OVER AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE yesterday I posted a NEW clip from a 1973 Peter Cushing Interview. If you missed it when posted, it's still there, so click that link above and maybe learn about Cushing's experience of shooting the 'alternative European, Japanese and US' additional footage. If you are wondering why, I have of late not been actually posting the LIVE video clips, here on the PCASUK Blog, it's not about driving traffic at all really, more about YOUTUBE now slashing and pulling 'anything and everything'. Facebook too has now also banned the option of sharing links to websites and blogs on their fan pages. All part of their new policies and the stupidity of the few ruining the fan and harmless practices of others. Oh btw, the puffing sound you hear, in this interview is Peter doing his impersonation of a 'props
man' blowing smoke from his cigarette under camera below Peter in shot! Just saying... 😊😉
NEWS: Something we are seeing quite often these days, is the selling of private collections of #Hammerfilms, #PeterCushing, Amicus films and #ChristopherLee
memorabilia. Some items certainly getting quite respectable estimates
too. I am pleased to say, both of these items are also in the PCASUK
collection, the 'Brides' poster I believe, is a reprint from the
re-release of the film in the mid 1960's. Both posters were purchased in
the mid 1970's for £20, from 'S and P Parker'.. who back then sold all
manner of lobby stills sets, posters and press kits, for a song! Of the
collectors, still breathing out there... I wonder how many of you
remember 'S and P'.. or Greg Edwards too? - Marcus
'THE CINEMA FILM POSTER and memorabilia collection owned by one person and up for
auction at Ewbank’s is so extensive the sale had to be delayed a week to
complete cataloguing the content. The vast size of the Michael Armstrong collection, set for sale on
Wednesday, May 7, is not its most important feature, said Ewbank’s
partner and specialist Alastair McCrea.“The outstanding factor is its
condition.” he said. “Mr Armstrong was the long-standing projectionist at
The Regal cinema in Wymondham, Suffolk when it closed in 1993 and he
kept all the promotional posters and lobby cards in first-class
condition. “Unlike other posters and cinema memorabilia, they have not
been damaged by changing hands from collector to collector.” Expected to
fetch a hammer total of about £50,000, the 320-lot sale includes
thousands of single items, comprising 25 sets of eight front-of-house
cards, as well as press books, movie brochures and, of course, the
posters'.
Highlights
include posters for the 1967 British horror flick Quatermass and the
Pit (estimate £700-£1,000), The Beatles’ three, Yellow Submarine
(£700-£1,000), A Hard Day’s Night (£500-£800), Help! (£500-£800) and the
1960 Hammer horror classic, The Brides of Dracula (£400-£600).
The Michael Armstrong Cinema Collection Auction, takes place on 7th May 2021, 12:00pm at Ewbanks, Surrey.
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