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Auction History Result 4y0093 GREAT WHITE NORTH linen 1sh 1928 art of men hunting whale, Lost in the Arctic, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/7/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Great White North (also released as "Lost in the Arctic"; see below), the 1928 H.A. Snow & Sidney Snow arctic exploration documentary ("Authentic pictures filmed in the Polar Regions by H.A. and Sidney Snow:"; "It's real! It's different! It's thrilling!"; chronicling the Snow expedition to the far north in search of the Steffanson Expedition) featuring Philo McCullough and narrated by Vihjamur Stefansson. Note that this movie opened in July 1928 and was released by William Fox. It told about the Steffanson Expedition to the Arctic, which took place in 1913. During that expedition, four men were cut off from the main party and never found. Ten years later, in 1923, H.A. and Sidney Snow went back to the arctic in search of what happened to the four men. They took cameras with them and recorded their trip up the west coast of Alaska, including hunting whales and walruses, and capturing a 2,300 pound polar bear alive and taking it aboard their ship! They never did find out what happened to the four men they were searching for. Five years later, this movie about their 1923 expedition was made, no doubt because Roald Amundsen, a great explorer who traveled the Arctic by air, had renewed interest in this subject. Amundsen himself went missing in June of 1928, and this movie has a short introduction by Vihjamur Stefansson, talking about the expeditions and mentioning Amundsen being lost, so obviously, that was filmed right after he went missing and right before this film premiered in July. There is conflicting information on the Internet about this movie. The AFI catalog and the only U.S. poster and lobby card we have auctioned refer to the movie as "The Great White North". But contemporary reviews from The New York Times and Time Magazine refer to it as "Lost in the Arctic". So it is quite possible that, like many other William Fox movies, it initially solely played at a very few theaters under the title "Lost in the Arctic" (likely with only locally created posters), and then when it had a wider release through several cities, posters were created, and those posters called it "The Great White North". If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a lobby card and a German program from this movie, and NO other movie paper of any kind, until we received this one-sheet (which is the one-sheet referred to above, the only one-sheet on this movie we have ever auctioned)! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had 1/2" x 1 1/2" of paper loss at the top crossfold, affecting the "IDNE" of "SIDNEY". It had tiny tears and tiny paper loss in the top and bottom quarters of the vertical fold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had a few pinholes, creases, and tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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