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Auction History Result 8h746 RELUCTANT DRAGON English pressbook '41 Walt Disney 1st cartoon/live action! Date Sold 7/10/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical English Movie Pressbook (English pb; measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Walt Disney's The Reluctant Dragon, the 1941 Alfred L. Werker, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting, Ub Iwerks & Jack Kinney Walt Disney animated animation cartoon documentary ("Amazing, new full-length feature production"; "Walt Disney's new feature-length surprise!"; "The sensational feature show with a thousand surprises!"; "The big feature show with a thousand surprises!"; "The maker of 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio' conjures up his supremely unusual! Screamingly comic new creatures! Laughable, blundering live folk, lost in a miracle world! The merriest 90 minutes you imagined could be yours!"; "Sequences in multiplane Technicolor"; a behind-the-scenes look at Disney's animation studio in the early 1940s) hosted by Robert Benchley, and starring Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Walt Disney, and featuring the voices of Barnett Parker (in the title role as The Dragon), and Clarence Nash (as Donald Duck). Note that Frances Gifford played the part of a studio artist, guiding fans behind the scenes at the famous Walt Disney Studio! This was Disney's first feature movie which combined both cartoon sequences and live action sequences! Note that Chinese actress Bo Ling was filmed for the "art school" segment of this movie, but it was apparently cut out of the final print, and she did not appear in the movie, although publicity stills with her exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this English pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this English pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle and there is some wear around the edges and along the fold. There are many smudges and stains on the covers. Learn More about condition grades 
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