wow i had to read again..it shows how we are all so connected inthe
Posters...so glad Ira got it..its one of my fave movies Too..i had a
16mm print andloved towatch it ona big screen........veto stanaitis in
Chicago sold methe movie....he told me whanhe gotinthebiz inthe 60s
there were no film collectors magazines..so he ran ads in popular
photography magazine....
so seems like the collecting started in the 50s 60s.... my one colector
said he started in 50s while inthe military....andso he got posters
fromthe film setrvice..another guy i got 2001 stuff from was inthe
college film circuits...they ran movies for college kids
inthe70s/////late night shows,i remeberstooges..and others...
On 2020-03-18 21:50, Susan Heim wrote:
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
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SENT: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:53 PM
TO: [email protected] <[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]> 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!
Alan Adler
Museum of Mom and Pop Culture
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