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Auction History Result 5a0711 HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL linen Aust daybill 1959 censored art of Price & skeleton, very rare! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 13" x 30" [33 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) House on Haunted Hill (some stills identify the movie as "House of Haunted Hill" but a collector tells us that he saw the film on the opening weekend and it was titled "House on Haunted Hill"), the 1959 William Castle haunted house horror thriller ("First film with the amazing new wonder Emergo [specially installed for this engagement] The thrills fly right into the audience!"; "The 13 greatest shocks of all time! Consult your doctor! Bring your seat belts! See it with someone with warm hands!") starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Julie Mitchum, and Leona Anderson. Note that the "gimmick" for this movie (Emergo) described above consisted of an actual fake skeleton that was pulled out from above the screen on a wire and dragged across the audience when the skeleton on the movie comes out of its box, and then it is reeled back in across the audience, making two trips. This required special equipment, and apparently many theaters chose not to install it, because the pressbook has special ads for it only for theaters that have the Emergo equipment. We have read that some of the theaters that DID install the equipment had it uninstalled, once teen boys learned of it, because they would come to the showings with slingshots and damage the skeleton with rocks or BBs! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Richardson Studio Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this Australian daybill, and that was 12 years ago, when it sold for $550! Also note that the Australian poster designer used an image extremely similar to that on the U.S. posters, but due to the strict Australian censorship at this time, the image of the hung girl being held by a rope by the skeleton has been deleted, which makes no sense at all visually, and also, in the U.S. posters, Price is holding a severed head, but here he is just making a fist! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had pretty minor fold and border wear. However, a theater that used this poster felt they needed to warn their patrons, and they added several descriptive words of the movie in the top background area and in the top blank border. Some people might see this as a fun addition to the poster, as obviously the person who owned it did, because they did not have the words painted over. But the new owner of this poster could certainly have that done, either with or without re-backing the poster. But bear this unusual defect in mind before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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