posters is way fun. I wish I could actually display
every last item in a winding maze-like gallery that stretches for a
mile just so people (including myself) could see what a great display
it all makes. What fun that would be!!!
Rich
Raymond Chandler movie titles
Falcon Takes Over
Time to Kill
Double Indemnity
And Now Tomorrow
Murder My Sweet
the Unseen
Blue Dahlia
Big Sleep 1946
Lady in the Lake
Brasher Doubloon
Strangers on a Train
Marlowe
Long Goodbye
Big Sleep 1975
Farewell My Lovely
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