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See all the contents of every one of my 43 full color movie poster books free online!

Bruce — Mon, 25 May 2020 12:13:00 +0000

Over a 19 year span, starting in 1990, I published 43 full color movie poster books (19 of these contained images of posters which were sold in my 19 annual "major" auctions) . The non-auction books were created with the great assistance of legendary poster collector Richard Allen.

All are sold out, and have been for years. But you can view all of them online at no cost! You see a gallery of all the images from each book, with each individual image linking to a description of that movie, and a link to a much larger image of that poster.

One of these was War Movie Posters, filled with 297 posters from every sort of war, with the greatest emphasis on World War II movies. See them all at http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/publication/War%20Movie%20Posters/sort/1/archive.html

See all the contents of every one of the 43 books through the links on this page: http://www.emovieposter.com/imagearchive/bookguide.php

Aussie Photoplayer magazine

Mark — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:03:00 +0000

Anyone interested in researching Aussie cinema will find these locally printed magazines useful. Trove has some in their archive, but I didn't see any that were digitised.
Not sure of the full range, but probably in print from the 1920s to 1950s. The title had some subtle changes over the years.
This is Ves's collection with articles and adverts related to Aussie films.

High Quality Scans

David — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:46:00 +0000

Not necessarily for collectors but a great resource for images when you can't find them.

http://www.doctormacro.com/Galleries.htm

Some of the contributions are amazing, eg I was looking for a B&W of Loretta Young and found someone had colourised the image as well - quite outstanding (both versions).

MoviePosterCollectors.guide

HereComesMongo — Sat, 27 May 2017 09:53:00 +0000

Arising from the ashes of MPC.com (which was hijacked by a squatter), MPC.guide is the Internetâ€™s newest portal, reference, and showcase for the wonderful world of movie poster collecting! Unlike most other movie poster websites, this site is 100% non-profit and non-commercial, run by a collector (not a dealer), totally independent from any dealers, and intended solely to benefit movie poster collectors.

http://moviepostercollectors.guide/MPC_Home.html

MPC.guide can use your help!

1) Please include a link to it in your own website so it will rise in the Google rankings.
2) Please promote it to newbie collectors.
3) Suggest Top Poster Collector websites.
4) Suggest Poster Resources.
5) Check out its great Image Showcases, including:

Exceptional Travel Posters (Illustrated)

Exceptional 1930s Movie Posters

CLASSIC UNIVERSAL HORROR POSTERS

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MOVIE POSTERS

JAMES BOND MOVIE POSTERS

Enjoy!

MoviePosterDB fails but lives on as Cinematerial.com

HereComesMongo — Wed, 24 May 2017 00:59:00 +0000

Just found this email from 2015:

You are receiving this email because you bought credits for MoviePosterDB in the past and we have some news about the website. Since 2007, the website is run by us together. In the past couple of years, however, our views on how to proceed have unfortunately drifted apart. After long consideration we've therefore decided to split ways and both continue with our own movie poster website.

jayef will relaunch MoviePosterDB in the coming months, whereas Martijn will start CineMaterial.com. Both websites will host all images that were previously uploaded to MoviePosterDB.com, and if you have any credits left they'll remain valid on both websites.

Two of the advantages of CineMaterial are that poster collections can be filtered on type, language and resolution, and that images can be previewed in full resolution before downloading and spending credits.

jayef & Martijn
*****

MoviePosterDB is now down

Posterguide.org

HereComesMongo — Tue, 23 May 2017 21:55:00 +0000

This site is insanely great! With agazillion images organized in so many ways - NSSnumber, #of copies known, artists,etc. As noted on APF, it's currently at:

http://www.posterguide.org:81/index.php

Australian Government Gazette

Pancho — Fri, 05 May 2017 00:47:00 +0000

Hey guys!

Just started wading through the information available here: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Content/HistoricGazettes

You can find notes about films passed for exhibition by month and year. I've just been browsing and it's been great to see what other posters may be out there! For example, the August 1974 Gazette mentions 5 movies that I wasn't sure had Aussie paper, but can reasonably assume now that they do. The same Gazette also informs us that the original 'Deep Throat' was rejected again by the Board, as was 'The Devil in Miss Jones'. AND in another section it tells us that 'Nothing But The Night' (which was passed in Dec 1972) has now been renamed 'Castle of the Living Dead'.

I recommend having a look...and I make no apologies if it causes your want list to swell!

emovieposter.com - Auction History

theartofmovieposters — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:33:00 +0000

Ok, so in light of our recent discussions, two things about Bruce's auction history jump out at me.

1. We all value it as a huge resource, not only for the images, but also for the auction history results.

2. The retrospective changing of auction details to show new information brought to light on a particular title.

Now, I am not talking about while an auction is running, and someone sends emovie an email or whatever bringing to their attention something they believe to be listed incorrectly. I haven no issue with this.

I am talking about the complete wipeout of the past auction history details for a title.

This could be because that title was either thought to be an original, but is now known and accepted to be a re-release (or vice versa), or the movie for which the poster was thought to be advertising is now deemed to be something else eg. Castle of Living Dead.

So if a poster was auctioned say 5 years ago as an original release, and got a final sale price of say $300, the auction results have reflected that.

Now in the next auction the same poster is up for auction, but it is brought to emovies attention that, hang on it's actually a re-release, for reasons ABC, this auction will now end and be recorded accurately because the details are amended prior to its completion. This one sells for say $150.

Unfortunately, (I think) the auction details from 5 years ago are also changed to say it was a re-release. This means that this auction is now no longer a true reflection of THIS auctions history.

So when I am looking at the auction history of this particular piece, it brings up two auction histories with quite a difference in the final sale price, but because the details of the auction 5 years ago are changed, I have no idea that it was actually incorrectly at the time (because that was all that was known then) listed as original, which would account for the difference in final value.

I think it would be much better to just make an amendment by adding a paragraph or something which stands out, to advise people that since that auction ended, we now know it is a re-release. The correct information on the title will be present, and a true representation of the auction also remains.

Thoughts?

Not sure if Bruce posts here, but would love to hear from him obviously....

Questions Without Notice

Matt — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 09:04:00 +0000

Have a question you'd like to ask another member. Ask away!

Movie Poster News from 1999

John — Sat, 16 May 2015 00:14:00 +0000

Having a look through a box of memorabilia that my parents had kept and found this report of the Christies auction of some of my posters in 1999......

History of cooperative national scheme for the classification of films in Australia

theartofmovieposters — Sat, 09 May 2015 06:36:00 +0000

Ok, second doc I found...one to go but will have to wait until later...the monkeys are getting restless.

Hopefully it is useful.

R Classification in Australia

theartofmovieposters — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:25:00 +0000

I was cleaning out folders last night and finally found the classification docs I mentioned ages ago.

If it's not clear enough, I can try saving as a PDF but not sure how to make that available to everyone?

More to come but here is what I have on the Aussie R rating:

Classifications and dates in Australia

theartofmovieposters — Sat, 09 May 2015 00:34:00 +0000

This from my hand written scrawls from many moons ago.

Unfortunately I don't have the reference details of where I got them from...but they might be helpful.

When I get a chance I will try to find the original source material and try to better make out the scrawls in my margins which might be pointers...I would have written the sources somewhere...

1928:

All picture films shall be graded by the censorship board and marked suitable for "Universal Exhibition" when considered so

1930:

For General Exhibition

Not Suitable for children

1935:

Suitable only for Adults

1949:

SOA - Suitable only for Adults

NRC - Not recommended for Children

G - general

1971:

R - Persons between 6-18 years not admitted

M - 15 Years and older

NRC

1984:

X - 18+ classification

1996:

Advisory:

G - Suitable all ages

PG - Parental guidance Recommended for persons under 15

M15+ - Recommended for Mature audiences 15 years and over

Restricted:

MA15+ - Persons under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian

R18+ - restricted to adults 18 years and over

X18+ - Applies to videos only and contains consensual sexually explicit material. restricted to adults 18 years and over

RC - Refused classification

Help Wanted

John — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:05:00 +0000

I'm trying to get an approximate date of release of an old poster. It has a snipe on it for Monday March 12th

There was a website that showed every year for the last 100 years that had a date of Monday March 12th but the link I had seems to have changed and I now cant find it. Does anyone know of a way of easily finding this information?

Paramount 1950's Daybills

HONDO — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:17:00 +0000

I am currently researching Paramount Pictures daybills and am particularly interested in siting images of any or all of the following four titles if anyone has them.

The titles are ---

BREAKDOWN ( Independent American release )

ORIENTAL EVIL ( Independent American release )

NINTH COMMANDMENT, THE (Released with Italian dialogue with sub titles ) ( released in Italy as Sansualita by Paramount Films Of Italy )

TWO DOLLAR BETTOR ( Independent American release

All the films were released in Sydney, N.S.W. in 1953 by Paramount Pictures.

I have sited the majority of daybills released in Australia in the 1950's but these four titles are indeed hard to track down.

Hondo.

Highest Prices for Australian Movie Posters

John — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:31:00 +0000

I have updated the article on www.ozefilm.com which details the highest prices paid for Australian movie posters.

http://www.ozefilm.com/highest-prices-for-australian-movie-posters/

If you know of anything that should be added please let me know.

Regards

John

Film Daily & The Year Book of Motion Pictures

Charlie — Tue, 13 May 2014 13:51:00 +0000

I bought a 1961 copy of "Film Daily - The Yearbook of Motion Pictures" out of curiosity. I wanted to see what was inside. Well, I discovered there is so much information in each one of these. Theater counts for every country, locations of theaters, every major studio, it lists all the NSS office locations, managers, and store front addresses. Every film released for that year. I was hoping to find re-releases but did not (yet)... I'll post some pictures tonight. I also bought a lot of magazines including "Boxoffice", "International Motion Picture Exhibitor", and "Motion Picture Herald". Will see what they have and report back...

Anyone a member of LAMP as a non dealer?

Charlie — Sat, 03 May 2014 19:03:00 +0000

Just wondering if it has any value.

Want to find out honest movie paper values in a million record database or see 915,000 images?

Bruce — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 12:59:00 +0000

If you somehow don't know (and regularly visit) our Auction History Database at http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html then you need to go one time, because you will quickly join the tens of thousands of others who go there ALL the time! It is 100% free, and you don't have to register to see the images or sales results, and it is completely "sort-able" and "search-able" in every way!

We have just added our ONE MILLIONTH record! This doesn't mean one million auctions, because the database contains all the images from our 43 books, the Hershenson/Allen Archive, plus the fixed priced items from our website and our 1990s sales lists, but it does contain around 921,000 actual auction results. Unlike other databases, EVERY single result is an actual result, where the consignor of that poster was paid for it, in cash. No sales that "fell through", were canceled, prices that were "re-negotiated", etc, etc, (we collect on 99% of our auctions, and on the few where we don't, those results are dropped from the database and the item is re-auctioned and entered after the new sale is paid for).

And because we have auctioned so many items (many times more than ANY other movie paper auction, by a VERY wide margin), you can do what so many dealers and potential buyers do, which is to use it to get a good sense of what you might buy or sell each poster for. On lots and lots of specific posters we have auctioned them ten or twenty or more times, so you can see the "range" that item has sold for over a LOT of sales. And on those titles where we have only sold them one or two times (or none at all, on an ever-shrinking number of items) then you can know for sure that is a very rare item, and incorporate that info into your pricing decision. None of these prices are "guessed at", as they are in any "price guide"! They are actual prices paid, and the result of two bidders bidding against each other, not one bidder against a "reserve".

"Only" 915,000+ of the the one million records have images of the items. Why? Because the vast majority of the missing images are from auctions from 1999 to 2003. At that time we did not have a perfect method of assigning specific names to images, so while we DO have those images, it can be difficult to assign the right image to the right auction. On some of them we CAN determine which belongs to which auction, and on others we can only make a very educated guess, so we are in the process of adding those images back in, and on the ones where we are not 100% sure the images are correct, we add "this may be a stock image" to that image.

As you might imagine, this is a massive project, but we began it some months ago, when we had around 120,000 "missing" images, and we have added back in around 35,000 of them, and we have 85,000 to go, and we will continue to work at it (in our "spare" time) until finally EVERY one of the million records has its image attached! Remember that these are solely images from before 2004. Every record from that point on has the image of the actual item that was auctioned in that auction (because we NEVER use "stock" images on our auctions)!

At some point in the future we may add a "Pay" section to this massive database, but until that time, this Auction History Database at http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archive.html is completely free, so be sure to bookmark it and visit whenever you want to see an image (or know an item's value), but be aware that it can be very addicting, and you may find yourself spending lots of time there!

Learn About Movie Posters

Charlie — Mon, 05 May 2014 16:08:00 +0000

Website "WELCOME to THE ONLY film accessory research network on the internet with multiple sites for different research levels. This site (called LAMP) has hundreds of articles for beginner to intermediate information. For intermediate and advanced research, we have GlobalCinemaResearch.org which also contains our 14 reference books on all areas of film accessories. We also have THE ONLY cross-referenced movie poster research database (MoviePosterDataBase.com) with 100,000 posters online and the largest selection of movie posters online for sale by LAMP APPROVED Dealers. Add an Advanced Member Program, personalized assistance and you have the Learn About Network, geared to help you LEARN how to do RESEARCH for yourself and not be dependent on the conflicting information from all of those "self-proclaimed experts"." They also approve dealers by application including the requirement of two references before being approved.

Vintage Poster Collector Website and Facebook

Charlie — Mon, 05 May 2014 16:02:00 +0000

Great source for all vintage paper dealers, exhibit, forums, etc. Website Facebook Screenshot: