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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on November 18, 2005, 05:39 AM:

Hello all...
After Douglas confirmed me here that The Cincinnati Kid (released by MGM) did come originally with poor artworks cover, i.e plain paper and handwritting!!, I finally managed to make my own cover. But I was so obsessed with the MGM cover style and perhaps I was so influenced by Mike Peckham to put those MGM titles on one shelf!

It is indeed nice to see those MGM in the right order and in one type clamshell case.

It looks like other MGM cover, doesn't it? Unfortunatelly, I cannot upload bigger files in this forum. Otherwise you can also read the resume on the backpage cover, which I deliberately made with the MGM language's style too. (e.g. "...the Cincinnati Kids comes 3 parts in Super 8mm sound and color. Ask for them!" [Wink]

)

But probably this would help.

Anybody wants to get the bigger files can contact me, I can email that to you

Cheers,

[ November 28, 2005, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]

Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on November 18, 2005, 06:31 AM:

Excellent work Winbert! [Smile]

Did you do this on computer? I have made my own color labels before (mostly from later Derann releases), but nothing professional like this. How did you do it??

Nick.

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on November 18, 2005, 06:33 AM:

Terrific job Winbert! I am impressed, looks identical to original MGM artwork.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on November 18, 2005, 07:58 AM:

Absolutely perfect, Winbert! Looks even better than the real thing!

Doug

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on November 19, 2005, 07:17 AM:

I agree... excellent job. Bravo Winbert [Smile]

I used to design and print covers for home-burned mix CDs and came up with some nice stuff... but this beats it hands down. (OK, so CDs have nothing to do with films... but hey) [Big Grin]

Posted by Mike Peckham (Member # 16) on November 24, 2005, 12:59 AM:

Hey Winbert, great job!

I didn't realise the Cincinatti Kid had been released as an MGM digest, I shall have to add it to my list, can you tell me what the 'M' number is?

One of the things I'm most looking forward to when I get back to the UK next September is getting the MGM's out on the shelf, and projecting them of course [Wink]

Mike [still in Oz]

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on November 28, 2005, 10:22 PM:

Mike,
The Cincinnati Kid is M391, but believe me in the original cover, that number was handwritten!!

It took hours of work to finalise this cover. I first visited websites that have resume of this title. I tried to find the much 1970s resume style, i.e. convincing and repeating words [Big Grin]

. From there, I had to find the front picture which was not photo shot, since almost all MGM covers were artpicture (Different with Germany titles which used a lot of photo stocks). The most painful one was to find the closest fonts available in my computer to the MGM's. Sometime if my computer did not have those MGM fonts, I had to "borrow" some fonts (meaning scan, cut and paste) from other MGM cover to create new sentences. From there then I re-arranged those resume to be fit to the space on those three columns on the back page.

Below is my front cover, but I don't know how to reduce the pixel. I used MS Paint and when I assigned to reduce the pixels, it cut the picture. So, I just streched the picture to below 50% and it came with this smudge quality.

(I saw some of you could post bigger/better picture, how did you that?)

cheers,

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