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6h0909 MERRIE MELODIES linen 1sh 1941 great super early cartoon art of Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd!

Date Sold 4/14/2024
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

Merrie Melodies, the 1941 stock poster for theaters showing Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies Looney Tunes animated cartoon shorts ("A new Merrie Melodies in Technicolor"; "A Warner Bros. short subject") and featuring great early art of Bugs Bunny on a swing painting a sign, alongside several other characters including Elmer Fudd, Sniffles the Mouse, Cecil the Turtle and Goopy Geer. Note that Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd made their first cartoon appearances in 1940, so this poster likely has either the first or one of the very first depictions of both classic characters (because Warner Bros. did not make individual posters for their cartoons), and you can clearly tell by looking at both characters who they are, but their appearance changed somewhat over the next few years to what they remained for decades after! Of course, the greatest cartoon animators of all time worked at Warner Bros. at this time, including Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Bob Clampett, and all three worked on early Bugs Bunny cartoons! Also note that Warner Bros. at this time solely made stock posters like these for their cartoon series. They would print a number of paper snipes that measured 7 1/2" x 8", and those had the title of specific cartoons, along with an image from that cartoon, and theater owners could glue those snipes onto these stock posters. This poster has a square box in the bottom right at a slight diagonal, where theaters would attach one of those snipes.
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and pretty minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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