@@MikeFarnhamGalaxysEdgeGroupthat's not the cover of the first issue though they are similar in terms of composition. The big difference is that the poster looks like pure Chaykin whereas the cover was inked by Tom Palmer. The poster also has colors correct to the film. On the comic Vader is green, Han is wearing a brown jacket that looks like the one from the movie Solo, Leia is wearing a black dress and Obi Wan is less shadowy looking. The cover also doesn't have the vertical lightsaber down the middle in the background.
I’ve been collecting Vintage posters for years. As some of mine have an extreme amount of wear due to them either being used for theatrical releases. Or just decades of age. I thoroughly enjoy your work in keeping these nostalgic pieces of art and cinematic history!! Great job!!
Easily the #1 art restoration channel on TH-cam, way ahead of the other, more famous "restoration" channels. These long forms are so cool and really help bring an identity and history to the piece being restored. Amazing work you guys! Wishing you great success on TH-cam, you deserve it!
Sorry, FCR is definitely doing a great job. But the number 1 is and remains Baumgartnerrestaurations youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration?si=e0LdnjnXpfpucSwm
Loved this, really interesting hearing about the history too! Honestly I wish it was even longer, I'd love to see and hear even more detail on the process of the vacuum table and how you specifically managed the bleaching and stabilisation of the tear. The processes are fascinating! Can't wait for the next one!
Wow! Fantastic to see this Star Wars poster restoration and get info about its origin. I have one that I bought at a New York comic shop when I was in high school in the late 70’s. So glad I kept it and luckily it’s in very good condition.
What a great video, and a very interesting poster! Beautiful work, as usual. I'd never heard of this one, pretty wild that they were giving them away, signed. I looked this poster's value up, according to other auctions, and it looks to be worth over $3K! A very nice collectible, and you've added to its condition 👍
Like he says back in the 1970s no one knew what a collectible this was going to be. This was also when you could buy original pages from people like Jack Kirby for under $100 and a copy of Action Comics #1 for less than the price of a house.
1:25 my experience with movie posters was a little different because my sister worked at local cinema theatre around early 00's, and she brings a tons of leftovers movie posters from work. My room was covered in fast and furious posters.
I have what i believe is an original 1977 poster I found in the trash 3 years ago in a cheap plexiglass frame. I put a new frame on it and hope to get it appraised some day.
holy.. that poster is old af 😱 I should know.. I was born in 76 lol. great restoration 👍🏻 I saw one of your other videos and have been binging for a few hours now. definitly worth a sub
Would love love love to see you restore an ohrai noriyoshi poster! Preferably one of his star wars or godzilla works but i think he's the best movie poster artist of all time. RIP.
It would be helpful if you were to take a few seconds to point out what changes we should be noticing - you mentioned "foxing" a couple times but since I have no clue what that is, I had no idea what I was looking for.
@@hiphopguru81I don’t think I’d consider it snobby if they’re a professional restoration company. It’s just the occupational terminology that people who don’t work in that field don’t ever hear
I just took a moment to Google it. From what I understand, It's that slight brown, rusty, splotchy discoloration that old paintings and papers seem to get. I agree though. I wanna hear an art nerd explain it with passion.
You’d be absolutely right to do that, because everything they do to these posters - as beautiful as the finished products look - degrades their value more than if they were left in their current state but secured tightly (but not permanently) in a plastic sleeve or enclosed frame. The client here sounds like he wants to preserve this in part for its future financial value, but everything they’ve done to it has robbed it of that because it’s had materials added to it (to touch up the inks, fill in the tears, etc). Based on other videos, they seem to permanently fuse/adhere them to those backing boards (and never address comments that bring it up), so that’s another layer of authenticity and collector value removed.
@Coolestmovies All of our processes are fully reversible. We provide our services for individuals, dealers and auction houses all over the world and our services typically aim to increase the life span of ephemera which was designed to be thrown away after the promotions/events. We don’t speak to the value of pieces we work on because we are not appraisers and at the end of the day the value of collectibles are determined by the collector. Through our decades of experience within the industry, we can say that our processes do not rob the pieces of all value.
@ it’s beautiful work. Lots of talent to make these posters look so good for sure, amazing work. I think the process is more suited for family heirlooms and things with no value other than to the person/family that treasures it.
@@FourthConeRestoration Thanks for following up. I was referring to you folks not addressing comments in the past about the additive and (possibly, I thought) permanent nature of the processes, not the value of the products before or after treatment. And as much as I admire the incredible skills and tools on display in these videos, I’m just a little skeptical that everything can be undone if someone ever wanted to verify the ‘true’ appearance of a high-dollar purchase (especially wherein the seller doesn’t admit that restoration work has been done). I mean, are the paints and inks used to touch up the artwork fully removable? If so, that’s great. Also, thanks for clarifying that the work doesn’t rob the pieces of all value. My comment probably sounded like I thought they did, when in fact my suspicion is only that the processes decrease the value of the posters to somewhere lower than their ‘book value’, even though they look a million times better. One thing that might be cool, and silence skeptics like me 😉 is a video showing the reversing of the processes on a poster that has no value either way.
I have a lot of my original Star Wars merchandise, action figures, toys, comics and publications. So this is interesting. But regarding the signature. My Dad found a 1960 Yankees autographed baseball in the basement. Some big names. The one name that collectors want. Was smudged. Mickey Mantle.
This was a promo poster for the comic book adaptation from Marvel Comics. Still an important piece of illustration history but not a poster for the release of the original Star Wars film.
The poster was distributed almost 12 months before the movie. It's one of the first publicly available promotional materials for the entire Star Wars franchise. It's possible that 20th Century Fox's promo materials about all of their intended 1976 releases distributed to theater owners was the only thing that predates it.
You know what sucks. I worked in a movie theater back then for 5 years. Started in high school 1979. The owner asked me I wanted all these different posters and I said no.
This poster was not made to promote the movie. It is not a movie poster. It was made to promote the Marvel comic book series, which had already been agreed to before the movie was released. Chaykin was the penciler and inker on the original Star Wars comic, so this was just another piece of cover style art. Some speculate that potentially multiple covers were drawn for issue #1, and this poster was just one of the covers that didn't get selected and was repurpose as a poster. Some others speculate that several artists were offered the job on Star Wars and had to submit a piece of art showcasing how they would draw it. Chaykin got the job and they turned his piece into a promotional poster. Either is plausible. Star Wars #1 was released in April 1977, a few weeks before the movies debut in the theatre. According to Star Wars historians, it wasn't just 1000 copies of this poster that were made. 1000 copies of the poster were distributed to retail outlets across the US who sold Marvel comics. Later, additional copies of the poster were offered for sale at SDCC. As stated, it was a slow seller. At the end of the con, unsold inventory was given away. So more than 1000 copies were printed but the print run for the SDCC copies is unknown, so it is 1000 + more. Many believe it may have been another 1000 copies. Attendance at SDCC was around 3000 people in 1976 and they really thought enough people would buy this poster that it would create buzz for the upcoming comic and movie. If you didn't make enough, you wouldn't create buzz. If you created too many, you ran the risk of not selling them all. It's argued that it would have been more typical to order 500 of them, or 1000 of them. Another arguement is they would have known far enough in advance that they needed them for store promos AND Comic Con, so they probably ordered 2000-2500 in the same order. I'm in the camp that probably 2000 were made overall. And many probably were destroyed and lost to time.
I doubt any more than 10% have survived over they years. As someone who collected movie posters as a kid I remember how much they ended being abused and ultimately thrown away. I have zero posters left myself :p
Why not 3d scan the signature and use a laser table to lightly heat the signature, you can try it out on any fading signature. I do believe it works, lasers do a complete pass with light pulses set by the user.
Think of this video as a screenplay, and in a screenplay you’re supposed to show, not tell. This is basically an exposition dump. I want to see them actually working on the poster. Their techniques, the tools they’re using. This is merely a seven minute before/after shot.
is the value of a renaissance painting also gone if it receives a new backing and has its discoloured varnish ( "color correction") removed? Is the value of vintage Lego gone when you rebrighten yellowed white bricks?
In 300 years no one will care. They'll see a really well preserved poster and be happy, which is the point of restoring something to begin with, to preserve it for the future
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Fantastic to see the original promo poster. Incredibly rare piece handled with the upmost care. 🎉🎉🎉👍👍
Every poster has a history. It's nice to hear about it. I love that longer form video. I'm a Star Wars fan, but never heard about this design!
really? Its the cover of issue #1 of the comic.
@@MikeFarnhamGalaxysEdgeGroupthat's not the cover of the first issue though they are similar in terms of composition. The big difference is that the poster looks like pure Chaykin whereas the cover was inked by Tom Palmer. The poster also has colors correct to the film. On the comic Vader is green, Han is wearing a brown jacket that looks like the one from the movie Solo, Leia is wearing a black dress and Obi Wan is less shadowy looking. The cover also doesn't have the vertical lightsaber down the middle in the background.
This profession has fascinated me for years.
I’ve been collecting Vintage posters for years. As some of mine have an extreme amount of wear due to them either being used for theatrical releases. Or just decades of age. I thoroughly enjoy your work in keeping these nostalgic pieces of art and cinematic history!! Great job!!
Outstanding save! Great history too! Your team is top shelf! George The GlassMan
Thank you 😊
I love it when you do these longer form videos with the great commentary. Keep doing them like this!!
Thanks, glad you liked it! We really enjoy making these types of videos and plan to continue sharing them into the new year 😊
Agreed. Even if it’s just describing the process (though hopefully not the same recording used verbatim) instead of just the music overdub ones.
¨longer form¨ = 6 minutes
WTF?
Easily the #1 art restoration channel on TH-cam, way ahead of the other, more famous "restoration" channels. These long forms are so cool and really help bring an identity and history to the piece being restored. Amazing work you guys! Wishing you great success on TH-cam, you deserve it!
Thank you so much for the kind words! We’re very excited to share more in the coming months 😊
Sorry, FCR is definitely doing a great job. But the number 1 is and remains Baumgartnerrestaurations
youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration?si=e0LdnjnXpfpucSwm
@BifiDude yeah with all the controversy that comes with it. Thanks but no thanks
This was good but I don't know about going that far.
If you like this content consider looking at "baumgartner restoration" they do all sorts of restoration!
👍🏻awesome. Would like to see more of it being done. Do more🤘🏻🤘🏻
Loved this, really interesting hearing about the history too!
Honestly I wish it was even longer, I'd love to see and hear even more detail on the process of the vacuum table and how you specifically managed the bleaching and stabilisation of the tear. The processes are fascinating!
Can't wait for the next one!
Amazing work and I love the increased video production as well. One of my favorite channels!
Thank you 😊
I love watching experts do their thing. So good.
😊
You're a true artist, beautifully restored.. ❤
Wow! Fantastic to see this Star Wars poster restoration and get info about its origin. I have one that I bought at a New York comic shop when I was in high school in the late 70’s. So glad I kept it and luckily it’s in very good condition.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Hey I know Tony! Great guy and quite the collector! This was amazing to see
Im so glad to find another art/poster restoration channel! I watch Baumgartner restoration. I love seeing history being preserved :)
baumgartner is a great watch.
Absolutely amazing. You are a true artist restoring an incredible piece of cinematic and cultural history!
What a great video, and a very interesting poster! Beautiful work, as usual. I'd never heard of this one, pretty wild that they were giving them away, signed.
I looked this poster's value up, according to other auctions, and it looks to be worth over $3K! A very nice collectible, and you've added to its condition 👍
Like he says back in the 1970s no one knew what a collectible this was going to be. This was also when you could buy original pages from people like Jack Kirby for under $100 and a copy of Action Comics #1 for less than the price of a house.
Wow nice work! End result looks amazing!
that was rad
Always amazing work ladies!!!
Excellent work and the restorer is very pretty
The art style is very cool 😊
Love to see craftsmen (craft persons??) and their processes. Awesome.
Fantastic work!
Thank you!
I'm so glad you got to practice on this Chaykin before doing mine! :)
🤣
Bravo ladies bravo.
Wow it looks amazing! Now it can look almost new for many more years 😊
Thank you!
Wish you would do a second version of this showing the process of foxing removal - would be super interesting (to me at least).
Beautiful job. The backstory is really interesting. Careful what you dismiss or discard.ha ha
Good work!! Great video!
Thank you!😊
1:25 my experience with movie posters was a little different because my sister worked at local cinema theatre around early 00's, and she brings a tons of leftovers movie posters from work. My room was covered in fast and furious posters.
Fantastic work.
Thank you 😊
Absolute craftsmanship! Have you guys tried to restore vintage toy boxes?
I have what i believe is an original 1977 poster I found in the trash 3 years ago in a cheap plexiglass frame. I put a new frame on it and hope to get it appraised some day.
Fascinating thank you
That poster art was also used on the Marvel Comics Adaption of the movie. 👍😎👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
holy.. that poster is old af 😱 I should know.. I was born in 76 lol. great restoration 👍🏻 I saw one of your other videos and have been binging for a few hours now. definitly worth a sub
I love preservation over restoration. Just halt further damage
Would love love love to see you restore an ohrai noriyoshi poster! Preferably one of his star wars or godzilla works but i think he's the best movie poster artist of all time. RIP.
It would be helpful if you were to take a few seconds to point out what changes we should be noticing - you mentioned "foxing" a couple times but since I have no clue what that is, I had no idea what I was looking for.
google it
Art snobs. Lol
@@hiphopguru81I don’t think I’d consider it snobby if they’re a professional restoration company. It’s just the occupational terminology that people who don’t work in that field don’t ever hear
@@kuhneegit i was just kidding
I just took a moment to Google it. From what I understand, It's that slight brown, rusty, splotchy discoloration that old paintings and papers seem to get.
I agree though. I wanna hear an art nerd explain it with passion.
Great restoration, for me I’d keep it dirty and wouldn’t have messed with it at all.
You’d be absolutely right to do that, because everything they do to these posters - as beautiful as the finished products look - degrades their value more than if they were left in their current state but secured tightly (but not permanently) in a plastic sleeve or enclosed frame. The client here sounds like he wants to preserve this in part for its future financial value, but everything they’ve done to it has robbed it of that because it’s had materials added to it (to touch up the inks, fill in the tears, etc). Based on other videos, they seem to permanently fuse/adhere them to those backing boards (and never address comments that bring it up), so that’s another layer of authenticity and collector value removed.
@Coolestmovies All of our processes are fully reversible. We provide our services for individuals, dealers and auction houses all over the world and our services typically aim to increase the life span of ephemera which was designed to be thrown away after the promotions/events. We don’t speak to the value of pieces we work on because we are not appraisers and at the end of the day the value of collectibles are determined by the collector. Through our decades of experience within the industry, we can say that our processes do not rob the pieces of all value.
@ it’s beautiful work. Lots of talent to make these posters look so good for sure, amazing work. I think the process is more suited for family heirlooms and things with no value other than to the person/family that treasures it.
@@FourthConeRestoration Thanks for following up. I was referring to you folks not addressing comments in the past about the additive and (possibly, I thought) permanent nature of the processes, not the value of the products before or after treatment. And as much as I admire the incredible skills and tools on display in these videos, I’m just a little skeptical that everything can be undone if someone ever wanted to verify the ‘true’ appearance of a high-dollar purchase (especially wherein the seller doesn’t admit that restoration work has been done). I mean, are the paints and inks used to touch up the artwork fully removable? If so, that’s great.
Also, thanks for clarifying that the work doesn’t rob the pieces of all value. My comment probably sounded like I thought they did, when in fact my suspicion is only that the processes decrease the value of the posters to somewhere lower than their ‘book value’, even though they look a million times better.
One thing that might be cool, and silence skeptics like me 😉 is a video showing the reversing of the processes on a poster that has no value either way.
Love Struzan, but Chayikin's pretty great too.
Agreed! They both did fantastic work!
Wonderful videos, I love the work you do. It would be great to know how much this restorations cost.
I have a lot of my original Star Wars merchandise, action figures, toys, comics and publications. So this is interesting. But regarding the signature. My Dad found a 1960 Yankees autographed baseball in the basement. Some big names. The one name that collectors want. Was smudged. Mickey Mantle.
Amazing work! Are you able to restore more glossy papers and light cards?
This was a promo poster for the comic book adaptation from Marvel Comics. Still an important piece of illustration history but not a poster for the release of the original Star Wars film.
The poster was distributed almost 12 months before the movie. It's one of the first publicly available promotional materials for the entire Star Wars franchise. It's possible that 20th Century Fox's promo materials about all of their intended 1976 releases distributed to theater owners was the only thing that predates it.
Remarkable work as always! Was this the hardest 'Star Wars' poster you restored considering how faded the signature was?
So what about the signature? I stoped at 5:39 and zoomed in on the finished product. I couldn’t see the signature.. Was it saved?
5:55
I'm a new subscriber here for Chelsea
You know what sucks. I worked in a movie theater back then for 5 years. Started in high school 1979. The owner asked me I wanted all these different posters and I said no.
It would have been great to see the actual restoration instead of a Star Wars history. I can get that anywhere. I can only see your process with you.
I liked Chaykins TIME2
How would someone go about learning/training for this craft?
As iconic as the ''star wars'' logo is , it nearly wasn't!
This poster was not made to promote the movie. It is not a movie poster.
It was made to promote the Marvel comic book series, which had already been agreed to before the movie was released. Chaykin was the penciler and inker on the original Star Wars comic, so this was just another piece of cover style art. Some speculate that potentially multiple covers were drawn for issue #1, and this poster was just one of the covers that didn't get selected and was repurpose as a poster. Some others speculate that several artists were offered the job on Star Wars and had to submit a piece of art showcasing how they would draw it. Chaykin got the job and they turned his piece into a promotional poster. Either is plausible.
Star Wars #1 was released in April 1977, a few weeks before the movies debut in the theatre.
According to Star Wars historians, it wasn't just 1000 copies of this poster that were made. 1000 copies of the poster were distributed to retail outlets across the US who sold Marvel comics. Later, additional copies of the poster were offered for sale at SDCC. As stated, it was a slow seller. At the end of the con, unsold inventory was given away.
So more than 1000 copies were printed but the print run for the SDCC copies is unknown, so it is 1000 + more. Many believe it may have been another 1000 copies. Attendance at SDCC was around 3000 people in 1976 and they really thought enough people would buy this poster that it would create buzz for the upcoming comic and movie. If you didn't make enough, you wouldn't create buzz. If you created too many, you ran the risk of not selling them all. It's argued that it would have been more typical to order 500 of them, or 1000 of them. Another arguement is they would have known far enough in advance that they needed them for store promos AND Comic Con, so they probably ordered 2000-2500 in the same order.
I'm in the camp that probably 2000 were made overall. And many probably were destroyed and lost to time.
I have that poster. Not signed. Got it at a Con in '77
For me, the Hildebrandt poster says everything about the 1970's....
I’d love to see you all try and restore a trading card like a Pokemon or yugioh card, because if you can do that, I’d love to hire you all!
What does this process typically cost?
Wonder what the cost of the restoration was?
Skilled and a fox
Is the restore job worth more than poster?
Depends that poster is probably worth several thousand least I would suspect I also bet their services are not exactly cheap
How much is it worth? 🙂
REVENGE OF THE JEDI
Just think, I had one from the sdcc in '76. Lord knows whatever happened to it
Damn….who would have thought a poster restorer could be so hot!? Stumbled across this channel and it’s great! Chelsea you’re fine girl!!
I doubt any more than 10% have survived over they years. As someone who collected movie posters as a kid I remember how much they ended being abused and ultimately thrown away.
I have zero posters left myself :p
Chaykin bake.
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What causes foxing?
Beautiful long hair, a gorgeous smile and a cute brown sweater. 😉
@@rebchiEl Creep-o has entered the chat. 🤮
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Am I crazy or does Chelsea look like Katie Holmes!?!
are you the actress of coherence?
Wait what? Did he get a chance to meet the girl in glasses? She’s a smoke show.
I wish I could see more of the restoration, and not so much talking.
Why not 3d scan the signature and use a laser table to lightly heat the signature, you can try it out on any fading signature. I do believe it works, lasers do a complete pass with light pulses set by the user.
Change the gawker headline title of this video. This is no way shape and form part of the first movie poster. Very misleading to say the least.
she "bleached" it? I would've kept the "patina" on it.
It would have been better to focus on the restoration process.
That's why I am discontinuing watching.
Poor you. Having to learn a bit about the history of the poster
I would love to see more process and less talking heads
Think of this video as a screenplay, and in a screenplay you’re supposed to show, not tell. This is basically an exposition dump. I want to see them actually working on the poster. Their techniques, the tools they’re using. This is merely a seven minute before/after shot.
We have quite a few videos on our channel showing more detailed techniques if you’d like to check them out 😊
The value has completely evaporated with the linen backing and the color correction.
is the value of a renaissance painting also gone if it receives a new backing and has its discoloured varnish ( "color correction") removed?
Is the value of vintage Lego gone when you rebrighten yellowed white bricks?
@@LizZard1988 This is a movie poster from the 1970s. You're making a faulty analogy.
@@christopheralsup3974 just replace "renaissance" with "1970s" and answer the question.
As a kid i loved star wars now, i hate it.
I knew a Cleatus VanDam once. He witnessed an Armenian getting rear ended and said he'd be a witness for the insurance company.
No longer original
In 300 years no one will care. They'll see a really well preserved poster and be happy, which is the point of restoring something to begin with, to preserve it for the future
No one cares except you.
Thanks to what do you think you can see paintings painted several centuries ago?
Use your brain becore you talk.
Ruined