Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-12-01 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
yep.. Ken is entirely correct and of course, this is pretty much what my post said what we do, will be forgotten much like the collectors who paid handsomely during the 1950s for Dime Novels of the 1880s-1910s you know, those small paperback looking things with western outlaws and Horatio Alger

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-12-01 Thread Bruce Hershenson
Forget Horatio Alger and Dime Novels, in a few more years they'll have forgotten what paperbacks were! Bruce On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep.. Ken is entirely correct and of course, this is pretty much what my post said what we do, will

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-12-01 Thread Dave Rosen
- Original Message - From: Bruce Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? Forget Horatio Alger and Dime Novels, in a few more years they'll have forgotten what

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread lobby card invasion
If they stop producing posters, I think collecting will definitely be affected. I think one of the reasons that there are few new collectors coming into this hobby, is that Lobby Cards have stopped being produced(with some exceptions) and displayed in theaters, since 1985. Young people simply

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Glenn Taranto
this replace collecting actual movie posters? If they stop producing posters, I think collecting will definitely be affected. I think one of the reasons that there are few new collectors coming into this hobby, is that Lobby Cards have stopped being produced(with some exceptions) and displayed

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread lobby card invasion
- Original Message - From: Glenn Taranto To: lobby card invasion ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? Zeev - Around Los Angeles there have been these huge screen billboards

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Patrick Michael Tupy
7:57 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? If they stop producing posters, I think collecting will definitely be affected. I think one of the reasons that there are few new collectors coming into this hobby, is that Lobby Cards have stopped being

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Patrick Michael Tupy
interesing stamp from a far-away country lately? Ha ha Zeev - Original Message - From: Glenn Taranto To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? I think some of this goes back

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
I've been saying for the past 3-4 years.. maybe longer .. that digital displays are the direction theatres will be headed first of all, printing, shipping and storing posters are an expense that studio owners would love to eliminate. Not to mention the employees needed for such a distribution

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
yes Bruce, BLB's are also part of the historical lexicon of collecting. As a matter of fact, BLB's and Pulps have the same problem: only comic book collectors have an interest in them due to the tie between the 3 hobbies. But pulps are in worse shape than BLBs by virtue of % of issues

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Bruce Hershenson
My 5 kids (age 4-15) read EC comics because their dad and grandpa reprinted all of them, but otherwise they never read a single comic book. But all but the 4 year old are champions on every kind of video game, and they have every kind of system, and so does just about every other kid in this

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Roger Kim
I must be confused, because I really only started collecting pulps about 4 months ago. I did have a few pulps that I bought many years ago, but I did not really pay much attention to pulps until recently. In August, a friend gave me a ticket to the local Science Fiction Museum, where they

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Andrea Kanter
I don't understand. Soon, paper will be rarely used. At least, used much less often. Would that not make antique paper items all the more rare? Stamps, posters, autographs... shouldn't we restore, protect, and give high regard to these items? In my experience, if it's about to become

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Linda Noradki
- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:50 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? I've been saying for the past 3-4 years.. maybe longer .. that digital displays

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
/Terminator_Trailer/ Enjoy... Sincerely, John Dingle WonderfulWorldOfMovies.com -Original Message- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:50 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Neil Jaworski
ha   Zeev     - Original Message - From: Glenn Taranto To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? I think some of this goes back to the discussion on silent

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread shchapman
, November 30, 2008 4:50 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? I've been saying for the past 3-4 years.. maybe longer .. that digital displays are the direction theatres will be headed first of all, printing, shipping

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Ari Richards
films on the shelf? Ari --- On Mon, 1/12/08, Sean Linkenback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sean Linkenback [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Received: Monday, 1 December, 2008, 3:02 PM From: MoPo List

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Dave Rosen
Hershenson To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? My 5 kids (age 4-15) read EC comics because their dad and grandpa reprinted all of them, but otherwise they never read a single comic

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Bruce Hershenson
:* Bruce Hershenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU *Sent:* Sunday, November 30, 2008 5:26 PM *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? My 5 kids (age 4-15) read EC comics because their dad and grandpa reprinted all of them, but otherwise

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Ari Richards
- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ari Richards Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:11 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters? part of the problem, I believe is while everyone (most) like watching

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread Ron
One interesting - but likely temporary - roadblock to all this digitalism will be fear of hackers. Some time ago I interviewed someone at the forefront of digital projection systems, and her big concern (and that of the corporation she worked for) was that whatever $$$ the studios saved in

Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?

2008-11-30 Thread bqjansen
And not only wild postings. Modern advertizing does not limit itself to one or two ways of spreading the good word. Every possible private and public space that can be used, will be used. We've seen an enormous surge in both huge building sized banners on the one hand and handbill flyers