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Auction History Result 5a0803 JUNGLE BOOK linen Belgian 1946 Zoltan Korda classic, Sabu, completely different art, rare! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1946 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 13 1/2" x 17 1/2" [34 x 44 cm]) (Learn More) Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, the 1942 Zoltan Korda boy-raised-by-wolves jungle fantasy action adventure thriller ("The jungle fire! A whole world ablaze as the jungle strikes back at those who would violate its secret code!"; "I'll show you the mysteries... The wonders of the jungle's savage heart!"; "Jeweled secret city.. guarded by the jungle's fiercest denizens!"; "It's out of this world! More thrills... More excitement than the killer tiger has stripes! The thousand and one secrets of the jungles of India revealed at last in wonderful Technicolor!"; "Unveiled before your wondering eyes... The romance of mystic India... The savage jungle's secret charms... In this new kind of motion picture!"; "Mowgli, half-boy, half-wolf... armed only with a knife and the love of a girl, meets the challenge of Shere-Khan, the Killer Tiger!"; based on the classic story by Rudyard Kipling; produced by Alexander Korda) starring Sabu Dastagir (as Mowgli, billed as "Sabu"), Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary De Camp, Patricia O'Rourke, and Ralph Byrd. Note that Walt Disney remade this movie in 1967 in a cartoon feature, and in 2016, Walt Disney again remade the movie, this time with CGI animals! 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this first release Belgian poster, and it sold for $725! Note that this poster is printed on the back of part of a map! Why is this? During World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! Also note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 13 1/2" x 17 1/2" [34 x 44 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster originally had a blank top that was neatly trimmed off (this is commonly done with Belgian posters, similar to how the blank top is trimmed off of U.S. window cards). The poster also had all its other blank borders trimmed off, which included the small printing at the bottom below the image. It had a foreign stamp in the bottom right corner and minor wear on the folds. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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