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Auction History Result 8m236 RED SHOES linen 1/2sh 1949 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, great ballet art, rare! Date Sold 8/12/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1949 Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) The Red Shoes, the classic 1948 (released in the U.S. in 1948 in a very limited release, and then in a wider release in 1949, and then in a very wide release in 1950!) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger English dance ballet romantic melodrama ("... Dance she did, and dance she must between her two loves."; "There has never been a motion picture like 'The Red Shoes'"; "There have never been reviews as wonderful as these..."; "Winner of three Academy Awards"; "Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen) starring Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Ludmilla Tcherina, and Leonide Massine ("The part of The Shoemaker created and danced by Leonide Massine"). Note that Shearer did not want to make this movie, because of how difficult it would be for her to perform the many dance scenes, and it took Powell and Pressburger more than a year to convince her to make it! Also note that this movie won Academy Awards for art direction and music scoring, and it is widely considered to be one of the movies that made the best use of three-strip Technicolor. Also note that this movie includes a scene of the dancers outdoors by tall buildings, and it was too costly to film that scene outdoors, so that scene was done with the judicious use of matte paintings! 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 movie had a limited release in the U.S. in October of 1948 (no doubt to qualify for the Academy Awards). Posters and lobby cards from that "pre-awards" release exist, but they are quite rare. Then it received a general release in the U.S. in 1949, AFTER it won Oscars, and it had a different ad campaign that included the tagline "Winner of Three Academy Awards". This item is from the post-awards release, and we have never auctioned it before. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfold. It had a 16" irregular tear in the bottom center that started in the bottom border to the left of center, went through the bottom of the shoes, and ended in the second "C" of "TECHNICOLOR". It had a 3" tear in the left of the top border, going into the background area. It had a few other tears in the borders going into background areas. It had some paper loss in parts of the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was really nicely backed by a talented restorer, repairing all the above defects, and they barely show, and the poster will display well on the new owner's wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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