Swann Galleries' annual rare & important travel posters auction set for November 11

Swann Galleries' annual rare & important travel posters auction set for November 11

LONDON TRANSPORT POSTERS TO BE AUCTIONED AT SWANN GALLERIES

JEAN-LUC GODARD RETROSPECTIVE MOVIE POSTER AT AUCTION

A Swiss large format movie poster is being offered by Heritage Auctions in their weekly internet sale.

1920s MOVIE THEATER PHOTOS FEATURED ON CINEMA TREASURES SITE

The upcoming ( May 20 ) sale of photographer signed 1920s photos featuring Boston area movie theaters was just highlighted by Cinema Treasures, a web site devoted to all things old movie house. 


http://cinematreasures.org/

1920s SIGNED PHOTOS OF BOSTON AREA MOVIE FRONTS AND INTERIORS

AT AUCTION MAY 20 2011

A group of 40 matt-mounted eleven inch by nine inch sepia prints by Boston photographer Paul J. Weber,  signed on the matt adjacent to  the photo. “Weber Boston.” 

Plus 7 unmounted unsigned prints.

Photos are of 7 New England movie theaters that date from the late 1920s. Several have visual references to the introduction of sound to motion pictures. (Dates affixed are based on titles of films being shown.)  Each group features a photo of the theater front plus photos of the interiors. 

Paul J. Weber ( 1882 - 195? ) was an architectural, industrial, landscape photographer who worked in the New England area. 

He was hired by the New England Theater Operating Company, a loose affiliation of independent movie house owners. The photos Weber shot were collected into a portfolio created for presentation to the head of Paramount Pictures, Alfred Zukor, who had expressed interest in buying an interest in the theatre chain. 

Paul J. Weber reference: collection of photographs (same format as the theater photos ) in the Fletcher Steele Landscape Collection at Lake Forest College Library, Lake Forest, Illinois.


For further information, contact Rudy Franchi 617 216 5511

Movie Poster News Bulletin: MORE 30s THEATRE FRONT STILLS + ONE SHEETS, LOBBIES, ETC.

Movie Poster News Bulletin: MORE 30s THEATRE FRONT STILLS + ONE SHEETS, LOBBIES, ETC.

MORE 30s THEATRE FRONT STILLS + ONE SHEETS, LOBBIES, ETC.

The second batch of original stills featuring 1930s old movie theater
fronts ( All Quiet On The Western Front, Man Of The World ) are up for
sale at Heritage's weekly internet auction ( http://tinyurl.com/3e8un9b ) which ends Sunday, April 10.This week's sale includes the first batch of interior lobby art 
(Scandal Sheet, Trouble In Paradise, Unfaithful ) plus a selection of items I've been hauling around since selling The Nostalgia Factory, including: 70s porn one-sheets,
Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) one sheet, mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ) lobbies and the French grande for Targets  (1963 ), designed by Sarah Palin.  Regards, rudy franchi

1930s Vintage Stills Of Movie Theater Fronts

Starting this Sunday ( March 27 ) Heritage Auction Galleries will be offering for sale a series of original stills dating from the 1930s that feature  fronts of Boston and New York movie theaters. From the 1920s and right through the 1960s the major studios and their field offices had entire exploitation departments devoted to creating elaborate designs for theaters playing  the first runs of films on their release schedule. This group of stills is the first of a series that will be offered by Heritage on successive Sundays. Each batch of stills is open to bidding for one week.  

Marcellus Shale Water Problems Surfacing

One of the major problems  ( selected from a host of them) with drilling for natural gas via fracking in the Marcellus Shale is the huge amounts of water that are returned to the surface from the millions of gallons pumped in to break the gas containing rocks. The water is not only filled with the unknown cocktail of chemicals and other substances that are used to fracture the rocks,  the returning water picks up all kinds of stuff on its way back to the surface and flows out of the well with a warm and homey glow ..... if your home is in the suburbs of hell, since the water is now contaminated with unsafe levels of radioactive materials.  ( And please let us not forget all the water that doesn't make it back to the surface; water that seeps and seeks its way through major aquifers, polluting home drinking water wells. )  The recent articles in the NY Times series Drilling Down are focusing on the returning water and its proper and most improper disposal. It is being dumped into streams that find their way to rivers and in some cases, directly into the rivers themselves. These are rivers that supply drinking water to millions of people.