Questions of condition are basic to movie poster collecting. People describe condition differently. I’m not going to try to define these labels like “very fine”, “good”, “near mint” etc. The fact is: What is very fine to one person may be only very good to another. A poster described casually as being in good condition may be very fine to you. The best way to assure that the poster is in the condition you require is to see it.
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This is Part Two in a series by Kirby McDaniel of MovieArt for Jon Warren’s “Movie Poster Guide”. It is reproduced here as a service to collectors with Jon’s permission. Click here for Part Three.
U.S. 30 X 40 and 40 X 60 inch posters
These posters are printed on card stock, generally, and are scarcer than [...]
Movie Art inventory guru Steve Goodwin selects some of his current objects of interest.
8 1/2
Fellini’s 8 1/2 is the director’s surreal commentary on the nature of creativity.
8 1/2 was really Fellini’s opus number for this film. He had made eight films and
one short film by the time he was ready to begin on [...]
Big posters — what is their appeal? Let’s face it. They are more than a handful to deal with. How do you display them? Linen backing is usually necessary. So why? Because they are spectacular. What is primarily needed is space because a six sheet or even a three sheet will utterly dominate even [...]
David Sobey is the bookkeeper and a web associate for MovieArt.
My favorite posters in the MovieArt collection are the beautiful stone lithographs from the early 20th century. Aloys Senefelder invented lithography in Munich in 1798.
The artist begins by drawing freely on a smooth block of limestone with a greasy crayon as well as a greasy [...]
Questions of condition are basic to movie poster collecting. People describe condition differently. I’m not going to try to define these labels like “very fine”, “good”, “near mint” etc. The fact is: What is very fine to one person may be only very good to another. A poster described casually as being in good condition may be very fine to you. The best way to assure that the poster is in the condition you require is to see it.
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