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Auction History Result 9c424 SILVER STREAK pressbook '34 the first high-speed bullet train, now on display in Chicago! Date Sold 7/6/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a supplement that has one page (a really cool comic strip in full color!), and also a herald that has one page. (Learn More) The Silver Streak, the 1934 Thomas Atkins romantic high-speed railroad train action thriller ("Love at the throttle in a streamline race with death on the world's newest, fastest train"; "The pulsing urge of the Power Age created this miracle of speed! ...and human emotion throbs in its iron heart in this blood-leaping romance of the rails!"; "The Stream-Lines 'Star' of the thrilling railroad drama"; "A streamline Saga of Straining Steel, Grinding Wheels, Breath-taking Curves on a New Iron Horse Hurtling through Western Plains and Mountains on a Heroic Race with Death!"; about the first real life Pioneer Zephyr "bullet train", capable of moving at super high speeds; the actual train has survived and is completely restored on display at The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry in a specially built vault below street level!) starring Sally Blane, Charles Starrett, Hardie Albright, William Farnum, and Irving Pichel NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Condition: good, WITH CUTS. There is a small newspaper ad cut from page 9/10. There are scuffs, smudges, and creases scattered on the covers, with some separation at the top and bottom of the spine. The covers are printed with a cool metallic silver ink that scuffs very easily. Learn More about condition grades 
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