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Re: Beginning Discussion - Following Charlie's Path

Thank you, have restored over 600 posters the past 3 years, it is great saving, or bringing back a poster to its original shape.

Duke

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Re: Hondo's This And That

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Mijanou and her sister Brigitte.

HONDO

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Re: Rare Australian Posters Of Australian Films

HONDO said:

I will be updating Cinesound's 1939 film Come Up Smiling aka Ants In His Pants.

There has been a delay in following up with this additional information, as some very interesting facts have now come to my attention. This new information will now require some more delving into that may take some time, An unexpected occurrence did take place with the distribution of this film.

HONDO

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Re: Homer's Odyssey 1912 Half Sheet - Any Earlier Film Posters Featuring A Creature/Monster?

Welcome!

Charlie

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Re: The Horror Quiz

saulgoodman said:

My Bloody Valentine?

Yes indeed 345 is the original 1981 version of My Bloody Valentine. I thought the Canada clue would do it, and three minutes later It was promptly proved to be the case. The film was remade and released in 2009 as My Bloody Valentine 3D.

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HONDO

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Re: Poster Linen Backing Overkill

If it is senseless and you aren’t contemplating having one backed, why do we have another Hondo thread?

This passive, setup “the answer I want” posting for member manipulation is so confusing and frustrating.

Why do you want to know a price if you aren’t going to have anything backed, and think backing is senseless, etc.

You just want to make some statement/diatribe about how “this one poster was backed that didn’t need it and it sold for less than the value plus cost of backing but if they had kept it original it would have been worth about the same…”

If you had interest in Linenbacking or read any of the threads about restoration “that don’t interest you” but that now do but for no apparent reason - you would know that this happens all the time and this is why many people try to learn Linenbacking DIY I used to back daybills for $5-$10 of cotton duck, $3 worth of masa, and a few bucks for wheat paste and chems and watercolor pencils…

It is not the material cost - it’s the labor. It takes 15 minutes to stretch, 15 min to wash, 15-20 minutes to back and another 30 to touch up a straight forward daybill.

So $15 for materials, 1.5 hours labor plus overhead.

~$110 - $130 cost - add 10% to 12% profit = $150 for a basic $20-$24/hour art school graduate.

This is why Bruce can’t auction anything less than $50 average low item.

Charlie

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Homer's Odyssey 1912 Half Sheet - Any Earlier Film Posters Featuring A Creature/Monster?

Hello everyone!

I’m a newbie to the board but I've been collecting posters for decades, and I’m excited to join this community! I have a passion for early film & advertising posters, especially stone lithos, and even more so, for early posters printed by Morgan Litho of Cleveland.

My collection has been in storage for a long time and I recently photographed it all.
There are many gems but one poster, a half sheet, has always piqued my curiosity. As far as I know, it’s the only surviving copy of a US poster for “Homers Odyssey” (L'Odissea 1911) from 1912.

What's made this a curiosity is the suspicion that this may be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, surviving example of a movie poster prominently featuring a monster or creature. In my research I found that posters exist for Georges Méliès "The House of the Devil " (1896) and "L'Inferno" (1911), but in both cases the monsters depicted are ghosts or demons and thus theological or spiritual in nature, as opposed to the biological grounding of the giant Cyclops, which places this poster for Homer's Odyssey more in line with the likes of King Kong, Godzilla, The Lost World, etc., ie a "Creature Feature" (while The Odyssey as a story wouldn't be categorized as such, the poster for the film is advertising/presenting the film in this way). The only other piece of early movie monster ephemera I’m aware of is a trade catalog for the 1910 silent film adaptation of "Frankenstein" by Georges Méliès, which of course isn't a film poster.

Are there any examples of movie posters depicting a (non theological) monster or creature that predates this 1912 poster for Homer's Odyssey**/**L'Odissea (1911)? Or is this the earliest surviving instance of such a poster?

I look forward to the years of passion and expertise that might weigh in on this fabulous poster!

Thanks so much!

Ralph C.

P.S. if this should be posted in the “General Discussion” section plmk