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Auction History Result 5p0418 GOLD RUSH linen 1sh 1925 great art of Charlie Chaplin & Hale, his masterpiece, beyond rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 41" [71 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Gold Rush, the classic 1925 Charles Chaplin silent Alaska Yukon rags-to-riches romantic slapstick comedy ("A Dramatic Comedy"; "Written and Directed [and scored] by Charlie Chaplin"; Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska by himself in search of gold, and he falls in love with a dance hall girl who doesn't even notice him, and he gets lost and has many adventures) starring Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin), Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale, and Henry Bergman. Note that this movie not only contains the classic sequence of the snowbound Chaplin and Mack Swain sharing a shoe and eating it because they are starving, but it also contains the equally classic scene of Chaplin putting two dinner rolls on forks and making them "dance"! Also note that the movie was filmed "on location", but only for a small part of the movie did they go to the High Sierras. For the close scenes, Chaplin had artificial mountains created out of chicken wire and burlap covering 200 tons of plaster, 285 tons of salt, and 100 barrels of flour, and the artificial ice and snow was made of the same materials. 4 carloads of "cornfetti" were used for the blizzard scenes. They also transported much of the same material to the Sierra mountains to enhance the scenes shot there. The entire production took over a year, from first filming to final cut! This is surely Charlie Chaplin's greatest movie, and it is hard to argue with anyone describing it as the single greatest silent movie ever made, and both the movie and Chaplin are known the world over, even to people who have never seen this movie (but they certainly should see it!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we auctioned this poster in 1993, when Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, was preparing auctions for Christie's Auction House in New York City. It was part of a remarkable find of mid 1920s movie posters, and included in that find were two examples of this poster, which had never before been seen in this hobby! THIS example was in FAR better condition than the other example, and the other example was sold privately, but this example auctioned at Christie's in 1993 for $70,700! In the 30 years since, we know of no additional examples of this poster surfacing at auction or privately. Now, the person who purchased it in 1993 has reconsigned it to us, so it is still one of only two examples of this poster that we know of (and as we said above, this example is in FAR better condition than the other example, which required significant restoration). As we said in the description above, it certainly is reasonable to describe this movie as the greatest silent movie ever made, and similarly, it is certainly reasonable to describe this poster as the single most desirable silent movie poster there is (and if one does not purchase it from this auction, it might well be 30 more years before it comes to auction again). It will surely be the "crown jewel" of the new owner's collection (no matter what other poster that person currently owns)! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 41" [71 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was partially folded in half an extra time, resulting in two extra vertical folds. It had pretty minor wear on the folds. It had some tears and small paper loss in the top, left, and bottom borders. It had a 15" vertical tear in the right of the top of the poster, 5" from the right border. It had some pinholes, small tears, and small paper loss scattered to the right of that tear. It had tears and small paper loss in the bottom right corner of the image, extending into the black background below it, with paper loss in the black background above the "N" of "CHAPLIN", extending into the "N". It had stains and small paper loss in the "SH" of "RUSH" and in the "IN" of "CHAPLIN", with paper loss scattered down the bottom half of the right border. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. A really talented restorer did an excellent job with the restoration of this rare and historic poster, and it will display well on the new owner's wall, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects, especially when you look close up. As we said above, the only other example of this poster known to exist is in much lesser condition than this one, and since there are no other examples, this is the best example of this poster that can be purchased, and if one does not purchase this one, there may not be another opportunity to do so for many years to come. As we said above, it will surely be the "crown jewel" of the new owner's collection (no matter what other poster that person currently owns)! Learn More about condition grades 
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