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Friday 21 May 2025

Tim Whaley Before VHS and Betamax video recorders came on the market in the mid 1970s the only way you could have a physical media copy of a film was on a 8mm or Super 8mm film reel; or 16mm if you were rich or 35mm if you really rich. Apparently there is still some collector's market for these old 8mm films as I see Tim Whaley and a few others like him at various shows. Let's take a closer look at the two films Tim is holding here in the next photo at right.	Tim Whaley Pony Express is a 1950s Western starring Charlton Heston when he was still at Paramount Studios early in his career. I have it on DVD and I'm still waiting on it and a few other Heston/Paramount Westerns to make it to Blu-ray disc. The only magazines I've seen these 8mm films for sale in are the Warren Publishing magazines like Famous Monsters Of Filmland. That magazine always had a good selection of 8mm Universal Studios classic monster movies but you can be sure Famous Monsters never offered for sale any 8mm versions of movies like The Allure Of France.	Ed Anastasio I first met 16mm film dealer Ed Anastasio at this show two years ago. This year in addition to 16mm films he had some VHS box sets like The Phantom starring Tom Tyler and Superman starring Kirk Alyn both taken from 1940s movie serials. In front of him is a rare box set of music from the Alfred Hitchcock movie Spellbound, 1945. I assume the box contains 45 rpm records.

Ed Anastasio Ed showing a 16mm film version of the animated Walt Disney movie Pinocchio, 1940.	Jeffrey Bruce Jeffrey of Baby Boomer Rebellion with a copy of the comic book Motion Picture Comics #110, 1952 which adapts the famous George Pal movie When Worlds Collide, 1951. The art is by EC comic book veterans George Evans and Al Williamson. Also, a paperback book movie-tie-in of the legendary movie MGM movie Forbidden Planet, 1956. Forbidden Planet was had the largest budget of all the many science fiction movies made in the 1950s.	Martin Grams, Jr. Marty is the author of many books on the history of old timey radio and TV shows and is also the promoter of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con in Maryland that I attend ever year. Marty told me his latest book on the 1950s radio program Pete Kelly's Blues may be his last for a long time. He can't do much writing these days as he is to busy managing (and possibly expanding into a franchise) his newly opened coffee shop The Screaming Bean. Marty's book The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion is the most comprehensive book on that fondly remembered TV show from 1955-1965. I bought three copies of this book at previous shows and bought this copy he's holding for good measure.

Rick Payne I used to see veteran movie memorabilia dealer Rick Payne at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con but he tells me he hasn't been going to that show since it conflicts with another show in Oklahoma he likes to attend. Here's Rick with some rare movie magazines and advertising posters. A really unusual item here is the $50 rental contract for the movie The New Adventures Of Tarzan, 1935 starring Herman Brix. He later adapted the stage name Bruce Bennett and had a long career in movies. He died in 2007 at age 100.	Rick Payne Rick with more rare items: A hardcover movie-tie-in of the 1939 movie Gone With The Wind and a 45 rpm record of the 1952 movie The Quiet Man starring John Wayne. The record mentions Merv Griffin on the cover. I didn't knew Griffin had anything to do with records. I only know him as a TV talk show host in the 1960s. I wish I had paid more attention to Rick's copy of a movie program magazine for the Cecil B. DeMille movie The King Of Kings, 1927. I don't care much for silent movies but I like DeMille movies and since this movie was just released on Blu-Ray (by Flicker Alley) with nice picture quality I decided to take a chance on it. I really enjoyed it since it had the usual DeMille grandeur but tinged with a subtle and reverent treatment of Jesus.	Evan Chase Evan Chase with a half-sheet size poster of Island Of Doomed Men, 1940 starring Peter Lorre. At left on Evan's computer screen is a scene from a movie with Bela Lugosi. I don't usually buy movie trade magazines like Motion Picture Herald since although the contents are interesting the covers are usually boring with only text and no art or photos. But Evan had this rare copy of Exhibitor with a full cover photo and article of the premiere at the Roxy theater in Hollywood of one of my favorite Biblical movies The Robe, 1953, so I bought it.

Brendan Faulkner Brendan Faulkner is another old timer memorabilia dealer I frequently see at shows like Pulpfest and the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con. Brendan told me it was time to start selling some of his favorite items he's had squirreled away, like this oversize leather bound book Valley Of The Cliffhangers about the history of movie serials. Let's take a closer look in the next photo at right.	Brendan Faulkner Here's a two page spread from the 1940 Republic Pictures serial Drums Of Fu Manchu. I do like to buy deluxe coffee table books like this but Brendan's price of $400 was a bit too steep for me.	Bob Kotsopoulos Moving now from the dealers spread out in the hallways or their own rooms, we move now into the main dealer's room. Here's Bob Kotsopoulos with a half-sheet size poster of the legendary Charlton Heston movie Planet Of The Apes, 1968. I saw this wonderful movie in the theater when it was first released and its four sequels. I had a copy on laser disc in the 1980 and 1990s and currently have it on Blu-ray. I'm sure we'll get a 4k release someday. At right is a lobby card from The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, 1958. Note that is signed by the film's stop-motion effects creator Ray Harryhausen.

Bob Kotsopoulos Before leaving home to drive to the show I had been corresponding with Bob about bringing what Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series photos with paper snipes he currently had. I met him in the show's hotel lobby the night before the show started and bought these four photos. Another dealer, Daniel Strebin, bought the rest. The CBS network paper snipes are on the back of the photos. I don't buy many TV photos unless they have the snipes.	Jason Edgerley I've always liked historical epic films especially the ones dealing with ancient history. Here's movie poster dealer Jason Edgerley with half-sheet size posters of Sign Of The Pagan, 1954 starring Jeff Chandler and Jack Palance and Sodom And Gomorrah, 1962 starring Stewart Granger. I've never seen either of these movies. They never came out on laser disc and the reviews say the DVD copies have crap picture quality, so I have to keep waiting for a proper Blu-ray release. A film genre related to historical epics are the Italian made "sword and sandal" movies from the early 1960s. I liked those as a young kid and saw some of them in the theater in Elizabethtown, Kentucky including Hercues And The Captive Women, 1961 seen hanging on the wall behind Jason. Surprisingly, this movie came out on Blu-ray and I enjoyed being a kid again back in Elizabethtown while watching it after an interval of 55 years.	Jason Edgerley Jason also had this one-sheet size highly unusual poster of Forbidden Planet, 1956 that I had never seen before. The regular posters we've all seen show Robby the Robot, Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis

Morris Everett Here's veteran movie poster dealer Morris Everett of The Last Moving Picture Company in Kirtland, Ohio showing off two lobby cards of the movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949 directed by John Ford. The cards show the stars John Wayne, Harry Carey, Jr., Ben Johnson.	Bruce Hershenson, Joe Burtis Bruce is the owner of emovieposter.com whose internet auctions I frequently bid in. Joe is the owner of Motion Picture Arts Gallery who I first met at last year's show. At this show I bought from Joe 33 movie publicity photos from the famous film noir movie Nightmare Alley, 1947 starring Tyrone Power which I have on Blu-ray.	Bruce Hershenson, Joe Burtis Bruce with a lobby card from Phantom Of The Opera, 1943 and Joe with a lobby card from Shane, 1953. Joe sent me an email several days after the show telling me had found several photos with paper snipes from the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I bought 12 of them and I'm waiting to see if he will find some more.

Cory Glaberson I've been seeing Cory Glaberson of Reel Art Collectibles at various shows for the past 25 years. Here's Cory with a half-sheet poster of The Sea Hawk, 1940 starring Errol Flynn and Claude Rains. I bought it when it came out on Blu-ray a few years ago. We're still waiting for a Blu-ray debut of Flynn's other famous swashbuckler movie, Captain Blood, 1935.	Cory Glaberson Cory with something really special, a pressbook of my favorite science movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951. In the old days pressbooks were mailed from the movie studios to the theater owners showing them what posters and advertising gimmicks could be ordered (from the National Screen Service) to promote the movie in the local newspapers. Cory said he could take $800 instead of $1000 but I couldn't afford it, yet. Before I die, I will somehow buy a copy of this pressbook.	Albert McFadden I first me Albert McFadden at last year's show. He specializes in movie posters from foreign countries. Foreign posters do have different and sometimes better graphics than American posters.

Albert McFadden Cory Glaberson wasn't the only dealer with a The Day The Earth Stood Still collectible. Here's Albert with a newspaper format advertising piece. If you were a theater owner in 1951 you could probably have ordered this from your copy of Cory's pressbook.	Film Projection Room Throughout the day and late into the night this show always has at least one room set aside for watching 16mm prints of old movies.

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