Welcome George. Nice 1st post, real nice.
ad On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:33 PM, George Bryce <[email protected]> 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 > > > > (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&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.
