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The San Francisco International Film Festival (abbreviated as SFIFF) is among the longest-running film festivals in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the festival is held each spring for two weeks, presenting around 200 films from over 50 countries annually. The festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution.

Artist: Saul Bass

Important Added Info: This poster may be an uncut printer's test poster (often referred to as a "printer's proof")! Before a poster was printed in large quantities, the printer would print a limited number of posters as "test" posters. Because they needed to be shown to people at the studio, people in the art department, the stars, etc, they would print a number of test posters and distribute them to these people. Once these printer's test posters were shown to the various people in a position to "OK" them, the printer would print the full print run of the posters. As noted above, it seems quite likely that this poster might have been intended to be displayed without the thin white borders (trimmed to 27" x 41", and to create a "full bleed", meaning it would have no white borders at all), because that would have been much more striking, but we have never seen such a poster, so it is also possible that it was simply designed to be an odd size with unusual thin borders.

UPDATED 12/08/2016: Note that a dealer has suggested to us that this poster might have been created by the Saul Bass Studio after the festival (an undetermined time later), and that this size poster might never have been displayed at the festival. Please bear this in mind when bidding on this poster.

Note that all but 28 of the folded one-sheets in this Part I of eMoviePoster.com's December Major Auction were consigned to us by legendary French dealer/collector Dominique Besson.

Dominique Besson started collecting movie posters in 1981, and became a dealer in French and European posters in 1994, and has remained as a top dealer ever since!

But in addition, 30 years ago, Dominique began collecting U.S. one-sheets, first those with Saul Bass art, and then adding Alfred Hitchcock posters, then Humphrey Bogart, and he finally ended up collecting in an amazing total of 47 different categories, purchasing the posters from all over the world!

Now the time has come to sell this wonderful collection, and Dominique has chosen eMoviePoster.com to do so, through our auctions!

As noted above, all but 28 of the folded one-sheets in this Part I come from this more remarkable collection (the 28 that do not were consigned to us by other collectors, and are clearly marked).

This is not all of the Dominique Besson collection we are auctioning. In addition, there are approximately 200 more folded one-sheets that will be in Part IV of this special auction (ones from the 1970s to present), and there are approximately 100 unfolded one-sheets that will be in Part III (including many great ones).

This is a very rare opportunity to purchase folded one-sheets (all of which have had no professional restoration) from one of the greatest one-sheet collections assembled!

Note that this one-sheet is from the category that Dominique Besson collected on that he labeled "Saul Bass".

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