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The Hull film buff selling the memorabilia was inspired by childhood trips to the cinema with his dad
A collection of some of the most iconic 1970s film posters, including a famous 1977 Star Wars image by one of Britain’s greatest cinema illustrators, goes up for auction in East Yorkshire later this month. Tom Chantrell’s Star Wars artwork launched the film’s global franchise.
His image of actors Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford’s characters brandishing blaster guns, while behind them looms Darth Vader holding a lightsaber, is instantly recognisable – and a collector’s item. The estimate on it is £800 to £1,000 when it goes under the hammer at Newbald Village Hall, on Saturday, October 18.
It is also the rarer of the two versions of Chantrell’s poster that will be sold at the Hawleys Antiques and Fine Art Auction. It went out to a limited number of cinemas before the film’s Oscar nominations were announced shortly after its launch in the UK – text to this effect was then added to a second poster, which was more widely issued.
Also in the collection is American artist Robert McCall’s poster design for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, estimate £500 to £800). McCall was best known for his space artworks which also documented the NASA space programme for more than 35 years.
Another artist renowned for his film posters was Italian Arnaldo Putzu who illustrated the poster for the 1973 film Enter the Dragon starring Bruce Lee, also up for auction (£600-£800). Other film posters include Jaws (1975, £400-£600) plus a series of Planet of the Apes films, Westworld, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Towering Inferno.
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The collection belongs to Hull film buff Alan Moore, who worked as a picture framer and printer. It was his dad Raymond’s love of films that inspired him to collect the posters.
Raymond was a film projectionist at a cinema in Spring Bank West and Alan remembers how his dad would set up a projector in the family home to show old films like Laurel and Hardy or the Hunchback of Notre Dame. “You could say I got the best seat in the house,” he said.
As a boy, Alan loved going to the cinema with his dad to watch the 70s films depicted in the posters he would later collect. Raymond kept the poster collection and Alan only discovered it again after his dad’s death last year at the age of 85, while sorting out his attic.
He decided to put the posters into the Hawley’s auction. He said: “I have such fond memories of him and those times.
“They don’t make films like those we watched together in the 70s anymore but I’m glad there is such a lot of interest in the posters. I see it as a kind of tribute to my dad.”
The cameras will certainly roll at the auction as auctioneer Caroline Hawley gets ready to welcome her colleagues from BBC TV’s Bargain Hunt, who will be filming four episodes of the popular show in North Newbald over both the preview day, on Friday, October 17 and the following day’s auction, on October 18.
Caroline is one of a team of Bargain Hunt antiques experts who advise two competing red and blue teams in their challenge to find items that will earn them a profit when later sold at auction. This time, Caroline will not be advising but will be filmed chatting to presenter Danny Sebastian in the “what the auctioneer thinks” segment, appraising the teams’ purchases and giving the auction estimate.
Also at the auction will be antiques experts Charles Hanson and Phil Serrell, who will be advising “their” teams. Other auction highlights include fabulous vintage fashion from an age of glamour and style from designers such as Hermes, Issey Miyake and Peter Russell, plus 65 lots from designer Doris Geddes’ “Little Shop” in Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
Doris was an Australian designer who made dresses for the likes of Elizabeth Taylor when she visited Singapore. They have come to auction by direct descent from Doris to the vendor’s mother and include a range of silk cocktail dresses and evening gowns.
An original Royal Mail 1935 poster printed for the GPO (General Post Office) by John Armstrong, depicting a GPO worker on a motorcycle riding past a Royal Mail Post box has an estimate of £200- £300 and an original lithographic PLM travel poster “Route Des Alpes” “Paris Lyons & Mediterrarian Railway” artwork by John Hassall (1868-1948) will be sold. It is expected to make £200-£300.
Viewing on Friday, October 17 will be from 10am to 8pm. The sale on Saturday, October 18 starts at 10am, at Newbald Village Hall, Townside Road, North Newbald, YO43 4SL.
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