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Auction History Result 9k257 BARRIERS BURNED AWAY pressbook '24 art of Mabel Ballin & Eric Mayne in the Chicago Fire! Date Sold 2/27/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 9 1/4" x 12 1/4" [23 x 31 cm]; 20 pages). Also included is sheet music that has 4 pages (Learn More) Barriers Burned Away, the 1924 W.S. Van Dyke silent Illinois Chicago Fire historical melodrama ("A drama of the Great Chicago Fire from the famous novel by E.P. Roe") starring Mabel Ballin, Eric Mayne, Frank Mayo, Wanda Hawley, and Wally Van. Note that director W.S. Van Dyke had gotten his start as an assistant on D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" in 1916, and the following year, he was a director of many movies. He directed many westerns and other movies throughout the 1920s, and in 1928, he got his second big break when he helped Robert Flaherty direct "Shadows in the South Seas", and the following year, he was signed by MGM to make "Trader Horn", but it took two years to complete due to all the complications of location filming. The following year, he directed "Tarzan the Ape Man", and the huge success of that movie made him one of the top directors of the 1930s. 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 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 to fine, NO CUTS. The supplement is slightly larger than the pressbook, so it is tattered around the edges, but overall, the pressbook is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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