Grey - That is one gorgeous poster!
The color saturation is mesmerizing. With a poster like that you don’t even need any other posters to have a great collection! Remember those Mint Godzilla A and B 3-sheets I sent your way! Alan > On Mar 18, 2020, at 7:55 PM, Smith, Grey - 1367 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, Sue, I recall selling that copy of Singin’ in 2002. > The first time vintage movie posters caught my eye was in the summer of 1967 > when my father brought me and my sister out to LA by plane. I was crazy > about film. I recall we stayed at a motel on Hollywood Blvd as in those days > you didn’t need reservations. You just showed up and found a place. The town > was full of long haired kids. Everywhere! Coming from conservative Texas, it > was exciting to me, age 10. I was taken to Movieland Wax Museum in Buena > Park, which I thought was fabulous and there at the end of the large exhibit > was what seemed to be hundreds of vintage posters! In those days some of them > must have been 25 or 30 years old! I was gob smacked and in awe! Where did > these old posters come from and how could I get some! I’ve often wondered > what happened to that collection. The next year I attended a Nostalgia > Convention in Dallas. There I saw the first dealers of vintage posters and I > started buying them from $1 to $5 apiece. $5 for the real prize that day, a > stone litho one sheet to Return of the Cisco Kid! > I still own the poster by the way. > > > > > From: MoPo List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Susan Heim > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 8:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] First Poster Stories > > External Email > > So, the reason I knew it was my Singin' in the Rain one sheet is that it was > rolled and I had never seen one. It was obtained from the MGM auction back > in the 70's. It had come with some other posters out of the Art Directors > office. It had some crinkles so I had it linenbacked. I had it for over 25 > years framed until I started to think "how long can I keep all these posters" > and I sold it to a collector in New York with some other titles that he bought > from an ad I ran in Movie Collector World. He decided to get out of movie > posters and increase his comic book collection and put the poster up for sale > at auction, I think Heritage. All of a sudden one day, Ira walks in and says > look what I just got and it was my copy. That's the scoop. > > > Now, my first poster story is kind of funny. When I was growing up I would > always stand in the lobby or by the ticket window and stare at the posters > never thinking I could actually own one. Flash forward many years and I > am in college in the early 1970's. My best friend went to USC and he was an > Engineering major. I went to visit him in his dorm room and there on the > wall was a Chinatown poster. His roommate was a film major and I was > blown away. I asked him where he got it and he told me about Larry Edmunds > bookstore on Hollywood Blvd. I was in school in San Diego but the following > weekend I drove up to Hollywood and waited for Larry Edmunds to > open up and went in to the back of the store and asked for a Chinatown one > sheet. It was $6. The roommate was working on the first Filmex to be held > in Century City and he was working with Rosalind Russell who was the > chairwoman of the event. Funny Lady, the sequel to Funny Girl was to be > premiered there on the opening night gala. He had invited me to come up and > work on the event and come to the opening night. So, I figured I buy > Funny Lady while I was in the store as well. I had $20 I had allotted myself > to spend. Funny Lady was $6 as well. When the guy asked me any other > titles, I said Spellbound and out came a box and there were 2 copies in the > box, both > $6 each. I only took one copy (regretted that for years). So, my first > purchase was 3 one sheets and a few black and white stills. > > That whole period is tied in with the Filmex event in my mind now....I went > to the opening night and the front of the theater was decorated with hundreds > of yellow roses, a signature of the character's in the film. There were so > many > celebrities there and it was jam packed. When they opened the door to go in, > there was a push to get in the doors. I had invited my best friend to come > along and we got separated by the push. Somebody was pushing on my left > shoulder and somebody else was pushing on my right shoulder. Now, I'm pretty > short so when I looked up to see who it was, Gene Kelly was on one shoulder > and Fred Astaire was on the other. I remember thinking to myself at the > time, I could die now a happy girl!! So, everytime I would look at one of > those 3 posters, that's the memory associated with them... > > Sue > Hollywood Poster Frames > > From: MoPo List <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Ira Rubenstein > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:53 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [MOPO] First Poster Stories > > OK - > > I will jump in. I was interning for 20th Century Fox theatrical Marketing > and Distribution. I was spending one week out at the Branch office in > Sherman Oaks. They gave the intern the fun job to clean out the closet. > Well, I came across some Return of The Jedi posters and other FOX films and > I asked if I could take them home. YES! And that's what started it. > > From my internship I joined Fox in exhibitor relations and of course my job > was sending out posters. And of course I got to keep a copy or two. > > Then one year I asked NSS people for some posters as a present for my wife. > Winnie The Pooh and some Star Wars. Came in the mail. That really > kicked it into high gear. > > My first significant purchase was a SINGIN IN THE RAIN one sheet. A > co-worker told me about these auctions you could buy older posters. > Again, my wife's favorite film. Got the poster. Took it to Sue to frame. > > > She looked it at it and said. Hey, this was once mine. Never folded > version that hung at MGM in the Art Director's office. __ And Sue and I > have been friends ever since. > > And I now have over 1100 posters in my collection. And no more wall space. > > Ira > > On 3/18/20, 1:52 PM, "MoPo List on behalf of Alan Adler" > <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]%20on%20behalf%20of%[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Okay - > > We’ve got all this time - > > We’ve got this great forum. > > Let’s crank it up a bit. > > > Every one of us has a story about the first poster we ever scored and > changed our life. > > > Will start it off - > > I was nine years old - it was 1957 - Asheboro, North Carolina - the > Carolina Theater - > > Would take a cab from elementary school to go to the movies before > walking down the street to my parents dress shop and ride home with them. > > Saw I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and was instantly transformed beyond my ears > into a frothing teenager. > > Begged the manager of the theater for that poster. > > He said they always have to send them back - they cost money - (maybe 35 > cents pack then?) - > > Begged the manager even more. > > He caved and gave me the insert from Teenage Werewolf. > > I was never the same. > > Cobalt ink began to run through my veins. > > Would stop to go through the garbage cans behind the theater before I > went to the movies. > > Ah, the days of trash picking. > > Oddly enough, when I started the Fox Archives - > > Started going through the studio trash. > > My wife began to call me an executive dumpster diver. > > Eventually I curated the Fox Museum - THE HALL OF COOL STUFF - in > Australia. > > It contained nearly six million dollars worth of trash I salvaged and > stopped from being tossed. > > Trash these days just isn’t what it was! 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