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Auction History Result 1a0106 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL linen 1sh 1951 classic sci-fi art of Gort with Patricia Neal, rare! Date Sold 10/31/2021 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 eight examples of this one-sheet, but we have only auctioned three examples of it in the past SIXTEEN years, and the last one sold for $9,251!
UPDATED 10/17/2021: Note that the Condition Grade was inadvertently listed as "good to very good" when it should have been "very good". We have now corrected this error. 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 some tiny dots of surface paper loss in the left half of the top horizontal fold and in the top quarter of the vertical foldline, with very minor wear on the other folds. It had small paper loss in the top and bottom left of the "D" of "DAY" and in the top of the "T" of the second "THE" of the title. It had a few pinholes in the blank borders and tiny paper loss in the center of the top and bottom border. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays nicely! Learn More about condition grades 
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