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Showing results 11 - 20 of 37 for the category: Advertising.
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James Bond Memorabilia (11/4/08)
Experts Say James Bond Memorabilia Value is Rising
By Allan Maurer
Reuters reports that the value of James Bond memorabilia has “shot up.”
“There is a high level of collector interest in original Bond movie posters,” Astrid Zweynert writes.
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Circus Posters — Authentic or Reproduction (11/3/08)
 So you’ve just found the most amazing circus poster online and want to bid on it. Or maybe you are thinking about buying one at an antique mall. How do you know it is real? Could it be a reproduction? You aren’t sure. What can you do?
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100 Horror Film Posters (10/30/08)
 100 Horror Film Posters
By Allan Maurer
Now here’s a treat. Andrew Lindstrom’s blog “Well Medicated” displays 100 horror film posters.
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The Bride of Frankenstein (10/29/08)
Universal Horror: The Bride of Frankenstein
By Allan Maurer
Beginning in the silent era with “Phantom of the Opera” and “Hunchback of Notre Dame” with Lon Chaney, Sr., Universal Pictures made a series of classic horror films starring the Frankenstein monster, Dracula, the Werewolf, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man that ran through the 1940s.
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Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters (10/28/08)
 Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters
By Allan Maurer
There are those who felt the series of Abbott & Costello meet the monsters films that began with “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” in 1948 and continuing through “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy” in 1955 were an inglorious end to the Universal Studios monster series.
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Lewton’s B Horror Movies (10/27/08)
Curse of the B Horror Movie
By Allan Maurer
Back in the 1942, RKO studios gave producer Val Lewton a piddling $150,000 and a title, “The Cat People.” Lewton made up for the lack of a decent special effects budget by keeping all the suspense scenes wrapped in shadows.
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Early Car Makers Desired Hit Song to Boost Sales (10/13/08)
 Early Car Makers Desired Hit Song to Boost Sales
By Dave Bausch
In the field of Automobilia, the one subject most collected is advertising. Advertising took many forms: posters, prints, toys, magazine ads, postcards just to name a few. But the one that most of the automobile makers yearned for was to have their specific model of car depicted on sheet music.
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Movie poster artists: Charles Addams (10/7/08)
 A number of artists best known for their work in other fields also did at least some movie posters.
Today, Charles Addams is best known for creating the “Addams Family,” as familiar to us now through the two movies and the television show as through the dark humor of his weird New Yorker cartoons.
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Forbidden Planet: The Most Coveted Poster (9/23/08)
 In a recent issue of a monthly newspaper dedicated to movie poster collecting, five of seven dealers used the one-sheet from 1957’s “Forbidden Planet” showing Robbie the Robot cradling sexy Anne Francis in his metallic arms as a prominent part of their ad.
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