Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[David Kusumoto]

That is a great story, Greg.  In fact, like Bruce, you both have great stories 
and a gift for telling them!  When is YOUR book coming out?  I know Bruce has 
one in the works and the stuff you post on FB is equally hair-raising!  All of 
my back stories are mostly bad / grisly and aren't culturally related, dating 
back to my news days, like the time when a freshly bound corpse was found in a 
trunk at the San Diego airport and one of the reporters, I kid you not, with a 
serious face - held a mike in front of the homicide cop's face and asked, "Do 
you suspect foul play?" Sorry, but that broke everybody up. - d.


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Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2023 5:42 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
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Greg this is a great read and wonderful piece of movie poster history on a 
personal level.

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 5:41 PM Greg Douglass 
mailto:pickmeis...@mail.com>> wrote:

On the other hand:

I had a dear friend named Chuck Vergara who lived in Fairfax, CA. He owned a 
local restaurant that was decorated with as many movie posters as he could fit, 
mostly 20s & 30s titles. "They're just so damned pretty!" he would enthuse to 
me on a regular basis. (My fascination with 50s horror/sci-fi eluded him.)
Chuck was driving his station wagon back in the late 70s on Market St. in San 
Francisco. He saw some sort of activity going on at one of the many 
triple-feature low-rent theaters there. The theater owner was tossing an 
immense number of posters dating back to the 1930s. Chuck asked if he could 
grab a few.
A couple of hours later, the suspension system in that station wagon was being 
sorely tested by the massive weight of as many posters as it would hold. He 
opened up a small poster store in one of his properties in town. I'd stop by 
often to talk posters with Chuck (face it, guys; everyone else thinks we're 
nuts for urinating away thousands of dollars on pieces of paper. Chuck was 
simpatico.) I'd pick up a few titles; an 8-card set for "Some Like it Hot" for 
30 bucks, a "She Creature" half sheet for $15. It was a tiny piece of heaven.

Years later, he called me to tell me he was liquidating has collection of 
paper. He gave me first crack at everything. This was right at the beginning of 
eBay so the timing was impeccable. He had contacts at Lucasfilm so there was a 
hefty pile of mint Star Wars stuff. The prices were dictated by him. I picked 
up a "Jaws" one sheet and asked "How much?" "Gimme a buck", he shrugged. I 
argued with him; "We both know it's worth more than that!" "Gimme a buck", he 
repeated Our Toyota was full and my pockets were empty when I left Chuck's 
home. I sold most of the stuff during what used to be the wild west days of 
Ebay. I made over $100,000 in a year.

I found out later that Chuck knew he had prostate cancer and didn't have long 
to live. He wanted his posters to go to someone he liked and who appreciated 
them as an art form. He was tired of dealing with "pinhole counters" (his 
wonderful expression) through Movie Collector's World. I called to thank him 
for his incredible generosity but...he was already gone. It broke my heart.
Greg Douglass

PS: Chuck called me one night. "Get over here NOW!", he yelled. I zipped over 
and there, laid out on his living room floor, was the six-sheet from the 1925 
"Phantom of the Opera" (the masque scene). He had someone coming over to buy 
it. The buyer bitched like crazy over the "outrageous" selling price of $2,000. 
It remains one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed. Chuck and his wife 
Hazel were the greatest.

________________

Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2023 at 1:55 PM
From: "David Kusumoto" 
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

I did the same. I joined Crew Stories like Bruce and did a deep dive and 
couldn't find the screenshot image I web-hosted so others could see it here. I 
think it's fake news as far as giving people the impression that this happened 
last week - but I DO think this could've happened as far back as the 1990s or 
as recently as two years ago.  Warners bought MGM's library in 1996. Two years 
ago, Warners (as Warner Media) - sold its movie properties to Amazon - but hung 
onto Turner's original MGM library of pre-1986 titles including pre-1950s 
Warners titles, pre-1950 RKO titles and a bunch of other studio and TV 
libraries. Everything post 1986 and ALL of UA's library including the James 
Bond series dating to 1962 was sold to Amazon two years ago. - d.

P.S. - That is Glass Bottom Boat on the floor in that picture.  It would not be 
among the titles Warners would keep after its sale to Amazon.  The whole thing 
is confusing. What matters is th

Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[Alan Heimann]

Greg this is a great read and wonderful piece of movie poster history on a
personal level.

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 5:41 PM Greg Douglass  wrote:

> On the other hand:
> I had a dear friend named Chuck Vergara who lived in Fairfax, CA. He owned
> a local restaurant that was decorated with as many movie posters as he
> could fit, mostly 20s & 30s titles. "They're just so damned pretty!" he
> would enthse to me on a regular basis. (My fascination with 50s
> horror/sci-fi eluded him.)
> Chuck was driving his station wagon back in the late 70s on Market St. in
> San Francisco. He saw some sort of activity going on at one of the many
> triple-feature low-rent theaters there. The theater owner was tossing an
> immense number of posters dating back to the 1930s. Chuck asked if he could
> grab a few.
> A couple of hours later, the suspension system in that station wagon was
> being sorely tested by the massive weight of as many posters as it would
> hold. He opened up a small poster store in one of his properties in town.
> I'd stop by often to talk posters with Chuck (face it, guys; everyone else
> thinks we're nuts for urinating away thousands of dollars on pieces of
> paper. Chuck was simpatico.) I'd pick up a few titles; an 8-card set for
> "Some Like it Hot" for 30 bucks, a "She Creature" half sheet for $15. It
> was a tiny piece of heaven.
> Years later, he called me to tell me he was liquidating has collection of
> paper. He gave me first crack at everything. This was right at the
> beginning of eBay so the timing was impeccable. He had contacts at
> Lucasfilm so there was a hefty pile of mint Star Wars stuff. The prices
> were dictated by him. I picked up a "Jaws" one sheet and asked "How much?"
> "Gimme a buck", he shrugged. I argued with him; "We both know it's worth
> more than that!" "Gimme a buck", he repeated Our Toyota was full and my
> pockets were empty when I left Chuck's home. I sold most of the stuff
> during what used to be the wild west days of Ebay. I made over $100,000 in
> a year.
> I found out later that Chuck knew he had prostate cancer and didn't have
> long to live. He wanted his posters to go to someone he liked and who
> appreciated them as an art form. He was tired of dealing with "pinhole
> counters" (his wonderful expression) through Movie Collector's World. I
> called to thank him for his incredible generosity but...he was already
> gone. It broke my heart.
> Greg Douglass
> PS: Chuck called me one night. "Get over here NOW!", he yelled. I zipped
> over and there, laid out on his living room floor, was the six-sheet from
> the 1925 "Phantom of the Opera" (the masque scene). He had someone coming
> over to buy it. The buyer bitched like crazy over the "outrageous" selling
> price of $2,000. It remains one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed.
> Chuck and his wife Hazel were the greatest.
>
>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 08, 2023 at 1:55 PM
> *From:* "David Kusumoto" 
> *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters
> I did the same. I joined Crew Stories like Bruce and did a deep dive and
> couldn't find the screenshot image I web-hosted so others could see it
> here. I think it's fake news as far as giving people the impression that
> this happened last week - but I DO think this could've happened as far back
> as the 1990s or as recently as two years ago.  Warners bought MGM's library
> in 1996. Two years ago, Warners (as Warner Media) - sold its movie
> properties to Amazon - but hung onto Turner's original MGM library of
> pre-1986 titles including pre-1950s Warners titles, pre-1950 RKO titles and
> a bunch of other studio and TV libraries. Everything post 1986 and ALL of
> UA's library including the James Bond series dating to 1962 was sold to
> Amazon two years ago. - d.
>
> P.S. - That is Glass Bottom Boat on the floor in that picture.  It would
> not be among the titles Warners would keep after its sale to Amazon.  The
> whole thing is confusing. What matters is the idea of trashing movie
> paper.  It would be hard to fake an image of posters being strewn
> everywhere in a cavernous hangar-type warehouse.  Whether this happened two
> years ago or 30 years ago, who knows.
>
>
> --
> *From:* MoPo List  on behalf of Bruce
> Hershenson 
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 10:33 AM
> *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
> *Subject:* Re: WB throwing away thousands of movie posters
>
> Kirby
>
> My first thought on seeing that image was "looks kind of fishy to me"!
>
> I joined that FB group and that post is not ther

Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[Greg Douglass]

On the other hand:

I had a dear friend named Chuck Vergara who lived in Fairfax, CA. He owned a local restaurant that was decorated with as many movie posters as he could fit, mostly 20s & 30s titles. "They're just so damned pretty!" he would enthse to me on a regular basis. (My fascination with 50s horror/sci-fi eluded him.)

Chuck was driving his station wagon back in the late 70s on Market St. in San Francisco. He saw some sort of activity going on at one of the many triple-feature low-rent theaters there. The theater owner was tossing an immense number of posters dating back to the 1930s. Chuck asked if he could grab a few.

A couple of hours later, the suspension system in that station wagon was being sorely tested by the massive weight of as many posters as it would hold. He opened up a small poster store in one of his properties in town. I'd stop by often to talk posters with Chuck (face it, guys; everyone else thinks we're nuts for urinating away thousands of dollars on pieces of paper. Chuck was simpatico.) I'd pick up a few titles; an 8-card set for "Some Like it Hot" for 30 bucks, a "She Creature" half sheet for $15. It was a tiny piece of heaven.

Years later, he called me to tell me he was liquidating has collection of paper. He gave me first crack at everything. This was right at the beginning of eBay so the timing was impeccable. He had contacts at Lucasfilm so there was a hefty pile of mint Star Wars stuff. The prices were dictated by him. I picked up a "Jaws" one sheet and asked "How much?" "Gimme a buck", he shrugged. I argued with him; "We both know it's worth more than that!" "Gimme a buck", he repeated Our Toyota was full and my pockets were empty when I left Chuck's home. I sold most of the stuff during what used to be the wild west days of Ebay. I made over $100,000 in a year.

I found out later that Chuck knew he had prostate cancer and didn't have long to live. He wanted his posters to go to someone he liked and who appreciated them as an art form. He was tired of dealing with "pinhole counters" (his wonderful _expression_) through Movie Collector's World. I called to thank him for his incredible generosity but...he was already gone. It broke my heart.

Greg Douglass

PS: Chuck called me one night. "Get over here NOW!", he yelled. I zipped over and there, laid out on his living room floor, was the six-sheet from the 1925 "Phantom of the Opera" (the masque scene). He had someone coming over to buy it. The buyer bitched like crazy over the "outrageous" selling price of $2,000. It remains one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed. Chuck and his wife Hazel were the greatest.

 
 

Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2023 at 1:55 PM
From: "David Kusumoto" 
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters



I did the same. I joined Crew Stories like Bruce and did a deep dive and couldn't find the screenshot image I web-hosted so others could see it here. I think it's fake news as far as giving people the impression that this happened last week - but I DO think this could've happened as far back as the 1990s or as recently as two years ago.  Warners bought MGM's library in 1996. Two years ago, Warners (as Warner Media) - sold its movie properties to Amazon - but hung onto Turner's original MGM library of pre-1986 titles including pre-1950s Warners titles, pre-1950 RKO titles and a bunch of other studio and TV libraries. Everything post 1986 and ALL of UA's library including the James Bond series dating to 1962 was sold to Amazon two years ago. - d.

 

P.S. - That is Glass Bottom Boat on the floor in that picture.  It would not be among the titles Warners would keep after its sale to Amazon.  The whole thing is confusing. What matters is the idea of trashing movie paper.  It would be hard to fake an image of posters being strewn everywhere in a cavernous hangar-type warehouse.  Whether this happened two years ago or 30 years ago, who knows.

 

 


From: MoPo List  on behalf of Bruce Hershenson 
Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2023 10:33 AM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
Subject: Re: WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

 



Kirby

My first thought on seeing that image was "looks kind of fishy to me"!

I joined that FB group and that post is not there. I went to that guy's profile, and it was not there either. And I found the same post in another non-movie poster group.

Looks like one more of those "I remember when poster exchanges had Frankenstein and Dracula lobby sets" to me.

But what do I know?

Bruce
 


On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:19 PM Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.com> wrote:

Could be; I don't remember.


K.




 






On Apr 8, 2023, at 10:59 AM, Roland Lataille <roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:







 












 















Didn't Warner acquire

Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[David Kusumoto]

I did the same. I joined Crew Stories like Bruce and did a deep dive and 
couldn't find the screenshot image I web-hosted so others could see it here. I 
think it's fake news as far as giving people the impression that this happened 
last week - but I DO think this could've happened as far back as the 1990s or 
as recently as two years ago.  Warners bought MGM's library in 1996. Two years 
ago, Warners (as Warner Media) - sold its movie properties to Amazon - but hung 
onto Turner's original MGM library of pre-1986 titles including pre-1950s 
Warners titles, pre-1950 RKO titles and a bunch of other studio and TV 
libraries. Everything post 1986 and ALL of UA's library including the James 
Bond series dating to 1962 was sold to Amazon two years ago. - d.

P.S. - That is Glass Bottom Boat on the floor in that picture.  It would not be 
among the titles Warners would keep after its sale to Amazon.  The whole thing 
is confusing. What matters is the idea of trashing movie paper.  It would be 
hard to fake an image of posters being strewn everywhere in a cavernous 
hangar-type warehouse.  Whether this happened two years ago or 30 years ago, 
who knows.


From: MoPo List  on behalf of Bruce Hershenson 

Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2023 10:33 AM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
Subject: Re: WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

Kirby

My first thought on seeing that image was "looks kind of fishy to me"!

I joined that FB group and that post is not there. I went to that guy's 
profile, and it was not there either. And I found the same post in another 
non-movie poster group.

Looks like one more of those "I remember when poster exchanges had Frankenstein 
and Dracula lobby sets" to me.

But what do I know?

Bruce

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:19 PM Kirby McDaniel 
mailto:ki...@movieart.com>> wrote:
Could be; I don't remember.
K.

On Apr 8, 2023, at 10:59 AM, Roland Lataille 
mailto:roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote:

Didn't Warner acquire many of the MGM films years ago?


On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:26:24 AM EDT, Kirby McDaniel 
mailto:ki...@movieart.com>> wrote:

uh that is a half-sheet for THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, which is MGM, so why 
is that there if this is some kind of Warner's archive?  Fake news?

Kirby McDaniel
movieart.com
where ALL the news is REAL

On Apr 7, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Alan Adler 
mailto:m...@charter.net>> wrote:

This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a good 
idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all the way up 
the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I thought the 
event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is disgusting. Why not 
just give it all to the Academy or any film school or sane group of individuals 
and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to book burning. And to then 
trash it in private when people wanted to save it by hiding their actions is 
disgusting. This act reeks of high-level corporate idiocy. I’ve seen this 
close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved beyond the days of trashing art and 
artifacts for the sake of expediency. I guess not.

Alan

On Apr 7, 2023, at 7:05 PM, David Kusumoto 
mailto:davidmkusum...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

Yes, I saw that posted yesterday at the Crew Stories site - but I was unable to 
confirm the actual date this happened.

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Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[Scott Burns]

Same for me. I saw the re-post and then tried to find the original posting but 
no luck. I agree with Bruce—definitely fishy.

 

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Kirby

My first thought on seeing that image was "looks kind of fishy to me"!

I joined that FB group and that post is not there. I went to that guy's 
profile, and it was not there either. And I found the same post in another 
non-movie poster group.

Looks like one more of those "I remember when poster exchanges had Frankenstein 
and Dracula lobby sets" to me.

But what do I know?

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Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[Bruce Hershenson]

Kirby

My first thought on seeing that image was "looks kind of fishy to me"!

I joined that FB group and that post is not there. I went to that guy's
profile, and it was not there either. And I found the same post in another
non-movie poster group.

Looks like one more of those "I remember when poster exchanges had
Frankenstein and Dracula lobby sets" to me.

But what do I know?

Bruce

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 12:19 PM Kirby McDaniel  wrote:

> Could be; I don't remember.
> K.
>
> On Apr 8, 2023, at 10:59 AM, Roland Lataille <
> roland.latai...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Didn't Warner acquire many of the MGM films years ago?
>
>
> On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:26:24 AM EDT, Kirby McDaniel <
> ki...@movieart.com> wrote:
>
>
> uh that is a half-sheet for THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, which is MGM,
> so why is that there if this is some kind of Warner's archive?  Fake news?
>
> Kirby McDaniel
> movieart.com
> where ALL the news is REAL
>
> On Apr 7, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Alan Adler  wrote:
>
> This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a
> good idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all
> the way up the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I
> thought the event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is
> disgusting. Why not just give it all to the Academy or any film school or
> sane group of individuals and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to
> book burning. And to then trash it in private when people wanted to save it
> by hiding their actions is disgusting. This act reeks of high-level
> corporate idiocy. I’ve seen this close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved
> beyond the days of trashing art and artifacts for the sake of expediency. I
> guess not.
>
> Alan
>
> On Apr 7, 2023, at 7:05 PM, David Kusumoto 
> wrote:
>
> Yes, I saw that posted yesterday at the Crew Stories site - but I was
> unable to confirm the actual date this happened.
>
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[Kirby McDaniel]

Could be; I don't remember.
K.

> On Apr 8, 2023, at 10:59 AM, Roland Lataille  
> wrote:
> 
> Didn't Warner acquire many of the MGM films years ago?
> 
> 
> On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:26:24 AM EDT, Kirby McDaniel 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> uh that is a half-sheet for THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, which is MGM, so 
> why is that there if this is some kind of Warner's archive?  Fake news?
> 
> Kirby McDaniel
> movieart.com
> where ALL the news is REAL
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Alan Adler  wrote:
>> 
> 
> This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a 
> good idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all the 
> way up the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I 
> thought the event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is 
> disgusting. Why not just give it all to the Academy or any film school or 
> sane group of individuals and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to 
> book burning. And to then trash it in private when people wanted to save it 
> by hiding their actions is disgusting. This act reeks of high-level corporate 
> idiocy. I’ve seen this close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved beyond the days 
> of trashing art and artifacts for the sake of expediency. I guess not. 
> 
> Alan
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2023, at 7:05 PM, David Kusumoto  
>> wrote:
>> 
> 
> Yes, I saw that posted yesterday at the Crew Stories site - but I was unable 
> to confirm the actual date this happened.
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Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

[Roland Lataille]

 Didn't Warner acquire many of the MGM films years ago?

On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:26:24 AM EDT, Kirby McDaniel 
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 uh that is a half-sheet for THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, which is MGM, so 
why is that there if this is some kind of Warner's archive?  Fake news?
Kirby McDanielmovieart.comwhere ALL the news is REAL


On Apr 7, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Alan Adler  wrote:

This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a good 
idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all the way up 
the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I thought the 
event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is disgusting. Why not 
just give it all to the Academy or any film school or sane group of individuals 
and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to book burning. And to then 
trash it in private when people wanted to save it by hiding their actions is 
disgusting. This act reeks of high-level corporate idiocy. I’ve seen this 
close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved beyond the days of trashing art and 
artifacts for the sake of expediency. I guess not. 
Alan


On Apr 7, 2023, at 7:05 PM, David Kusumoto  wrote:

Yes, I saw that posted yesterday at the Crew Stories site - but I was unable to 
confirm the actual date this happened.


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Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

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uh that is a half-sheet for THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT, which is MGM, so why 
is that there if this is some kind of Warner's archive?  Fake news?

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> On Apr 7, 2023, at 10:59 PM, Alan Adler  wrote:
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> This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a 
> good idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all the 
> way up the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I 
> thought the event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is 
> disgusting. Why not just give it all to the Academy or any film school or 
> sane group of individuals and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to 
> book burning. And to then trash it in private when people wanted to save it 
> by hiding their actions is disgusting. This act reeks of high-level corporate 
> idiocy. I’ve seen this close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved beyond the days 
> of trashing art and artifacts for the sake of expediency. I guess not. 
> 
> Alan
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Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

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This is obscene. Whoever inside the WB organization that decided in was a good 
idea to trash its own history should be fired on the spot - and all the way up 
the corporate ladder if need be. When I first heard about this I thought the 
event took place 50 years ago. This level of stupidity is disgusting. Why not 
just give it all to the Academy or any film school or sane group of individuals 
and save the expense of trashing it? It’s akin to book burning. And to then 
trash it in private when people wanted to save it by hiding their actions is 
disgusting. This act reeks of high-level corporate idiocy. I’ve seen this 
close-up, but I’d hoped we’d evolved beyond the days of trashing art and 
artifacts for the sake of expediency. I guess not. 

Alan

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Re: [MOPO] WB throwing away thousands of movie posters

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Yes, I saw that posted yesterday at the Crew Stories site - but I was unable to 
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