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Auction History Result 7a0341 FORBIDDEN PLANET linen Aust daybill 1957 classic robot art, printed for use in New Zealand! Date Sold 8/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1957 (from the first release of this movie in Australia) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 13 1/4" x 30 1/4" [34 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) Forbidden Planet, the classic 1956 Fred McLeod Wilcox science fiction (sci-fi) outer space robot monster thriller ("Amazing!"; "In Cinemascope and Color"; "Based on the story by Irving Block & Allen Adler"; very loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; about space men who journey to a distant planet, and they find that all the members of the original expedition have died, except for one man and his daughter, and they have discovered the secrets of a long lost civilization called "The Krell", which dwarfs anything humans have ever discovered, but there is a very dark side to those secrets that is soon revealed) starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman (as the cook, who was put in the movie for comic relief), Robby the Robot (billed as "Introducing Robby the Robot"), James Drury, and Frankie Darro (who was inside the robot suit until he was fired early in the production for showing up inebriated and almost damaging the expensive prop). Note that after Robby the Robot appeared in this movie, he had another movie role in "The Invisible Boy", and then he appeared in a slightly modified version as the robot in TV's "Lost in Space". On November 21, 2017, the original "Robby the Robot" was auctioned, and it sold for $5.375 million! 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, while this poster was printed in Australia, it was specifically made to be used in New Zealand. This was not an uncommon practice and we have seen many different titles where separate posters were printed for the Australian and New Zealand releases. This poster lacks the triangular printed rating which can be found on the Australian version of the poster, although the person who altered the printing plate did not do a good job, so there are still traces of the triangular rating in the lower right, as can be seen in our image. The poster also has a stamped rating in the bottom right, which was the common practice in New Zealand at this time. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had pretty minor fold wear. It almost surely had a "Y" stamped in the blank area to the right of the credits, because the other examples of this poster we have seen had that New Zealand rating stamped right there. It also likely had the word "COLOR" handwritten in the blank area to the right of the word "AMAZING!", because another example of this poster we saw had that as well. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. A talented restorer backed the poster and removed the rating and the writing above it in those blank areas. You can see very slight signs of the restoration there, but the poster will display nicely on the new owner's wall (see our image). Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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