An impressive achievement Joern! Most certainly a museum quality and astounding piece of cinema history.
(The price also explains, fully, my bid of $2200 was clearly not enough.) freeman fisher On Nov 5, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Joern Weigelt wrote: > San Francisco Auction sells movie poster for $118,000 > > An unknown poster for the 1920 German silent horror movie The Cabinet of Dr. > Caligari was sold at auction in San Francisco last Saturday Nov. 3, for the > hammer price of $118,000. The item was offered during an auction of 406 > vintage posters conducted by PosterConnection, Inc > (www.posterconnection.com). It was bought by a private collector. > > Before, only two different German Caligari posters were known to exist (one > of them can be found in the New York Museum of Modern Art). The Cabinet of > Dr. Caligari is considered a landmark in silent film history and may be the > most influential German expressionist film of all times, famous for its > exceptional, wildly distorted stage designs. The Caligari poster sold on > Saturday is the only copy known to exist. The sales price was a record price > for a poster sold by PosterConnection. > http://posterconnection.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/dr-caligari-movie-posters-sold-for-132200/ > > For more information, please contact Joern Weigelt at PosterConnection, Inc. > via phone (925-673-3343) or email ([email protected]) > > 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.
