![]() ![]() For those who aren’t familiar with PMMA, it’s a plastic material that is often substituted for glass due to certain benefits of how it handles light emitting through it. A middle ground would be this Spolehli frame which uses a Ploy(methyl methacrylate) aka acrylic glass material to display a two-sided poster. ![]() That completely defeats the original intended purpose of a poster, which was to market and attract eyes to a movie. ![]() It’ll be rolled up and tubed away safely. This means that if you’re collecting to preserve the historical value of a poster, it shouldn’t see the light of day. Sunlight, tape and oxidation are the top enemies to every vintage poster collector. On the one hand, preserving paper is a big deal for old movie posters that hold value. Poster collecting is an odd field to dig into. While it was a bit on the pricey side, after hanging it up on the wall for months now, did it do the job I wanted it to do? What does it do? I didn’t necessarily find what I wanted in a lower price range and after searching outside of Amazon, I did eventually circle back to an LED poster frame on Amazon from Spolehli. As always, my go to in any purchasing situation was to check Amazon Prime first. I recently acquired a movie poster that had (in my opinion) cultural significance and wanted to display it properly and safely. Just because I haven’t reached the peak of my home theater design doesn’t mean I couldn’t start looking at things that would eventually add to the aesthetics. While I’ve made leeway into the arcadeaspect of my goal, I’m still a long ways away from having a well designed home cinema. I’m also a big history buff who hoards things because I enjoy preserving pieces of art that have significant rarity and value. As I got older, that concept evolved into an arcade/theater hybrid as I got further along into my filmmaking career. One of my goals as a child growing up in the 90’s was to have my own home arcade. ![]()
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