I recently picked up two collections. One had 140 daybills, the other 5000 daybills and one sheets. In both collections, there were posters that I had never seen before. There are lots more collections still to surface as people discover posters under floor coverings, etc.
Nice one. I'll keep my eyes open on moviemen.com! How us the rebuild/migration of your website coming along? Hope its going ok.
I recently picked up two collections. One had 140 daybills, the other 5000 daybills and one sheets. In both collections, there were posters that I had never seen before. There are lots more collections still to surface as people discover posters under floor coverings, etc.
Nice one. I'll keep my eyes open on moviemen.com! How us the rebuild/migration of your website coming along? Hope its going ok.
I have actually already sold most of the first collection and quite a lot from the second. I was surprised at how quickly many of them went but there were some rare ones amongst them. The site has been migrated to another server. All is good at the moment (touch wood!).
A couple of years ago I called into a large antique and old wares store while away on holidays. When I entered the building no one was to be found so I commenced to call out and look around the premises. I decided to walk to the far end of the building and then heard some voices so I turned a corner and entered into a large room where two men were talking. To my surprise and delight they were standing over a large pile of unfolded daybill posters on a table and on either side of the pile were two large boxes of film posters also.
Apparently as told by the owner he had only just purchased the large collection of daybills, one sheets and lobby cards that had been collected by a previous country theatre owner. The now owner of the collection was being pestered by the other person to sell him some of the posters he had removed from the collection including the pick of the lot a daybill of The Endless Summer but to no avail. The decision the proprietor had made was not to rush into selling any of the collection until he did a lot of research into film posters as he didn't have a clue about this product but in his mind he had a goldmine in his possession and he had the rest of his life to decide how to sell them.He said possibly would get a few framed to start off with and display them in the store somewhere to sell.
I informed the owner I had some knowledge on the subject and would he mind me going through the collection and giving him an idea regarding the importance and value. He begrudgingly said yes and I then sorted through the collection. After some considerable time I completed the task and then informed him I believed the collection was almost all from the 1960s and 1970s with a small amount from the 1950s. I also informed the now owner that I believed the person who had sold him the collection had removed the majority of posters of value and sold him what was left over with this being posters either very common in the marketplace, B titles and inferior drawn posters. My information fell on deaf ears I feel as he still believed he was sitting on a goldmine and no one would tell him otherwise.
I left the store with the other person remaining to continue to pester the owner to sell him the posters he had picked out. I rang the owner a month later out of couriosity to see how things were going. I was told he had done nothing as yet with the posters and wasn't in any great hurry to do so. When asked about the other man who was there on the day I visited he said he ended up selling one poster to him to get rid of him. The poster was The Endless Summer and he sold it at a very undervalued price so the guy got a real bargain as his pestering paid off.
I think we all can recount a tale or wo of someone who comes across somr 'old/vintage/rare' posters who now think they have just had an Antiques Roadshow moment.
A comment I wish to make is that although it appears hoarding of Australian movie posters for whatever reason appears widespread here in Australia there is some good news all the same.I have been collecting Australia daybill images for about 18 years and over the last 12 months I believe more previously unseen poster images have turned up in this period than from the total images spotted from the previous two or three years. In the last couple of weeks alone I have discovered around 20 or so images previously to my knowledge unseen. There is hope that someday some of previously unseen classic daybill film posters will surface that we would all like to see..
It's only on the low end of the scale, but I've been dealing with a lady who picked up several boxes of posters at an estate sale. Definite hoarder - the fellow who passed away had half a dozen (or more) copies of some titles. The wife informed this lady that she'd be doing her "a favour" by taking the posters off her hands as they'd be heading "to the dump" if someone did't take them!!
No OMG posters, but some exploitation titles I'd not seen before from the 70s.
About 5 years ago I bought two apple boxes full of folded daybills (roughly 1200) for $400.
99% junk and was losing heart fast, when Halloween 1sht turned up at the bottom and saved the day!
Sometimes the gamble pays off, unlike the antique dealer at Hazelbrook Hondo referred to. He's since gone out of business and probably still has the posters. There were older ones in the lot including Go West, Philadelphia Story & Ice Follies of 1939. All backed to board and near worthless.
About 5 years ago I bought two apple boxes full of folded daybills (roughly 1200) for $400.
99% junk and was losing heart fast, when Halloween 1sht turned up at the bottom and saved the day!
Sometimes the gamble pays off, unlike the antique dealer at Hazelbrook Hondo referred to. He's since gone out of business and probably still has the posters. There were older ones in the lot including Go West, Philadelphia Story & Ice Follies of 1939. All backed to board and near worthless.
Yessir, them piles of crap are fun to go through - winsumlosesum - still fun.
Yes it is fun. The guy at Hazelbrook was reluctant for me to have a look at his boxes of posters but relented when I said I would give him an idea , as he knew absolutely nothing about film posters. of what he had in the boxes. Apart from a nice copy of The Endless Summer daybill there wasn't anything much to get excited about. I believe the person he bought them from had taken out all of the valuable posters then just sold off the large amount of average to rubbish posters to the buyer who thought he was sitting on a goldmine.
I offered him $1K for the lot which was generous. He was asking $3K. The backed posters were found under St James theatre, which I think was demolished. I've seen other early posters from the same cinema including GWTW.
I just bought a couple hundred press sheets from the '50s / '60s over the weekend. Thrill of the hunt is always fun. Almost overlooked MM sheet as movie never gets mentioned.
sure seems like a large enough population for more posters to be around.
David was attempting to be funny. Around the time the 1934 film was released in Australia, circa 1934, the population here was around 6,677,361 people. In 2016 the Australian population was 24.13 million and in New Zealand it was 4.693 million.
that makes a huge difference. The population of all the New England states (or less actually) over a land mass the size of the USA. You folks need to start looking out at the farther areas where there are more barns, outbuildings and lonely theatres..
For what it is worth Bruce lists it as a 30s poster but of course that may just be due to the film being 1934 - it was not an auction item but one of his leasable high resolution images - http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/743074.html
I agree it does look like a typical 40s Paramount but maybe it is a trimmed and restored long daybill?...hard to say just from this photo.
sure seems like a large enough population for more posters to be around.
David was attempting to be funny. Around the time the 1934 film was released in Australia, circa 1934, the population here was around 6,677,361 people. In 2016 the Australian population was 24.13 million and in New Zealand it was 4.693 million.
For what it is worth Bruce lists it as a 30s poster but of course that may just be due to the film being 1934 - it was not an auction item but one of his leasable high resolution images - http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/743074.html
I agree it does look like a typical 40s Paramount but maybe it is a trimmed and restored long daybill?...hard to say just from this photo.
I asked some questions of VMPF regarding the poster and I have received a reply back, which in part says as they didn't auction this poster they can't say for certain what the size of the poster is, or if it was backed and possibly may have extended to the borders.With this in mind and using the trimmed colourbar in the photo as a mesasuring device I was informed it looks roughly to be 14 1/2'' x 35''. Taken all this into account it is safe to say the daybill would have originally been a long daybill. As long daybille ceased being printed by the end 1941, it means this poster is no later than 1941.The poster's printers and Paramonnt Pictures extended credit information is within the poster and they cover four lines. As this form of credits ceased in 1941, when two lines only of credits was introduced for a very short span of time, this poster is again confirmed as being produced no later that 1941. Cleopatra was released in Australia in late 1934, so the daybill was either printed as an original 1934 first release poster or it was a re-release in the late 1930's or in 1940 or 1941. Something else to point out is that the ''If It's A Paramount Picture It's The Best Show In Town'' quote on the poster appears to have ceased being used on Paramount daybill posters by the end of 1938.This added information should further narrow down the poster as having being printed between 1934 and 1938.
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Also when a collector passes away and the family aren't as interested in the collection and / or are in need of money.
A couple of years ago I called into a large antique and old wares store while away on holidays. When I entered the building no one was to be found so I commenced to call out and look around the premises. I decided to walk to the far end of the building and then heard some voices so I turned a corner and entered into a large room where two men were talking. To my surprise and delight they were standing over a large pile of unfolded daybill posters on a table and on either side of the pile were two large boxes of film posters also.
Apparently as told by the owner he had only just purchased the large collection of daybills, one sheets and lobby cards that had been collected by a previous country theatre owner. The now owner of the collection was being pestered by the other person to sell him some of the posters he had removed from the collection including the pick of the lot a daybill of The Endless Summer but to no avail. The decision the proprietor had made was not to rush into selling any of the collection until he did a lot of research into film posters as he didn't have a clue about this product but in his mind he had a goldmine in his possession and he had the rest of his life to decide how to sell them.He said possibly would get a few framed to start off with and display them in the store somewhere to sell.
I informed the owner I had some knowledge on the subject and would he mind me going through the collection and giving him an idea regarding the importance and value. He begrudgingly said yes and I then sorted through the collection. After some considerable time I completed the task and then informed him I believed the collection was almost all from the 1960s and 1970s with a small amount from the 1950s. I also informed the now owner that I believed the person who had sold him the collection had removed the majority of posters of value and sold him what was left over with this being posters either very common in the marketplace, B titles and inferior drawn posters. My information fell on deaf ears I feel as he still believed he was sitting on a goldmine and no one would tell him otherwise.
I left the store with the other person remaining to continue to pester the owner to sell him the posters he had picked out. I rang the owner a month later out of couriosity to see how things were going. I was told he had done nothing as yet with the posters and wasn't in any great hurry to do so. When asked about the other man who was there on the day I visited he said he ended up selling one poster to him to get rid of him. The poster was The Endless Summer and he sold it at a very undervalued price so the guy got a real bargain as his pestering paid off.
I think we all can recount a tale or wo of someone who comes across somr 'old/vintage/rare' posters who now think they have just had an Antiques Roadshow moment.
No OMG posters, but some exploitation titles I'd not seen before from the 70s.
Those boxes of posters are still out there...
About 5 years ago I bought two apple boxes full of folded daybills (roughly 1200) for $400.
99% junk and was losing heart fast, when Halloween 1sht turned up at the bottom and saved the day!
Sometimes the gamble pays off, unlike the antique dealer at Hazelbrook Hondo referred to. He's since gone out of business and probably still has the posters. There were older ones in the lot including Go West, Philadelphia Story & Ice Follies of 1939. All backed to board and near worthless.
Yes it is fun. The guy at Hazelbrook was reluctant for me to have a look at his boxes of posters but relented when I said I would give him an idea , as he knew absolutely nothing about film posters. of what he had in the boxes. Apart from a nice copy of The Endless Summer daybill there wasn't anything much to get excited about. I believe the person he bought them from had taken out all of the valuable posters then just sold off the large amount of average to rubbish posters to the buyer who thought he was sitting on a goldmine.
I offered him $1K for the lot which was generous. He was asking $3K. The backed posters were found under St James theatre, which I think was demolished. I've seen other early posters from the same cinema including GWTW.
I just bought a couple hundred press sheets from the '50s / '60s over the weekend. Thrill of the hunt is always fun. Almost overlooked MM sheet as movie never gets mentioned.
Cleopatra is a killer, colourful and looks 3D. For a 40s poster....job well done!
Is it 30's I don't know.
Yes it does look 40's. I'll see what I can turn up.
I agree it does look like a typical 40s Paramount but maybe it is a trimmed and restored long daybill?...hard to say just from this photo.
Taken all this into account it is safe to say the daybill would have originally been a long daybill. As long daybille ceased being printed by the end 1941, it means this poster is no later than 1941.The poster's printers and Paramonnt Pictures extended credit information is within the poster and they cover four lines. As this form of credits ceased in 1941, when two lines only of credits was introduced for a very short span of time, this poster is again confirmed as being produced no later that 1941.
Cleopatra was released in Australia in late 1934, so the daybill was either printed as an original 1934 first release poster or it was a re-release in the late 1930's or in 1940 or 1941.
Something else to point out is that the ''If It's A Paramount Picture It's The Best Show In Town'' quote on the poster appears to have ceased being used on Paramount daybill posters by the end of 1938.This added information should further narrow down the poster as having being printed between 1934 and 1938.