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Auction History Result #291 1st SPACESHIP ON VENUS 3sh'62 cool image Date Sold 7/30/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Der Schweigende Stern (released in the U.S. in 1962 as "First Spaceship on Venus"), the 1960 Kurt Maetzig East German/Polish utopian Communist science fiction (sci-fi) interplanetary war space flight thriller ("This is a first! Fantastic! Unforgettable!"; "You are there... On man's most exciting, most incredible journey!"; "You Are There... as they pass the moon and Lunar Station III"; "You are there... as they discover the Venusians' vitrified Forest!"; "You are there... as they are attacked by crawling, living lava!"; "You are there... as they brave the raging irradiated Venusquake!"; "Written by James Fethke", based on the novel 'Astronauci' by Stanislaw Lem; about the future world of 2003, where the Earth is a utopian single country communist paradise, and scientists discover a meteorite that landed on Earth from Venus in 1908, and it says that the Venusians will destroy the Earth in 2008, so the scientists quickly send a spaceship to Venus, but there they discover that the militaristic Venusians destroyed themselves in a nuclear civil war before they could attack the Earth!) starring Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe, and Kurt Rackelmann. Note that the book this movie was based on was the first published novel by Stanislaw Lem, a Polish author born in 1921. He was born Jewish but was raised Catholic, and his wealthy father kept his family safe from the Nazis. After World War II, Lem, who had gone to medical school, abandoned his medical studies and became an author. He wrote many short stories in the late 1940s and in 1951 this book, "Astronauci" (The Astronauts), was published. It was adapted into this movie in 1960, and in 1962 a highly edited version was released in the U.S. as "First Spaceship on Venus". Over the 1950s he wrote more novels, and in 1961 he wrote his most famous novel, Solaris, which was adapted into a Russian TV movie in 1968, and the highly acclaimed Russian movie by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost science fiction authors of all time, on a par with H.G. Wells! 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: This three-sheet was printed in 2 sections. Condition: fine. There are minor creases in the foldlines as is common with three-sheets. This poster is really in about as nice condition as you could hope to find it!. Note that this week on eBay eMoviePoster is selling hundreds of large-sized movie posters. Some of these (mostly three-sheets and six-sheets) were large enough that they were printed on two or more separate sheets (this was because the printing presses at that time could not print larger single sheets). Such posters are designed to overlap, and they have marks at the top and bottom of each section that show where the poster's pieces should be placed so that the poster image is correct. This presents are problem for us in photography! If we put the pieces of poster together prior to photography, it is very time consuming, and difficult to do without possibly damaging the poster, even a little bit. So instead, we photograph each piece of the poster separately, and then digitally combine the separate images, overlapping them so that the image views about the same as it would if the poster pieces were correctly placed together. BUT SINCE THE PIECES ARE SHOT SEPARATELY, THERE IS THE POTENTIAL THAT THE INDIVIDUAL PICTURES WILL HAVE DIFFERENT LIGHTING AND/OR BE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SIZE! So sometimes our images of multi-piece posters will give you the impression that part of the poster is a different darkness or size from the rest of the poster. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! It is just the result of photographing the pieces separately. If the pieces DID have a different color or size, we would note that in the auction description! Learn More about condition grades 
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