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Auction History Result #5599 TINGLER pb '59 Vincent Price Date Sold 10/30/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (measures 14" x 15 1/2"; 6 pages). Also included are 3 ad supplements that have 1 page (Learn More) The Tingler, the 1959 William Castle horror science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("When the screen screams you'll scream too... if you value your life!"; "Do you have the guts to sit in this chair?"; "Percepto! Newest and most startling gimmick on the screen!"; "Can you take it while The Tingler breaks loose?"; "Guaranteed 'The Tingler' will break loose in the theatre while you are in the audience. As you enter the theatre you will receive instructions... How to guard yourself against attack by The Tingler!"; "Filmed in Percepto!"; "Written by Robb White") starring Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, and Philip Coolidge. Note that this film had a really wonderful "gimmick" in it, where Judith Evelyn is in a bathroom, and although the film is entirely black & white, for this one sequence, they filmed it in color, and Evelyn turns on the sink tap, and blood comes out, and then she turns to the bathtub, which is filled with blood, and a bloody hand comes out of the water! They managed to make everything else appear black & white EXCEPT for the blood in the sink and the blood and hand in the bathtub, and this was done by painting everything else in the bathroom black and white, and even applying makeup to Evelyn, so she appeared to be in black & white! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. Note that this pressbook is part of an amazing collection of 456 different horror/sci-fi pressbooks (our items #5387 through #5842)! The collector who assembled this collection did so over a span of several decades, and to duplicate it would surely take at least that long, if one started today. But on October 30th, every one of these pressbooks will go to a new owner, as all are being sold with NO reserve. Note that this collection spans the years from 1950 to 1972, and just about every single 1950s and 1960s horror/sci-fi movie is represented here. Also note that we have listed them in DATE order (first by year, and then alphabetically within years). This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire rare pressbooks that almost never are offered for sale! Condition: very good to fine. Note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Since pressbooks were INTENDED to be cut up (the theater owners would cut out the newspaper ads to run in their local papers). It is very difficult to find a pressbook that has NOT been cut, and that ads greatly to their value! folded in half at one time with some small tears and areas of paper loss along the spine in the cover; minor creases, smudges, and scuffs throughout the pressbook and supplements (more so along the foldlines); 1" and smaller tears as well as some areas of darkening around the edges of the pressbook and supplements Learn More about condition grades 
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