Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item (FRANKENSTEIN TITLE CARD)

2009-04-08 Thread Todd Feiertag
Grey, I've never heard of Heritage losing anything, either in house or in transit, so thats very reassuring. But it would be interesting to know, the circumstances on how something like this got stolen in the first place. Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:29:17 -0500 From: gre...@ha.com

Re: [MOPO] Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s.

2009-04-08 Thread Victor Medina
I agree.  Even as a Republican, I DON'T want this here.  PLEASE don't feed the troll! Democrats and Obama supporters, as much as I know you want to, please don't feel the need to reply.  MOPO doesn't need another flame war. I think anyone who does this here should get one warning.  Do it

Re: [MOPO] OT - Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s.

2009-04-08 Thread Phil Edwards
Nothing, but maybe there's a subtext? It's an OT that's not marked OT. Phil - Original Message - From: Todd Feiertag To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined

Re: [MOPO] OT - Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s.

2009-04-08 Thread Toochis Morin
So we get sucked into the political crap again. Can we just keep it on posters? The political noise is too much everywhere else. Toochis From: Phil Edwards p...@cinemarts.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:30:21 PM Subject:

Re: [MOPO] OT - OT subjects

2009-04-08 Thread Phil Edwards
I'm not an American, but I have my preferences, and at times will venture them on the NSFGE forum, if I have anything to say on political issues when they come up. But NSF has always been designed as being that - NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION (an old Australian film censorship category)

[MOPO] Fwd: [MOPO] Fw: Bad Actors - This political theater is cheap, but we can't afford it.

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Evans
Did they get a warning last time? Rich Begin forwarded message: From: Lance and Rebecca Malamud thethird...@yahoo.com Date: 25 March 2009 04:02:54 GMT To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Fw: Bad Actors - This political theater is cheap, but we can't afford it. Reply-To: Lance

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Diana and/or Morris Everett Jr
No, just saw it for the first time. From: Jeff Potokar jpotok...@ca.rr.com To: Diana and/or Morris Everett Jr dianademail-las...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 9:49:50 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item hi, just curious.. this was posted to mopo

[MOPO] FA: Our 414 Thursday items include lots of great items at low prices, NO buyers premiums and lots of cool bonuses!

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
As was easy to predict, with so many (463) linenbacked one-sheets being honestly auctioned with no reserve, there were *LOTS *of excellent buys Tuesday night (although there were of course many high results as well!). Go to http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/11.html to see all the results in

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I am confused! The auction says the item was *PURCHASED* from Heritage. Hmmm... Bruce On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Diana and/or Morris Everett Jr dianademail-las...@yahoo.com wrote: *Subject:* Frankenstein ORIGINAL 1931 Title Card - eBay (item 280329291451 end time Apr-11-09 08:30:05

[MOPO] WTB: Beatles 6 sheets

2009-04-08 Thread luminita hascalovitz
Hi all, I am searching for original Beatles 6 sheet film posters for the four feature films. Please let me know condition and price. Thank you, Lumi _ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos.

[MOPO] FS: Lobby Sets, Lobby Lots, AWESOME Posters + MORE!

2009-04-08 Thread Dave Rosen
Hey, MoPo! I just updated Posteropolis with a great selection of highly sought-after lobby card sets, lobby lots and posters! Stop by the What's New section to check them all out: http://posteropolis.com/store/index.php?main_page=products_new Have Fun! Dave Rosen Posteropolis

Re: [MOPO] Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s.

2009-04-08 Thread McDaniel Kirby
Please keep your political postings OFF of mopo. If you want to do that there are PLENTY of places to do so. Kirby McDaniel On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:33 PM, Lance and Rebecca Malamud wrote: --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Harry Gendler gendl...@ix.netcom.com wrote: From: Harry Gendler

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
That could be. I was just going by the auction itself, which clearly says it was purchased. Maybe he mis-spoke on the auction. Bruce On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com wrote: I think it was unsold returned to consigner Bruce but I could be wrong..

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Toochis Morin
It's the selling of the rights, ownership and title that has me confused. Universal is the only owner of the rights, ownership and title. Toochis From: Bruce Hershenson brucehershen...@gmail.com To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 8,

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Smith, Grey - 1367
Bruce, Your information is entirely wrong and your basis for this information is completely beyond me! WHERE in the world would you get this foolish information? I think you know better, my friend. No consignor has EVER knowingly been allowed to bid on their own material. Rich is exactly right

[MOPO] a bit OT.. a different kind of still

2009-04-08 Thread Jeff Potokar
talk about bette davis' eyes... this is pretty amazing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sahHSNy_Uk jeff Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I very much apologize for my error. Are you saying that Heritage has NEVER in its past had terms that allowed consignors to bid on their own items? I read it on a forum, but it you say it was never true, then I am certain the person who posted was confusing Heritage with some other auction. The

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Smith, Grey - 1367
Bruce, Never have our terms stated that a consignor can bid on his or her own items! NEVER! The person that stated it was purchased from us did indeed buy the item from our auction as can be seen on our website at http://movieposters.ha.com. Our auction archives are the most complete in

Re: [MOPO] a bit OT.. a different kind of still

2009-04-08 Thread Andrea Kanter
Excellent OT post! Thoroughly enjoyed it! Andrea On Apr 8, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Potokar wrote: talk about bette davis' eyes... this is pretty amazing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sahHSNy_Uk jeff Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com

Re: [MOPO] a bit OT.. a different kind of still

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
to anyone wondering how the artist does this without a guide it's simple.. he uses a blue pencil to do the preliminary illustration and when he photographs teh video he uses a blue filter so teh camera does not pick up the prelim nice art too At 02:05 PM 4/8/2009, Andrea Kanter wrote:

Re: [MOPO] slides worth more than movie poster - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Lataille
Plus AMC now has an HD channel but sometimes, they just take a 1.33:1 cropped movie and stretch it to 1.77:1 to fill an HD TV screen. What a joke. --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Jeff Potokar jpotok...@ca.rr.com wrote: From: Jeff Potokar jpotok...@ca.rr.com Subject: Re: [MOPO] slides worth more than movie

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Franc
I'd be amazed if any respectable auction house would allow that. Such a thing would provide a license to the consignor to shill during an auction. FRANC -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
I will research on this. I am pretty certain there is at least one auction that allowed this, but I don't know if they are respectable. I am also pretty certain there are currently auction houses that allow reserves to be changed after the bidding has begun and allows the reserves to be raised to

Re: [MOPO] slides worth more than movie poster - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Lataille
Maybe popular as people wanting to see the film but not for the price of movie posters. Bruce just sold a linen backed one sheet for only $99 for IAW. The posters for 2001: a space odyssey seem to sell for a lot more - even the non Cinerama roadshow ones. --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Phil Edwards

[MOPO] LAST CALL - One Sheets Ends in less than 2 hours

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
the one sheet auction is coming to it's last hours and there are so many bargains I can't mention them all http://www.comic-art.com/auctions/99cent/index.htmClick Here to See a Gallery of some of the posters being sold in this auction

Re: [MOPO] OT - Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s.

2009-04-08 Thread Joseph Bonelli
Amen!   Joe B in NOLA --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Toochis Morin fly...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Toochis Morin fly...@pacbell.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT - Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s. To:

Re: [MOPO] OT - Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The president seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s.

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Correction: Ah-men! On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Joseph Bonelli joebom...@yahoo.com wrote: Amen! Joe B in NOLA --- On *Wed, 4/8/09, Toochis Morin fly...@pacbell.net* wrote: From: Toochis Morin fly...@pacbell.net Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT - Fw: Musings on the Age of Obama - The

[MOPO] Thanks to MoPo Adrian Cowdry: American Graffiti insert

2009-04-08 Thread David Kusumoto
** Just a quick note to say that for the second time in as many months -- a rare (for me) want ad that I posted -- was answered with flying colors. After several exchanges of e-mails and pictures with Adrian Cowdry (formerly of Bonham's and of Cine-Art in London -- and now with Silverscreen

Re: [MOPO] IS THIS CINERAMA?

2009-04-08 Thread Phil Edwards
This raises an interesting point. Do films that were shot in 70mm (and its variants) and projected via a single projector on the Cinerama screens qualify as real Cinerama (despite the famed concertina logo on posters and what this adds to value of say 2001 posters)? Isn't real Cinerama the

Re: [MOPO] IS THIS CINERAMA?

2009-04-08 Thread Bruce Hershenson
One of the only advantages to being as old as Phil or I is that we might have seen movies in REAL Cinerama! I clearly remember the joins between the three screens when I saw these movies as a kid, and finding them somewhat distracting. Similarly, the Caesar's Palace Casino in the 1970s had one

Re: [MOPO] IS THIS CINERAMA?

2009-04-08 Thread channinglylethomson
I'm pretty old like Bruce, too. I saw both THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM and HOW THE WEST WAS WON in 3-strip Cinerama at the Kachina Cinerama Theatre in Scottsdale, AZ (Phoenix suburb) when I was a child around 1963. They converted to single strip Cinerama (or Ultra

Re: [MOPO] Thanks to MoPo Adrian Cowdry: American Graffiti insert

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Evans
The mention of the chief Bond aficionado reminded me: For potential interest to those in the UK, FRWL with be screened at the BFI from 24 April - 7 May, followed by a UK release. My favourite Bond title, only a very vague big screen recollection of being taken to see a RR double bill when I

Re: [MOPO] Interesting Item

2009-04-08 Thread Evan Zweifel
My understanding is that he was flying home and had a stop over in Cleveland. He stopped off in a restroom and while he was washing up, the package mysteriously disappeared... Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com

Re: [MOPO] IS THIS CINERAMA? Douglass Trumball's SHOWSCAN

2009-04-08 Thread Kenwick Cook
I guess I'm too young to have caught true Cinerama, but I did manage to catch that mentioned Caesar's Palace IMAX in 1995... I assume it was the same setup as it was domed... saw The Fires Of Kuwait there (ho-hum, but the images stuck) Anyway, just curious if anyone ever got to check out