We recently discovered a terrific web site that caters to the thousands of movie poster collectors around the world. These are people who recall when movie posters were genuine works of art created by such names as Robert McGinnis, Reynold Brown, Frank McCarthy and so many others - as opposed to the bland, indistinguishable scan-and-paste posters for contemporary films. Rather than attempt to describe the wealth of interesting aspects to the site, we thought we'd let their web masters take a crack at it:
The Movie Poster Forum at www.movieposterforum.com
is the place to be for anyone with a love for the great classic movie posters.
The forum brings you a comprehensive, growing community of expert original
movie poster collectors from across the globe.
The forum was created in July 2005 and has
over 1,920 members, many of which are very highly respected movie poster
experts in the movie poster community. We also have a vast amount of unregistered
visitors viewing the Forum each day. Over the last 12 months, the Forum has
received 2,265,367 (2.26 million) page impressions. Over the last 6 months, the
forum has received 1,385,055 (1.38 million) page impressions.
Members from the following countries
regularly visit The Movie Poster Forum...United States, Great Britain, Canada,
Australia, France, Singapore, Philippines, China, Germany, South Korea,
Macedonia, Norway, Latvia, Poland, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Belgium, Brazil,
Italy, Ireland, Romania, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Spain, Russia, Sweden,
Finland, Ukraine.
Discussions on the Forum include
information on how to store posters correctly, methods to authentic the age and
value of posters, advice about getting posters linen backed for preservation
purposes, recommendations of how and where to sell movie posters and many more
informative topics. There is a “For Sale†section for Ebay and non-Ebay items,
as well as an area for posting your “Want Listsâ€. Other sections include:
"Movie Posters by Country", "Movie Poster Restorationâ€, "Specialist Posters" (advertising posters,
video posters, cable and television posters, theatre art, special promotion posters,
music posters, sports posters, military posters), "Movies, Movie News,
Actors, Props, Movie Memorabilia, Shows and Events" and "General Off
Topic Chat, Links, Feedback and Information"
A great beauty of the Forum is that you can
start a topic about anything you desire, whether you want to ask how to store
poster correctly or whether you want find out if a poster is an original and
authentic. The forum is moderated and is spam-free, so you have an environment
to enjoy the hobby as it is meant to be enjoyed.
If you have your own site and wish to
advertise it and give it more prominence on the web, you can request to have a
free reciprocal link on the homepage. We also offer banner advertisement at
very reasonable rates. This link can be found on the Forum homepage.
To visit the Movie Poster Forum, click the icon below