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Auction History Result 4s253 OLD SAN FRANCISCO WC '27 great art of Warner Oland standing by pretty Dolores Costello! Date Sold 4/14/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Old San Francisco, the 1927 Alan Crosland silent California Chinese American race relations romantic melodrama ("A Romance of the days when 'Frisco was the Paris of America!"; based on the story by Darryl Francis Zanuck, later a legendary producer; set in the time when California was owned by Spain, and it tells of a formerly wealthy land owner who needs money, and people want to either buy him out or seize his land; Warner Oland plays a white man living in Chinatown who runs the illegal activities there, and the Chinese fear him because they believe him to be a white man, but he is actually a "half-breed", and when the pretty daughter of the impoverished land owner threatens to reveal his secret, he kidnaps her, intending to sell her into white slavery; at the climax of the movie, the San Francisco Earthquake destroys Oland, and the hero and heroine are reunited) starring Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, John Miljan, William Demarest, Josef Swickard, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, and Anna May Wong. Note that years later, Darryl F. Zanuck would become one of the foremost proponents of racial tolerance in Hollywood, with movies like "Gentleman's Agreement" and "Pinky", and it is hard to believe that wrote this extremely racist movie! 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 this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. Condition: good to very good. The poster had nail holes, creases, tears, stains, and areas of paper loss around the edges, and a lesser number scattered throughout the poster, including some in Costello's face and figure. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to paperbacking. The person who backed the poster needed to do fairly extensive restoration, but rather than making the card "look perfect", which would have required paint throughout, and given it a "heavily restored" look, the restorer instead chose to perform touch up only in the damaged areas. You can see clear signs of restoration throughout when you look closely at the card, but from any reasonable viewing distance, the poster displays pretty well, although you can see some signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects, even from a distance. Learn More about condition grades 
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