Having recently spoken with Ginsberg about their find, I learned that not only did they acquire the printing artifacts, but they also have a detailed inventory book, and according to Ginsberg, the rights to the printing artifacts and the rights to re-strike prints.
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You can see the partial inventory at the Hollywood Movie Legends website.
KB Typesetting’s collection included blocks and plates to advertise movies from the silent era all the way up to the 1980s. Strangelove, Foxy Brown (1974), Lady and the Tramp, Planet of the Apes (1968), Star Wars (1977), and The Werewolf (1956). In the fall of 1998 they purchased approximately 50,000 blocks and 8,000 plates used for printing and advertising some of the most iconic films in history, including, but not limited to: Dr. Boxes and boxes of Hollywood relics, covered in dust, had been preserved, and it would change their lives forever. What DJ Ginsberg & Marilyn Wagner found in a back room at Franx Antiques & Art in Omaha, Nebraska was like no other find. But because the blocks and plates currently have no home, this Hollywood story is far from over.ĭJ Ginsberg cleans printing blocks, as seen in The Collection. The Collection goes behind the scenes, showing you the people who rescued the printing blocks and plates, how they cleaned and used them to make prints, and the collection’s potential worth. The story of those artifacts was told in The Collection, a documentary film that gained attention in January via Kottke and other media outlets. It’s an already legendary find that famed collector and appraiser Rudy Franchi called “the ‘Holy Grail’ of movie memorabilia.” Decades later, thousands and thousands of blocks and plates used to print movie advertisements have survived and are now up for auction. The print advertisements’ large titles and heroic portraits mesmerized me, while the teeny, tiny type showing the local theater names and showtimes forced me to scan the pages slowly. Growing up in Nebraska, I would spend weekends looking through the Omaha World-Herald newspaper to see what movies were playing.
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