eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4h319 PHANTOM POLICE linen chapter 1 1sh 1926 art of fight in plunging plane, Midnight Patrol, rare! Date Sold 3/3/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Chapter #1 (Midnight Patrol) One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Phantom Police, the 1926 Robert Dillon silent police airplane aviation crime melodrama serial ("A Realart serial play") starring Herbert Rawlinson, Max and Moritz ("The World's most famous, almost man-like Chimpanzees."), Gloria Joy, Eddie Fetherston, Purnell Pratt, and Dick Gordon. Sadly, we could find no information about this serial, not even the briefest plot summary, and that is shame, based on the only item from this serial we have ever seen, because it is a one-sheet with great art of a policeman and a pilot fighting in a biplane that is plunging to the ground, and there is billing for "Max and Moritz". Research on the Internet reveals that these were a pair of chimps raised by Rueben Castang, who had worked for Carl Hagenbeck, another movie animal guy. Castang believed that if you took chimps as babies and raised them like humans, you could greatly raise their intelligence, and his pair definitely were very smart (and Castang made one other movie, "No Monkey Business", in 1935, which likely also starred Max and Moritz, but we were unable to determine if they performed in any other movies). Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 this is a very rare poster! We auctioned this poster one time and it was the very same poster, and it sold for $1,050. The buyer had it really nicely restored (see below), and now it is back to auction, but it is still the only example of this really cool poster we have ever auctioned in all our years of auctioning. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tears on parts of the folds and many pinholes around the edges. There was paper loss in the right of the bottom horizontal fold and in the top and bottom of the left blank border. There were some stains scattered throughout and there was a vertical tear in the left of the top and bottom of the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. Given the poster's many defects, the restorer did a really nice job. The poster displays quite nicely, and it has a slightly "restored" look, but it will look great on the new owner's wall! Learn More about condition grades
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