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Auction History Result 1a845 MURDER BY TELEVISION pressbook '35 Bela Lugosi, inventor killed because of TV, rare! Date Sold 9/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Murder By Television, the 1935 Clifford Sanforth TV murder mystery crime horror thriller (about an inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world) starring Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, Huntley Gordon, George Meeker, Henry Mowbray, Hattie McDaniel, and Charles Hill Mailes. Note of course that television was in its infancy in 1935, and that the public was fascinated by it. Surprisingly, it did not "catch on" in any meaningful way throughout the 1930s and most of the 1940s, partially because the technology did not yet exist to transmit television signals long distances, and partially because it required lots of people owning enough TVs to warrant building transmitters and creating TV shows, but lots of people wouldn't buy TVs until there were lots of TV shows to watch, and this did not get solved until the early 1950s, over 15 years after this movie was made! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that any kind of movie from this movie is extremely rare! Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. There are some dot water stains around the edges of both covers, with a small tear in the top center of all pages. Otherwise, the pressbook is in pretty good condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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