TVparty!: The Lost Art of Movie Posters!

Sunday, August 20, 2017

The Lost Art of Movie Posters!

TVparty!'s Billy Ingram, who had a long career designing movie posters in the '80s & '90s, and Maurice Hicks from 40s N Flicks talk with Kevin Burke, the director of 24 x 36: A Movie About Movie Posters. It's everything you wanted to know about the lost art of movie posters!

Description of the movie: "24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters" is a documentary that explores the world of illustrated movie poster art; the artists who create it, companies and studios that commission it, galleries that display it and collectors and fans who hang it.

Through interviews with a number of key art personalities from the '70s and '80s, as well as many modern, alternative poster artists – "24x36" aims to answer the questions – What happened to the illustrated movie poster? Where did it disappear to and why?

In the mid 2000s, filling the void left behind by Hollywood’s abandonment of illustrated movie posters, independent artists and galleries began selling limited edition screenprinted posters. This movement has quickly exploded into a multi-million dollar industry, with prints selling out online in seconds, inspiring Hollywood studios to take notice of illustration in movie posters once more.

"24x36" explores this birth, death and resurrection of the illustrated movie poster.

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'A twisted walk down memory lane!' - Sharon Edry, TV Guide
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Billy Ingram launched TVparty.com in 1997 and it quickly became one of the internet’s hottest spots for entertainment and information, attracting millions of users a month. TVparty! was the first to broadcast clips of TV shows online.

In 2002 he released the best-selling book 'TVparty: Television’s Untold Tales' to rave reviews from around the world. He wrote and starred in a series for VH1, 'Super Secret TV Formulas', and two series on Bravo along with 'The Christmas Special Christmas Special'.

Billy Ingram produced, art directed, and conducted and transcribed hundreds of interviews to craft the storyline for 'Beyond Our Wildest Dreams', an oral history of Las Vegas in the 1970s. He produced the Eisner Award nominated book 'Dear John: The Alex Toth Book' and authored the 2013 memoir 'Punk' about his experience in 1980 covering the Punk music scene in East LA.

He was a designer on some of the most successful Academy Award campaigns, film trailers, and movie posters of all time, for stars like Harrison Ford, Barbra Streisand, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and many others.

An internationally acclaimed actor, internet pioneer, artist, and writer, Billy Ingram starred in the 2011 indie motion picture 'Swimming in a Lake of Fire'.