Stamps In The Movies!

I ear that the script for "Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller" as been bought and there will be an US remake of the movie. I think it's great, it should introduce a few milion kids to stamps collecting. Probably gonna be US stamps instead of canadian one now.

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller was filmed in Montreal and China, and the director, Michael Rubbo came to my old club, the Lakeshore Stamp Club, to get information on stamps in order to make the philatelic parts as realistic as possible.

When the movie was released in 1988, my son (then 6 years old) won some tickets to the premiere, which we attended.

All children attending were given a special Tommy Tricker stamp album (which we still have) and some mint Canadian stamps to go in it. This was the start of Canada Post's Stamp Traveller Club, which is still going strong, now called Stamp Quest.

http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/c...ng/index.asp

A sequel to the Movie, The Return of Tommy Tricker was made in 1994, and filmed in Montreal, rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110976/

Had absolutely no idea they made a sequel! But in 1993 I left Canada so that would explain it, since it came out a year later and it was not the type of movie that traveled far.

From the looks of it, the sequel had very few of the actors from the first movie.

Not sure if this has been posted before.

The Truth About Charlie (2002) was a remake of the Charade of 1963.

Again, stamps played a role.

I Served The King Of England a 2006 Czech film was another movie featuring stamps.

Literature:

The first fictional reference to stamps was a short story entitled 'My Nephew's Collection', published in All the Year
Round, 19 July 1862.

James Mackay.

Stamp Collecting,

"Adventures in Cyberspace"

Australia VHS 1995

Some time ago I vaguely remember seeing as a lad some 35mm cans of film that got delivered to the theater that day. Stamps all over them. I wonder if it was a fluke or did the studios send film via mail. I know I had to send some 16mm film once and media mail was cheapest.

I think I recall that too, Vacuum Man,
when I was in the Australian Navy.
Round tins or Brown bakelite looking suitcases
with stamps all over them.

And I saw that in Tuvalu in the early 80's, on film canisters from Fiji. Fortunately one of the distributors was my wife's uncle and I was able to snaggle-daggle the Fiji stamps.

That's funny BeeSee

Hi all -

While I'm not a stamp collector, I've been wanting to track down the Paris stamp market seen in the movie Charade (1963). Looks like it still exists today:

http://gofrance.about.com/od/parisa...arkets_9.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carre_Marigny

-Matt

Although not a movie a stamp played an important part in one of the books making up Len Deighton's Bernard Sampson trilogies (Game, Set, Match; Hook, Line, Sinker, etc.). I believe the stamp was Austrian. The BBC made a movie for television of part of the series but if I remember correctly Deighton wouldn't let them re-run it because he didn't like who they chose to play Sampson. I read somewhere that a Hollywood director (Tarantino or something) was a fan of the Sampson series and wants to remake it.

Also as an aside, more than one episode of the Made for TV Poirot, played by David Suchet, shows Poirot working on his stamp collection. In his own inimitable style, they are arranged by shape and size, rather than by country.

Indeed it does ! I was there in 2008 but because I'd just had my wallet nicked, I bought nothing !

The Stamp market on the Avenue Marigny off the Champs Elysee has been in existence since 1887 when a local landowner bequeathed part of his land to the City of Paris on condition it was used for the benefit of collectors !
It has opened every Thursday,Saturday and Sunday since then including during occupation and World Wars.
The atmosphere is amazing.

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Londonbus1...Au Revoir

Just so you all know, I went to bed dreaming about this Stamp Market last night. It was on my mind for an age.

If it happens again that a thread here gives me these nice dreams I will have to re-consider the whole forum thing !

Nah, I think about the forum every night !