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Auction History Result 4j114 FAST FREIGHT linen French 1p 1922 Bernard art of Fatty Arbuckle, banned due to scandal, rare! Date Sold 3/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 46 1/4" x 62 1/4" [117 x 158 cm]) (Learn More) The Fast Freight (also known as "Freight Prepaid"), the 1922 James Cruze silent railroad train romantic slapstick comedy starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Lila Lee, Nigel Barrie, Herbert Standing, and Raymond Hatton. Note that this was the first movie Fatty Arbuckle made after the scandal that ruined his career. Because of the scandal it was banned in the U.S. and not released there at all (although some key book stills exist; it was released in France, and we have auctioned a single French one-panel poster as well as a single Austrian poster)! Also, 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. Artist: Bernard Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this French poster! As noted above, this movie was banned in the U.S., due to Arbuckle's scandal, and this is the French poster referred to above, and it and an Austrian poster we auctioned in 2011 (which sold for $1,206!) are the only two posters we have auctioned from this movie. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was fragile and had separation and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of several folds, with a few small tears. It had some darkening on the folds and some darkening and staining in the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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