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PREVENT FOREST FIRES PREVENT FOREST FIRES special poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3x336 PREVENT FOREST FIRES 14x20 special '43 Disney, great art of Bambi, Thumper and Flower! Date Sold 12/18/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Folded Special Poster (measures 14 1/4" x 20" [36 x 51 cm]) (Learn More) Prevent Forest Fires, the 1943 Walt Disney poster ("Please, Mister, don't be careless"; "Greater danger than ever!") encouraging people to help prevent forest fires and featuring art of Bambi, Thumper, and Flower from the Walt Disney cartoon "Bambi". Note that Walt Disney patriotically allowed the United States to use Bambi (from his recently released feature film of that name) for U.S. Forest Service public service campaigns like this one in 1943, but he only gave them a one-year contract, and after the year was up, he changed his mind! So there are some wonderful public service posters like these, which use Disney's Bambi, but they are only from 1942 or 1943, and they are extremely rare. It worked out well for the U.S. Forest Service, however. In 1944, they issued a poster featuring "Smokey Bear", and he wore jeans and a campaign hat (what we now call a ranger hat). His slogan was "Smokey says - Care will prevent 9 out of 10 forest fires!". Over the next decade, Smokey would change in appearance as the artist who drew him changed, and he would get the slogan "Remember! Only you can prevent forest fires", and eventually, he became "Smokey the Bear"! But the 1943 U.S. Forest Service posters with Bambi are far more rare than the 1940s Smokey Bear posters! 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 poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: fair to good. There is water staining around the edges. The poster was folded once in each direction and there is a water stain on the back of the center of the poster. There is paper loss in the top right blank corner and some tiny tears and tiny paper loss in small parts of the other borders. The poster has real defects, but certainly, a talented restorer could back the poster, and after proper restoration, it will look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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