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Re: Hondo's Daybill and One Sheet Q&A [Re-Titled]
(Tharunka /Trove/ NFA)Some information regarding the early history or the Valhalla cinema in Glebe. You may find the above article that was published in the Tharunka newspaper by students of the University Of N.S.W. on 16 September 1985 of interest
A fact that I had not been aware of is that Valhalla themselves produced four films in the 1980s. The films are as follows.
Future Schlock (Submitted by Valhalla Films and classified by the Australia film censor on 01 July 1984 on 16mm
Channel Chaos (Submitted by Valhalla Holdings and classified by the Australian film censor on 01 November 1985 on 35mm..
The Big Hurt (Submitted by Valhalla Holdings and classified by the Australian film censor on 01 October 1986 on 35mm.
As Time Goes By (Submitted by Valhalla Holdings and classified by the Australian film censor on 01 February 1988 on 35mm.
A rare Australian printed film poster for Future Schlock , and an Australian Videotape image to give an idea about the film's content.
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Re: The new guy from Hamburg
Welcome aboard. I am keen to see what purchases you will make in the future.
HONDO
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Re: The new guy from Hamburg
welcome. I was in Hamburg a few months ago on holiday from Australia - i could have added poster viewing to my exploits!
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Re: Monster & Spacemen raid
it was a great auction with some very high prices for the likes of Iron Giant, Pokemon etc
Rick
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Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey 40x60 McCall – Genuine 1968 Original Paper or “Just” R-1971? Need Your Expert
I'm no expert, but i have a To Catch a Thief LC that has the original dates but also a 1963 re-issue stamped on it. I consider it an original with a re-issue stamp but am likewise keen to hear Bruce's thoughts.
Rick
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Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey 40x60 McCall – Genuine 1968 Original Paper or “Just” R-1971? Need Your Expert
Keen to hear what Bruce has to say on the subject.
HONDO
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2001: A Space Odyssey 40x60 McCall – Genuine 1968 Original Paper or “Just” R-1971? Need Your Expert
Hey everyone,
Just snagged this beautiful rolled 40x60 Robert McCall poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey at Heritage Auctions for only $450 including buyer’s premium. Total steal!
What’s interesting: Heritage originally listed it as a **1968 Original**, then changed the description to **MGM R-1971**.
On the white credit strip at the bottom you can see the printed NSS code **“68/103”** – it’s pretty faint to the naked eye, so I ran a quick Photoshop curves adjustment to make it pop. Right next to it is the red reissue stamp **“74 294”**.
After digging around, here’s what I found:
The code 68/103 matches every confirmed first-run 1968 McCall printing (including other formats). The “74 294” stamp is a standard NSS reissue mark used for the 1974 re-release. So it looks like genuine 1968 original paper that was simply reused in 1974 – a true “reused original.”
Now I’m curious what the community thinks:
Does this count as a **1968 Original with reissue stamp** in your book, or is it still just an R-1971? Has anyone seen similar cases with other titles?
Would love your opinions and especially photos of comparable copies!
Thanks in advance!
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Monster & Spacemen raid
Here are my trophies from yesterday’s raid at the Heritage Auction “Monster & Spacemen.” But okay, that’s enough for now — I’m totally stuffed! Now I’ve got to figure out how to properly archive all this stuff the right way.
Do you guys like them?
The new guy from Hamburg
Hello Community! Charlie was kind enough to send me an invitation after I asked. And here I am. Totally nuts.I’m 61 years old, but I can still easily pass for 60. I’m now the Hamburg branch.
It all started for me about two years ago with the stock market. I was — and still am — pretty successful there because I got in at exactly the right time. But these are very volatile stocks that go up and down, up again, and sometimes way, way down. :-)
So I started thinking about how to keep my money safe. Old movies — whether film noir or B-movies — have always been my thing. But I never thought about the original posters. In Germany that’s not nearly as big a deal as it is with you folks in the USA. After doing my research, though, investing in really striking wall posters didn’t seem like the worst idea. The market is growing 5 to 15–20 % a year, and even here in Germany people are starting to wake up to it.
As usual, when something grabs me I read like a maniac and spent a ton of money on cool books and art volumes — Harryhausen, Reynold Brown, Learn About Movie Posters, etc.
At first I bought retail, but I quickly realized most of that stuff is borderline at best. What mattered to me was getting real originals and not getting ripped off.
Of course I made mistakes. Obviously. But not too many. In the picture you can see my latest big score from the Heritage Auction — the “Yakob Zentner Collection.” Ballpark figure: I bought every third poster.
Like I said — I’m completely insane.
Anyway, yesterday I was bidding hard again at the Spaceman & Monster auction (though I had already scaled it back — I really went overboard before). But they’re all just so damn beautiful!
What eats up a lot of my time (and a lot more money) is proper archival storage. If you look at every single purchase separately (and that includes art, comics, and pulp too), I’ve put together a collection that would take most people decades to build — and I did it in just a few months. I track everything in the iCollect Everything app and it currently says 530 items. Wow. I really hope my wife doesn’t ask what it all cost… :-)
And what can I say? Stock prices have dropped, poster prices are going up (well, not all of them). :-) But old movie posters pay a monthly dividend: every single time you look at them.
I’m really glad to be here and I’m looking forward to lively, friendly conversation.
Cheerio from Hamburg, Germany!
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