LAMP POST September 2013 MOVIE STILL PRODUCTION CODES NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE The movie still production codes presented in our new 2013 Edition of the Movie Still Identification Book are now available online in our member section of our new stills portal MovieStillID.com. Over 45,000 movie studio production codes are provided to help identify unknown movie, short, portrait, series and television stills. The production codes are sorted by letter/number. Additional sorts, such as by director, year and studio, will be posted soon. If you are a LAMP member, you can access the online codes at MovieStillId.com, click on Research, click on Production Logs under the title “Movie Production Stills, and scroll to the bottom of the page. A breakdown by either “letter” or “number” is presented. Additional sorts and New Additions will appear just below them. For information on becoming a LAMP member, click HERE. Page 2 DOMINIQUE BESSON AFFICHES RELEASES NEW CATALOG Dominique Besson Affiches has released their latest catalog featuring 131 large full color images of international movie posters. Examples include: To order this magnificent catalog, visit their website HERE Page 3 HIGHEST SELLING MOVIE POSTERS How much would you pay Two three sheets for the for an original vintage 1933 film King Kong movie poster? Well there topped the six figure mark. are some collectors who Style B sold at a Heritage are apparently willing to auction in November of pay a lot. Here are ten of 2012 for $388,375. the most expensive movie posters ever sold. In November of 2005, Reel Gallery sold a German International poster for the 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis. This heavily documented transaction recorded a sales price of $690,000. In March of 1997, Sotheby’s Auction House auctioned a one sheet for Universal’s 1932 The Mummy, starring Boris The Style A poster sold at Karloff. Hammer price on Sotheby’s in April 1999 for this poster was $453,500. $244,500. Five years earlier, Sotheby’s Auction had sold a German three sheet for this film for $357,750. Page 4 Heritage Auction has sold In November 2007, The insert for 1931’s two one sheets for 1934’s Heritage auctioned an Frankenstein sold for Black Cat topping a original one sheet for the $262,900 at Heritage’s quarter of a million dollars. 1935 film The Bride of July 2013 auction. Frankenstein for the price of $334,600. The Style B (above) sold in November 2009 for The following 1935 Style F $334,600. The style below one sheet for Universal’s sold in March 2007 for classic Dracula sold for $286, 800. $334,600 at Heritage’s November 2007 signature auction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AND NOW – WE HAVE A TREAT FOR YOU! For everyone (like us) who LOVES looking at some of the RAREST and MOST BEAUTIFUL posters in the world, we have updated our list! – GET A BIG CUP OF COFFEE AND TAKE A LOOK at LAMP’S TOP SELLING MOVIE POSTERS ABOVE $20,000 Page 5 eMovieposter.com’s September Major Auction a Major Success Over $447,000 in Total Sales eMovieposter.com’s just concluded September Major Auction was a major success with $447,421 in total sales. Here are two of the highlighted items: Here are the total results. You can view solely the items from each part at these links: Part I Results (COMPLETED! $203,166 in sales): 385 one-sheets (linenbacked & unbacked, rolled & folded) Part II Results (COMPLETED! $78,889 in sales): 384 linenbacked posters Part III Results (COMPLETED! $65,430 in sales): 272 rolled posters of all types Part IV Results (COMPLETED! $99,936 in sales): 241 LCs, "flat package" items, and "paperbacked" posters If you wish to consign to future auctions, visit emovieposter.com HERE. Page 6 AROUND THE LAMP Unshredded Nostalgia’s Pre-1930's Poster Exhibit Unshredded Nostalgia, New Jersey’s only metropolitan-style poster gallery, announces its next poster gallery exhibit titled “Military, Movie and Theater pre- 1930 poster exhibit.” It will open to the public on Veteran’s Day weekend, November 9, 2013 and run through December. “The Barnegat Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Southern Ocean County Chamber is celebrating their 100th anniversary”, states gallery owner Jim Episale. “After perusing thru thousands of posters in our inventory, we curated an exhibit that we felt was appropriate for this occasion.” Over 75 Movie, Theater and Military posters will be exhibited. “We felt that Veteran’s weekend was an appropriate opening date since so many early military posters will be exhibited,” said Episale. PLEASE VOTE FOR JIM EPISALE - UNSHREDDED NOSTALGIA Intuit is giving one small business a TV commercial on the 2014 Big Game. Unshredded Nostalgia has now made it to Round 2. Let’s get this LAMP dealer a commercial on the 2014 BIG GAME -- vote once a day HERE. Page 7 THE ART OF BOB PEAK One of the most imaginative and prolific illustrators of the 20th century, Robert Peak revolutionized advertising in the film industry and is considered the “Father of the modern movie poster.” Robert Peak totally transformed the approach to movie advertising from basic collages of film stills or head shots to flamboyant artistic illustrations. United Artist hired Peak in 1961 to help promote West Side Story. His innovative solution-painting characters and scenes into a single montage became the first of over 100 such posters, among them My Fair Lady, Camelot, Rollerball, Star Trek, Superman and Apocalypse Now. Peak was not short on editorial assignments with 45 covers of Time Magazine featuring his illustrations-most notably the portrait of Mother Teresa. For the first time, a comprehensive oversize 380 page coffee table book on the Life and Art of Bob Peak. The book includes over 600 images of works spanning a forty year career with many never before seen illustrations along with his many iconic illustrations for the Movies, Major Periodicals, National Ad Campaigns, Time Magazine Covers, Fashion Advertising, Sports Advertising and more. Bob Peak came on the New York Advertising Art Scene in the early 1950's. He went on to become one of the most prolific illustrators of the 21st century. His artistic vision represented a bridge between the era of Norman Rockwell and Coby Whitmore, with its emphasis on technique, to more direct ways of making pictures, greater use of line, and a more startling, bolder palette. In 1961 he was named "Artist of the Year" by the Artist Guild of New York. In 1977 he was inducted into the prestigious New York Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. In 1992 after over 100 Movie Campaigns including his iconic images for such films as, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Star Trek, and Apocalypse Now, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hollywood Reporters for his contribution to the film industry. The book is available for purchase HERE. Page 8 There are now over 12,000 images online on our new Movie Still ID web portal. Here are just some of the great actors and actresses that are represented in our stills archive, as we continue to add more. To see all of the galleries, click HERE. Adrienne Ames Brigitte Bardot Charlie Chaplin Bobby Darin Ann Forrest Bonita Granville Alfred Hitchcock Arline Judge Adolphe Menjou Claude Rains Anne Shirley Claire Trevor Page 9 Hollywood on the Bayou Louisiana Film History Website Now Connected To The State Library of Louisiana The State Library of Louisiana has now placed a direct link on their site to our Louisiana film history website, HollywoodOnTheBayou.com. This is a major acknowledgement of the research found on this website as it is uncommon for a commercially supported website to be linked to a state facility. The linked page also contains links to LearnAboutMoviePosters.com and MoviePosterDataBase.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Movie Poster Collecting Workshop LAMP will be presenting its first workshop on collecting movie posters at the upcoming Lake Charles Film Festival. This workshop will be part of Hollywood on the Bayou’s participation in the festival, which will include an hour long Power Point presentation on Louisiana’s film history and a full exhibit on the subject featuring movie posters, lobby cards and stills from our extensive collection. Here’s Ed at last year’s Film Fest. Page 10 FINALLY -- GUINNESS RECOGNIZES STEVE SANSWEET’S MASSIVE STAR WARS COLLECTION After years of amassing over 300,000 artifacts from the Star Wars saga, Steve Sansweet, super collector and former Lucasfilm employee, has been certified by Guinness Book of Records as having the world’s largest Star Wars collection. And the collective response from the collecting community is … it’s about damn time! The "Star Wars" films have inspired collectors of memorabilia in a way that few other movie franchises have achieved. It therefore takes something special for one individual to be named as having the world's largest collection of memorabilia related to the series. The super fan who is currently able to lay claim to that title is Steve Sansweet, a journalist and author, and president of Rancho Obi-Wan, a non-profit museum in Petaluma, northern California that houses his collection of an estimated 300,000 unique "Star Wars" items. Check out this great video below -- click on the image. Page 11 LAMP APPROVED SPONSORS AND DEALERS Page 12 LAMP APPROVED SPONSORS AND DEALERS Page 13 PLEASE HELP DAVID REACH HIS GOAL Our son (and LAMP’s IT tech) David is participating in “Be A Hero For Kids” gaming fundraiser to benefit Children’s Hospital. Here’s his message: I'm on a mission to save kids and I need your help.