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.