About Lobby Card / Press photo

2024/11/20 19:36

Do you know "Lobby Card" & "Press photo" which having big fans in the world?? These were produced as a advertizement of a movies. Now a days, these are highly evaluated as histrically valuable vintage items from movie lovers.

What is Lobby Cards??

Lobby card is a mini-poster which produced by movie companies. Signature scenes of each movies were picked up for an introduction of a movies. It was displayed mainly at a lobby of a movie theaters therefore this mini-poster was started to call as "Lobby Cards".

It had been produced a lot since 1940s to 2000s and there were several size and designs depending on each countries. But unfortunatelly, the number of movie companies who produce the lobby card is reducing year by year.

Feature of Lobby card

１. Signature scenes were picked-up.
２. Introduction of a movies was written.

　

What is "Press photo"??

Press photo is a black and white photograph issued for news medias. (There are some color photograph too.)These photo recorded a portrait of actors, filming location and backstage etc... It had been produced a lot since 1940s to 1990s.

Feature of Press photo

１. Original logo and caption were written.

２. Not for sales - It's issued for news medias

Our evaluation methood for Lobby cards & Press photo.

Lobby cards & Press photo is a vintage items which having different conditions one by one. Some of them has a damages such as loss-color, pin hole etc... We highly evaluate these damages as a kind of awesome aging which can be feel a histories. But people have diffrent preferences therefore, we show the aging levels evaliated based on below rules at each product pages.

1. Damage - Fold

2. Damage - Rip

3. Color-loss / Color-changing

4. Stain

We inspect each items based on above 4 points and evaluate each points on a scale of 1 to 3. Finally, each items were evaluated on a scale out of 12 from A+ to B-. If you like new old stock, we can suggest A+. If you like an aging items, we can suggest D-.

Message

Movies makes our life happy, exciting ! We can highly recommed to live with favorite scenes / movies by displaying our lobby card like old movie theater in your room. We hope you can find out your favorite.