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Auction History Result m191 DESTINATION MOON three-sheet movie poster '50 Robert A. Heinlein, Pichel Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Destination Moon, the 1950 Irving Pichel science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("Two years in the making!"; "See the screen's most heart-breaking farewell! Would you let your man fly to the moon?"; "See the pull of gravity crush them deep into their crash-couches as the space ship takes off as 32000 feet a second!"; "See man's greatest thrill as he finally sets foot on the moon!"; produced by George Pal; based on an original book and screenplay by Robert A. Heinlein, the superlatively talented science fiction writer who gave Hollywood a try and quit when he found they did not care about scientific accuracy, and that, under the Hollywood system at that time, promises were often made to writers, both financially and creatively, that were not kept!) starring John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, and Erin O'Brien-Moore. Note that Robert Heinlein had become friendly with director Fritz Lang during World War II, and the two had planned to make a "space" movie together! But the project fell apart when Heinlein realized that Lang really wanted to have complete control of the project, which Heinlein would not accept, and he ended up signing a deal with George Pal, and that was still disappointing to him, and he never received all of the money he was promised either. But one wonders what that "Heinlein/Fritz Lang" movie would have been like! Also, Note that this movie was one of the very first of the 1950s science fiction movies (it would have been the first but production delays allowed Rocket Ship X-M to beat it), and it intended to accurately portray the first moon landing; at the time, people considered it wild science fiction, and yet it became science fact within 20 years! 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 the collector who owned this three-sheet (and five others that we are selling as separate items this week on eBay) taped or glued the two sections of the poster together, and put tape on several of the seams (for reinforcement) and then rolled the poster and stored it in a tube. He would take one of the posters and display it on his wall, and then occasionally take that one down, replace it in the tube, and display a different one (this method of displaying the posters was certainly inexpensive, and saved him the cost of a frame!). The downside to this is that the posters can no longer be folded, and in some cases the tape (or glue) has bled through to the front to some degree. For each of these six posters, we have described the amount of tape (or glue) on the reverse, and the effect it has had on the front. In all six cases, it would be an easy matter for any talented restorer to remove the tape (and/or glue) from the back and mount the poster on linen. After proper linenbacking and restoration of any defects, the poster would look wonderful! But please do not bid on this poster (or the other five similar three-sheets) unless you have read the above and understand it. Of course, we will need to send this poster in a tube, as it cannot be folded. Condition: good. The poster has a great deal of clear tape on the back of most foldlines, and almost all of it has bled through to the front to some degree. The poster had small areas of paper loss down the entire left blank border, and the owner of the poster glued a 2" wide strip of white paper down the entire back of the left side of the poster, so that the white paper would fill in where there was missing paper. Obviously, this poster has a number of significant, and unusual defects. Please do not bid on this poster unless you have read the above carefully, and can either live with the poster as it is (I think it would display pretty well just as it is, if you can live with the great deal of tape bleed through), or are willing to pay to have it professionally restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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