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Auction History Result 8b0173 PANAMA & THE CANAL FROM AN AEROPLANE linen 1sh 1914 surveying from height of 1000 feet, rare! Date Sold 3/30/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42 1/4" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane, the 1914 Robert G. Fowler silent Panama Canal airplane aviation travel documentary ("Surveying the canal from a height of a thousand feet"; "in six parts"; "Waiting for the labor train"; "Steam shovel at work in Culebra Cut"; "Gatun locks one in operation adjoining one empty"; "Market place in Panama City"; "Native burden bearers"; "Native life in the canal zone"; "Street in Panama"; "The feature film sensation of the century") produced by George F. Cosby and M.B. Dudley. Note that this is surely one of the very first airplane aviation movies, where a pilot and cameraman (Robert G. Fowler & Ray Duhem) went up in an extremely early airplane (a 1912 Gage biplane) and they flew low over Panama City and the canal (which was still under construction), and took footage of those areas, which was then compiled into this documentary! Note that director Robert G. Fowler donated the plane to the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum. It is now known as the Fowler-Gage, and is on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Annex in Chantilly, Virginia. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a different one-sheet and two special posters from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this second one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 42 1/4" [71 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had paper loss in the center of the top blank border, with some water stains scattered down the left border, slightly entering the image, and paper loss in the bottom left blank corner. It had a diagonal scuff mark in the top right corner and darkening in the outer edges of the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. The defects are primarily in the borders and most of the staining could likely be removed chemically. The image area is generally in nice condition. I would think many people could happily display this ultra rare poster as it is, but certainly, any talented restorer could remove it from the old linen and after restoration to the above defects, and the poster will display wonderfully. Learn More about condition grades 
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