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UNIVERSAL NEWS REEL (No. 252) UNIVERSAL NEWS REEL (No. 252) 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result s351 UNIVERSAL NEWS REEL linen one-sheet movie poster c40s Date Sold 7/3/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 40") (Learn More) Universal News Reel No. 252, the 1943 news short ("The Talk of the World"; "Anywhere Anytime"; "The Newspaper Newsreel with the Talking Reporter") featuring headlines such as "Yanks in Italy", "New Bougainville Action", "Railroad Disaster", "Cat is Mother Dog", "Tropical Park Opens"; "and other news thrills". Note that we do not know the exact date of this newsreel, but given the references to the war in Italy and Japan, it is clearly from November or December 1943. A collector did some research on us, and told us that based on "Yanks in Italy" and "New Bougainville Action", the newsreel is likely from around December 16, or perhaps a week or two earlier. Universal News Reel was one of the series of newsreels released by Universal Studios from at least the early 1920s through 1967. The earliest newsreels we know of were called "International News", and Universal made one-sheets for those that had a series of headlines on them, but no image except for a cool border design. In the 1930s and 1940s, they were called "Universal News Reel" and those also had headlines, and sometimes small images. Nearly all of them were filmed in black and white, and many were narrated by Ed Herlihy. In the 1950s and 1960s, they were called "Universal-International News". In 1976, the films' owner, MCA, made the unusual decision to turn over ownership of all of the newsreels to the National Archives. The decision effectively ended Universal's copyright claim, releasing the films into the public domain. Because royalties no longer have to be paid in order to broadcast them, Universal Newsreels have become a popular source of file footage in recent years. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this one-sheet measures 27" x 40". Please do not bid on this poster thinking it is 27" x 41". Condition: very good. The poster had many slightly diagonal creases alongside the regular foldlines, and some smudges in the white background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are not very distracting (and any restorer could easily touch them up without re-backing the poster). Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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