Are these all originals, or copies? I don’t understand the 11x17, A4 and A5 sizes as such?
What are they?
European sizes are such that two of one can fit into the other. So their aspect ratio is always 1.4142, the square root of 2. So A1 is about 24" by 33" and two of them fit into an A0 size, 48" by 66". The higher the number, the smaller the size. So A4 (googles … I always have to look this up) is about 8 by 11, A3 12" by 16" and A5 6"x8". Postcards are A6, about 4 inches by 6 inches.
Americans of course have their own system which has no rhyme or reason–8.5" by 11" for paper, lobby cards at 11 by 14, and 27" by 41" for movie posters, with most replicas going 24" by 36". It’s a pain to find the right sized frames!
Anyway, they’re all replicas. I have a few original movies posters, mostly Roger Moore and some Connery. Some would be worth a lot of money, but I framed them before learning that. Sadly, I don’t have the wall space to display them. Hence, the smaller replicas.
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Moving all Sir Sean Connery discussion to this thread:
RIP.
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Farewell, Geoffrey Palmer. RIP, Admiral.
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He would have made a superb M.
RIP.
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He would indeed.
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Connery, now Trebek. We’ve lost another icon and hero. RIP Trebek. I hope he answers St Peter’s questions in the form of a question.
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As a friend of mine remarked in jest: “With Connery gone, Trebek had nothing more to live for.”* Jeopardy won’t be the same without him. Rest in peace.
*A reference to some well-known “Celebrity Jeopardy” SNL skits.
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I always imagined that the show “As Time Goes By” was the story of how Roebuck and M got it on.
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RIP Alex Trebek. I’ve been watching him host Jeopardy! since I was a pre-verbal infant. It’s hard to imagine the show without him.
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“You’ll rue the day you crossed me, Trebek!” He outlived Sir Sean by one week. RIP to both.
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Excellent observation
His work on As Time Goes By was fantastic. I had watched most of that series after TND with my wife of the time.
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Philip Voss, the auctioneer in Octopussy, died a few days ago.
I raise this both as an RIP and also that I am now older than he was then, and Octopussy doesn’t seem so long ago. Ah well.
RIP.
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I must admit this completely passed me by. RIP.
And I agree, Octopussy does not seem so long ago. Indeed I still count the 80’s Bonds as erm, quite modern! No other movies from the 80’s, just the Bonds.
I have completely no idea why this might be.
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Because they could still happen. I watched FYEO the other week and aside from the cars’ models, the story could still happen today. Same for LTK. Drug trafficking is eternal. TLD and AVTAK get dated because of Cold War context, and to a lesser degree Octopussy, but its smuggling plot still resonates, as does the nuclear threat.
Compare these to the dated SFX of YOLT or DAF, the misogynistic tinge of 60s Bonds, the computers in GoldenEye or the print media of TND, and many 80s Bonds still hold up well today, even better than most 90s Bonds.
But when you make movies with real stuntwork, as most all 80s Bonds were, they have an incredibly long shelf life. I mean, DAD’s tsunami was dated the instant you saw it onscreen. But spiral car jumps, trucks side wheelieing and skiing off a cliff still amaze at every viewing.
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For me, analog effects date far less that digital effects. Viewers have to deal with Hitchcock’s extensive use of back screen projection, and the fact that Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint were not climbing the actual Mount Rushmore and shared a tender scene in a soundstage-created birch grove. Analog effects still show the human hand at work, which more than mitigates any feelings of datedness they might give rise to.
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