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Auction History Result 8b064 LOST WORLD WC '25 Willis O'Brien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, great dinosaur images! Date Sold 6/16/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Lost World, the classic 1925 Harry O. Hoyt silent fantasy dinosaur adventure thriller ("The World's Wonder Film"; "The greatest drama of adventure and romance your eyes ever have beheld."; "See gigantic pre-historic monsters clash with modern lovers in The Lost World"; "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story"; "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story"; with great special effects by Willis H. O'Brien who is billed as "Research and Technical Director") starring Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery (as Professor George Edward Challenger, the protagonist from a series of Doyle stories), Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, and Bull Montana (as the Ape-man). Note that when the producer/director team of Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper (who had made several acclaimed documentaries in remote areas of the world) were looking to make a fantasy movie set on a mythical island with a giant gorilla, they remembered the special effects from "The Lost World", and hired Willis O'Brien to do the special effects for their new movie, "King Kong"! "The Lost World" was O'Brien's first feature film, and he used the exact same stop-motion techniques of special effects that made "King Kong" so memorable. Note that the one-sheet poster for "The Lost World" shows an image of Wallace Beery pointing at a map of Africa, and there are NO special effects pictured on the poster. But the window card has a wonderful image of a dinosaur trampling on the residents of a city, and is THE poster to own from this movie! 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 in 2001 and in 2005, we auctioned other examples of this window card, for $23,600 and $11,200. The first card was in better condition than this one, but the second one was in slightly lesser condition than this one. All three cards have an oddity. The credits in the left and right were done in a very faint text that is difficult to read (perhaps this was intentional so as to not distract from the great image). There is no way to restore that writing and make it more "readable" unless one would repaint all the letters. The way the card was originally created, the credits are very hard to read! Also note that this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. Prior to paperbacking, the card had a thin strip of surface paper loss approximately 1/4" wide running from the lower part of the top blank area down through the "T" of "The" and the left of the "o" of "Lost", going down through the bottom of the "L" of "Lost", and continuing all the way down through the credits and ending 1/2" above the First National logo, affecting the edge of the trolley car. There was a similar but much thinner vertical area of paper loss in the right of the card, starting below the "r" of "World" and continuing down into the left of the foot of the dinosaur (this area was perhaps 1/8" wide). There was much staining in the top blank area, and it was also in the top of the card, affecting the "Th" of "The" and the "Lo" of "Lost", as well as the top of the "W" of "World". There was a 3" horizontal tear in the middle right of the card, affecting the credits. There was small triangular paper loss in the right border across from the top of the dinosaur's foot and triangular paper loss in the bottom left corner, just entering the tip of the image background. There was a small nail hole in the "hand" of the dinosaur and another small nail hole in his body. There were some small tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered in the bottom right of the dinosaur's body and in the background below it and to the right of it, and some scuffs and creases scattered in the rest of the blue background areas. Overall, the window card was in fair condition prior to paperbacking. Neither the consignor nor we wanted to paint over the entire card (which is how some restorers approach restoring these kinds of much lesser condition window cards), so instead, the restorer tried as much as possible to simply fix the defects described above, but without repainting entire areas. The result is that you can clearly tell the card has had restoration, but the main areas your eyes go to, the title and dinosaur, display quite well, and from a reasonable viewing distance, this wonderful card displays quite well. When you study it from inches away, it is clear it has had much restoration, but you can see exactly where the restoration was, which is not true when a window card is "dipped in paint". Please look at our image of the card to get a good sense of what restoration was performed. But please note that taking an image of it under lights significantly increases how noticeable the restoration is! In person, the restoration is not nearly as noticeable as in our super-sized image, and as I said above, it displays quite well from a reasonable viewing distance. Learn More about condition grades 
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