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MONSTERS OF THE DEEP ('31) MONSTERS OF THE DEEP ('31) glass slide OR search current auctions Auction History Result c065 MONSTERS OF THE DEEP glass slide '31 cool image! Date Sold 8/9/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Glass Slide (measures approximately 3" x 4") (Learn More) Monsters of the Deep, the 1931 Harold Austin ocean fishing documentary ("Presented by Talking Picture Epics Inc., 11 West 42nd Street -- New York City -- N.Y.") narrated by Harold Austin. Note that this was an obscure fishing documentary, and someone once uncovered many examples of the original 1931 one-sheet, which has a duotone image of some fishermen standing by a giant fish they caught. But some VERY enterprising distributor had the wonderful idea of re-distributing this movie in the late 1930s as an action adventure movie, and had an unknown artist create a great image of two boys in the ocean running from a truly frightening giant fish, with the tagline "See - TERRIFIC ENCOUNTER with the DEVIL FISH" (it is kind of like this guy had the idea for "Jaws" decades before Steven Spielberg!). I am sure this poster did wonders for the box office of this movie, but I would love to have seen the look on people's faces after they started watching the movie and realized how badly they had been deceived! Also note that this movie was distributed by "Talking Picture Epics", which was a company that was apparently only in business from around 1930 to 1931 or so, and during that time, they distributed really odd sounding documentaries to exotic locations! In addition to this movie, they also distributed "Bottom of the World", "Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson", and others, but we strongly suspect that these were not actual movies, but were rather re-titlings of other movies, or possibly compilations from earlier movies (for example, "The Bottom of the World" sounds suspiciously like "With Byrd at the South Pole", and "Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson" sounds like it would have been a compilation of Osa and Martin Johnson's earlier jungle documentaries). It is quite possible that the only thing that made these "talking pictures" was that a narration was added. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Important Added Info: Glass slides were designed to be put in a special projector that would project the image onto a movie screen (they use exactly the same concept as 35mm slides). We have taken a digital photo of each that shows the general condition of the overall slide and holder, and we have also made a digital scan that shows the glass image well, but does not show the holder (except as a dark outline). Condition: fine. This glass slide is in really excellent condition, and we feel that EVERY collector would be happy to own it. It IS possible it may have a MINOR defect or defects, but nothing at all significant. But we bet many dealers would call items in this grade "mint" or "near mint"! Learn More about condition grades 
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