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Auction History Result 7y0005 WITCHING HOUR linen 3sh 1916 gambler C. Aubrey Smith hynotizes man into murder, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/16/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 42" x 80" [107 x 203 cm]) (Learn More) The Witching Hour, the 1916 George Irving silent gambling hypnosis fantasy mind reading murder melodrama ("The haunt of the cats-eye"; "An incomparable photo-drama of wonderous [sic] effects."; "In multiple reels"; "By Augustus Thomas"; about a gambler whose secret to winning is that he is clairvoyant and can often read people's thoughts, but he also is a master hypnotist, and he hypnotizes a young man, and while the man is in a trance, he commits a murder, and the hypnotist feels that he was not responsible for his actions, and he hires a distinguished lawyer to help "get the man off"!) starring C. Aubrey Smith (in his fourth movie, and in his second year of making movies!), Jack Sherrill, Marie Shotwell, Robert Conness, and Freeman Barnes. Note that film buffs are familiar with C. Aubrey Smith as a major character actor of the 1930s, and whenever there was a part for a stuffy distinguished Englishman in Hollywood, he got the role! But even though this movie was made two decades before his best fame, he was still 53 when he starred in 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 first release 1916 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned ANY movie paper items of any kind from this movie until we received this three-sheet! The poster was placed on to a very thin linen backing shortly after being printed and metal grommets were inserted into each corner (this was a common practice in the mid-1910s; in the later 1910s and 1920s they switched to using a kraftpaper backing). The purpose was to combine these large posters into a single piece and also to reinforce them, so that they would survive, when they were passed from theater to theater, and when they were put up on walls and taken down. All of the posters on the thin linen backing have round metal grommets in the corners, which allowed the posters to be hung by hooks. The linen backing DID serve its purpose, in that the vast majority of three-sheets and six-sheets that survived from the early 1910s are the ones that were placed on a linen backing, but the linen did not age well, especially when the posters were stored folded up. Most often, the linen has significantly deteriorated along every fold, and there is paper loss in the poster along all folds. Such posters can be professionally removed from the original linen and placed on to a proper linen backing. I have done this to several such posters, and they end up looking wonderful! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. As noted above, the poster was mounted onto a thin linen soon after it was printed, and then folded up and passed from theater to theater that way. It has many defects, but it can be restored. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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