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Auction History Result 7b714 WATCH MY SMOKE 6.5x10.25 still '29 3-sheet art of kids in fireman suits climbing ladder! Date Sold 9/10/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage (from the episode "Watch My Smoke") Theatrical 6 1/2" x 10 1/4" (8x10) Movie Still (Learn More) Watch My Smoke, the 1929 George Marshall silent slapstick comedy short ("Smitty and his pals") starring Donald Harris (as Smitty), Jackie Combs, Betty Jane Graham, and Bull Montana. Note that Smitty was a comic strip created by Walter Berndt in 1922. It was about a 13 year old office boy, his girlfriend, his 6 year old brother, and his dog, who were collectively referred to as "His Pals". Berndt based it on his own real life experiences as an office boy. For the first ten years of the strip, Berndt used the same gimmick simultaneously used in "Gasoline Alley", where Smitty aged a year each year the strip went by, so by 1932, Smitty was 23 years old! The strip ran until 1973. In 1928 and 1929, there were ten Pathe comedy shorts based on this comic strip, but those strayed away from the source subject matter and instead were more like Our Gang comedies (which were at that time extremely successful). Movie paper from any of those shorts is extremely rare (they likely made only a one-sheet, a three-sheet and a set of 4 duotone lobby cards for each short, and surely few theaters ordered them). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this still has an image of one of the posters or newspaper ads from the movie! Such stills are far more rare than stills which show scenes from the movie! Also note that this 8" x 10" has been trimmed and it now measures 6 1/2" x 10 1/4". Condition: very good. Some of the excess blank left and right borders of the still were neatly trimmed off, but otherwise, the still is in excellent condition. Note that we show a scan of the front of the still, with a scan of the back of the still beneath it (even if the back is completely blank), so you can see what is on both sides of the still, and also better judge the condition of the still. Learn More about condition grades 
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