great story .. a guy brought in Lobby cards that where also used in same
way in In a floor in my town,, from 30s so it must have been common all
over- interesting
On 2014-09-24 22:33, George Bryce wrote:
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 [1]
(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
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