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Auction History Result 9f054 CURIOUS CONTESTS linen 1sh '50 A Pete Smith Specialty, like Mondo Cane was 12 years later! Date Sold 8/16/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Curious Contests, the 1950 Pete Smith newsreel short ("Narrated and produced by a Smith named Pete"; "A Pete Smith Specialty") narrated by Pete Smith. Note that Smith first started producing short subjects in 1931, when they were referred to as "Pete Smith Specialties"; he made an astounding 155 of these over the next 24 years, narrating 135 of them, and sometimes he was billed as "a Smith named Pete"; the shorts covered a wide range of unusual subjects, kind of like "Ripley's Believe It or Not". In the case of this particular short, it was basically a forerunner of "Mondo Cane", featuring really bizarre "oddities", including marathon dancing, fathers competing to change diapers, baby races, sumo wrestlers, a bike race on old fashioned penny-farthing bicycles, and much more! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the top crossfold and minor wear on the folds and in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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