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Auction History Result

3p839 KON-TIKI style B 1/2sh 1951 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Pacific Ocean on a raft and lives!

Date Sold 1/29/2019
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An Original 1951 Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More)

Kon-Tiki, the 1950 (released in the U.S. in 1951) Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian/Swedish seafaring expedition adventure documentary ("More thrilling than any fiction!"; "They chopped down 9 trees and floated across the Pacific!"; "The amazing saga of six men who deliberately risked their lives to prove a theory! On a primitive-type raft of balsa logs that tossed like a cork they drifted at the whim of the trade winds from the shores of Peru to the isles where the hula girls wait! 1-1 days of surprise and suspense; of storm and sunshine; of peril and peace! ... 4,300 miles of uncharted sea. No contact with civilization. No sight of ship or shore. Nothing but themselves and their battle against the elements, their hair-raising contacts with rare and dangerous denizens of the deep, their full-couraged efforts to keep busy--alive--and afloat! Now you can live it all with them--from building the raft to bare-handed encounters with man-eating monsters--in the lifetime of excitement crowded into the greatest sea adventure of our time!"; "The amazing adventure of six men on a raft across the Pacific! True! Thrilling!"; "The amazing film record of six men on a raft across the Pacific! True! Thrilling!"; "Photographed by the men who lived it... Told by THOR HEYERDAHL author of the best-selling book."; Heyerdahl was convinced that South American Indians had sailed across the Pacific Ocean on rafts and had been the first people to settle in the Polynesian Islands; many people thought it was impossible to cross the ocean in a raft, so Heyerdahl and his team built a raft that replicated what those Indians would likely have made, and then they sailed it themselves, with the only exception to authenticity being that they took a radio; they survived and proved the point that it was possible!) featuring Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg, Knut Haugland, and Torstein Raaby
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets).

Condition: good to very good.
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