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Movie Posters—Out Of The Closet

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November 27, 2012 1:00 AM
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Friends have asked why my wife and I are auctioning a number of rare posters and lobby cards with Heritage Auctions later this week. Answer: we’re trying to simplify our lives. We haven’t taken anything off the walls that we live with every day and enjoy; there’s just too much “stuff” stashed in cabinets and closets.

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March 7, 2012 11:34 AM
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I don’t know if everyone shares my fascination with flip books, but I’ve never outgrown my youthful fondness for them. In recent years I’ve tracked down a number of unusual movie-related examples, but I’d never seen or even heard of one featuring Harpo Marx, let alone Chico and Marilyn Monroe! Now, thanks to fellow pop-culture fan, cartoonist and illustrator Drew Friedman, I’ve been exposed to the amazing Flip-O-Vision series. There were sixty of these in all, which did require assembly: you had to cut

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January 18, 2012 1:00 AM
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Some years ago I found a genuine vintage Sons of the Desert fez in the archives of the venerable Western Costume Company, which you can see up top. The newly-produced model from Fez-o-Rama is different, but has the approval of the international Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, also called Sons of the Desert. Although changes were made, they were done by Fez-o-Rama’s designer (and founder) Jason Rodgers after much careful thought.

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November 14, 2011 10:55 AM
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A soldier turned his camera on Betty Hutton during a USO show in 1944. AMPAS

Film archivists and documentary filmmakers have come to value home movies as a valuable document of 20^th century American life. But when those 8mm or 16mm films were taken by (and of) famous figures in Hollywood history it piques the curiosity of movie nuts like me. At last year’s TCM Classic Film Festival, Joan Crawford’s grandson introduced some of his famous grandmother’s personal footage. A documentary on Humphrey Bogart drew on the movies he actually shot of his children growing up. And Basil Rathbone’s footage on the set of The Adventures of Robin Hood has been a fan favorite on several home-video releases of the classic swashbuckler.

Not long ago, on National Home Movie Day, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held an open house for the screening of “regular” folks’ home movies during the day and a sold-out showing of vintage Hollywood films at night.

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July 26, 2011 4:29 AM
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As I’ve now learned, there are many ways to experience the San Diego Comic-Con: attending panels with giants from the world of comics, lining up to see previews of hot movies and TV shows with A-list stars and filmmakers, or doing what I did: cruising the mammoth exhibition floor for two days to take in the astonishing display of collectibles. (I also ran into old friends, made some new ones, and saw people costumed in ways one could scarcely imagine anywhere else on earth.) The first showcase that caught my eye was a shelf lined with retro rocket ship models from Cool Rockets. I’ve got nothing against modern-day fantasy and science-fiction films but having grown up with Flash Gordon I’ve got a—

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July 8, 2011 4:00 AM
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Vintage Movie Posters and Movie Poster Books

Bruce Hershenson is one of the most hard-working and entrepreneurial movie-poster dealers in the world. While he masterminds four ‘mini/major’ annual auctions of high-end memorabilia, he also conducts weekly auctions on his website. One-sheets, lobby cards,

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July 7, 2011 4:06 AM
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Movie Posters - Original & Vintage

John Hazelton has been selling movie posters since the days of “old-school” printed catalogs. Now he’s online and you never know what he’s going to dig up next,
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