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Auction History Result 2y198 SILVER STREAK pressbook '34 art of 1st high-speed bullet train, now on display in Chicago! Date Sold 10/1/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 16 pages). Also included are 2 ad supplements that have 2 pages and one page (the 1-page supplement is a really cool comic strip in full color!). (Learn More) The Silver Streak, the 1934 Thomas Atkins romantic high-speed railroad train action thriller ("Love at the throttle in a streamline race with death on the world's newest, fastest train"; "The pulsing urge of the Power Age created this miracle of speed! ...and human emotion throbs in its iron heart in this blood-leaping romance of the rails!"; "The Stream-Lines 'Star' of the thrilling railroad drama"; "A streamline Saga of Straining Steel, Grinding Wheels, Breath-taking Curves on a New Iron Horse Hurtling through Western Plains and Mountains on a Heroic Race with Death!"; about the first real life Pioneer Zephyr "bullet train", capable of moving at super high speeds; the actual train has survived and is completely restored on display at The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry in a specially built vault below street level!) starring Sally Blane, Charles Starrett, Hardie Albright, William Farnum, and Irving Pichel NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. There are creases and scuffs around the edges of the entire pressbook, including a few small tears. The pressbook was once folded across the middle and there are some creases and scuffs in that area. Learn More about condition grades 
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