eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8x331 GRAND PRIX linen Cinerama 1sh '67 Formula One race car driver James Garner, art by Terpning! Date Sold 12/8/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Cinerama One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Grand Prix, the 1967 John Frankenheimer Cinerama Formula 1 (F1) automobile car racing sports melodrama ("All the glamour and greatness of the world's most exciting drama of speed and spectacle!"; "Cinerama sweeps you into a drama of speed and spectacle!"; "YOU are inside the cars... Inside the glamour capitals of the world... Inside the loves and lives of the men and women who belong to the great adventure of Grand Prix!") starring James Garner, Jessica Walter, Brian Bedford, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint, Toshiro Mifune, Antonio Sabato, and Francoise Hardy (billed as "Introducing Francoise Hardy"). Also featured were racing legends Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Dan Gurney, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, and Bruce McLaren! 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 is a rare "Cinerama" poster from this car racing movie. When the Cinerama movies were first released, the studios printed posters with large Cinerama logos, but when the movies moved to a wider run (including theaters without Cinerama projectors) the studios printed new posters either without the Cinerama logo or with it greatly reduced. Cinerama posters from Cinerama movies are far more rare than the "non-Cinerama" posters! What IS linenbacking? "Linenbacking" is a process that is used to preserve movie posters (the best restorers de-acidify the poster during the restoration process), and to make them far easier to display (it is much easier and less expensive to frame a linenbacked poster). When linenbacking is done correctly, it adds to the value of the poster, and is NOT a defect! Note that the specific poster in this auction either was not linenbacked all that well, OR the poster had more significant defects that were well corrected or both (you can tell which type it is by reading our written comments about the poster's condition). In general, know that we received many of the linenbacked posters we are currently selling already linenbacked, but we have examined every poster EXTREMELY carefully, and we did our best to describe what condition the poster was in PRIOR to restoration, the defects the poster had PRIOR to restoration (in the "Pre-Restoration Defects & Quality of Restoration" section), any unrestored defects, and, when it seemed worth noting, something about the quality of the restoration itself. Many other auction houses claim to match what we do in this area, but EVERY person who regularly buys movie posters from major auctions can tell you this is just not the case! We never intentionally overgrade a single item, we never "accidentally" miss defects, and we never enhance a single image! Condition: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and some creases, scuffs, and small tears along parts of several foldlines. It had pinholes in the corners and some creases and tears in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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