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Auction History Result 5p0453 CAT MEETS MOUSE linen 1sh 1940 Paul Terry's Terry-Toons, Dinky Duck and characters, rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked One-Sheet Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Cat Meets Mouse, the 1942 Mannie Davis Terry Toons family animated animation cartoon comedy short (produced by Paul Terry). Note that this poster is a 1940 stock poster used by theaters showing Terrytoons cartoons (see below for how this was changed from a stock poster to a poster for this specific cartoon). Note that Paul Terry created a different "stock" poster for each year from 1937 through 1940 (there may have been ones from earlier or later years, but we have never encountered them). Each would have a completely different great image, showing many of his top cartoon stars of that year, and there would be a blank center area in each poster. After the posters were initially printed, they would overprint a group of the posters with a title of a particular cartoon from that year, and ALSO usually add a single-color image from that cartoon (unusual for stock cartoon posters), and then they would print another group of the posters with a different cartoon title and image, and so on. In the case of this particular poster, the title was printed in large letters, and the cartoon that was advertised was "Neck and Neck" the 1942 cartoon short (even though the posters were printed in 1940, they were still being overprinted in 1941). It seems likely that the advent of World War II caused Terry to stop making a different stock poster for each year, and that they simply re-used the 1940 posters throughout the war. Note that this cartoon was made in 1942, three years after Tom and Jerry debuted for MGM, and of course, it has a very similar plot line. Given that the U.S. had just entered World War II, the makers of the cartoon added a scene where the cat is putting mice in a crate labeled "Concentration Camp", which seems excessive to us, but of course, the U.S. did not yet know what was happening in those concentration camps. 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this one-sheet with the inset for "Cat Meets Mouse", the 1942 cartoon, and that was 20 years ago! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and small tears and small paper loss in parts of the folds, with some tape stains at the ends of some folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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