Learn About International Movie Posters Author:ed poole, susan poole LAMP's Learn About International Movie Posters presents a closer look at the film industry in major countries around the world from the viewpoint of the poster collector. This first-of-its-kind softbound bound reference book is 430 pages with 540 illustrations and is designed to teach you the basic poster collecting information on 38 countries.
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Here is a some of the information covered:
*How and when the film industry was introduced in each country.
*Overview of the film industry in that country.
*Film Firsts in each country
*Poster sizes and types issued for each country
*Analysis of Censorship
*Articles covering topics like:
*Poster markings to look for
*Ratings codes from various countries
*Study of Belgian tax stamps to help date originals from rereleases
*French printers logs with addresses to help date originals from rereleases
*Visa de Censor logs for France to help date originals from rereleases
*Eiren marks to help date Japanese posters
*Identifying Czech posters from Sloviak posters
*German FSK stamps for identification
*Dutch Censor Stamps
And much much more. This book is CRAMMED with information that will help each and every dealer and collector no matter WHAT level you are at.« less