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Auction History Result 5h0460 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL linen 1sh 1951 most classic sci-fi art of Gort holding Neal, rare! Date Sold 10/29/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Day the Earth Stood Still, the classic 1951 Robert Wise science fiction (sci-fi) alien-contact thriller ("From out of space.... a warning and an ultimatum!"; "Strange power from another planet menaces the Earth!"; from the story by Harry Bates; about a super intelligent alien visiting the Earth, and mankind mistrusts him without reason; he is able to "pass" as a human, and he visits the world's greatest scientist, and when he is injured and taken to a hospital, he is rescued by his robot Gort) starring Michael Rennie (as Klaatu), Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, and Lock Martin (as Gort the Robot). Note that the unusual music heard in this movie was achieved through the use of the musical instrument called a theramin, and audiences loved the eerie sounds it made, and it became standard in many science fiction movies thereafter to use this instrument in the same way! 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 classic one-sheet is far more rare than the other top horror/sci-fi one-sheets of the 1950s (likely because it was one of the earliest movies of the genre, coming in 1951, while most of the others were several years later). We have previously auctioned twelve examples of this one-sheet, but we have only auctioned five examples of it in the past EIGHTEEN years, and we auctioned none at all between 2005 and 2014! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and just a few very tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds. It had some pinholes around the edges. It had faint red running down the right edge of the blank border (right next to the image and in half of the blank border), which surely is a minor printing defect. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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