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Auction History Result 2g048 IRON HORSE postcard herald '24 different Usabal art, John Ford transcontinental railroad epic Date Sold 10/12/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Postcard Herald (measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" [9 x 14 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) The Iron Horse, the 1924 John Ford silent transcontinental railroad train Native American Indian historical adventure romantic epic ("Blazing the trail of love and civilization"; "A Romantic Picture of the East and West"; "Three Years in the Making"; "By Charles Kenyon and John Russell"; about the first efforts to create a transcontinental railroad, with savage Indians who ambush the train builders, and many subplots; the movie includes elements of the real first transcontinental railroad) starring George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull (as Abraham Lincoln), Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling, George Waggner (as Buffalo Bill), Chief John Big Tree, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Jack Padjan (as Wild Bill Hickok). Note that major silent movies at this time were given exclusive showings in either just New York City, or in just a few major cities, where they would charge much higher ticket prices (and people could either pay those higher prices or wait a year or more for the movie to make it to regular theaters). This is one of those movies, and all existing first release posters from it say "Direct from one year's run in New York" on them. We don't know if there were any regular posters created for that initial New York run, and it seems likely that whatever was created would have been "one of a kind", because they would only have been used at that one theater. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Luis Felipe Usabal Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare "postcard herald". For the showing of this epic movie in New York City, the theater printed up full-color postcards (with great art by Luis Felipe Usabal, who was a fine artist they used to create many of their posters and campaign ads) with a printed message on the back inviting a friend to see this great movie, with the hopes that the person receiving this would not only go see the movie (and they stamped the play dates over the message), but that they would also send it to a friend to try to get them to go too! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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