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Re: The Science Fiction Quiz
Thanks then Bruce for your reason for not contributing here in recent times. More entries from the 1950's and 1960's (little product produce before then) will be presented here in the future, starting with the next up two. By the way the yet unanswered 249 is from the 1950s.Bruce said:I was just thinking about this. In my case it is that you seem to have moved more to 1970s on movies, which I am just not very familiar with at all.
HONDO
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Re: New Members, Please Introduce Yourself!
Hi there! Mikel from Seattle here, happy to be a new member of the community. I've been selling vinyl records on the 'net for decades, but will soon be venturing into NSS posters as well and want to soak up as much info as I can before starting that venture. I've always been an NSS collector myself, so getting a wealth of knowledge around this is very exciting.
A bit about me:
Worked in Industrial Sales (factory automation/electrical wholesale) for 35 years, but have been a collector for much longer, and started selling vinyl records on the internet in 1980, using Netscape Navigator Gold to build my first (text based) website. Continued to buy and sell (mostly buy!) for a few decades, amassing an inventory of about 60,000 vinyl records (only 30k of them online at this point). Then COVID happened. I continued to work my day job (mostly from home) but because the kids couldn't get out to record stores, my online sales BOOMED. I mean... BOOMED! In the course of a few months, I was able to pay off my mortgage. Told my boss I'd mentor & train others for a year, but then I was "retiring" at 60 to build out mightyvinyl.com, travel, and buy more stuff!
Posters (NSS only of course!) have been an enduring obsession. I worked in a video store in college, and called an NSS office (probably in California) in 1983 and set up an account. They were very clear that I had to have a video store or theater in order to purchase. I only made one purchase (I was living a poor starving student life at that point) but it was a good one:
40x60 Star Wars reissue R820106 with the "Revenge Of The Jedi" banner in the lower corner
40x60 Videodrom 830004
40x60 Road Warrior 820083
40x60 Tootsie (no idea now why but it seemed like a good idea at the time)
lobby card sets for Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Star Wars.
Anyway, I think it was a pretty good investment, and most are framed around the house with the exception of Tootsie (and the lobby cards).
Long story short: last year I met a wonderful old fella up here in the PNW who has a movie theater in his house with both 35mm and 70mm projection, and Altec Lansing sound system, and hundreds of original prints. He showed me a cancelled check from Quentin Tarrentino from a purchase QT made of 2 or 3 prints. He had tons of folded posters, lobby cards, press books, etc. I ended up buying most of what he had for sale and will eventually be trying to restore/linen back some of my favorites, and selling the majority via eBay.
So.... that's probably WAY MORE than you really wanted to know, but there ya' go!
Here's a few of my faves, as well as my most prized poster - a 40x60 UK Subway poster for Kate Bush The Dreaming. Never seen another!
A bit about me:
Worked in Industrial Sales (factory automation/electrical wholesale) for 35 years, but have been a collector for much longer, and started selling vinyl records on the internet in 1980, using Netscape Navigator Gold to build my first (text based) website. Continued to buy and sell (mostly buy!) for a few decades, amassing an inventory of about 60,000 vinyl records (only 30k of them online at this point). Then COVID happened. I continued to work my day job (mostly from home) but because the kids couldn't get out to record stores, my online sales BOOMED. I mean... BOOMED! In the course of a few months, I was able to pay off my mortgage. Told my boss I'd mentor & train others for a year, but then I was "retiring" at 60 to build out mightyvinyl.com, travel, and buy more stuff!
Posters (NSS only of course!) have been an enduring obsession. I worked in a video store in college, and called an NSS office (probably in California) in 1983 and set up an account. They were very clear that I had to have a video store or theater in order to purchase. I only made one purchase (I was living a poor starving student life at that point) but it was a good one:
40x60 Star Wars reissue R820106 with the "Revenge Of The Jedi" banner in the lower corner
40x60 Videodrom 830004
40x60 Road Warrior 820083
40x60 Tootsie (no idea now why but it seemed like a good idea at the time)
lobby card sets for Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Star Wars.
Anyway, I think it was a pretty good investment, and most are framed around the house with the exception of Tootsie (and the lobby cards).
Long story short: last year I met a wonderful old fella up here in the PNW who has a movie theater in his house with both 35mm and 70mm projection, and Altec Lansing sound system, and hundreds of original prints. He showed me a cancelled check from Quentin Tarrentino from a purchase QT made of 2 or 3 prints. He had tons of folded posters, lobby cards, press books, etc. I ended up buying most of what he had for sale and will eventually be trying to restore/linen back some of my favorites, and selling the majority via eBay.
So.... that's probably WAY MORE than you really wanted to know, but there ya' go!
Here's a few of my faves, as well as my most prized poster - a 40x60 UK Subway poster for Kate Bush The Dreaming. Never seen another!
Re: Opinion on poster are they reproductions
Try to give us titles and dimensions. That is usually the easiest clue.
For example, anything 11x17" is invariably a repro. If it is pre 1990 and measures 27x40, it is also either a repro or a late re-release poster.
Most early 1 sheets measure 27x41" and are folded. Later stuff tends to be rolled, but there are numerous exceptions.
Beyond that, we need more specific information.
For example, anything 11x17" is invariably a repro. If it is pre 1990 and measures 27x40, it is also either a repro or a late re-release poster.
Most early 1 sheets measure 27x41" and are folded. Later stuff tends to be rolled, but there are numerous exceptions.
Beyond that, we need more specific information.
jayn_j
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Re: New Members, Please Introduce Yourself!
Welcome Mike and thank you for sharing some of your history.
HONDO
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Re: The Horror Quiz
O.k. then as time is up I will now reveal the two answers for the yet unanswered images. 353 are Silent Scream from 1979 and 354 The Day It Came to Earth from 1977.
HONDO
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Re: Hondo's This And That
IYour reasoning is very sound, I think it's an Australian one sheet too.
Re: The Science Fiction Quiz
To finish it off, I guess 249 is Five from 1951. Just an image search though. Don't know the film
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