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Auction History Result 2c253 CANARY MURDER CASE glass slide 1929 classic image of sexy showgirl Louise Brooks, very rare! Date Sold 12/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Glass Slide (measures 3 1/4" x 4" [8 x 10 cm]) (Learn More) The Canary Murder Case, the 1929 Malcolm St. Clair & Frank Tuttle detective mystery crime thriller ("From the novel by S.S. Van Dine"; Louise Brooks plays the "canary" who is the showgirl who gets murdered early in the movie; the movie was shot as a silent and then had to be re-shot as a sound movie, and Brooks was in Europe and refused to return to provide the voice for her part, which was a major part of why she was pretty much blacklisted in Hollywood after that) starring William Powell (as Philo Vance), James Hall, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur, Charles Lane, and Gustav von Seyffertitz. Note that William Powell first played Philo Vance in 1929's "The Canary Murder Case" and after the character proved very popular, he followed it the next year with "The Greene Murder Case", after which Basil Rathbone took over the role that same year in "The Bishop Murder Case". After Powell played Vance again in "The Benson Murder Case" (which was also made in a Spanish language version with an entirely different case), he then played him one more time in "The Kennel Murder Case" in 1933, but the character also appeared in ten more movies between 1934 and 1947, with other actors in the lead roles. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the collector who consigned this glass slide to us had only the glass slide and did not have the cardboard sleeve that protects it. They had a "glass slide restorer" recreate the cardboard holder, including printing that was found on glass slides of this period and the title of the movie in the top border of the cardboard (and just as it would have been originally, the cardboard is stapled together with the glass slide between the cardboard. SO THE GLASS SLIDE IS 100% ORIGINAL, BUT THE CARDBOARD HOLDER IS NEWLY CREATED (to protect the glass slide). Also note that we have previously auctioned one example of this glass slide, and that was 10 years ago, when it sold for $209! Also note that glass slides were designed to be put in a special projector that would project the image onto a movie screen (they use exactly the same concept as 35mm slides). We have taken a digital photo of each that shows the general condition of the overall slide and holder, and we have also made a digital scan that shows the glass image well, but does not show the holder (except as a dark outline). Condition: good to very good. As noted above, the slide was found without the cardboard holder. The glass slide is in nice condition and it now has a recreated cardboard holder. We leave it to bidders to decide how important this is to them. Learn More about condition grades 
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