Cinema/Television/Radio – Page 2 – Global Postcard Sales

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Ethan Mao
An advertising card from 2005 for this film, with extra message written on the reverse but not postally used. Grade: 4

Code: 30500041
Price: $3.00
Flotsam and Jetsam
This looks like cinema art to us but we’re not certain. Card was produced in, and mailed from, PR China with one stamp and full postmark. The card has rounded corners. Grade: 1

Code: 30500042
Price: $2.00
Cosmos Cinema, Ekaterinburg (Russia)
This 4-1/2″ x 6-7/8″ card has four stamps, full postmark, captions in Russian and English, and a major crease diagonally in the lower left corner. Grade: 4

Code: 30500043
Price: $2.00
Tsim Sha Tsui, Avenue of the Stars (Hong Kong)
Homage to Chinese cinema. Several unused cards are available (Grades: 1, $3) and another mailed in 2010 with five stamps, full postmark, and blue trilingual airmail label affixed (Grade: 2, $6).

Code: 30500044
Price: $3.00
Quiz Kids (USA)
From 1940-1953, first on radio then TV in the USA, this was a very popular family programme. Listeners (then viewers) submitted questions for the young panelists; questions were acknowledged with postcards like these, fully explaining that your question “is receiving careful consideration.” On this card, the stamp and pre-cancelled Chicago postmark are there. A genuine slice of American media history. Grade: 2

Code: 30500045
Price: $12.00
The Birds, Bodega Bay (California)
This unused card isn’t a scene from the Hitchcock film, but the caption directly refers to the film and its Bodega and Bodega Bay locations. Grade: 1

Code: 30500046
Price: $2.00
Avalon
Unused movie card dated 2000, from Panorama Entertainment. Grade: 1

Code: 30500047
Price: $4.00
Fruhreife Generation (The Explosive Generation, 1961)
Mailed from Germany in 2011, with two stamps (including a rather grim one of Mother Teresa) and partial postmark. There are postal abrasions around the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 30500048
Price: $3.00
William Desmond
The description of Mr. Desmond appearing in a website called things-and-other-stuff dot com bears quoting: “William Desmond – He-man hero of many a silent, he now plays anything that comes along–when it does. Alternates between stage and screen. (Kept showing up in anything that came along until just prior to his death in 1949, age 70.)” Unused, heavily aged old card. Grade: 2

Code: 30500049
Price: $5.00
James Bond, The Living Daylights
On the face of it, a movie promo card of Timothy Dalton issued in 1987. But this comes from Malaysia, was an invitation to a press preview in Kuala Lumpur, and was mailed (without any handwritten message) from there with four different stamps and blue Mel Udara sticker affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 30500050
Price: $6.00
Voice of America, Earth from Apollo 17
Three of these unused cards are available, issued by Voice of America during the height of the U.S. space exploration programme. Something you might not immediately notice (because it’s on the reverse, not in the photo) is that the caption is in Swahili. That is almost certainly why (or because) the photo is of Africa. Grades: 1

Code: 30500051
Price: $4.00
Bangkok, FM 95 MHz (Thailand)
Measuring 5″ x 7″, this unused card has all the information on the front and is completely blank on the reverse. It is also quite dusty. Grade: 3

Code: 30500052
Price: $4.00
Roy Rogers – Dale Evans Museum, Victorville (California)
Unused card captioned “Saturday Morning T.V. Anywhere, U.S.A.” Yes, we can attest to that. Grade: 1

Code: 30500053
Price: $3.00
Leow’s on Canal Street, New Orleans
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 7A-H973. Grade: 2

Code: 30500054
Price: $3.00
Leow’s on Canal Street, New Orleans (no border)
E.C. Kropp card no. 78 (and 266), mailed in 194_ (no number!) with stamp and full postmark except for that digit. Some kind of abrasion on upper left and lower right reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 30500055
Price: $4.00
Leow’s on Canal Street, New Orleans (border)
Mailed in 1932 with stamp and full postmark, and judging from the message, the sender and the receiver were both lucky. Grade: 1

Code: 30500056
Price: $7.00
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood (California)
It has been awhile since this area was glamorous but, who knows, miracles happen, it could come back. It should. Unused Plastichrome card P29702. Grade: 1

Code: 30500057
Price: $3.00
Voice of America – Tripulacion del Apolo 16
We need to explain this, without actually knowing if our explanation is correct or not. Voice of America during the 1960s and 1970s made every effort to engage its international listeners. Coming at the same time as America’s space programme, it appears that VOA created a club (“Club de Oyentes … Unidos por la Verdad”) and issued membership cards. So this otherwise unused postcard has astronauts on the front (code 30500058A), and some information in Spanish on the back, along with a plastic membership card taped on (code 30500058B). We suppose any listener could just write in and join–a common practice for shortwave radio back then. This is not a QSL card. Despite the aging tape, we will call this Grade: 1

Code: 30500058A
Price: $18.00
Voice of America – Tripulacion del Apolo 16 (reverse)
We need to explain this, without actually knowing if our explanation is correct or not. Voice of America during the 1960s and 1970s made every effort to engage its international listeners. Coming at the same time as America’s space programme, it appears that VOA created a club (“Club de Oyentes … Unidos por la Verdad”) and issued membership cards. So this otherwise unused postcard has astronauts on the front (code 30500058A), and some information in Spanish on the back, along with a plastic membership card taped on (code 30500058B). We suppose any listener could just write in and join–a common practice for shortwave radio back then. This is not a QSL card. Despite the aging tape, we will call this Grade: 1

Code: 30500058B
Price: $18.00
Tom Breneman and Uncle Corny
Unused card from U.S. radio history. The caption reads: “Listen to Tom Breneman’s Breakfast in Hollywood Monday through Friday Over the American Broadcaasting Company”. The card is dated 1945. Alas, Breneman died in 1948. Grade: 2

Code: 30500059
Price: $4.00
The WGN Studios, Chicago (Illinois)
Two of these unused, Curteich-Chicago linen cards 1B-H2102 are available, showing one of the U.S.A.’s earliest radio stations. Grades: 2

Code: 30500060
Price: $3.00
WGN’s Radio Station Studio Building, Chicago (Illinois)
Unused, old, and authentic B&W view of this early radio station. The card is stained on both sides and has a small portion of the upper right front corner missing. Grade: 5

Code: 30500061
Price: $4.00
The New, The 2nd Cinerama Presentation
Unused card issued by the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco. In the message section, this is printed in red: “Having a wonderful ‘Cinerama Holiday’ See you Soon!” Late 1950s? Grade: 2

Code: 30500062
Price: $3.00
I Was In Cinerama!
Unused card whose message section lists the 13 “exclusive Cinerama Theatres” around the U.S.A. where “You, too, can be in Cinerama.” Grade: 2

Code: 30500063
Price: $3.00
Cinerama, Search for Paradise
Unused card issued by Warner Hollywood Theatre of Hollywood, the “Exclusive Southern California Home of Cinerama.” Grade: 1

Code: 30500064
Price: $8.00
The Reef, Australian Chamber Orchestra (Hong Kong)
For the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2013. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 30500065
Price: $1.00
Community Digital Radio (Australia)
A communal card for stations in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. This one, mailed in 2012 with Olympics stamp and full postmark. Very minor edge abrasion. Grade: 2

Code: 30500066
Price: $3.00
Old cinema in Taiwan
Unused contemporary card. Grade: 1

Code: 30500067
Price: $4.00
“New York Movie” (Edward Hopper)
Artwork, mailed from USA in 2012 with stamp and mostly readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30500068
Price: $2.00
Greetings from California
Mailed in 2012 with four different stamps–two of which are Washington’s Tidal Basin connected–along with one extra sticker, illegible postmark, and a crease through the middle. Grade: 4

Code: 30500069
Price: $0.50
Cinema lottery card (China)
This long, unused card (3-1/16″ x 9-7/8″) issued by China Post comes in three connected parts: the card itself, with pre-printed postage, a QR code, and a lottery number; a middle section with what looks like instructions and another serial number; and the orange stub. The reverse refers to two websites and it looks like you can also download Apps for your own use there. Complicated, and entirely in Chinese. There’s a bit of creasing, not serious. Grade: 2

Code: 30500070
Price: $3.00
Chemical Heritage Foundation (USA)
This 6″ x 8-1/2″ card was mailed in 2012 with six different stamps and postmark, and somehow survived the international trip. It tells about the Catalyst Film Series, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A mailed card of this size is going to have a few dings and bruises, and so this one does too. Grade: 3

Code: 30500071
Price: $3.00
Tartu kesään (Finland)
Roughly this means “Grab the Summer” and this richly coloured 5-1/8″ x 7-1/2″ ad card promotes a TV programme that combines a quiz and singing. Mailed from Finland in 2012 with stamp and Priority label, but–as happens more and more now–no postmark. Only because of that, Grade: 4

Code: 30500072
Price: $4.00
For Your Eyes Only
From the 1981 James Bond film. The card was mailed from the UK in 2013 with stamp, Air Mail label, indistinct postmark, and orange postal barcoding. Grade: 3

Code: 30500073
Price: $2.00
PIXAR, Cars 2
Card HEDY-464 from the Heart Art Collection, made in and posted from Japan with two stamps, postmark, and trilingual air mail label. Grade: 1

Code: 30500074
Price: $5.00
Август Восьмого (August 8th) (Russia)
… in cinemas on 21st February. (They missed a marketing opportunity for this film.) Mailed in 2013 with two large commemorative stamps and illegible postmark. Postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 30500075
Price: $5.00
West Coast Video (USA)
Unused 1996 card for this company, located in Florida (Miami), a nice representation of the West Coast. Grade: 1

Code: 30500076
Price: $3.00
Lost and Found – airplane window (Hong Kong)
Beginning a series of unused cards of various Hong Kong films and actors. All cards are well-captioned in Chinese. Two of these cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30500077
Price: $5.00
Lost and Found – rock outcrop (Hong Kong)
Continuing a series of unused cards of various Hong Kong films and actors. All cards are well-captioned in Chinese. Two of these cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30500078
Price: $5.00
Lost and Found – three actors, white background (Hong Kong)
Continuing a series of unused cards of various Hong Kong films and actors. All cards are well-captioned in Chinese. Two of these cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 30500079
Price: $5.00

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