Film Posters. Anyone collect them?

[sandeano]

A bit of a hobby I've had for 40-odd years and, although I mostly stopped around the time the mortgage and the kid many years ago I still have a couple of thousand of them.

Here's a few of my faves



Anyone else a collector?

 

[BEaston]

not me, but a couple of thousand is impressive.

 

[ricardogp]

When I was at uni in the 90s I used to collect them. For me it was a golden time with some great posters. Jurassic Park, seven, Terminator 2, Pulp Fiction, Good fellas, Traffic.

But they are all lost now. Collateral damage of growing up.

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[MrsEddieBetts]

I don't, but I love seeing other people's interests! Were they all purchased? I imagine that cinemas would give them away after they didn't need them anymore?

 

[Shell]

Not myself but I remember sorting and selling those sons of bitches occasionally when I worked at Hoyts.

 

[sandeano]

I don't, but I love seeing other people's interests! Were they all purchased? I imagine that cinemas would give them away after they didn't need them anymore?

Most were purchased, yes.

Usually, theatres would send them back to the distributor when the film had finished there, unless they had been pasted to the outside walls (as was often the case, with the new ones pasted over). The ones given away were generally those too damaged to be reused. It was probably not until the 1980s that studios realised there was money to be made in actually selling them to the public.

Here's one I found in the basement of the old Cinema Italia in Clifton Hill before they demolished it. The poster is massive - the size of a door and I put it together from screwed up pieces that had been shoved into empty film cans to stop them rattling.

 

[spinynorman]

I had posters for 8 1/2 and Roman Holiday, as well as the best of what I could scrounge working at a pretty commercial multiplex at the end of the 2000s (Inglourious Basterds, Inception) but I moved far too many times during my 20s and 30s to really sustain the issue of fully decorating my abodes - even my couple thousand DVDs had to go into storage. I've finally settled into a one bedroom with my partner this year so it'd be nice to start building it.

A bit of a hobby I've had for 40-odd years and, although I mostly stopped around the time the mortgage and the kid many years ago I still have a couple of thousand of them.

Here's a few of my faves

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Anyone else a collector?

Some of these must've cost a mint! Are those 1940s originals for Double Indemnity, Dead of Night and Passport to Pimlico?

 

[sandeano]

Some of these must've cost a mint! Are those 1940s originals for Double Indemnity, Dead of Night and Passport to Pimlico?

They are, yes. Bought back in the halcyon days of being single and with disposable income!

 

[Gasometer]

There used to be a shop in Elizabeth Street that sold them

I have a huge laminated one of The English Patient somewhere or had…I have an original Empire Strikes Back

I also have a Raiders of the Lost Ark souvenir booklet which I believe my stupid Yr 7 self may have cut stuff out of in 1981, so it’s not mint

 

[Cookie]

I have a few. All linen backed and framed.

 

[Roobs321]

the Fox Studios precinct next to the SCG became a big thing whilst I was growing up. Recall obtaining (likely non-original) posters of The Terminator & Alien (faves then & now) for my teenage bedroom (since lost to the years). But yeah, haven’t really done the movie memorabilia thing, and have moved too many times so tend towards minimalism.

 

[sandeano]

A few more for the month of Halloween...

 

[74561347]

i have 26 of these

 

[Billy ray]

i had an original beverly hills cop one from the cinema but lost it in 1991 ish when the family moved house

 

[Dan Moody]

Mate, you look like you love your old Universal horror movies from the 30's and 40's.
My story is similar to yours, collected close to a hundred back in the mid to late 80's early 90's before disposable income became a luxury.
Had a 1950's Gone With The Wind reprint as well as a Wizard of Oz reprint from the 60's.
Somewhere in the garage I have reprints of:

• The Wolfman (1941)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Dracula (1930)
• King Kong (1933)
• London After Midnight (1927), managed to pick this up at Minotaur in Elizabeth St back in 1988

And several other Universal horror films from the 30's and 40's.
No originals unfortunately and wouldn't imagine the reprints are worth anymore than I purchased them for.

 

[sandeano]

Mate, you look like you love your old Universal horror movies from the 30's and 40's.
My story is similar to yours, collected close to a hundred back in the mid to late 80's early 90's before disposable income became a luxury.
Had a 1950's Gone With The Wind reprint as well as a Wizard of Oz reprint from the 60's.
Somewhere in the garage I have reprints of:

• The Wolfman (1941)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Dracula (1930)
• King Kong (1933)
• London After Midnight (1927), managed to pick this up at Minotaur in Elizabeth St back in 1988

And several other Universal horror films from the 30's and 40's.
No originals unfortunately and wouldn't imagine the reprints are worth anymore than I purchased them for.

Yes!

That's probably where my love of cinema began, watching the Universal horrors when Channel 7 would screen them back in the early 80s, late on Friday nights.

My dad worked for a company called Tomfoolery at the time that sold a heap of those reprint posters and he brought a lot home for me that I had all over my bedroom wall.

At the same time I discovered a shop in Swanston St called Space Age books that sold a lot of originals for very low prices so would pool my pocket money. Batman records would also do that same and a shop in South Yarra called Hollywood and Vine (all, sadly, long gone). Then came Moviola - first under the stairs at the old Valhalla Cinema in Richmond, then in the Midcity Arcade and finally in Little Collins Street. Plus the Chapel St. Bazaar, old cinemas that closed (the Chelsea, the Footscray Grand etc). And auctions (including Bills Collins' collection)

Great times. It was something i did with my dad and apart from the lack of disposable income from a child and a mortgage i also pretty much stopped when he died. Just no longer felt the same.

I always hoped my daughter would share the interest but it was not to be. Considering now saving the best ten for her inheritance and selling the rest off and financing a nice, long holiday.

 

[sandeano]

Here is one found under the carpet of a former projectionist of the Gardenvale Theatre. Instead of underlay, he used old film posters. When he died the family ripped up the carpet and found them. A number of them ended up with me.

It is difficult to see in this picture but there is a woodgrain pattern from the floorboards running through the poster.

 

[sandeano]

This from the shed behind the old Garfield Theatre (sadly this film - a hit in 1927 - no longer exists)