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Auction History Result 2p676 PHANTOM POLICE chap 1 1sh '26 great art of fight in plunging airplane, Midnight Patrol, rare! Date Sold 11/22/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Chapter #1 (Midnight Patrol) One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Phantom Police, the 1926 Robert Dillon silent police airplane aviation crime melodrama serial ("A Realart serial play") starring Herbert Rawlinson, Max and Moritz ("The World's most famous, almost man-like Chimpanzees."), Gloria Joy, Eddie Fetherston, Purnell Pratt, and Dick Gordon. Sadly, we could find no information about this serial, not even the briefest plot summary, and that is shame, based on the only item from this serial we have ever seen, because it is a one-sheet with great art of a policeman and a pilot fighting in a biplane that is plunging to the ground, and there is billing for "Max and Moritz". Research on the Internet reveals that these were a pair of chimps raised by Rueben Castang, who had worked for Carl Hagenbeck, another movie animal guy. Castang believed that if you took chimps as babies and raised them like humans, you could greatly raise their intelligence, and his pair definitely were very smart (and Castang made one other movie, "No Monkey Business", in 1935, which likely also starred Max and Moritz, but we were unable to determine if they performed in any other movies). Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is the absolute only movie paper we have ever auctioned from this serial (it is rare to find a serial where we have never even sold a lobby card)! Condition: fair. There are tears on parts of the folds and many pinholes around the edges. There is paper loss in the right of the bottom horizontal fold and in the top and bottom of the left blank border. There are some stains scattered throughout and there is a vertical tear in the left of the top and bottom of the poster. Certainly, this incredibly scarce poster can be "rescued", and it is mostly "all there", but bear in mind its many defects before placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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