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Auction History Result 8d006 MID-NITE SPOOK PARTY Spook Show jumbo WC '36 talking skulls, ghosts from the dead! Date Sold 11/1/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Jumbo Spook Show Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 22 1/4" x 28") (Learn More) Midnite Spook Party, the circa 1936 Spook Show window card ("Midnite, Fri. Sept. 11"; "Warning! This is a 'SCARE' show"; "Not recommended for children under 12"; "Mel Roy on the stage"; "Talking skulls, spirit slate writing, spirit table raising, GHOSTS from the DEAD") advertising the show that was held at the Alliance Theatre on Friday, September 11th. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good to fine. There are some small stains, smudges and scuffs around the edges of the card (entering into the image area), but otherwise, it is in quite nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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