For the Love of Film - Restoring Alfred Hitchcock Movie Posters
Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 7:45PM 
Today is the first day of the For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III and will go on till 18th May.
This is the third edition of the blogathon, the aim every year is to raise funds for the National Film Preservation Foundation (an independent, nonprofit organization created to rescue endangered films) to support restoring a specific film each year.
This year, the aim is to raise funds to make The White Shadow, a film that has already been restored, more accessible to the public. NFPF estimates that it will cost $15,000 to stream The White Shadow for four months and record a new score written for it by Michael Mortilla and our mission this year is to raise that money so that anyone with access to a computer can watch this film
The White Shadow, directed by Graham Cutts was the first film Alfred Hitchcock had a major role in creating. He was the assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director and set decorator.
Between today and 18th May I will be posting Hitchock themed posts along with the other participating bloggers.
You can find links to the other posts on ferdyonfilms.com and you can donate by clicking on the Donate badge on the left side or by going here.
I will start off with post about restoration of old movie posters. I stumbled upon this video recently about Posterfix, about the restoration of old Hithcock movie posters. Think it's quite befitting with the film restoration theme.
As much as I love movies, I don't own any movie posters and after I found this video, it has piqued my interest in old movie posters and might start looking into collecting them. In the meantime, please join me and enjoy this short clip about the art of restoring old movie posters. May it never die.
You can access links to blogposts by the other participants here.
www.posterfix.com
www.ferdyonfilms.com
www.selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com
www.thisislandrod.blogspot.com
www.filmpreservation.org
www.moviepreservation.blogspot.com
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Reader Comments (4)
This is REALLY interesting, Hind. Thanks for contributing and putting up with my little faux pas on the home blog. I love movie posters and have a couple myself. Now all I need is room to display them.
Ha ha! No worries. Glad you like this. Yes, I must start looking into old movie posters. Looking forward to researching posts for the rest of the week and reading everyone else's contribution.
Hind: Thank you. That was interesting to see. It was a good illustration of the difference between restoration and preservation.
Hi Joe - Glad you like the post. I never thought about movie poster restoration till I found this clip. Glad to know there are some people out there keeping the art of movie posters alive.