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Auction History Result 5f0210 THING Aust daybill 1951 Howard Hawks sci-fi classic, completely different and ultra rare! Date Sold 10/24/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 13" x 30" [33 x 76 cm]) (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 is an extremely rare daybill. We have never auctioned it or ANY other Australian movie paper for this title in all our years of auctioning! Note that this poster has full-bleed borders on the left and right and has NOT been trimmed. This was done by RKO with their daybills in the 1940s and early 1950s. Advanced Australian collectors tell us that this is how all the daybills of this title were created. Please do not bid on this daybill thinking that it has been trimmed as it certainly was not. Condition: good. The daybill has a 3" tear in the center of the word "THE" and a smaller tear to its left. It has an approximately 3" x 5" water stain at upper left. It has a 1 1/2" v-shaped area of paper loss at upper center and someone performed amateur restoration to that area. It has a few small tears around the edges, a few light creases scattered in various areas and some tape stains in the corners (the original tape was not used for any restoration purpose). The daybill is otherwise "mostly all there" and is still colorful, and after some proper restoration the incredibly rare poster will display well (but of course bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it). Learn More about condition grades 
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