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Auction History Result b442 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL trimmed insert movie poster '51 classic Date Sold 11/1/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 26") (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 poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good. The bottom 10" of this poster was completely trimmed off, and you are only bidding on the remaining portion of the poster! The part that was trimmed off is a still from the movie, and obviously, the part of the poster that is here stands alone as a poster, but it has major paper loss, which is a major defect! The poster has significant additional problems. There are four horizontal foldlines and there are rough creases along three of the folds. There was some sort of staining in the lower right of the poster, and an amateur restorer attempted to repair the poster by coloring over much of the girl's hair and face and the image to the right of it, plus the spaceship above the girl, plus much of the bottom of the ray coming out of Gort's eyes. There is also hand-coloring across the top foldline, and in the bottom left credits area. This rare and great poster obviously has a huge number of serious condition defects. Please do not bid on this poster unless you have carefully read the description of the defects, looked closely at our super-sized image, and can accept the poster's defects, or are willing to pay to have them properly restored (in the case of this poster, it would probably cost a HUGE amount to attempt to add the missing 10", undo the amateur restoration, and re-restore the poster, so I imagine this poster will sell to someone who can accept it the way it is). Learn More about condition grades 
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