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Auction History Result 4s307 SCROOGE WC '35 great art of Seymour Hicks looming over Bob Cratchit & Tiny Tim, Dickens! Date Sold 4/14/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Scrooge, the 1935 Henry Edwards English Christmas holiday fantasy family melodrama ("Based on 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens") starring Seymour Hicks (in the title role as Ebenezer Scrooge; billed as "Sir Seymour Hicks"), Donald Calthrop (as Bob Cratchit), Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Philip Frost (as Tiny Tim), Oscar Asche (as the Spirit of Christmas Present), Marie Ney (as the Spirit of Christmas Past), and C.V. France (as the Spirit of Christmas Future). Note that three years after this movie, MGM made "A Christmas Carol" with Reginald Owen, and in 1951, there was an English version with Alastair Sim. Movie posters from both of those movies are quite rare, but posters from this 1935 Paramount version are beyond rare! 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 this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. Condition: very good. The poster's blank top had been trimmed off. It had creases and some tiny tears around the edges of the poster and some creases, smudges, and scuffs scattered throughout the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was well backed by a talented restorer, who replaced the missing blank top but who did not touch up the faint smudges and scuffs, which are mostly in the background areas (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the poster a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the smudges and scuffs are all that distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 74 year-old original poster!). Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this window card that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if another example of this card exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). This card has had expert restoration and displays nicely. Learn More about condition grades 
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