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Auction History Result 2a0515 GREAT AIR ROBBERY 8 LCs 1920 early airplane & motorcycle stuntman Ormer Locklear, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Great Air Robbery, the 1920 Jacques Jaccard silent airplane aviation adventure thriller ("A crashing sensation"; "An astounding staged drama of the clouds") starring Ormer Locklear (billed as "Featuring the Sky Dare-Devil Locklear") , Allan Forrest, Ray Ripley, Francelia Billington, and Carmen Phillips. Note that Ormer Locklear was the first of the great daredevils (like Evel Knievel). He specialized in both motorcycles and early airplanes. He performed many very daring airplane stunts including being the first man to transfer from one plane to another in mid-air. In 1916, Harry Houdini heard of his stunts, and together tried to perfect an escape while being driven on the back of a motorcycle! He made this movie, where he of course performed his own stunts, which was followed by "The Skywayman" the following year, another airplane movie. He performed a dangerous stunt during the making of the movie, and it involved flying straight down to the ground, and the people on the ground messed up, and he was tragically killed. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that movie paper of ANY kind from this early Universal movie is beyond rare! Prior to being consigned this complete set of cards, we had only auctioned a single glass slide, and no movie paper of any kind! Condition: very good to fine. Each of the cards has a pinhole in each corner and one has small paper loss in one blank corner. The title card has darkening around the outer edges of the blank borders and one scene card has darkening on the back, but it does not affect the front. Otherwise the cards are in remarkable condition with no restoration, and it is amazing that they are over a century old. Learn More about condition grades 
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