Bruce,
The New York Times has a searchable archive available to subscribers. For the tighter among us you can also search it and get a "preview" of the results to get an idea if anything is there. Also, if they ran a review you can usually read the entire thing for free. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#// In the meantime you can use Google's News Archive. Their advanced search is "being improved" at the moment so is unavailable, you can still access their newspaper archives via: http://news.google.com/newspapers Although it is unsortable and extremely time consuming to slog through for all but the most obsessive compulsive among us. I'm working on "Forbidden Adventure" right now and it's been an enormous help. --Peter ________________________________ From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:28 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question re: Film Classics, The Hurricane with Dorothy Lamour I checked, and sadly, none of the Universal Flash Gordon re-release posters have litho numbers, so that is a dead end. The way to surely date exactly when in the 1940s those movies were re-released would be to check newspaper archives to see when ads ran for them, but that would be very time-consuming, UNLESS there was a searchable online archive from a major newspaper. Does anyone know if there IS a searchable online archive from a major newspaper that goes back to the 1920s or 1930s? If there is, I would be willing to pay to access it, to be able to answer questions like these. Please let me know if there is. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:41 PM, luminita hascalovitz <[email protected]> wrote: Bruce, Did you have any luck dating those Flash Gordon reissue lobby cards? Just curious. Best wishes, Lumi > > > > >________________________________ >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:18:16 -0500 >From: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question re: Film Classics, The Hurricane with Dorothy >Lamour >To: [email protected] > > > >First off, Channing, that one-sheet is definitely a 1945 re-release. > >Second, Phil, we DO assume that the one-sheets were printed at the same time >as the three-sheets and lobby cards, so yes, we can date most re-release lobby >cards with this method. > >But note that while sometimes three-sheets and one-sheets from the same movie >have litho numbers that are incredibly close, other times they are very far >apart, so that complicates things. And of course, every litho company started >their numbers over every ten years or so, so the same number could be from >three very different years, around a decade apart. > > > > > > >On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Phillip Ayling <[email protected]> wrote: > >Bruce, >>A couple of weeks ago you asked Lumi Hazelton how she was dating some Flash >>Gordon Conquers the Universe Lobby Cards as 1945, as you wanted to have >>dating info for your database. >>While many Universal and other mid-40’s re-releases often don’t have dates on >>the lobby cards, in many cases those same re-release campaigns probably had >>one-sheets or three-sheets with litho numbers. Without addressing this one >>particular film, do you think it is reasonable in similar cases to date the >>lobby cards to whatever dateable one sheets seems to be concurrent? >> >>Thanks for your thoughts and those of anyone else who may comment. >> >> >>From:MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce >>Hershenson >>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 4:42 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [MOPO] Question re: Film Classics, The Hurricane with Dorothy >>Lamour >> >>When I get to work I will look up that litho number (not NSS number) in our >>database, and I will be able to give you an exact year. We have been >>recording every single litho (and NSS number for hundreds of thousands of >>posters, so we can tell the exact year just from the litho number). >> >> >> >>On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Channing Thomson >><[email protected]> wrote: >>Thanks Bruce- the NSS # is #28615. I've listed the poster on EBAY guessing >>1945-1946. Here is the link: >>> >>>http://goo.gl/j8FKej >>> >>>Thanks, Channing >>> >>>On Mar 16, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> >>>wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>We only sold it one time, as "R40s" here: >>>http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/933008.html >>>>If there is a litho number, post it and I can likely get the year for you >>>>from that (we couldn't do that back in 2006). >>>> >>>>On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Channing Thomson >>>><[email protected]> wrote: >>>>I have an original one-sheet for a Film Classics release of The Hurricane. >>>>Does anyone know the year of this re-release and an approximate value? >>>>Thanks, Channing >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team >>>>P.O. 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