Collectible Posters, Rare Posters, Vintage Posters, Movie Posters, Movie Artwork
MovieArt is pleased that we’ve been profiled in the syndicated weekly television magazine TEXAS COUNTRY REPORTER. Bob Phillips and his intrepid crew visited us in April of this year and recorded a short feature which will air (in Austin) on Sunday, August 14. The show is seen on a number of television stations in the [...]
“Tell them I’ll do it for a million dollars.” That was the off-the-cuff remark the Elizabeth Taylor made to Eddie Fisher when producer Walter Wanger or perhaps his assistant called to ask if Taylor would star in CLEOPATRA. She said it thinking certainly that anyone in their right mind would turn her down. That was [...]
We asked an experienced restorer, Diane Jeffrey, of Studio C in Vista, California to give a brief overview of the linen-backing process for a one sheet poster. Linen-backing does not actually involve real linen of any kind, although at one time conservators did use it. Today most restorers working with film posters use an acid [...]
David Sobey is the bookkeeper and a web associate for MovieArt. My favorite posters in the MovieArt collection are the beautiful stone lithographs from the early 20th century. Aloys Senefelder invented lithography in Munich in 1798. The artist begins by drawing freely on a smooth block of limestone with a greasy crayon as well as [...]
Movie Art inventory guru Steve Goodwin selects some of his current objects of interest. 8 1/2 Fellini’s 8 1/2 is the director’s surreal commentary on the nature of creativity. 8 1/2 was really Fellini’s opus number for this film. He had made eight films and one short film by the time he was ready to [...]
Big posters — what is their appeal? Let’s face it. They are more than a handful to deal with. How do you display them? Linen backing is usually necessary. So why? Because they are spectacular. What is primarily needed is space because a six sheet or even a three sheet will utterly dominate even a [...]
Questions of condition are basic to movie poster collecting. People describe condition differently. I’m not going to try to define these labels like “very fine”, “good”, “near mint” etc. The fact is: What is very fine to one person may be only very good to another. A poster described casually as being in good condition may be very fine to you. The best way to assure that the poster is in the condition you require is to see it.
This is Part Two in a series by Kirby McDaniel of MovieArt for Jon Warren’s “Movie Poster Guide”. It is reproduced here as a service to collectors with Jon’s permission. Click here for Part Three. U.S. 30 X 40 and 40 X 60 inch posters These posters are printed on card stock, generally, and are [...]
Producers have been advertising the films they produce by every means conceivable since the first producer decided to splice his footage together, load it onto a projector, set up a screen and some chairs and sell tickets. Film trailers, handbills, heralds, radio and TV spots, sneak previews and the revered publicity stunts of the great showmen of the past have all played a role in getting the attention of the public when a film needed selling.