LearnAboutMoviePosters.com April 19, 2019 ASTON’S ENTERTAINMENT & MEMORABILIA AUCTION- MAY 2, 2019 Astons Auctioneers Dudley will present their Entertainment & Memorabilia Auction on May 2, 2019. It will feature cinema posters, vinyl records, comic books, film props, autographs, sports memorabilia and much more! Auction highlights include a great selection of James Bond cinema posters plus many more Bond posters and props. See Page 3. LAST CHANCE TO CONSIGN EMOVIEPOSTER.COM’S LAMP UNVEILS JUNE MAJOR AUCTION NEW POSTER ARTISTS IDENTIFICATION LOG, UPDATES CHANGES TO LAMP’S MEMBER SECTION! See Page 8 UPCOMING EVENTS/DEADLINES Deadline for Consignmed Items to be shipped for April 26, 2019 eMovieposter.com June Major Auction Aston’s Auctioneers Entertainment & Memorabilia May 2, 2019 Auction May 9, 2019 Aste Bolaffi Poster Auction Bonhams/TCM Presents ... 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The LAMPPOST is a publication of LearnAboutMoviePosters.com Telephone: (504) 298-LAMP email: [email protected] 2 Entertainment & Memorabilia Auction May 2, 2019 Astons Auctioneers Dudley will present their Entertainment & Memorabilia Auction on May 2, 2019. It will feature cinema posters, vinyl records, comic books, film props, autographs, sports memorabilia and much more! Auction highlights include a great selection of James Bond cinema posters plus many more Bond posters and props. Here are some examples: Dr No original British Quad with art by Mitchell Hooks, estimate £3,000 - £5,000 Goldfinger original British Quad film poster with art by Robert Brownjohn, estimate £1500 - £2500 3 You Only Live Twice UK Quad estimate £400 - £600 4 Other auction items include Sci-Fi B movie US inserts and one sheets and Hammer Horror British Quads. 5 Follow updates on this great auction at Aston’s website HERE. 6 This is your LAST chance to consign to our June Major Auction which runs from 6/2 to 6/13 (all your items must be on the way to us by 4/26). EVERY item in the 3 parts of this great auction (which include posters of all kinds, movie & non-movie, great lobby cards, and more, including the 3 shown here) starts at $1 with NO reserve and NO buyers premiums. 7 Announcement Members and Sponsors In January we announced that we were going to be updating the Advanced Member Section this year – well, let’s bring you up to date.. Stills Section The new Stills Section is completed and online. We’ve even started expanding the new Production Code Database, as we’re closing in on 60,000 production codes to help identify unknown movie stills and costumes. All the articles have been moved and even the Production Code Basics book is there to help you. Artists Section This is where our focus is right now because it is so huge. This is another impossible area where we’re basically trying to create an information gathering place. We currently have a little over 1600 movie poster artists documented in the section. The new Poster Artists Identification Log is now online with all 1600 listed and over 800 signatures to help identify and direct to their country of birth. 8 We already had prepared a couple of hundred artist biographies with photos, lists of the titles and images of some of their artwork. We are in the process now of putting those online with over 100 already available online. Once we finish the ones that were prepared, we will then begin going down each country with as much information on each artist as we have on file. We also have several articles online about the procedures and steps to become a finished movie poster used in the theaters. While LAMP already has more compiled information on movie poster artists than anywhere else, we hope this new format will help expand, gather and make a lot more artist information available to all of our members. If you need info on an artist not online yet, email me. ~~~0~~~ LAMP SALUTES MOVIE POSTER ARTISTS We have been called many things – some good, some not-so-good. I believe one of our favorites is “track-a-holics”. We track just about anything associated with movie posters, so as we expand each section, we plan to experiment with a few ideas that we’ve been tracking to see the response. Here is one: Without sound or movement, a movie poster must attract the viewers’ attention, and somehow portray the whole spirit of the movie at a moment’s glance. In addition, a great deal of the success or failure of the movie rests on its ability to entice the viewer to want to see the movie. With the beautiful artwork and the soul of the movie in one piece of paper, it’s no wonder why movie poster collecting is so popular. It’s like bottling your favorite memories of a movie and saving them for later on this simple poster. The artists that carry this heavy burden have to be some of the best in the world. How terrible would our collection be if each poster only had the title on it and NO ARTWORK!!. We wanted to present a series to salute these mostly unheralded giants that a great deal of our collections are based upon – the artist. This week we present biographies on two movie poster artists that happen to share a birthday this week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9 Movie Poster Artists Born This Week We wanted to try out a new series just to see what everyone thought. If this is a topic of interest, email me ([email protected]) and let us know any comments, questions or suggestions. We have two artists on file that were born this week: Thomas Hart Benton Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was born on April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, the son of a Missouri congressman and the grandson of a U.S. senator. In 1907, Benton enrolled at the The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Two years later, he moved to Paris in 1909 to continue his art education at the Académie Julian. After studying in Europe, Benton moved to New York City in 1912 and resumed painting. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed at Norfolk, Virginia where he was directed to make drawings and illustrations of shipyard work and life. Benton contributed to the American Scene Painting movement. He captured modern American life in the 1920s and 1930s through his carefully rendered land- and cityscapes. In 1935, Benton turned his back on the eastern art establish-ment, moved permanently to Missouri, and continued to cultivate his grass roots style of art called Regionalism. He became an instructor of drawing and painting at the Kansas City Art Institute where his most famous pupil was the Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock. Benton’s art can be found on movie posters including the original and 1947 re-release Style A for The Grapes of Wrath (left) and the 1955 film Kentuckian (right) He died at the age of eighty-six while in his studio on his beloved Martha's Vineyard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 10 Alan LaVern Bean Alan LaVern Bean (1932 - ) was born March 15, 1932, in Wheeler, Texas. Bean was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Bean was the fourth person to walk on the moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by N ASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. In 1989, Bean’s artwork appeared on the movie poster (right) for the Apollo-themed documentary For All Mankind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For more movie poster artists biographies like these, they are available to LAMP Members and Sponsors online in the new Member Section. 11 SPECIAL STAR WARS SECTION IN JUNE MAJOR AUCTION We will have a special Star Wars section in our June Major Auction, and there are only A FEW DAYS LEFT to send any consignments you might have for this very special auction (they must be on their way to us no later than April 26th)! You might say, "How can I know which posters you already have?", and I am glad you asked! That is because we now have a gallery of ALL the Star Wars posters that have already been consigned to eMoviePoster.com's June Major Auction (as of 4/17).