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Thursday 25 May 2023

Main Theater Sign Next to the door to the main theater for viewing old movies and serials was this sign reminiscent of old time movie theaters whose lobbies were decorated with colorful lobby cards showing the current and coming movie attractions.	Main Theater The show's movie viewing room had a row of 16mm film projectors to show mostly silent films from the 1920s and some serials from the 1930s. Next to the movie screen at left you can see part of a piano. The piano had a real live person who played accompaniment to the movie which was common practice for silent movies before "talkies" were invented in 1929.	Edward Anastasio Outside the main dealers room were three other roooms each occupied by a single dealer who had too much merchandise to fit into the main dealers room. Here's Edward Anastasio with his collection of 16mm films. The movie screen is showing Mel Gibson in a scene from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 1985. I hadn't seen this many 16mm film cans since the 1980s when I was stationed at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, CA. At Norton was the Aerospace Audiovisual Service's Depository for all of the 16mm and 35mm films shot by the four branches of the armed forces. Let's take a closer look at that Raquel Welch poster on the back wall in the next photo below left.

Edward Anastasio Here's Ed with a poster from One Million Years B.C., 1966 with Raquel Welch striking that iconic pose in her prehistoric fur bikini that vaulted her to movie stardom. When Raquel Welch died several weeks ago I was looking forward to buying her commemorative magazine but so far there hasn't been one. So it looks like Raquel Welch has joined those big movie stars of an earlier era, Olivia de Havilland, Kirk Douglas and Gina Lollobrigida, who also didn't get tribute magazines after their death.	Richard Halegua Richard Halegua of Las Vegas, NV in earlier years was a well known vintage comic book and comic and science fiction original art dealer. In more recent years he has moved over to dealing in movie memorablia and Richard told me at this show he dosen't have many comic books or original art left. Here's Richard with a high grade one-sheet poster of a re-release of the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho, 1960. There were a few more of these re-release posters in the dealers room but naturally Richard had the best condition copy. I hadn't seen or corresponded with Richard since the early 1980s and I was glad to see him again at this show. Here is a link to an article that includes my limited contact with Richard at the San Diego Comic Con in the 1980s. I look forward to seeing him again at next years Columbus Moving Picture Show.	Randy Ringgenberg Randy Riggenberg with some high grade posters which have been linen backed for better preservation Mighty Joe Young, 1949 I had on laser disc and now on Blu-Ray. Mothra, 1961 I think I saw at the drive-in Savannah, Georgia when I was a kid. I'm not a big fan of Japanese monster movies so I never owned this movie in any video format. For Whom The Bells Toll, 1943 I never had on any video format. If it ever comes to Blu-Ray I probably won't get it since I'm not a fan of Ingrid Bergman. Forbidden Planet, 1956 has always been a favorite since I love 1950s science fiction movies and this one had the biggest budget of all the 1950s science fiction movies. I had it on laser disc and now on Blu-Ray.

Randy Ringgenberg Randy with two lobby cards from one of the first and better post-apocalyptic science fiction movies of the 1950s, World Without End, 1956. The card at left shows Everett Glass and company comforting an injured Lisa Montel. Lisa Montel had 47 acting credits 1955 - 1962 all in B movies and TV shows. She died in 2023. The card at right shows Hugh Marlowe with Nancy Gates. She had 96 acting credits 1942 - 1969 and died in 2019. I liked her in the Western movies Gunfight At Dodge City, 1959 with Joel McCrea and Comanche Station, 1960 with Randolph Scott.	Henry Ottinger Henry Ottinger from Crystal, Minnesota with a one-sheet style poster of the movie Something Big, 1971 with Dean Martin and Brian Keith. I don't really like comedy westerns so I wouldn't get this movie if it ever comes to Blu-Ray. However, the double entendre slant of the words and visuals in the poster are interesting.	Henry Ottinger Henry and his wife Karen with an insert poster for Trapeze, 1956 and another poster with that movie with The Vikings, 1958. I never knew before there was a single poster for a double bill of Trapeze and The Vikings. I have The Vikings on Blu-Ray of course. Trapeze is on Blu-Ray but the review said the picture quality was mediocre so I have to wait for a better Blu-Ray release.

Dale Hedlund Dale Hedlund with an oversize issue of Photoplay, February 1940 with Clark Gable from Gone With The Wind. Photoplay was a normal size movie magazine for most of it's history but Dale told me for a months in the early 1940s it went to this oversize format. Photoplay and Motion Picture Story later named Motion Picture Magazine were the first two American movie fan magazines, both founded in 1911. Both magazines are well produced and I have many issues of both. But I would say that Photoplay had better production values with slick paper and more coloro photos and so remains the Cadillac of movie magazines. Dale is also showing a standard glossy movie publicity photo from the John Wayne movie The Conqueror, 1956. Here's the movie studio information "snipe" attached to the back of the photo. Everybody agrees that John Wayne playing the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan is ridiculous but if this movie ever makes it to Blu-Ray someday I will buy it because I like John Wayne, Susan Hayward and Mongol history.	Martin Grams, Jr. Marty is a prolific author of books on radio and TV history and he also promotes one of my favorite shows, the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Maryland each September. I last saw Marty at the Williamsburg Nostalgia Fest in Williamsburg, VA last November. He and dealer Gene Carpenter had taken over that show from the promoter to try to keep it going. But Marty told me at this Columbus show that the Williamsburg show lost too much money and they had to let it die. The Williamsburg show had a 25 year history and I hate to see it go. I hope another promoter can be found to resurrect it. The big hardcover book on the right King Kong The 1933 Radio Scripts Marty tells me was made from the original radio scripts that Marty found in a collector's estate. The radio script was the same as the movie and played on the air only in New York City shortly before the movie was released in 1933. There is no physical recording of that radio broadcast so the only way to experience it is to buy Marty's book. Marty only made 100 copies of this hardcover edition and he had the last two at this show. So you if want the book you will probably have to settle for the softcover edition.	Zach Pogemiller Zach Pogemiller is the movie poster consignment director for the big collectibles auction company Heritage Auctions headquartered in Dallas, TX. I had a few comic books sold through Heritage several years ago and I still try to collect some of their comic book catalogs because they are well made with good color photos. Zach was at this Columbus show to promote a 17 June Heritage auction featuring science fiction movie posters from from the company Modern Props. Here are some of the posters in that upcoming auction. I can't afford any of these posters but I will try to buy the catalog off ebay someday.

John Van Doren John Van Doren had a large collection of movie fan magazines chief among them this Silver Screen, November 1932 issue with a cover story from the Cecil B. DeMille Pre-Code move The Sign Of The Cross. The cover shows Claudette Colbert as Poppaea, the beautiful but treacherous wife of the crazy Roman emperor Nero. The magazine would be affordable but you might have more trouble cobbling together the money needed to buy John's original pastel painting of the cover painted by John Ralston Clarke. Between the magazine and the painting is a an imposing statue of the Maltese Falcon - "the stuff that dreams are made of" - from the eponymous 1941 movie starring Humphrey Bogart. John told me thinks this statue was produced circa 1991 as a promotional item for the 50th anniversary re-release of the film.

Don (Otto) Ortolani Don (Otto) Ortolani from Sterling, VA had the largest collection of 8" x 10" movie publicity stills I've ever seen in one place. The stacks of them in front of he and his wife are from miscellaneous movies. The other stacks down the table past the Sports Illustrated book are all from Western movies. It was late in the day when I took this photo and Otto had to leave so we will click page 2 of this Leader's Report to see the other photos I took of Otto and his photos.

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