When finances permit, I love being able to collect classic horror posters and lobby cards. I collect on the genre as well as certain actors (primarily Karloff, Lugosi, Rains, Rathbone and Price). Does anyone else here collect classic horror lobby cards and stuff?
Here are some from my collection.
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This is a 1953 reissue card featuring a great image of King Karloff.
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I always loved this lobby card. One thing I am thankful for to the real world was that I was able to finally buy it once I graduated from college because I wasn't constantly broke!
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I had acquired this lobby as part of a trade for a Mad Doctor 3-sheet. I really liked the 3 sheet but had no room for it. However, thanks to Basil, I acquired a lot of sweet stuff in trade for it. Viva la Dynamo Dan!
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The pride and joy of my Claude Rains collection.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b102/Hollenius/P1030216.jpg)
This was a cool find. Bought at a time when a lot of collectors were pooh poohing Realart cards. At the time, it was fine by me. Let them pooh pooh them. I got me a Wolf Man card! ;D
More to come later on...
~JoAnna
JoAnna,
Those are some real gems, fantastic stuff! Thanks for the pics! I want to start pursuing some lobby cards, but the ones I want are $$$! Well, until then I can drool over yours...
Hello, JoAnna! You have great beauties in your collection, treasures indeed. I'll sort through my heaps and see what i can add here--I promise you this, I have some UGLY ones! lol But maybe something of interest anyhow. Thanks for bringing this thread up!
I have WAY more movie paper (lobbies, window cards, one sheets, half sheets, inserts, three sheets, stills, etc.) than I could ever display. Seriously, it's outa hand. Here is some of the stuff on display in the hallway and bathroom. A small sampling of what's throughout the rest of the house. Sorry for the flash and light glare and overall poor quality of these photos.
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Bravo! Bravissiomo!
Quote from: ZOMBOPHOTO on January 23, 2008, 01:53:13 AM
I have WAY more movie paper (lobbies, window cards, one sheets, half sheets, inserts, three sheets, stills, etc.) than I could ever display. Seriously, it's outa hand. Here is some of the stuff on display in the hallway and bathroom. A small sampling of what's throughout the rest of the house. Sorry for the flash and light glare and overall poor quality of these photos.
Wow, you'll never have to paint your walls again, because they are totally covered. You need to hang some from the ceiling.
BK
Shawn probably gets sick of me blathering on about how much I love his collection, but it is truly awe inspiring in person and the reason I collect today. My favorite story to relate about it is that one time I was talking to a mutual friend and somehow the subject of his eating habits came up. I mentioned he eats out a lot and she asked what he keeps in his fridge. I replied "Toys probably!" Sure enough, the next time I was at his apartment, I checked the freezer and there was Mr. Freeze figure and a Wampa in there!! So, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see him with posters on the ceiling at some point. ;D
I've also just recently started to get some vintage paper and actually had a bit of a spending relapse because of it over the weekend. In addition to the "Monster On The Campus" pic I posted elsewhere, I've also got title cards of "The 4D Man", "The Beast With Five Fingers" and (on the way) "The Crawling Eye". Also half sheets of "X-The Man With The X-Ray Eyes", "Horrors Of The Black Museum" and "The Thing That Couldn't Die" and inserts of "Creature With The Atom Brain", "The Unknown Stranger", "The Hand Of Death", "The Devil Commands (re-release) and "I Bury The Living". I'm slowly in the process of getting them framed so they aren't really picture worthy at this point. Perhaps when everything is framed and on the walls, I'll revisit this and post pics.
ZOMBOPHOTO--- hOW AWESOME!
ZOMBOPHOTO-- That is so awesome. My question is where did you get the frames for the Lobby Cards?
Lobby card frames are actually pretty easy to find. Out of all the movie paper they are the easiest to find frames for (well except for stills which are 8' x 10'). Lobby cards are 11' x 14'. If you have a Michael's (arts and crafts store) near you they usually have them pretty cheap. They had a big sale awhile back and I stocked up. Target also sells some decent ones. They are thinner than the ones I normally like to use but they are pretty good. Back when i worked in the movie poster business, at a store here in Atlanta, we used to order them wholesale so that's where most of mine came from.
Thank you for the info. I will check out Michael's
Wow! What great photos, Zombophoto!
I need to do some framing soon. I have the frames, it's just finding the time to really do it correctly. The piece that I really want to frame and hang is my 40x60" poster from "The Comedy of Terrors". That's my "ga ga" piece. I love that poster and I really want that to be the centerpiece of my layout when I do it in the future. It has the same graphics as the one sheet and it's a fabulous Reynold Brown illustration for sure. I just found a copy of the image online for those who are not familiar with it:
(http://www.ilcancello.com/LOCANDINE%20E%20FILM/LOCANDINE/POSTER%20-%20THE%20COMEDY%20OF%20TERRORS.jpg)
Keep the images coming! This is fun! Glad people are enjoying this thread! Robert, whenever you are ready to display your images, go for it! Looking forward to seeing them!
Glad everyone enjoyed the photos.
Dave, thanks for the kind words. Our freezer is much smaller than my old one so there are no more monsters in my fridge. I'm going to have to go put something in there. I do however have my deceased pet chameleon Beulah sealed in a container and in the freezer. She actually made the trip over from the old apartment in a cooler and has been in my freezer now for I guess almost 5 years!! I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with her and well she's just been there ever since. I figure that's probably the strangest thing anyone has in their fridge.
Wow. That's...well, that's pretty messed up. I did not know that. And to think, I thought the missus was special for putting up with the skeleton in the basement! I had no idea there was a corpse upstairs, too!
Btw, I love your signature, which I must assume is from The Tingler.
Tingler it is. That line makes it so much fun to actually see the film in a theater. By the way, when the film played at drive-in theaters this was changed to "Don't panic but honk your horns and flash your lights" or something like that. It may have still included screaming.
A friend of Mary Eva's just found out about the lizard in the freezer and wants to see it next time she's over. I haven't taken it out in a while so that should be interesting. I really keep thinking that I need to put that skeleton (a real human skeleton about 60 or so years old) in a closet somewhere. ;)
Well, Shawn, in spite of the dead Chameleon in the freezer; the place looks great! ;)
Finally got frames for my lobby cards. Still waiting on some for my half sheets, so when those arrive, everything goes on a wall somewhere. But since the thread was supposed to be about lobbies, well, here's what I got...
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very cool Dave, love the Beast With Five Fingers. I've got a bunch of Mexican lobbies I need to get frames for.
Claudin,now thats a poster I've always wanted,Comedy of Terror.Another is the Ghost and Mr Chicken.Got a few myself rolled up in tubes to be displayed when I get a chance to frame them suckers.
I recently started photographing my collection, but only have gotten so far and haven't gotten to lobby cards yet
Still , I did shoot these goodies
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Quote from: ZOMBOPHOTO on January 29, 2008, 04:19:17 PM
I really keep thinking that I need to put that skeleton (a real human skeleton about 60 or so years old) in a closet somewhere.
Dear Shawn. Without incriminating yourself, how does one obtain a 60 yr old human skeleton? And please don't tell me eBay. :D
Oh it's just something I dug up somewhere... ;)
No actually back when i was setting up at a local antiques show a dealer friend of mine knew I liked the "weird stuff " and asked me if I would be interested in a human skeleton. Of course! Turns out that he was at a garage sale and got to talking to the lady and she was a retired science teacher. She took him down into her basement and sold him some other stuff that she had. Well one of those things was this skeleton. It's a real human skeleton that she kept in her classroom. The thing's not in the best shape because it's seen a lot of use over the years. We don't know exactly how old it is but judging by how long she had had it we're guessing between 60 and 70 years old. One of the cool things about it is that it's missing the upper bone on the right arm and someone carved a replacement out of wood at some point! It even came with the metal rack that it hangs from. If I could get to that part of my basement ;) I'd take some photos of it.