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Friday 23 May 2024

Rick Payne Veteran movie memorabilia dealer standing in front of his table talking with a customer.	Rick Payne Rick holding a movie publicity photo of Maureen O'Sullivan and Johnny Weismuller from one of their MGM Tarzan movies from the 1930s. In the foreground at left is a publicity photo of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift from Raintree County, 1957. I saw this movie as a kid on television and thought it was boring. But, I like the actors in it so if ever comes to Blu-Ray I might buy it.	Cory Glaberson I used to see Cory Glaberson at Dragon Con in Atanta, GA and other shows several years ago and was glad to catch up with him at this show. Cory is holding an insert style poster of Cleopatra's Daughter, 1960 which I've never seen. It was one of the many Italian made Sword and Sandal movies spawned by the Steve Reeves Hercules movies in those days. It does star Debra Paget so I might be interested in the unlikely event it ever makes it to Blu-Ray. The Frankenstein Monster head is signed on the bottom by Boris Karloff's daughter Sara Karloff.

Richard Halegua I last saw Richard Halegua at this show last year after about a 38 year separation. I saw him once at the San Diego Comic Con in the mid 1980s and spoke him with a couple of times on the phone. Somewhere along the way Richard transitioned from a comic book dealer to a movie memorabilia dealer. Here he is with some of his interesting one-sheet movie posters.	Daniel Strebin Daniel with a poster of illustrated burlesque dancers.	Alan Litwin I first met Alan Litwin at last year's show. The half-sheet poster he's holding, Slattery's Hurricane, 1949 has several actors I like so I'll buy it if it ever makes it to Blu-Ray. At left is a magazine with legendary actor James Cagney on the cover. I have several Cagney movies on Blu-Ray. My favorite is White Heat, 1949 where he played the psychotic gangster with a mother fixation, Cody Jarrett. Check him out in that movie eating a chicken leg while shooting a guy he has locked in a car trunk.

Albert McFadden Albert McFadden from Toronto, Canada had lots of eye catching one-sheet posters mostly from foreign countries as shown here. The publicity photo at right shows Taina Elg and James Mitchell from The Prodigal, 1955 which starred Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom. It's not one of the better historical epics that I am partial to but I do have it on regular DVD and yes, it it ever comes to Blu-Ray I will buy it.	Bob Kotsopoulos Bob Kotsopoulos with a giant envelope pertaining to Superman The Movie, 1978. Let's see part of what's in the envelope in the photo at right.	Bob Kotsopoulos A huge photo of Christopher Reeve from the movie. The movie was a smash hit and spawned three sequels.

Herny Ottinger I first me Henry Ottinger at last year's show. Here's Henry with a rare poster showing Barbie doll fashions from 1959 to the present. This most famous doll in the world finally just recently got her own movie, Barbie, 2023.	Morris Everett, Jr. I first met Morris at last year's show. He is has been in the movie poster business for many years and has one of the largest collection of posters and publicity photos in the world. He is the owner of The Last Moving Picture Company in Kirtland, OH. Here's Morris with a gigantic Italian movie poster of the George Pal movie Destination Moon, 1950 which was partly written by the famous science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. The extra pair of fingers holding up the poster belong to Morris's son Moe. I've been of big fan of George Pal ever since I saw The Time Machine, 1960 on television in the 1960s when I was a kid. In recent years thankfully most of Pal's films I especially want have finally come out on Blu-Ray except Destination Moon, 1950 and 7 Faces Of Dr. Lao, 1964.	Morris Everett, Jr. Morris with a lobby card for the British Hammer Film's The Curse Of The Werewolf, 1961.

Bruce Lee Bruce Lee and his better known partner Eric Grayson a.k.a. Dr. Film specialize in restoring old movies. Eric and Bruce recently completed their project of restoring and transferring to Blu-Ray the long unseen 1929 movie serial King Of The Kongo featuring Boris Karloff before he became famous in the Universal Studios Frankenstein movies a few years later. They had a rear projection machine setup to project the movie serial through the screen draped over their table. It's nice to see Bruce getting into the spirit of this jungle adventure by wearing an African pith helmet.	Ken Farrell Ken Farrell presiding over his empire of thousands of movie and TV publicity photos. I asked Ken the same question I asked all the other dealers in the room, "do you have any photos with the paper TV studio snipes still attached from the the TV series The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents?". And I got the same answer: no. If dealers like Ken Farrell, Richard Halegua, Daniel Strebin and Everett Morris don't have them it's going to be a long haul finding them.	Ken Farrell Ken with a photo of Paul McCartney talking with members of the Rolling Stones.

Bruce Hershenson, Joe Burtis For many years I've bought movie memorabilia from the big internet auction house eMoviePoster.com but I never got to meet its owner Bruce Hershenson until now. Bruce wasn't at this show to buy or sell, just visit with his friends. Here he is with a another big time movie poster dealer, Joe Burtis, owner of Motion Picture Arts Gallery. I wasn't familiar with the movie Shack Out On 101, 1955 but I like Terry Moore, Lee Marvin and Keenan Wynn. The reviews said it had good Blu-Ray picture quality so I bought a copy off ebay and expect it in the mail soon.	Gary Sloan Movies, movies and more movies: at the Columbus Moving Picture Show you can watch movies in the Hayes Ballroom, the Film Dealers Room or the main dealers room as shown here with projectionist Gary Sloan running a 16mm movie.	Manny Pacheco Late Friday afternoon Manny Pacheco gave a talk on his "Forgotten Hollywood" series of books and afterwards hobnobbed with customers at the author's table in the main lobby.

James V. D'Arc At last years show I met Utah resident and author James V. D'Arc who had spent many years researching movies made in Utah. He was at the author's table selling preliminary copies of his new book When Hollywood Came To Utah. I liked the quality of the book with its slick pages and clear, crisp photos. But I couldn't buy it because I spent my remaining money on another book James had his table, David O' Selnick's Hollywood. At this year's show James was back with the completed When Hollywood Came To Utah with five extra chapters and an introduction by Kevin Costner so I'm glad I waited to buy it this year. That's a wrap for the Leader's Report on the Columbus Moving Picture Show 2024. He will return again in 2025.

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