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Auction History Result 2s1232 TOM THUMB linen 1sh 1936 ComiColor cartoon, Ub Iwerks art of tiny boy dancing on piano, rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Tom Thumb, the 1936 Ub Iwerks animated animation cartoon comedy short ("P.A. Powers ComiColor cartoon"; based on the classic fairy tale about a tiny baby whose parents treat him just as if he was regular sized, but he gets in trouble when he wants to see the world; this plot was reused in the children's story "Stuart Little", except the boy became a mouse!). After being instrumental in the creation of Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks (full name Ubbe Iwerks) was hired away from Disney by P.A. Powers of Celebrity Productions to create a series of cartoons based on classic fairy tales (Iwerks was able to be hired away, both because he did not share in the financial rewards that Disney obtained from his work on Mickey Mouse and other early Disney characters, and also because Iwerks was barely credited for his work). Iwerks not only drew the ComiColor cartoons, but he also drew the one-sheets (and a 4-card full-color lobby card set) created to promote each of them. Unfortunately, this series of cartoons did not perform well at the box office, and late in the series, they switched from individual one-sheets for each cartoon to a stock poster with different titles printed in the middle. After 25 cartoons, Powers folded Celebrity Productions and Iwerks was forced to return to Disney. 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 we have only previously auctioned two examples of this one-sheet, and only one in the last 27 years. That last example has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still only one of two examples we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds, with tears and small paper loss surrounding each crossfold and in the left half of the middle horizontal fold, with a lesser amount on the other folds. There were tears and some paper loss around the edges, with paper loss in the top left corner, just slightly extending into the background. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. A really talented restorer did a wonderful job backing and restoring the poster, and it displays wonderfully, and I can't imagine a collector who would not be happy to have this wonderful poster on the wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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