Ninth Gate Balkan Lecture Lobby Card

[Odin82]

Some pics of the book, Odin

That cover is beautiful man. Fantastic work!

 

[Digital Mayhem]

I'll do the same for the stamp and the back of the post card.

Safe your time mate. I already did all the extensive and lots of time consuming work many years ago. Have fun with the files the back and the front from the original card, my hand made stamp painstakingly copied from the original one and the Getty file that costs so many bucks.

 

[RafalFett]

Digital Mayhem - Thanks for those great images! But as I already said, I'll do my version, which is a combination of photo enhancement and digitalized text.

So far, here's the postcard front made from 3 screen caps, then cleaned up and enhanced:


The back of the postcard is the blank version for now. I'll do the rest this week:


The font used for this is called Toronto (bold italic for the top left corner and normal for the rotated text on the middle.

Also, for the movie they used at least 2 versions of the postcard with slightly different handwriting:

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

MB - Am I remembering correctly that the Nine Gates is you own work? I have been looking for the leather tools to emboss the cover for a while. Any suggestions on leads? Nice work.

The "frame" on the leather was part of the binding (according to my specification). I might have tried it but don't have the correct tool. As to the pentagram I first drew it on paper then placed it on the book cover and marked the lines several times with a pencil so it would pass to the leather. Used a golden marker but will add gold leaf as the marker ink fades with time.

 

[airhead]

MB - Thanks for the info. I'll keep looking around for a competent bookbinder who can do leather embossing.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

MB - Thanks for the info. I'll keep looking around for a competent bookbinder who can do leather embossing.

I think that is the best solution ( unless you have the right tools and know the art of binding). The guy that did mine did a great job. I love the touch of the thick leather. The rest is a bit of a pain but it pays off - printing and aging hundreds of pages one by one is a long and time consuming job.

 

[RafalFett]

Last night I did a fully vectorized version of the stamp:


And just as a show off, a larger version of the stamp:

 

[RafalFett]

Ok, here are the 2 versions of the back side of the postcard.

Without perimetric teeth on the stamp (this is correct for the movie version):


With unaltered stamp:


If Digital Mayhem will allow it, I could use his scan to update the front of the postcard.

 

[Digital Mayhem]

Looks amazing!!! But remember that the original stamp had absolutely no teeth.

 

[RafalFett]

Looks amazing!!! But remember that the original stamp had absolutely no teeth.

You are correct! The screenshot show it plain and simple: no teeth on the margins:


Thanks for your input.

 

[RafalFett]

Updated post #168 with both variants for the stamp: with and without perimetric teeth.

 

[Digital Mayhem]

Ok, here are the 2 versions of the back side of the postcard.

Without perimetric teeth on the stamp (this is correct for the movie version):
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With unaltered stamp:
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If Digital Mayhem will allow it, I could use his scan to update the front of the postcard.

Of course I allow it ☺ Thank you for asking

 

[RafalFett]

Of course I allow it ☺ Thank you for asking

That's great! I will do it tomorrow.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

RafalFett, your time and dedication is unparalleled.

 

[RafalFett]

RafalFett, your time and dedication is unparalleled.

Thanks!

Here's the final version of the postcard front:


I did my best to clean up the scan lines and dust marks, then enhance the scanned image kindly shared with us by Digital Mayhem.

I think I will redo the writing and the stamp mark on the back. There's a 3rd version of the writing seen for a few frames:


The zip code 75004 is written after Paris.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Any PIC detective found this painting?

 

[Odin82]

So, I checked the Soubrier site, and went through what paintings they have for film production rental. No luck, so it definitely wasn't rented from them.

Spent some time searching bing, google, for Mare & Foal victorian paintings. No luck.

I was just about to give up, and post here saying I had no luck..... but I tried one last time....

Intaglio art prints: Hack Mare & Foal, Fores Gallery

Hand coloured etching after J.F.Herring.
Size 13.5 x 14.5 inches. Ref U329A.(approx 34 x 37 cms.)





A google search for " Hack Mare & Foal" brings up a lot of results, with variations, with a softer/smoother look, that match the screen used a bit more.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Great.
Thanks a lot man.
My search turned zero ...
One more engraving I'll have to do... Ah..Ah
Thanks for your time and help

 

[RafalFett]

Great find, Odin82 ! I did a bit of search myself, but found nothing.

Update
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I found a better one on Etsy and it looks the same with the one from the movie:


The last image is what I did from a screencap to help me do a google search.

 

[Odin82]

I found a better one on Etsy and it looks the same with the one from the movie:
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Definitely a better match. The first one I posted kind of looks terrifying with all the sharp lines. Great find!