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Auction History Result 2f202 GOLD RUSH linen Turkish R50s Charlie Chaplin classic, great artwork by T.H.! Date Sold 9/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1950s) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Turkish One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 1/2" x 39 1/4" [70 x 100 cm]) (Learn More) The Gold Rush, the classic 1925 Charles Chaplin silent Alaska Yukon rags-to-riches romantic slapstick comedy ("A Dramatic Comedy"; "Written and Directed [and scored] by Charlie Chaplin"; Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska by himself in search of gold, and he falls in love with a dance hall girl who doesn't even notice him, and he gets lost and has many adventures) starring Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin), Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale, and Henry Bergman. Note that this movie not only contains the classic sequence of the snowbound Chaplin and Mack Swain sharing a shoe and eating it because they are starving, but it also contains the equally classic scene of Chaplin putting two dinner rolls on forks and making them "dance"! Also note that the movie was filmed "on location", but only for a small part of the movie did they go to the High Sierras. For the close scenes, Chaplin had artificial mountains created out of chicken wire and burlap covering 200 tons of plaster, 285 tons of salt, and 100 barrels of flour, and the artificial ice and snow was made of the same materials. 4 carloads of "cornfetti" were used for the blizzard scenes. They also transported much of the same material to the Sierra mountains to enhance the scenes shot there. The entire production took over a year, from first filming to final cut! This is surely Charlie Chaplin's greatest movie, and it is hard to argue with anyone describing it as the single greatest silent movie ever made, and both the movie and Chaplin are known the world over, even to people who have never seen this movie (but they certainly should see it!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: T.H. Important Added Info: Note that Turkish movie posters can be incredibly difficult to date, because (like Indian movie posters) the Turkish film distributors kept printing on ancient printing presses well into the 1960s, so a poster can LOOK like it is from the 1930s, but really be from decades later! In the case of this poster, we know that Haka Film did not start until 1946, so this poster dates from after that time, and our best guess is that it dates from the 1950s. It certainly has a wonderful artwork image, and looks like it could have been produced in 1925. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny bits of paper loss in the top half of the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount on the other folds. There were pinholes around the edges. There was a faint large stamp in the top right yellow background area. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well, but the restorer left alone the faint stamp in the top right corner. Learn More about condition grades 
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