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Auction History Result 3t196 COLLEGE 1/2sh '27 Buster Keaton comedy classic, 3 images of the Great Stone Face! Date Sold 12/14/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) College, the classic 1927 James W. Horne & Buster Keaton silent romantic baseball track-and-field sports athlete higher education slapstick comedy ("Rah! Rah! Rah! Kiss... Boom... Bah! Keaton 'College' Hah! Hah! Hah!"; "The Intercollegiate Laugh Riot"; "Happiest of all Keaton Comedies"; "Nit-Wit and Big Wit of the party"; "'Go get 'em Buster - I'm with you: You've got brains and muscle too! Make 'em laugh And roar out load But watch me waving In the crowd.'"; "Highbrow Student and Sap Athlete"; about a bookworm college student whose girlfriend says she will dump him if he doesn't become an athlete, so he has to find a sport he can succeed in) starring Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, and Snitz Edwards. Note that there is a great irony in the plot of this movie, which is that Buster Keaton was playing a young man hopeless at sports, when he was actually extremely coordinated and athletic, so he had difficulty pretending not to be! 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: 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. It has water stains and smudges scattered in the left border and in the bottom border, with a much lesser amount in the right and top borders. The back of the poster has darkened (surely because it was against a backing board), and there is very slight darkening around the extreme outer edges of the front of the poster. There are three tiny bits of paper loss in the bottom blank border and a few tiny tears in the borders. Other than the above, the poster is in surprisingly nice condition. What is wonderful is that most United Artists half-sheets of this period became darkened or brittle, but this one has not. I would think many people would choose to display it just as it is, but it would certainly be a simple restoration job to restore the above almost exclusively border defects, and after which, the poster will look amazing! Learn More about condition grades 
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