That is a great story George - and a very nice video too.
As someone interested in Colleen Moore I would have liked to find that Egg Crate Wallop one sheet, rough though it is. The others have great artwork too - especially the "Million To Burn" three sheet. Are you planning to restore and/or sell? I have never found posters under floorboards myself but I have bought some. They were in an old cinema in England and were all British Quads from the 1949- 1953 period. They were in a dirty state but mostly intact. On some you could/can still make out the grain of floorboards. Being no fan of over-restored posters I actually find that quite appealing but I know I should get them washed. There were some better known titles amongst the find. The three highlights for me were "The Magic Carpet", with nice artwork of Lucille Ball in skimpy costume, "Love Happy", with Marilyn nowhere to be seen and, as the absolute pick of the bunch, "The Man From Planet X". The latter has since been restored to its former glory. Von: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von George Bryce Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. September 2014 04:33 An: [email protected] Betreff: [MOPO] Silent movie posters under our floorboards I am a new subscriber to the MoPo ListServ and am enjoying learning more about this community and movie memorabilia in general. By this, my first posting, I wanted to share an experience I think other MoPo subscribers will find interesting. This past summer I found a treasure trove of silent movie posters under the floorboards in our 90-year old house. Having had another floor replaced about a decade earlier, I anticipated I would find more posters under these floors. Therefore, I was as careful as one can be in ripping-up a old, damaged fir floor with powertools, crowbars, etc. I was not disappointed. (I have since replaced the old fir flooring with new oak engineered laminate flooring.) Under the floors in the two rooms that I was renovating, I found about ten intact posters and several "pieces" of posters. These posters were used to promote silent movies that came out between 1919 and 1923. The posters had been placed between the subfloor and the fir floor when our house was built in 1924 to dampen the squeaking sound that would otherwise occur without some interface between the two layers of wood. (The original fir floor came in strips about 3 inches wide and anywhere from four to 12 feet in length, and each strip was nailed down to the rougher subfloor about every 16 inches.) I was interviewed about my discovery by local journalists from both TV and radio of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC). I used one radio interview to create a soundtrack for a video/slideshow of the silent movie posters that I "uncovered" and have posted this video at following YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jzuJe9XF0 (If this does not show as an "activate" link, go to YouTube and search using the subject line for this posting.) I had originally thought that it might be common for old houses like ours to have silent movie posters used as a floor interface sound dampening material. However, I have since learnt that it was a fairly rare event; other materials were used more often, mostly newspapers or even horsehair. I am wondering if others MoPo subscribers have found movie posters (from silent movies or not) under their floors? Or have heard of a similar occurrence, be it in Canada, the United States or elsewhere in the world? I trust you will enjoy this YouTube video, and I look forward to hearing from other subscribers about this find. Yours truly, George Bryce Vancouver, BC Canada _____ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L <https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1> &A=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.
