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Auction History Result 9m0351 CHRISTMAS IN JULY linen Belgian 1945 Powell & Drew, Preston Sturges classic, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1945 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/4" x 16 1/4" [29 x 41 cm]) (Learn More) Christmas in July, the classic 1940 Preston Sturges romantic screwball comedy (about a lowly office worker who is deceived into believing he has won a major contest and he quits his job and goes on a spending spree, but he really hasn't won, but everything magically works out in the end!) starring Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Ernest Truex, and Al Bridge. If you like Preston Sturges movies, you are certain to really like this one! 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 never before auctioned this Belgian poster! This poster is printed on the back of part of another poster! Why is this? During World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was printed on the back of another poster (see above). You can see slight signs of that poster in the light colored areas. The poster was backed without restoration, and you can still see the slight bleed-through described above, but of course, most or all examples of this poster would almost surely have that same bleed-through, if you could find another one of these posters (we have never auctioned it before). Learn More about condition grades 
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