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Auction History Result 9h046 DUMBO pressbook '41 Disney cartoon classic, cool die-cut full-color folder, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/21/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (die-cut folder measures 9 1/4" x 48" when unfolded, plus three sections that have 12 pages, 8 pages, and 12 pages; see below) (Learn More) Dumbo, the classic 1941 Ben Sharpsteen Walt Disney family animated animation circus elephant cartoon ("Walt Disney's Full-Length Feature in Technicolor"; "New all-Disney feature that's all-out fun!"; "Here comes glorious magic minutes 'away from it all!'"; "Casey Junior, the happy little circus train that talks!"; "See Dumbo, the ugly-duckling baby elephant whose ears were too big for his happiness. yeah. You'll love him!"; "See Timothy Q. Mouse, the tiny terror of the big top - Dumbo's only pal!"; "See Pink Elephants on Parade - and believe it or not!"; "See The Five Black Crows, the raucous quintet that gives the blues the bird!"; "See The Biggest Littlest Show on Earth... in winter quarters, in training and giving performances on tour!"; "See all the wonders, excitement, and action... the clowns, menagerie.... the parachute battalion of storks... all the marvels of the circus plus the charm that only Disney can create when he lets himself go!"; "3-Ring feature length production"; "It's the screen's greatest adventure in enchantment!"; "Here's Disney with the brakes off... the Big-Top with the lid off. A three-ring circus that rings with laughter and song! With Dumbo heading a host of lovable creatures including: tiny Timothy Q. Mouse; the raucous 5 Black Crows; Casey Junior, the talking engine; the dive-bombing Storks; dancing Pink Elephants. All-out fun for all!"; "It's Disney on the loose in a circus of surprises. With Dumbo, the baby elephant, flying on floppy ears... cuter and dumber than Dopey! And tiny Timothy Mouse! And Casey Junior, the talking locomotive! The comical Black Crows, dive-bombing Storks, dancing Pink Elephants! You'll love them all!") featuring the voices of Sterling Holloway, Verna Felton, Herman Bing, Edward Brophy, and Cliff Edwards. Note that Mel Blanc is credited in IMDb as the voice of Dumbo, which is interesting, since the elephant has no lines of dialogue! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: For this great movie, somebody at Disney had a really unusual idea! They created a giant 9 1/4" x 48" full-color die-cut folder that had similar images on both sides. The folder showed a circus train with the cars filled with animals and the title on two of the cars, with Dumbo flying overhead. The folder was divided into three sections, each of which had a "pocket" that you opened at the die-cut area at top. Inserted into one of the three sections was the regular pressbook (12 pages). Into another one of the three sections was the "Advertisements" section (12 pages). In the third pocket was the "Publicity and Features" section (8 pages). Obviously, this pressbook was extremely difficult and expensive to produce, and we wonder if the theater owners didn't much care for it, because of how complicated it was, and we have not seen another Disney pressbook like it! It certainly is a really cool item, and it is certain that very few survive. Note that this pressbook (along with 14 others) comes from the remarkable collection described below. The 15 pressbooks include ones from both Disney shorts and Disney features from the very late 1930s and the early 1940s. All of them are incredibly rare and are almost never offered for sale (to give you a sense of how incredibly rare they are, we at eMoviePoster.com have only previously auctioned three of them). More remarkably, all of the 15 are complete and uncut and most are in wonderful condition. It will surely be a long time before even a few of these are offered at auction again! Note that this item, along with many others, has a wonderful provenance! It comes from a remarkable collection of original 1940s Walt Disney pressbooks, mini lobby cards, and standees that just surfaced! Not only are all of these items extremely rare ones that are hardly ever auctioned, but they almost all are in really nice condition. The origin of these items is even more fascinating. Our consignor attended these movies as a young boy (he is currently over 80!), and a kindly theater owner gave him these items, and he has carefully preserved them all these many years, until now, when he has consigned them directly to us! We previously auctioned the original stills he had in our auction in May of 2016, and now we are auctioning the rest of his items. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to obtain some of the finest Disney pressbooks, mini lobby cards, and standees we have ever seen, and all of them will have new owners when these auctions close, because all start at $1 with no reserve. In addition to the items from this man's collection (saved from when it was a little boy over 70 years ago!), we also gathered together lots of other rare animation related movie paper items of all types, and together this is a wonderful offering of movie animation items! Many of these items will likely not be auctioned again for many years to come! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: fair to good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It alone of all the pressbooks in this remarkable collection sustained significant water damage. It has dark staining scattered vertically in the folder (you can see the writing through the staining, but the staining is significant). The pressbook section has the same staining, but fortunately, it is solely in a small area in the middle right of all pages, and it has little effect on the poster page. There is 1 1/2" of separation at the right of the center fold of that section. The "advertisement" section has light smudges scattered on the cover but is otherwise in pretty nice condition. The "publicity and features" section is in the nicest condition. Please read the above carefully and look at our images so that you can take the condition defects into account before placing a bid on this rare item. Learn More about condition grades 
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