Learn About Movie Posters Newsletter July 2003

WELCOME TO OUR NEW AD SPONSOR -
RALPH DELUCA

We are very happy to announce our newest member to our Sponsor Family. This time, however, Ralph is looking TO BUY.

Ralph Deluca is an avid collector who will pay TOP DOLLAR for movie posters and stills. Collecting is his hobby -- not his business. He is interested in all sizes, with particular interest in:

Universal Horror
Serials

3 Stooges Crime

Science Fiction Film Noir

Classic Commedy Silents

Cartoons Classic Cinema

Here's is Ralph's contact information:

157 Park Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
(973) 377-1007
email: RD513@optonline.net.

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Hollywood Poster Auction

The 1st Annual Hollywood Poster Auction London, presented by Adrian Cowdry (CineArt Gallery and a LAMP Sponsor), Morris Everett, Jr. (The Last Moving Picture Co.), and John Ours, Jr. (Hollywood Poster Auction), is now online and ready to accept bids. The auction will take place on Saturday, January 31, 2004, beginning at 3:30PM. It is being held in conjunction with the 1st Annual International Vintage Movie Memorabilia Convention at the Olympia Hilton, Kensington – London, England. Over 600 lots of original movie memorabilia will be offered, with all genres and price ranges well represented. Over 40% of the lots have NO RESERVE!

Guest Stars will include: Ingrid “Countess Dracula” Pitt, Caroline “The Spy Who Loved Me” Munro, Martine “From Russia With Love” Beswick, Madeline “Live and Let Die” Smith, P. H. “Outland” Moriarty, and Jeff “The Great Escape” Walton.

Highlights of the auction include:

A lot containing the original concept art designed by Glenn Cravath from the 1938 King Kong 1-Sheet, which pictures Kong atop the Empire State Building. 3 other lots include original ink drawings signed by Cravath of comic panels and a pressbook for CLIVE OF INDIA (1935).

The original head for The Creature From the Black Lagoon will be auctioned off, as well as an original half-sheet for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which is valued at $60,000 – 80,000. The auction contains a strong selection of James Bond, Alfred Hitchcock, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, 1930’s pressbooks, Irish theme, animation, film posters from 12 different countries, autographs, The Beatles, and classic titles from 1914 to the present.

Also, a strong selection of Horror/Sci-Fi posters, including: The Bride of Frankenstein, Forbidden Planet, King Kong, Godzilla, Psycho, The Thing, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, House of Dracula, Dracula’s Daughter, Horror of Dracula, Son of Frankenstein, and Leopard Man.

The International Vintage Movie Memorabilia Convention will start at 9AM on Saturday, January 31, 2004 at the Olympia Hilton, Kensington – London, England.

The Hollywood Poster Auction London will start at 3:30 PM on Saturday, January 31, 2004 at the Olympia Hilton, Kensington – London, England. Food and drink will be available during the auction.

For more information, call CineArt Gallery at +44(0)20 7384 0728.

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WANTED -- REPUTABLE POSTER DEALERS ...

...to join the largest, most reputable and fastest growing poster website on the internet!!

To celebrate our third anniversary, we are offering a very special 7-4-3 DEALER PROGRAM for our Movie Poster Data Base.

If you are a reputable dealer and would like to list your posters for sale in our MPDB, check out this very special 7-4-3 DEALER PROGRAM.

LIMITED TIME ONLY -- ACT NOW. Click HERE for details..

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ADVERTISING
ON OUR WEBSITE

Are you a movie poster dealer or in a related business and would like to become a sponsor of this reference site which is offered FREE to movie poster collectors? We tracked 1.2 million visitors last year -- want to let them know about your business? Click here for information on our Sponsorship Program.

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MOVIE POSTER MUSEUMS
AND EXHIBITS

We are currently outlining a new section of our website detailing museums and temporary or permanent exhibits of movie posters and/or movie memorabilia. We plan to include them in a special article as well as have their links and special programming notes. If you are aware of any museum and temporary or permanent movie poster exhibits, please email us the information so that they can be included in our article.

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2004 Movie Calendars

To help, check out some of these great 2004 calendar:

These calendars make great Christmas presents for any film or television buff.

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SUSIE'S CORNER

Be sure to check out our inventory liquidation sale in Susie's Corner. We will be adding new items weekly.

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HAPPY THIRD ANNIVERSARY TO US

WOW! -- LearnAboutMoviePosters.com is celebrating its third anniversary. We officially opened LAMP on Jan 15, 2001 as a small dot in the area of movie poster collecting on the internet. At the end of that year, we were ecstatic to have 400 pages of information and were overjoyed to have almost 10,000 visitors a month.

During our second, year we expanded our articles to include such areas as Artists and Studios. We started tracking and listing ALL NSS numbers of the 44 years of NSS dominance. By the end of our second year, the site was almost 5000 pages of information and we almost quadrupled in traffic to close to 40,000 visitors a month.

We made even greater strides in the year 2003. We tracked 1,240,000 visitors for the year from over 100 countries.

* Expanded the reference section to over 6,500 pages.

* Expanded Studio History

* Added over 10,000 NSS numbers

* Created a Lithographer Section

* Expanded our poster Artists Section AND

* Created the Movie Poster Data Base which is designed as an archive for movie poster images from around the world. It also allows reputable dealers to list their movie posters for sale within the MPDB.

While we are very happy with our accomplishments, we do not plan to rest on our laurels. Our motto is:

A Little Bigger and A Little Better Each Day - Building A New Direction .. For All of Us.

To read more about our growth in the last three years, read our End of the Year Report.

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OUR NEW FRONT PAGE

We recently unveiled our new Home Page. We have restructured the page so that it is easier to navigate the site -- which is now over 100,000 pages.

The new navigation bar makes it easier to reach specific areas of the site. Here are some of the highlights:

The first change you'll notice is the search box which goes directly into the Movie Poster Data Base. You can also search by:

Poster Images

Country

Dealer

Poster Size

Genre

You can also check out the MPDB stats and use our power search. You can also go directly to our "Meet the Dealers" Section which highlights the reputable dealers that have been approved to list their items for sale in the MPDB.

The next part of the Navigation Bar takes you into a topical listing of the Reference Section of our website. These links are self-explanatory:

The third section of our new Nav Bar presents our "Lagniappe" section. (That's a New Orleans term meaning something extra!).

These links are also self-explanatory.

We will eventually convert all articles into this new format. It will take time so we ask that you be patient. If you have any comments about our new layout, please contact us.

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2004 MOVIE POSTER PRICES
AD DEADLINE - FEBRUARY 15

The 2004 editions of Jon R Warren’s Movie Poster Prices, Volumes 1 and 2 will be released in early March. This year Jon is doing something never done before: they're producing two editions. Volume One will contain listings for movie posters from 1900 to 1959 and Volume Two will contain listings from 1960 to date.

Get two ads for the price of one! Your ad will appear in both editions of the new guide. Don't miss out!

These books build on the original Movie Poster Price Guide by Jon Warren. Jon has added thousands of new listings and completely updated the prices to reflect the current market. There will be prices for more than 40,000 movie posters in every category spanning the years from 1900 to present.

DEALERS - DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE TO ADVERTISE IN THESE POPULAR BOOKS. For more info, visit Jon's website by clicking HERE.

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JOIN US ON THE FORUM

For the last couple of years, we've been asked to add an on-topic forum to our website. We were happy to find that Jon Warren's talk forum is exactly what we were looking for. So instead of creating a new forum, we talked to Jon about associating with him and he graciously agreed. So the name has been changed from Iguide Forum to Movie Poster Talk and we're thrilled to highly recommend it to ALL levels of collectors.

If you enjoy chatting with other movie poster collectors about our favorite hobby, join us here.

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