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Auction History Result 5m357 ELEPHANT BOY Australian herald 1937 Sabu in India, back cover ad for Audioscopiks, 1936 3-D! Date Sold 4/8/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Australian Movie Herald (measures 4 3/4" x 7" [12 x 18 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Elephant Boy, the 1937 Robert Flaherty & Zoltan Korda English India jungle adventure thriller ("There have been all kinds of pictures... But never one like this!"; "Kipling's greatest 'Jungle Book' story... Filmed in Asiatic wildernesses that never before revealed their secrets to man!... Telling of the inseparable friendship between a little lad and the biggest elephant the world has ever seen!"; "The picture with a thousand elephants and a million thrills. Photographed in Asiatic jungles never before penetrated! Acted by the Maharajah's own hunters!"; "Based on the novel 'Toomai of the Elephants' by Rudyard Kipling"; produced by Alexander Korda) starring Sabu Dastagir (as Toomai; in his first movie!), W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeyes, and Bruce Gordon NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that most people surely think of 3-D movies as beginning in the 1950s, but actually, they had been around since 1915, although in a much more primitive form. There were several made in 1922 (by Frederick Eugene Ives & Jacob Leventhal), and those were called "Stereoscopiks", and there were five of them made between 1922 and 1925 (Plastigrams, Zowie, Luna-cy!, The Runaway Taxi, and Ouch). There was not that much interest in the process until 1936, when MGM made the first of what was intended to be a series of "Audioscopiks", which used Technicolor, and the audience wore the now famous red and green glasses! This process was created by John Norling and Jacob Leventhal (the same man who had co-created the 1920s "Stereoscopiks"). The first one was called "Audioscopiks" and came out in early 1936, but the second, called "The New Audioscopiks", did not come out until two years later (both were narrated by Pete Smith, and the first one was nominated for the Best Short Subject Oscar in 1936). In 1941, MGM made one more short, this time a Pete Smith Specialty called "Three Dimensional Murder", and this included an appearance by Frankenstein with Jack Pierce makeup, but it was not a Universal movie, but an MGM one! We have never auctioned any movie item from any of the five Stereoscopik shorts (except for a single glass slide for "A Runaway Taxi") and from the three "Audioscopiks" shorts, we have only had three German stills from "The New Audioscopiks" and this Australian herald, which has an ad on the back for "Audioscopiks", and it had a great illustration showing the audience having soda squirted on them from the screen (see our image)! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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