Classic Movie Posters from Hollywood's Golden Age Collecting for Fun and Profit
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007DSIP9U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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For me, actually watching a movie is only half the enjoyment. I hope you’ll agree with me. The other half is made up of thinking about it, writing about it and recollecting its pleasures by reading other reviews and also gazing at photos and posters. I gave away thousands of posters in my time and it’s hard to reconcile this free-spending with the hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars people are at present paying for a single item. Among the items offered was a torn, disheveled "Dracula". Would you believe that this dirty old reprint, worth a dollar at the most, was bid up by no less than four frantic buyers to no less than $4,285.00? Still, I’ve always maintained the value of anything is not how much money it’s worth, but how much pleasure and enjoyment we extract from it. Recently, I attended an auction of film material. (2,110 words).. And if you have any photos of posters in your own collection that you’d like to share, maybe we can assemble enough for yet another book. In fact it was not an original theatrical poster at all, but one of those reprints issued by a commercial poster company i
classic movie posters The author, a collector of movie memorabelia, presents some posters and theater cards and explains the value and gives some insight on why he likes them or not.I found it to be interesting and thought about the information you could see on these cards. Some of the actors were famous, and some never really did make it, but for a time they were important to the studios.