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4f0400 ROCKET SHIP pressbook R1950 re-release of 1936's Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe!

Date Sold 5/9/2023
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A 1950 Re-Release Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17"; 8 pages) (Learn More)

Rocket Ship, the 1950 re-titled re-release of Flash Gordon, the 1936 Frederick Stephani science fiction (sci-fi) feature (which was created from the serial of the same name) starring Buster Crabbe (in the title role "as Flash Gordon"), Jean Rogers ("as Dale Arden"), Charles Middleton ("as Emperor Ming"), Priscilla Lawson ("as Aura"), Frank Shannon ("as Dr. Zarkov"), Jack 'Tiny' Lipson (billed as "John Lipson as Vultan"), Richard Alexander ("as Prince Barin"), James Pierce, Duke Ford Jr., and Theodore Lorch. The history of this re-release is very confusing! In 1938, Universal released the serial "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars". As was common, they also released a feature-length movie created from the serial. Universal originally chose to title this feature version "Rocket Ship", but after some marketing material was created, they changed it to "Mars Attacks the World" to capitalize on the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. When Filmcraft re-released the "Flash Gordon" feature in 1950, they used the title "Rocket Ship". At the same time, they also re-released "Mars Attacks the World" without changing the title. Besides the re-use of the "Rocket Ship" title, it is also confusing because some of the movie paper for the 1950 re-releases has the wrong images and/or art (using art from "Flash Gordon/Rocket Ship" on "Mars Attacks the World" and vice-versa) even though they have the correct cast listed. We are happy for this chance to set the record straight on both these matters (but we are not surprised if you find it confusing, because it IS very confusing). Because of this situation, we have this re-release as a separate Description instead of using Flash Gordon.
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Important Added Info: Note that this pressbook for the 1950 re-release of "Flash Gordon" at "Rocket Ship" has double bill ads within it, which prove conclusively that "Mars Attacks the World" and "Rocket Ship" were NOT the same movie being re-released under two different titles, but were actually re-releases of both "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" and "Flash Gordon". All the confusing occurred because the people who prepared the posters swapped the images from the two movies (see above).

Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

Condition: fair, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. There is significant water staining down the right 2-3" of all pages, with small paper loss in the bottom right corner of the cover and some small tears and tiny paper loss around the edges of the covers.
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