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Magic fans will enjoy this parody film poster advertising the Golden Gate Gathering, a magic convention organized by Anthony Miller and Rosie Rings.
Magician Kent Gunn explains on the Genii forum that Rosie and Tony are both huge movie poster aficionados. and that they’ve come up with Rosie-fied old movie posters for the GGG for several years.
Thanks to Kent Gunn for the photo of the poster.
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This showed up in our e-mailbox yesterday. I have no idea who it is from, but I guess it’s from a fan of our Arts Express Magazine and radio show. Thank you, whoever you are!
A while back, I posted about the Buster Keaton short, “Mixed Magic”.
I recently had a pleasant email exchange with noted author and producer Jerry Zolten who told me that he had picked up a one-sheet poster for the Keaton short from a collector who ran an appliance store. The collector had been deeded a bunch of movie posters by the daughter of a movie house owner who didn’t know what to do with the extra posters lying around, so she gave them to him.
Jerry kindly gave me permission to display the poster here.
Jerry is a very interesting guy, and in addition to teaching university courses on stand-up comedy and the roots of rock ‘n’ roll he produced a remarkable audio documentary about the music and radio of the Vietnam War. It’s so difficult to capture the true spirit of a former time, but if you were alive at the time, this will give you flashbacks:
http://atimetoheal.wpsu.org/soundtrack/
I highly recommend you take a listen.
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The magic words of Dante the Magician
New York Historical Society (from the David Copperfield collection)
New York, New York
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Poster in grocery store window,
Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY
