The Eisenhower Linenbacking Experience...

Eisenhower

Thanks for the info Bruce, background history of the hobby is always good, and often difficult to dig-up.

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Mirosae

Thank you Bruce. This is very helpful. So how are "half sheets " called in pressbooks? Now I'm curious! Thanks again

Mirosae

Eisenhower said:

Mirosae said:

Hi Mark, yes, my post was meant more as a ''criticism'' of ''bad'' restoration that some people in Europe call ''European Style''. I too have seen minimal work on posters ''European Style''  that look superb (just bathing and backing). But I have also seen, more often than not, really poor restoration being carried out in Europe where you can see the dirt, mould on the poster - and they charge you a fortune! So apologies, I did not mean to sound negative about that resto that though minimal might enhance the poster, but the poor one which I normally associate with ''European Style''.

I didn't think you were sounding mean or negative. I think it's likely true; some who back posters do not do a good job at restoration. I would feel its a waste of money to buy a poorly restored poster because my first concern was has it been conserved properly. That's why I haven't attempted any significant restoration yet. I want to have this first process down before moving on to the more difficult area of restoration. I remember reading where Dario said, restoration begins with a properly conserved/backed poster. All in all, the amount of restoration given to a poster depends on the one who wants it backed.   

Thanks. You certainly have my admiration and respect!! Good job!!!

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Mirosae said:

Thank you Bruce. This is very helpful. So how are "half sheets " called in pressbooks? Now I'm curious! Thanks again

If I recall I think they are simply labeled as 22x28's?

Eisenhower

Mirosae said:

Thanks. You certainly have my admiration and respect!! Good job!!!

Thanks Rosa! I've got a long way to go...

Eisenhower

CSM said:

Mirosae said:

Thank you Bruce. This is very helpful. So how are "half sheets " called in pressbooks? Now I'm curious! Thanks again

If I recall I think they are simply labeled as 22x28's?

I think that's right Matt...er I mean, Chris!
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Mirosae

CSM said:

Mirosae said:

Thank you Bruce. This is very helpful. So how are "half sheets " called in pressbooks? Now I'm curious! Thanks again

If I recall I think they are simply labeled as 22x28's?

thanks Chris!!

Mirosae

Eisenhower said:

Mirosae said:

Thanks. You certainly have my admiration and respect!! Good job!!!

Thanks Rosa! I've got a long way to go...

Not that long Matt...

Bruce

Mirosae said:

Thank you Bruce. This is very helpful. So how are "half sheets " called in pressbooks? Now I'm curious! Thanks again

They were almost always referred to simply as "displays". Sometimes they would put "22x28 displays". Never "half-sheets".

Bruce

Mirosae

thanks Bruce, appreciate the response

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Yes I have also seen "Photo Displays" or "Lobby Displays" or "Photo lobby displays" in pressbooks (followed by the 22x28 measurements)

Mirosae

Eisenhower said:

CSM said:

Mirosae said:

Thank you Bruce. This is very helpful. So how are "half sheets " called in pressbooks? Now I'm curious! Thanks again

If I recall I think they are simply labeled as 22x28's?

I think that's right Matt...er I mean, Chris!
)

I am reMARKably bad with names. I'm sorry Mat...err Mark ....ouups. ... :-S ;;)

Eisenhower

No worries!... >-

Eisenhower

Latest linenbacking efforts...with the deluge of Australian movie poster talk going on of late, thought I'd get kicky & back one of my foreign posters! In salute to our friends across pond, I backed my first English one sheet. Measuring in at 27x39 1/2 it was in pretty good shape prior to backing. Only the grease pencil-my first time up against the substance-foiled my best backing to date. After...

Eisenhower

Backside with grease pencil & some pen...

Eisenhower

Looking at the top left, near Hawkins ear, no grease pencil showed through...after wash it slightly showed through.

Eisenhower

Poster has been drying for just over 24 hrs so the pencil may not ultimately show through, another 24 will tell...just to the right of his ear. Some faint show-through on his forehead...

Eisenhower

The bleach & deacidification worked great on this one...small success!

HONDO

Maybe it is a personal preference but I prefer the look of the original poster.To me it has character. I admit you have done aq good job in linenbacking the poster but the original background colour is different and the new version looks too slick and commercial for my tastes.That's my view so please don't shoot me. You said it was in pretty good shape so why tamper with it?

Hondo

Eisenhower

Details, details, details...my observation efforts will not let this pass again! What irritates me is that I fixed a few small fragments of paper-after laying the poster down-moved out of place during the wash...missed this one on the top of her nose bridge...

Matt

That's done it!. We'll have to shoot you and Hondo....

I think the poster looks great . Well done.

Eisenhower

In the end, happy with only my 2nd one sheet effort-am getting more comfortable with the entire wet work process, esp the bleaching a deacidification, laying down of the masa and the poster!

David

Great effort, top result! 

Eisenhower

HONDO said:

Maybe it is a personal preference but I prefer the look of the original poster.To me it has character. I admit you have done aq good job in linenbacking the poster but the original background colour is different and the new version looks too slick and commercial for my tastes.That's my view so please don't shoot me. You said it was in pretty good shape so why tamper with it?

Hondo

Thanks Hondo...understand your tastes. My wife also liked the aged toning that it had prior to my conservation efforts. But part of the development of my skills is to learn how to arrest the aging process of paper-to learn how to deacidify it properly, which in itself will lighten it. For me it's all about learning the process, which will result in posters looking "slick" and I'm ok with the poster looking like it did when it was first displayed at the theatre in 1955. Shooting? Heavens no! Waterboarding...maybe!

Sven

Another Mark special , you seem to make quite large leaps each time , so good on you mate! Never seen the poster and like it !

Eisenhower

Thanks guys, appreciate it. I felt it was a solid effort and the results were good-but still need to perfect the process more before tackling some of my better posters.

Sven said:

Never seen the poster and like it !

Interesting you should say that-it kinda reminds me that as ive begun backing these posters-some of them, esp this last one, I've bought not for how they look, but to practice on...and always when I'm done & they're drying, i think..."i really like that poster!" I'm guessing it's all the work put into it...

Charlie

^:)^

Eisenhower

Thanks for the kudos Charlie. The upcoming restoration will be when the real fun starts! ....I was able to salvage the paperbacking debacle of my LC. Will post those pics later...

Eisenhower

My first experiment with paperbacking...not my best results, but I salvaged what I thought would be a trash can candidate. Before...it had some surface dirt, scuff marks & toning I was hoping to eliminate...