Chronicle Newspaper: Miles Brings Back the Classics

Posted on 21. Oct, 2010 by admin in Blog

Chronicle Newspaper October 2010
Miles Brings Back the Classics

By Jamie Steel
Posters are everywhere: hung on the wall, in a mountain on the table, in cardboard tubes everywhere. Round the corner, and there’s even more.

The basement of Dan Miles, a communications strategist at UOIT, is a movie lover’s dream, with posters from movies of all genres at every turn.

A movie-lover himself, Miles has been collecting posters for years, and for the past 11, he’s also been a part-time poster restorer.

After restoring five posters for display at this years Toronto International Film Festival Rashoman; The Sorrow and the Pity; Written on the Wind; The Leopard and Playtime the Port Perry man is increasing his client base. From Port Perry retirees, to a man in Illinois, Miles’ clientele is spread across the continent, and has even included a customer in the United Kingdom. His most recent client is a CTV cameraman in Toronto.
The cameraman’s posters were for Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) and Alien (1979). Miles said they were in good condition considering their age. They were creased from being folded in storage, and slightly yellow from age, but had relatively minimal water damage. Miles used the latter of the two posters to demonstrate the initial process of restoration, called linen backing.

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