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BREMENTOWN MUSICIANS ('35) BREMENTOWN MUSICIANS ('35) LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5b016 BREMENTOWN MUSICIANS 1935 Ub Iwerks art, ComiColor cartoon, they're playing instruments! Date Sold 4/2/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Brementown Musicians, the 1935 Ub Iwerks ComiColor animated animation cartoon short (about a dog, a mule, a cat, and a rooster who are kicked off a farm by an angry farmer; they see panhandlers performing music for money, and they form a quartet, complete with instruments that they magically are able to obtain, but they do badly at collecting money, and they return to the farm, where they save the farmer from being robbed, which makes him happily accept them back). After being instrumental in the creation of Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks (full name Ubbe Iwerks) was hired away from Disney by P.A. Powers of Celebrity Productions to create a series of cartoons based on classic fairy tales (Iwerks was able to be hired away, both because he did not share in the financial rewards that Disney obtained from his work on Mickey Mouse and other early Disney characters, and also because Iwerks was barely credited for his work). Iwerks not only drew the ComiColor cartoons, but he also drew the one-sheets (and a 4-card full-color lobby card set) created to promote each of them. Unfortunately, this series of cartoons did not perform well at the box office, and late in the series, they switched from individual one-sheets for each cartoon to a stock poster with different titles printed in the middle. After 25 cartoons, Powers folded Celebrity Productions and Iwerks was forced to return to Disney. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Ub Iwerks Important Added Info: Note that this lobby card includes the original brown paper bag that the lobby card sets were sent to theaters in! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. We are doing something in this set of auctions we rarely do! A couple of years ago, we were approached by a very long time collector, and he asked us if he could give us an entire auction of single lobby cards by himself. We agreed, and held that auction in 2017, and later that same year, a different collector sent us a different group of 999 lobby cards and we repeated the process. Now we have a third such "single owner" collection. This one was originally assembled in Australia, which is why some of the cards have either Australian paper snipes attached or Australian ratings stamps (but many do not have them). This collection originally contained 1,100 cards, and we auctioned 100 of them in our March Major Auction, and now we are auctioning the remaining 999 in THIS set of auctions, and after this auction, there will be no more cards to be offered. As will immediately be evident when you look at the cards, many of them are from titles where you almost never see any lobby cards, so this is a rare opportunity to acquire many cards that almost never are offered for sale or at auction! Condition: very good to fine. The card has darkened slightly (as have almost all surviving lobby cards from these Iwerks cartoons), and there are very minor creases around the edges. Otherwise, the card is in nice condition. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Only the front half of the brown paper bag is present, but fortunately, it is the half that has the printed title and credits (see our images). Learn More about condition grades
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