Back in the day, a trip to the Collector's Book Store in Hollywood was a 3 or 4 times/year trip a small group of local Xena fans use to take together. Our quarry? Those elusive MCA promo posters for Xena: Warrior Princess. The rarest one to find was the one promoting both Hercules AND Xena:
When we found more than one of the MCA promo posters, we would buy all that were available (usually 3 or 4) and then share our booty with fans who couldn't make the trip. Remember, this was before there was any X:WP merchandise to buy, so we had to make our own fun.
It looks like Profiles in History will be taking on the enormous task of auctioning off this collection. If you read the article in the LA Times, you'll note that a lot of material will be auctioned off by the filing cabinet. Over three million pieces. What a mountain of memorabilia to disburse.
They are packing up Old Hollywood and moving it to Newbury Park.
That's where about 3 million film studio publicity stills, 50,000 original movie posters and 20,000 vintage fan magazines will be stored until they are auctioned off six months from now.
The huge cache of movie memorabilia, gathered over the last 43 years by film fan and collectibles dealer Malcolm Willits, includes original scripts and studio contracts signed by such actors as Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra and Vincent Price, and one that was signed by Elizabeth Taylor -- and her parents.
The collection, housed in a storefront on Hollywood Boulevard near the Pantages Theater, is considered by some experts to be second in size only to that of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
"I have a huge respect for this," said collection manager Craig Gilbert as he worked Wednesday to catalog the contents of large envelopes stuffed with movie publicity photos, press kits and other original materials.
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When we found more than one of the MCA promo posters, we would buy all that were available (usually 3 or 4) and then share our booty with fans who couldn't make the trip. Remember, this was before there was any X:WP merchandise to buy, so we had to make our own fun.
clipped from www.latimes.com
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I just wrote an article, my first of many as I start an home theatre blog. Doing it as a love and as research for my first home theatre. My first article was on movie memorabilia and I came across your post.
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