New vintage. (L.A. Stories).Want a piece of the "Thief of Baghdad?" You're not alone, but President Bush has dibs on the one now in office. Instead, how about another bit of history, a memento me·men·to n. pl. me·men·tos or me·men·toes A reminder of the past; a keepsake. [Middle English, commemoration of the living or the dead in the Canon of the Mass, from Latin from the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks movie in which an unscrupulous swashbuckler tries to win an Arabian princess? Entertainment Galleries, which opened this month at the Farmers Market, has collaborated with the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase and Universal Studios to commission handmade hand·made adj. Made or prepared by hand rather than by machine. handmade Adjective made by hand, not by machine Adj. 1. reproductions of the plates of vintage movie posters and will be selling them on a custom-order basis. "Obviously, this is very pop-art," said Katrina Schmidt, director of the gallery. So far, 50 of the 100 vintage posters are available, including "Casablanca" "Gone With the Wind," "King Kong King Kong giant ape brought to New York as “eighth wonder of world.” [Am. Cinema: Payton, 367] See : Giantism " "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" and "Lolita." The gallery is using a 10-ton lithography lithography (lĭthŏg`rəfē), type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched into the plate). press from the 1870s to produce the lithographs using new hand-drawn plates, which are run through the press one color at a time. Most of the original plates for the posters were destroyed, and most of the original posters were discarded after the film's run. |
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