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THIEF OF BAGDAD ('40) THIEF OF BAGDAD ('40) English 8x10 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 6w292 THIEF OF BAGDAD set of 2 English 3.25x4.25 comparison photos 1940 partially built Arabian city! Date Sold 6/13/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Set of 2 Original Vintage 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" [8 x 11 cm] English Comparison Photos (Learn More) The Thief of Bagdad, the classic 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell & Tim Whelan English Arabia Iraq romantic love triangle magic adventure fantasy thriller ("Thrill to the marvel picture of the year!"; "Three brave hearts... adventuring in a wonder world"; "Adventure of the masked men!"; "Adventure of the wonderful web!"; "Adventure of the all-seeing eye!"; "Never before such a screen thrill! ...two years to film, a fortune to produce... Alexander Korda's greatest achievement!"; "One thousand and one sights from the thousand of one nights...."; "Sir Alexander Korda's masterpiece of fantasy and adventure."; "Gigantic! The wonder picture of all time!"; "He fought the world to hold her loveliness within his daring arms!"; "The adventure of the masked magician!"; "The adventure of the all-seeing eye!"; "The adventure of the wonderful web!"; "In magic Technicolor!"; "produced in England and the U.S. by Alexander Korda with wondrous special effects by Lawrence W. Butler and Tom Howard, and great art direction by William Cameron Menzies") starring Conrad Veidt (memorable as Jaffar), Sabu Dastagir ("Sabu, famous star of screen hits 'Elephant Boy' and 'Drums' as the daring Thief of Baghdad... living, fighting, adventuring in a magic world!"; billed as "Sabu", as he was in all his movies; as Abu the thief, son of Abu the thief, grandson of Abu the thief, etc.!), June Duprez (as the princess), John Justin (as Ahmad), Rex Ingram (sensational as The Genie!), Mary Morris (as Halima, the animated statue!), Miles Malleson (as the Sultan of Basra), Morton Selten (as the old king), and Allan Jeayes (as the narrator). Note that this movie featured sensational "special effects" for its day, and had several wonderful sequences that looked like they required the building of massive sets, yet in most cases, matte paintings created the illusion of those massive sets! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a pair of "comparison photographs", which shows a candid image of the set of this movie as it actually appeared during a key scene, and then a second image of the same scene with a matte painting overlaid over part of the scene! This pair of photographs show the constructed set and the final shot after the addition of the matte painting, this shot shows a city landscape which would have been prohibitively expensive to build for real and instead was extended using a matte painting by artists Walter Percy 'Pop' Day and Peter Ellenshaw at Denham Studios, London, England What is a matte painting? It is a special visual effects element used in the production of motion pictures enabling filmmakers to add environments to films which are not possible to achieve practically on location or in a studio. A fixture in filmmaking since the birth of cinema common uses for matte paintings include the extension of landscapes and structures which would be either impossible to build or prohibitively expensive and time consuming, they are also useful in the creation of fantasy pictures to portray situations which do not exist in reality giving the filmmaker free reign to bring his vision to the screen, these paintings are combined with live action footage to produce impressive shots which when perfectly executed can trick the audience in to believing what they seeing is real. We were consigned twelve "matching pairs" of these comparison photographs, which came from the estate of an English special effects artist who collected them from colleagues in the effects industry who worked on these movies including Les Bowie with whom he served as an apprentice at Bowie Films during the 1950's & 1960's. They clearly show the painted additions which have taken place at the hands of the various artists involved and would have originated from the Technicolor laboratory in West Drayton, London, England which was located in close proximity to the major British studios, it was here where these matte shots were processed. We have never before auctioned even one pair of these comparison photographs, and we were consigned twelve pairs, which are in twelve separate auctions! Condition: good to very good. These comparison photographs were glued to an album and there is paper residue on the back, which has slightly creased the front of each (see our images of the fronts and backs of each). Learn More about condition grades 
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