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Auction History Result 8m086 MR. ROBINSON CRUSOE paper banner R53 dashing Douglas Fairbanks, cool tropical island art! Date Sold 7/5/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1953 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Movie Paper Banner (measures 24" x 80" [61 x 203 cm]) (Learn More) Mr. Robinson Crusoe, the 1932 A. Edward Sutherland South Seas tropical island castaway romantic adventure comedy ("A modern comedy-drama seething with thrills"; "Reckless DAREDEVIL!.. Dashing LOVER!.. Fearless ADVENTURER!.."; "The never-to-be-forgotten story of the romantic South Pacific!"; "Actually filmed in Tahiti"; "SEE: The pool of the virgins"; "SEE: The battle of the headhunters"; written by Douglas Fairbanks; a comic parody of the classic shipwreck tale "Robinson Crusoe", with a rich playboy betting that he can survive on a desert island, but then he meets a beautiful lady on a nearby island, who he names "Saturday") starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., William Farnum, Earle Browne, and Maria Alba 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 in the 1910s through 1930s, studios would make large cloth banners that movie theaters could hang up above their lobbies (or above their entrances). In the early 1940s, they changed to making paper banners (perhaps there was a cloth shortage during World War II). At first, they were made of one-sheet-like paper, and they didn't survive very well, and they apparently were not very popular, because very few survive. At some point around 1946, they changed to making them out of a heavy paper stock, similar to that used for 40x60s, but measuring 24" x 80". Many people think these became very popular at drive-in theaters, which were then expanding at a major pace throughout the country. The paper banners were very popular until the late 1960s, and then far fewer were made (perhaps corresponding to the decline in popularity of drive-in theaters). We have been consigned a wonderful collection of 133 of these paper banners, and we are auctioning them all, in 133 separate auctions. This is a great opportunity to acquire one or many of these rare posters! Condition: good. There are many scuffs across the title area and some smudges and scuffs in the rest of the poster. There are some tears and tiny paper loss in the left border (note that our photographer was wanting to have the left border lay flat, so they put magnets over all of the tears in that area, which makes our image look unusual down the left border!). Learn More about condition grades 
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