For years, I had hundreds of my posters shrink wrapped at a firm in Toronto, everything from inserts to three shteets. Recently I learned the shrink wrapping process and now offer it as part of my services at Backingtothefuture. If you would like to find out more about shrink wrapping please send me an email.

Cheers, Dan.

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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Based in Port Perry, the London, Ont., native has clients all across North America and the U.K. Toronto International Film Festival organizers found him through Google to restore five vintage posters from their reference library.

The posters — from Written on the Wind; Playtime; The Sorrow and the Pity; Rashomon and The Leopard — will be featured in the free Essential Cinema exhibit when the Bell Lightbox opens Sept. 12.

“I loved movies and I was fascinated by movie poster art,” says Miles, 47. “My love for movies started as a kid when my mom wanted somebody to go to the movies with. She dragged me to a lot of movies. I think she spent her last silver dollar, if you will, to go see The Sound of Music in 1965.” read the full article at Toronto.com about The poster doctor heals TIFF collection (in partnership with thestar.com).