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Auction History Result 8x004 TIME MACHINE linen 6sh 1960 H.G. Wells, George Pal, great Reynold Brown sci-fi artwork, rare! Date Sold 9/8/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Six-Sheet Movie Poster (6sh; measures 81" x 81" [206 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, the classic 1960 George Pal science fiction (sci-fi) time-travel romantic adventure thriller ("You will Orbit into the fantastic future!"; "in futuristic Metrocolor"; "It smashes the time barrier... And You take the greatest adventure of your life!"; "Based on the novel by H.G. Wells") starring Rod Taylor (as H.G. Wells), Alan Young (as David Filby, and also his son James Filby), Yvette Mimieux (very young, in her second big screen role as Weena), Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, and Paul Frees (as the voice of the Talking Rings). Note that anyone not familiar with the H.G. Wells novel might think that this movie adapted most of its ideas into the screenplay. But actually, the source novel is an incredibly bleak story about a dystopian future, with no romance of any kind. Screenwriter David Duncan, who had written a few 1950s B-science fiction screenplays before this, did a brilliant job completely changing H.G. Wells' ideas into an entirely different story! His screenplay was merely "inspired by" Wells' story, and he deserves far more credit for the success of this movie than he often receives! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Reynold Brown Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this six-sheet, and that was 14 years ago, when it sold for $710 unbacked! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Note that this poster ships in a very long tube (at least 33" long, but possibly 50" long or more). Therefore the shipping for this poster will be more than that for a poster that ships in a tube 32" or shorter, and possibly much more. Please bear this added shipping expense in mind before bidding on this poster. You can tell how long of a tube this poster needs to ship in by looking at the shorter dimension of its length and width and then adding 4" to that (so a 47" x 63" poster will need to ship in a 51" long tube). Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some faint stains scattered in the top blank border and in the top of the right blank border. It appears they were surely there prior to the poster being backed, because the linen behind it is not affected. It had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on small parts of some folds, with a few creases scattered in non-fold areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but either the restorer did not address the faint stains in the top of the poster described above, or the poster acquired them after it was backed. Since they are primarily in the borders, one could still display the poster as it is, or certainly, any restorer could perform the slight additional restoration to those stains that would make them unnoticeable, without re-backing the poster. That will be the choice for the winning bidder on this very rare poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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