It sure is, Rich. It sure is!
After a rather long spell in the wilderness and adding next to nothing to my
meagre collection other than some of the Castro or Mondo stuff, I look forward
to getting back stuck back into 'old school' theatrical pieces.
Happy days on the horizon.
Shelly
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:44:30 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] Movie Poster Collecting is FUN!
To: [email protected]
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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