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Auction History Result 9c0300 PHANTOM POLICE 3 chapter 5 LCs 1926 great images of cop Herbert Rawlinson, Death Watch, rare! Date Sold 6/24/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #5 (Death Watch) Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Phantom Police, the 1926 Robert Dillon silent police airplane aviation crime melodrama serial ("A Realart serial play") starring Herbert Rawlinson, Max and Moritz ("The World's most famous, almost man-like Chimpanzees."), Gloria Joy, Eddie Fetherston, Purnell Pratt, and Dick Gordon. Sadly, we could find no information about this serial, not even the briefest plot summary, and that is shame, based on the only item from this serial we have ever seen, because it is a one-sheet with great art of a policeman and a pilot fighting in a biplane that is plunging to the ground, and there is billing for "Max and Moritz". Research on the Internet reveals that these were a pair of chimps raised by Rueben Castang, who had worked for Carl Hagenbeck, another movie animal guy. Castang believed that if you took chimps as babies and raised them like humans, you could greatly raise their intelligence, and his pair definitely were very smart (and Castang made one other movie, "No Monkey Business", in 1935, which likely also starred Max and Moritz, but we were unable to determine if they performed in any other movies). Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper items from this movie are incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned two examples of the same one-sheet from this movie and only one other lobby card but NOT these three cards from chapter 5 of this serial! Condition: good to very good. Each of the cards has smudges and pinholes around the edges (some are torn or enlarged due to rough removal). The card pictured at upper left has a few drip stains at upper center and tiny paper loss at lower center in the blank border. The card pictured at lower left has some paper loss in three blank corners and some smudges in a few areas. The other card has some small paper remnants at lower left glued in that area which has caused some discoloration. There is some surface paper loss in the left half of the image. The rare cards are otherwise generally in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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