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Auction History Result 3m297 ARTISTEN pre-war Belgian '35 circus art of equestrian holding woman on horse by elephant! Date Sold 9/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 24 1/2" x 33 1/2" [62 x 85 cm]) (Learn More) Artisten (literally translates to "Artists"), the 1935 Harry Piel German circus romantic melodrama (about an equestrian circus performer who gets involved with a rich socialite, but a near-fatal accident causes him to come to his senses) starring Hilde Hildebrand, Hans Junkerman, Susi Lanner, Louis Ralph, and Bruno Ziener. It appears this movie was never released in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that director Harry Piel was a major figure in early cinema. He wrote and directed his first movie when he was just 20 years old in 1912, and he made several movies over the next three years, and then began acting in them as well! He made many movies over the next decades. In 1933, he joined the Nazi party and made movies for them. In 1934, he made Der Herr der Welt, a science fiction movie with robots, but he had actually used robots in a movie he made in 1915! At the end of World War II, he was sentenced to 6 months in jail and banned from the film industry for 5 years. In 1950, he started a new film company, but did not have much success, and he retired in 1953 and passed away in 1961. Unfortunately, almost all the negatives of his silent films were destroyed when Germany was bombed during World War II, so few of his films survive, and that, combined with his Nazi collaboration, has caused him to be largely forgotten, except by major film buffs. 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 a rare "pre-War" Belgian poster. Prior to World War II, Belgian posters were much larger than the ones from after the war, and they are extremely rare (because during WWII, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and they took virtually every poster and map, and printed new posters on the backs of them!). Also note that this poster was machine folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. There are a few 1 1/4" and smaller tears and some areas of tattering and small paper loss around the edges of the poster. There are some creases scattered throughout the poster (more so at upper left) but they are not very noticeable or distracting. Other than the defects around the edges, the poster is in pretty nice condition and if one chose to have it linenbacked it would look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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