I love stills from old movies.

me too

But do they love YOU?

It's depressing that people think of "An Unmarried Woman" as an old movie.

I used to collect movie stills as a kid and subsequently worked at a memorabilia store near Hollywood and Vine. I still have a lot of my stills.

I remember when cell pictures from cartoons used to be a big deal. They were usually very expensive, too.

I guess the internet has killed that market, too.

[quote]It's depressing that people think of "An Unmarried Woman" as an old movie.

Hon, it's forty years old. I think it passes for old.

Some of these pictures are actually "Lobby Cards" - they'd be in the foyer of the cinema where the film was showing. Often you'd decide to see a movie based on their appeal. I know I used to.

a lobby card from on old, vintage classic from the bygone era of moving pictures.

There would be a set of black and white stills, set of color Lobby cards, pressbook, one-sheet posters, half sheets, soundtrack albums, movie tie-in paperbacks, countless magazine clippings and sometimes a cardboard standee. I don't know if anyone owns all for, say, An Unmarried Woman, but if they did they'd be considered a pretty avid fan of the film.

The photos and 2 lobby cards framed with the movie poster outside was always intriguing. You’d look at it before entering the theatre and then again afterwards.

[quote]here would be a set of black and white stills, set of color Lobby cards, pressbook, one-sheet posters, half sheets, soundtrack albums, movie tie-in paperbacks, countless magazine clippings and sometimes a cardboard standee. I don't know if anyone owns all for, say, An Unmarried Woman, but if they did they'd be considered a pretty avid fan of the film.

I've got a press release. The LP. The VHS. The novelisation...and several copies of the DVD (which was wise of me as they're now very rare).

I think that's it.

If this outs me as a homosexual, I don't care.

Sometimes the pics were so dreary. I mean how would THIS draw someone into the theater?

I remember admiring all the displayed lobby cards and poster after going to see The Towering Inferno with my parents. They had programs for sale too.

R13 I was lucky enough to have scored a used copy of the soundtrack album with all of this stuffed inside...

This might just be the Holy Grail for Unmarried Woman collectors..

There used to be a place in Toronto called "Consolidated Theatre Services" that provided posters and lobby cards for all the movie theatres and if you called ahead, members of the public could go in and buy stuff. I ended up buying a poster of "Shampoo" and a lobby card of Peter O'Toole from Lawrence of Arabia. They had tons of classic film cards and posters so I wish I had purchased more.

r8 I know, but it's still depressing that any movie you saw as an adult (first-run) is considered "old." I'm 65; "old movies" to me are ones from my parents' generation.

How amazing, R16 - I wonder who it originally belonged to.

[quote]I remember admiring all the displayed lobby cards and poster after going to see The Towering Inferno with my parents. They had programs for sale too.

I rarely got a program. But the few I had, I loved....and examined and re-examined ad nauseam.

Did they have "intervals" in the USA? When an ice-cream lady would appear.

I used to collect old stills of noir dolls with guns. Unfortunately I don't have this one, which is Betty Lou Gerson in "Red Menace". What surprised me about her when I looked her up is that she was the voice of Cruella de Ville in the original Disney cartoon. She was born in Tennessee.

I have TONS of movie stills I collected from 1970 on - all originals - that I bought for 0.20 to 0.40 cents each. I'm in the process of airing them out to get the cigarette smoke smell off them (yes, that works).

I collected current movies (The Godfather, Funny Girl, The Graduate, Chinatown, Murder on the Orient Express), and the classics like the one below. Back then, still from classic movies were LESS expensive believe it or not. I can't believe these are selling on eBay now for $30-50 each.

There are a lot of cool posters for auction on emovieposter but they end up selling for astronomical prices.

The Wild One