eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8t621 KON-TIKI Aust daybill '51 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Pacific Ocean on a raft and lives! Date Sold 5/14/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theater-Used Folded Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 13" x 30" [33 x 76 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 If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster has full-bleed borders on the left and right and has NOT been trimmed. This was done by RKO with their daybills in the 1940s and early 1950s. Advanced Australian collectors tell us that this is how all the daybills of this title were created. Please do not bid on this daybill thinking that it has been trimmed as it certainly was not. Condition: good. The poster is discolored and there are some brown stains scattered throughout (mostly at upper right). There are a few pin holes and small tears around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades
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