movieman1962
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Hi, it is me, Robert, who has posted about my large collection. I have been away for a few years because I have been battling cancer. Thank God after a horrible long fight I beat it. My pressbooks have been in storage. To answer your question I have…
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About three months ago, I was on Facebook and I started a chat with someone who lives in San Francisco whose family had owned 4 of the theaters in town from the early 30's up until he sold them in the late 50's ( he says 2 of them are gone now). He …
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Chuck, I see you collect pressbooks too. I am always on the lookout and have a huge collection, maybe you might have some extras or duplicates you might want to trade contact me anytime. Rob
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Sorry it is just a message for someone who did a rotten thing to me yesterday involving items, and I just wanted to post here so that person knows that I know who it is. I apologize for having to do it publicly.
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Boy I have to say there are probably many great and good people here on this site, but one of them who isn't that really did a rotten thing yesterday. I am not the type of person to post details because unlike this person, I act like I am older than…
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Roxy please give me a call at 218-404-4120 or email me at mntwister@yahoo.com. (Robert)
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I will be more than happy to spend some time posting some of these new items as I did above. It is going to take me some time as I have to go through all of these and catalog them into my collection. I just purchased 4 more shelving units and 2,000 …
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Wow, David thanks for the previous post. Fascinating to see.
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I am still going through them I am at around 180 now out of about 900 (I am cataloguing them as I go) and I have so far found one called The Werewolf directed by a Henry McRae 1913 (looks like a short from a Bison films as it says 19 minutes but di…
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The problem with me is when I look at photos of these theaters, I love them so much but also get filled with alot of sadness at how many are gone and what we have to srttle for today
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It actually cost me less than $8.00 per pressbook because I bought all of them instead of picking, then they would have been about $20-35.00 a piece. It was still alot of money for me but I couldn't pass this up as it really helped my collection to …
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Wow this is an incredible thread, my mouth just waters looking at the shelves at NSS filled with the goodies. There is an independent exchange left (It is called Movie Poster Service in Canton, Oklahoma) and they told me they had tons of pressbooks,…
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Welcome Ted, I just joined not too long ago and am really enjoying this, great people and so much posted previously to read! Love it!
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(Quote) I don't know what that is, I would assume it is a poster of some kind.
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Bruce, thanks for all of the information. Looking at that shopping mall picture above, those letters of the title are the logo for the film, do you think it was Fox that provided these letters if theaters wanted them? Would that have been through NS…
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Boy I'd love to have that Dominion display above my house hehe.
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Thanks Bruce, but do you think then that Fox just sent all those roadshow theaters sheets of advertising (they had alot of full page New York Times ads the same as the small pressbook) without any publicity stories or merchandising or anything for t…
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Wow these are fascinating and exciting.
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Welcome Chuck, nice to see another pressbook collector on board. This is a great forum I plan on being more active now that I have more time but I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I have.
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Last month Bruce at Emovieposter had the animated auctions and I won probably the most sought after titles, the ORIGINAL huge pressbooks for Bambi, Fantasia, Dumbo, Saludas Amigos, Sleeping Beauty, The Reluctant Dragon, and Pinocchio. It cost me a f…
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Thanks everyone for checking in and the nice words.....my grandfather used to work for the UNiversal and RKO exchanges in Winnipeg since the 30's and my mom worked at Paramount in Winnipeg as a splicer and editor. I guess I got the bug. I always fou…
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Here are some new pressbooks I have. I just won a major portion of the Disney pressbooks on Bruce's site, Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, Fantasia, all original releases. I also purchased a set of 600 titles from the 20's and 30's and in there were about …
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It does seem that there are more 30's up for sale when they do show up than 1940's, which is really strange, I also have more 30's than 40's. I too keep looking for more 40's to show up.
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Thanks, looking forward to it!
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Never knew that Bruce. But it does make sense because that is around the time they started to change. When I look at my pressbook , for instance, of Cover Girl, which is 16 x 22 and over 50 pages, it amazes me the difference between those and the 5…
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It's a shame what happened to the pressbook. The 30's were beautiful pressbooks with many color covers and some of them could have 50 pages or more. Up to the mid 40's many good ones. Then they started to change, and many studios developed a kind of…
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For me one of them was Clockwork Orange. It's just so violent and my idea of entertainment is not to watch senior citizens beat up. Just can't figure out the draw of the film.
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David, yes I have purchased many from Emovieposter and have added some beautis to my collection from the site and Bruce and I have talked several times about pressbooks.
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I will post some of the covers soon. It's so nice to be among other fans here. I look forward to alot of great conversation here.
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My pressbooks come from ther 1920's through the early 80's when they stopped producing them and the theater chains did their own advertising. My collection has the most pressbooks from the 70's and as you go back each decade, there are less in each …
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