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Auction History Result

3j0490 ORPHAN OF THE WILDERNESS linen French 32x48 1936 cool art of Australian man fighting kangaroo!

Date Sold 12/20/2022
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French Large Movie Poster (31x47; measures 31 1/2" x 47 1/2" [80 x 121 cm]) (Learn More)

Orphan of the Wilderness (released in the U.S. as "Wild Innocence"), the 1936 Ken G. Hall Australian outdoors animal sports boxing kangaroo circus adventure pseudo-documentary ("Gloriously refreshing romance amid the grandeur of Australia's great outdoors!"; many years ahead of its time!; about the mistreatment of the wild animals in Australia; the movie begins with information about several types of native Australian animals, and then tells the story of Chut, a kangaroo that is forced to entertain people by boxing human beings in a circus, and at the end of the movie, Chut's original owner manages to rescue him!) starring Chut (the kangaroo), Gwen Monroe (billed as "Wendy Munro"), Brian Abbot, Ethel Saker, Harry Abdy, and Joe Valli. Note that first release Australian poster material from this movie is incredibly rare. We knew this movie was released in France, because we had seen a French poster, and that it was released in the U.S., because we had seen a U.S. lobby card set, but we had never seen any other first release material from this movie until 2014, when we were first consigned an example of the first release Australian one-sheet!
Artist: Charlotte Ferra
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had darkened, more so on the folds and in the borders. It had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above.
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