eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4x050 DRACULA linen trade ad '31 Tod Browning, art of vampire Bela Lugosi hypnotizing sexy girl! Date Sold 11/6/2012Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Theatrical Trade-Ad (measures 12 1/4" x 18" [31 x 46 cm]; * pages) (Learn More) Dracula, the classic 1931 Tod Browning Universal vampire monster horror thriller ("The Greatest of all Horror Thrillers"; "The Vampire Thriller!"; "The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!"; "Do vampires really exist?"; "From the famous novel & play by Bram Stoker") starring Bela Lugosi (in the title role as Count Dracula), David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye (if there had been a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1931, Frye would have surely won it for his wild over-the-top portrayal as Renfield!), Edward Van Sloan (as Professor Abraham Van Helsing), Frances Dade, and Herbert Bunston NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: From the 1920s on, studios would create elaborate trade ads, often in full color, and often using the finest artists of the day. They would run these ads in their studio yearbooks and exhibitor magazines, and they would also print those trade ads separately and mail them individually to theater owners, trying to get them to book that specific movie. Sometimes those books and magazines are separated and the ads, which now greatly resemble the individually printed trade ads, are sold individually. The trade ad offered here was removed from a magazine (we believe it was likely from a magazine sent to theater owners, but it could have been from a general release movie magazine). If anyone knows where this ad originated, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The trade ad had a section that measured approximately 2" x 6" at its widest removed from the right of the top border. The ad was originally two pages and there were tears and areas of paper loss down the center where the two pages joined, and some smudges and scuffs scattered throughout. There is very slight bleed-through from the printing on the back in the letters of the word "DRACULA". Overall, the trade ad was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the trade ad "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades
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