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Auction History Result 6j0428 SCARLET DAYS linen TC 1919 D.W. Griffith, photographed by Billy Bitzer, the Olden West, rare! Date Sold 5/7/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Scarlet Days, the 1919 D.W. Griffith silent romantic adventure cowboy western ("A Tale of the Olden West"; "Photographed by G.W. Bitzer"; about a girl who was given away by her mother as a child, and she gets a chance to meet her mother when she is grown up, but she doesn't know that her mother is a saloon hall girl who is about to be hung; she reunites with her mother, and a kindhearted Mexican bandit, played by Richard Barthelmess, rescues the pair, and that is only the beginning of an epic story!) starring Richard Barthelmess, J. Wesley Warner, Eugenie Besserer, Carol Dempster, and Clarine Seymour. Note that the cinematographer on this movie was Billy Bitzer, who worked very closely with D.W. Griffith (they made 490 movies together!). Apparently, Griffith felt that Bitzer really deserved credit for his great contributions to Griffith's movies, and he is prominently billed on the title card (and maybe other posters that we have not seen), and he is billed as "G.W. Bitzer". It is very unusual for a cinematographer to have been billed on advertising for silent movies. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this title card (we auctioned one of those two examples twice before), and one of those examples has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still only one of two examples we have ever auctioned! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The card had many stains scattered throughout, with scuffs in the right corners and some surface paper loss. There was a scuff mark in the right of the eye of the man going down into his cheek. Overall, the card was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. The card was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Also, the restorer left an approximately 1/4" border on each side (normally this is not done when a lobby card is paperbacked, but because this was linenbacked, the restorer left the extra border, although the new owner could trim it off). Learn More about condition grades 
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