It's been a brutal January for me as a musician seeing such a large number of
my colleagues passing on. I remember when I started collecting again in the
early 1990s how we would talk about the old farts who collected, mostly,
vintage western material. "They won't be around much longer", we opined. Now,
we are those guys, albeit guys who are addicted various genres . This is a
small hobby and, sadly, we will all be returned to that big NSS warehouse in
the sky at some indeterminate time in our futures. Didn't know Mr. de Pietro
but it appears, after reading these posts, that he had good days and
not-so-good days.
I guess all we can do is enjoy the hunt while we still can and try not to shoot
anybody in the face while the hunt is going on. Have a very modest collection
mostly Fifties horror/sci-fi that makes me happy to be alive every single time
I walk into my office/studio. That "Screaming Skull" one sheet has ameliorated
many a bad day...but then, I'm a cheap date.
I really miss guys like Deke Richards and Chuck Vergara. They were role models
for me as far as being impeccably honest and fun to talk to. Hearing Deke's
voice on the phone usually meant I was about happily drop a few hundred bucks
on a much coveted piece and Chuck...Chuck was the greatest.
I try to emulate that kind of behavior so that when my name makes the
MOPObituary, people won't write things like, "That crook said there were three
pinholes on that poster! I counted four!!"
That being said, I wish I'd known Bob;sounds like an interesting cat. I've
gotta get out to more shows and socialize.
Best,
Greg Douglass
Still alive and crazy in CA
---- daniel strebin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The vintage poster and projected-film collecting worlds lost a one-time giant
> of their respective arenas earlier this week with the passing (from
> congestive heart failure) of Robert de Pietro, known to many of us old-timers
> as Bobby d. An avid student and lover of world cinema, he turned his masters
> degree in film studies from NYU into a decades-long series of vintage
> film-related enterprises which included, but were not limited to, processing
> and enlarging independent filmmakers' 8 and 16mm work into 35mm projection
> prints; being one of the first to offer rare international films on vhs;
> being the principal architect of Martin Scorsese's (and others) private 16
> and 35mm film archives; and one of the true seminal giants of vintage film
> poster connoisseurship. In addition, he was a genuine larger-than-life
> character in every respect of the term, in fact his personal philosophy which
> he generously shared with those of us dinosaurs of the collecting worlds was,
> in his words, "living large, or you just ain't living." In spite of the hard
> times which befell him in recent years, I believe he will be tremendously
> missed by those of us lucky enough to have been blessed by his past glory and
> knowledge and love for the best and brightest in film history. From his
> loving friend, Daniel Strebin/ posterman dan
>
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