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Auction History Result 6a0004 ARKANSAS TRAVELER 30x40 1938 art of drifter Bob Burns saving small town newspaper, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/4/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Thirty by Forty Movie Poster (30x40; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The Arkansas Traveler, the 1938 Alfred Santell Southern small town newspaper journalism comedy ("in a human story full of laughs and excitement!"; "How you'll laugh as Bob Burns!"; "Based on a story by Jack Cunningham"; about a small town newspaper owned by a kindly widow and the mysterious nameless traveler who comes to town and helps save the paper) starring Bob Burns, Fay Bainter, John Beal, Irvin S. Cobb, Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot, Dickie Moore, and Porter Hall. Note that the above tagline "How you'll laugh as Bob Burns!" is NOT a typo! That is exactly how it appeared on the poster. We imagine someone goofed in 1938 and that it should have read "How you'll laugh at Bob Burns!". Note that this movie has great similarities to the 1943 James Cagney movie Johnny Come Lately, but the two movies have entirely different writers credited. 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 the National Screen Service offered 30x40s on almost every movie in the 1930s and 1940s, but VERY few theaters ordered them (surely because they cost many times what a one-sheet cost, due to the heavier paper; we have seen in pressbooks where a one-sheet was ten cents and a 30x40 was $1.50, so surely hardly any theaters ordered them at all!). Very few 30x40s survive from ANY movies from the mid 1940s and earlier, and ones from the 1930s are virtually non-existent. We have only previously auctioned three 30x40s from ANY 1930s movies! Now, we have been consigned a remarkable find of four 30x40s from 1938, and we are currently auctioning them in four separate auctions. So that means we are currently auctioning more 1930s 30x40s at this time than we have in the entire past thirty years, and we might not have any more for years to come! Note that because this poster was printed on a pretty heavy stock, it can't be folded or rolled and must be sent in a large flat package that measures approximately 32" x 42". Please bear this added expense in mind before bidding on this poster. Note that this item needs to be shipped in an oversized flat package. Most of these items absolutely can only be sent in flat packages, and could not possibly be rolled into a tube. Some of them might SEEM like they could be rolled in a tube, like a half-sheet, but they can't. The reason these items are in this auction is specifically because they CAN'T be rolled (because rolling any of them would damage them, even if they somehow can be rolled). So please bear in mind that this item must be sent in a LARGE flat package (the size of the package will depend on the size of the item when ready for shipping), and bear this added expense in mind before placing a bid on it. IN THE CASE OF EXTREMELY LARGE FLAT ITEMS, THE SHIPPING COST WILL BE VERY HIGH, SO PLEASE DO NOT BID WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THAT ADDED SHIPPING AMOUNT, AND INCLUDE THAT AMOUNT IN WHAT YOU BID (so if you would pay $150, but the shipping is likely $100, then only bid $50). And those who live outside the U.S. and who do not have a U.S. address to ship to SHOULD NOT BID AT ALL ON EXTREMELY LARGE FLAT ITEMS, BECAUSE THEY COST HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO SEND OUTSIDE THE U.S. Condition: very good to fine. The poster has slight darkening around the edges, more so down the right edge of the right blank border. There is a 3/4" tear in the middle of the right border. Otherwise the poster is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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