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Auction History Result 2j009 HALLOWEEN MIDNITE SHOW Spook Show jumbo WC '54 Sudden Fear & Mummy's Ghost, spooks, chills! Date Sold 11/3/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Jumbo Spook Show Window Card Poster (WC; measures 21" x 24 1/2" [53 x 62 cm]) (Learn More) Halloween Midnite Show, the 1950s Spook Show double-bill advertising a special show at the Alliance Theatre on Friday, October 30th and 31st ("Special Howlarious Halloween Midnite Show"; "Spooks"; "Chills" "Thrills"; "About 11:30 PM"). This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we can pretty certainly date this poster to 1954 because it mentions that it will be held on "Saturday Oct. 30", and they showed Sudden Fear, which is a 1952 movie, and the first time that October 30 fell on Saturday after 1951 is 1954. Condition: very good. There are some scuffs scattered through the card in the solid black areas and some minor creases in the bottom left corner. Otherwise, the card is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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