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Author Topic: Old Posters? Cameron Andrews Film Handler Posts: 29 From: Rexburg, ID 83440 Registered: Apr 2009 posted 04-05-2010 10:28 PM                     What does everyone do with old posters? I've been told we are supposed to throw them away, but I don't know. Since taking over, I haven't had the heart to throw them away and I'm getting quite the stock pile. Any suggestions?  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-05-2010 11:27 PM                        If you have any for Ponyo from last summer, you can send them towards me. Seriously. I've seen some places offer up unwanted extras to customers, or to staff members. Throwing them away does seem like such a waste.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-06-2010 01:07 AM                     True, major "eBone" fodder! And to echo what Paul above mentions: some theatre operators will put all the old posters in a large box, put a label on it with "FREE" and put it in the lobby for the patrons to have fun with it ... or even let staff have first dibs before putting them out. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 04-06-2010 01:35 AM                     I have given them to non-profit organizations to sell or auction to raise funds. Technically the distributors still own them but I have never received any instructions regarding what to do with them.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-06-2010 09:16 AM                        quote: Monte L Fullmer some theatre operators will put all the old posters in a large box, put a label on it with "FREE" and put it in the lobby for the patrons to have fun with it ... or even let staff have first dibs before putting them out. I do that about twice a year. The huge "BUS SHELTER" sized posters get offered to my kids first, the employees second. Regular sized "ONE SHEETS" get rummaged through by the employees first, then get rolled individually and placed vertically in a box in the corner of the lobby. What happens to them after that is not up to me.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2010 09:28 AM                        We constantly get asked for posters. I always tell people that they can come in on the last night the film runs and ask for them. Hardly anyone ever remembers to show up. I save quite a few posters....why, I have no idea.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-06-2010 09:37 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer was the last to post old posters Usually they die or get banned from Film-Tech:p  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 04-06-2010 10:02 AM                     quote: True, major "eBone" fodder! Tried selling a few posters on eBay a few years ago to raise money for a slush fund (for employee parties etc) and several my auctions were promptly shut down by Sony, Disney, and WB.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-06-2010 12:05 PM                     ..and prob those studios do the same with the trailers we see that pops up on eBay as well ...  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-06-2010 03:30 PM                    Is eBone easier to type than eBay? Or does it carry with it some element of humor that is escaping me?  |  IP: Logged Jack Theakston Master Film Handler Posts: 411 From: New York, USA Registered: Sep 2007 posted 04-07-2010 10:41 AM                     Depending on who you work for, you might consider working your left-over posters into a raffle contest and announce the winners on whatever one of your down times are. You'll be drawing people in and possibly get an extra ticket sale out of it.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 04-07-2010 10:50 AM                        quote: Richard Hamilton Usually they die or get banned from Film-Tech:p HEY!  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 04-07-2010 01:10 PM                        quote: Cameron Andrews What does everyone do with old posters? I don't know what everyone does, but the posters that haven't been snatched up by employees (or customers if you allow that) can serve as unique gift-wrapping paper.  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 04-07-2010 11:04 PM                     They make good drop clothes for painting or taking apart oily messy stuff. I do like the wrapping paper idea. You could probably also use them as crazy carpets.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-08-2010 07:11 AM                    I have some "Ghost Dad" posters if anyone wants them.  |  IP: Logged

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