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Auction History Result 6y0297 TREASURE ISLAND linen 1sh 1934 different art of Wallace Beery as Long John Silver & ship, rare! Date Sold 12/22/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 41 1/2" [72 x 105 cm]) (Learn More) Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, the 1934 Victor Fleming pirate adventure thriller ("They'll steal their way to your heart"; "Robert Louis Stevenson's Immortal Adventure"; "Together again in the greatest of adventure stories") starring Wallace Beery (as Long John Silver), Jackie Cooper (as Jim Hawkins), Lionel Barrymore (as Billy Bones), Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce, and Charles 'Chic' Sale. Note that Beery and Cooper had had great success in 1931's "The Champ", and MGM wanted to reunite them in another movie, and they chose this classic juvenile favorite, which had been filmed three times as a silent, but this was the first sound version. 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 one-sheet! Note that this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it is similar to posters printed by "Leader Press" or "the other company". A constant headache for theaters (especially those showing burlesque) was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/4" x 41 1/2" [72 x 105 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the middle crossfold and some creases and tiny bits of paper loss on small parts of the folds. It had a few tiny pinholes around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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