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Collecting Basics Part 1: The Basics

Producers have been advertising the films they produce by every means conceivable since the first producer decided to splice his footage together, load it onto a projector, set up a screen and some chairs and sell tickets. Film trailers, handbills, heralds, radio and TV spots, sneak previews and the revered publicity stunts of the great showmen of the past have all played a role in getting the attention of the public when a film needed selling.

Collecting Basics, Part 2: More Sizes

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 [...]

Collecting Basics, Part 3: Condition

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.

Kirby’s Big Posters

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 [...]

Employee Picks: Steve’s Favs

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 [...]

Employee Picks: David’s Stone Litho Favorites

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 [...]

Poster Linen-backing and Restoration

We asked an experienced restorer, Diane Jeffrey, of Studio C in Vista, California to give a brief overview of the linen-backing process for a one sheet poster.   Linen-backing does not actually involve real linen of any kind, although at one time conservators did use it.  Today most restorers working with film posters use an [...]

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