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Auction History Result 2g063 MIGHTY JOE YOUNG style B 1/2sh '49 1st Harryhausen, three art images of ape & Terry Moore! Date Sold 9/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Mighty Joe Young, the classic 1949 Ernest B. Schoedsack fantasy animal gorilla ape thriller ("Striking! Startling! Staggering!"; "Merian Cooper's amazing adventure in the unusual!"; "Staggering sensation! Electrifying excitement!"; "The ten most terrific thrills ever pictured"; "The cyclonic cavalcade of electrifying sensations that makes your eyes pop out and your heart skip a beat!"; produced by John Ford & Merian C. Cooper; with special effects by Ray Harryhausen, in his first movie, and "Technical Creator Willis O'Brien", creator of King Kong!) starring Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Paul Guilfoyle, Nestor Paiva, and Pat Barton. Note that Ray Harryhausen was sadly not given any credit on the posters for this movie, likely because he was unknown at this time, but Willis O'Brien was credited, no doubt in the hopes that people would remember him from King Kong! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Gene Widhoff Important Added Info: Note that while the one-sheets and some of the other sizes from this classic movie show up at auctions on a regular basis, both of the half-sheets are incredibly rare! We have only auctioned the style A half-sheet once before, and that was 14 years ago, and we have NEVER auctioned this style B half-sheet before! Also note that this poster has never been folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. There were staple holes, darkening, stains, and a few tears around the edges, and there is a difference of darkening around the edges of the borders, because the poster was displayed in a frame. There is a piece of brown tape on the back of the entire left border and a small piece of tape on the back of the lower right border, mending a tear, and a small piece of paper tape on the back of the left of the bottom border, mending a tear. Normally, I would grade this as "good to very good", but the defects are almost entirely in the blank borders, and the poster was never folded, and there are just a few smudges in the image. If it is re-framed the way it was originally framed, it will look incredible! Learn More about condition grades 
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