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Auction History Result w077 THING half-sheet movie poster '51 Howard Hawks classic horror! Date Sold 11/7/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World!, the classic 1951 Christian Nyby science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("The Thing from another world!"; "How did it get here?"; "Natural or Supernatural?"; "Howard Hawks' Astounding Movie"; "Look out... it's The Thing from another world!"; produced by Howard Hawks; based on the story by John W. Campbell, best known for being the editor of Astounding Science Fiction!) starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Dewey Martin, Paul Frees, John Dierkes, Eduard Franz, James Arness (in the title role as The Thing From Another World!), William Self, and Billy Curtis (as the miniature "Thing" in the final sequence when the monster appears to shrink). Note that this movie had a very unusual poster campaign, where the letters of the title were made to look like body parts ("blood and guts"!), with wires coming off of the letters. Almost all the posters had this basic design. The pressbook calls all of them "teaser" posters and says "This display material was designed for an advance teaser campaign, as well as for general use". So obviously, they intentionally wanted to have the posters not reveal much about the movie, as a way to get people interested and get them into the theater. 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 machine folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded once horizontally and once vertically right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Condition: very good. The poster was lightly hand folded down the middle at one time, but was never folded horizontally. There were two tiny pinholes near the center of the poster (one in the bottom of the "T" of "THING" and the other in the background 1" to the right of it). There were some small tears and tiny pinholes in the borders, and someone put a total of 16 small pieces of conservation tape on the back of the borders, mending those tears, and covering the tiny pinholes. There are creases and smudges around the edges of the poster, but very few within the image areas. There are a few faint scuff lines in the top purple area and a very few others scattered through the rest of the image. Other than the tape on the back of the borders, and the two small pieces on the back of the center, the poster has never had any restoration at all. I would think many collectors could happily display this great poster just as it is, but if it were professionally restored, the above minor defects would be easily corrected through restoration, and the poster would look fantastic, with a very tiny amount of paint anywhere in the image. IN THIS SPECIAL HALLOWEEN AUCTION, we have given a more detailed overall condition grade along with more details about the condition described in words. Of course, we could not describe every single defect, plus there are some defects (like separation on folds, tape on the back, extremely tiny pinholes, etc) which can be VERY difficult to see, even in our largest "super-sized" image. Therefore we strongly recommend that you BOTH read our written description of the item, AND ALSO look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe. Learn More about condition grades 
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