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Auction History Result 2s0947 BIRTH OF A MAN linen 1sh 1916 Henry Walthal is rich & hates the poor until he awakens, rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) The Birth Of A Man, the 1916 Horkheimer Bros. silent religious awakening melodrama ("A 5 Reel Production By Horkheimer Bros."; a great story of a millionaire who has disdain for all poor people, but then he is robbed, and he spends a few days wandering, and when he returns home, he is so disheveled that no one recognizes him, and they treat him badly, and he manages to break in and clean himself up, and then everyone recognizes him, but that experience makes him realize the error of his ways, and he devotes his life to helping poor people) starring Henry B. Walthall (best remembered as one of the stars of "The Birth of a Nation"), Joyce Moore, Henry Stanley, Jay Herman, and Richard Johnson. This movie obviously bears a great similarity to Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol". Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 previously auctioned this very poster two times, once 12 years ago, and then it was consigned to us again 12 years ago, and now, 11 years later, it has been consigned to us again, but it is still the exact same poster, so it is the only example of this poster we have ever auctioned! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had minor wear on the foldlines and pinholes around the edges. There was a 2" x 4" area of paper loss at the middle of the left border, extending into Walthal's sleeve. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and the restorer did a good job of recreating the paper loss in the middle of the left of the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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