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Auction History Result 3t0724 PHANTOM EMPIRE chapter 1 LC 1935 Gene Autry by radio microphone, full color, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/14/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #1 (The Singing Cowboy) Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Phantom Empire, the 1935 Otto Brower & B. Reeves Eason science fiction (sci-fi) singing cowboy western musical (!) serial ("A Mascot Master Serial") starring Gene Autry ("The world famed star of radio and screen"), Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Smiley Burnette, Dorothy Christy (as Queen Tika), Richard Talmadge, and Wheeler Oakman. Note that this is one of the wackiest serials ever! Gene Autry owned the "Radio Ranch" where he broadcast he weekly radio show from. In this movie, he discovers that the "ancient continent of Murania" (a lot like Atlantis) had sunk beneath the ocean, but that the inhabitants, called "Muranians", had survived in underground caverns, and some of them lived in a cavern directly below his Radio Ranch! They were very peaceful, and very scientifically advanced, having invented television, ray guns, and really funky robot outfits, but they felt threatened by the Earth people from the surface who discovered them, and in this movie, Autry alternately tries to stop the Muranians from attacking the Earth people, while taking frequent breaks to perform songs on his radio show! This was one of the very few science fiction movies of the 1930s, and also one of the very few to show robots (actually men in robot suits)! Also Note that Richard Talmadge was born "Sylvester Alphonse Metz", and he was an acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He got a job in Hollywood as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and then graduated to starring in movies, always performing lots of stunts. He had two acrobat brothers, Otto Metzetti and Victor Metz, who appeared with him in some of his movies. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that until the middle of 2020, we had NEVER auctioned even one lobby card from chapter 1 of this serial. In 2020, a consignor sent us a chapter 1 lobby card (one without Gene Autry), and that one auctioned for $476! Later in 2020, another consignor sent us the entire set of 8 cards, and they auctioned for between $271 and $675 for the seven scene cards, and $1651 for the title card! Now, we were reconsigned two of the scene cards that we auctioned in 2020, and we are auctioning them in two separate auctions, and this is one of those two cards. Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: very good to fine. There is a partial diagonal crease in the top left corner. Otherwise, the card is in exceptional condition. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades 
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