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Auction History Result 4z0011 BRAND X 33x47 special poster 1970 Win Chamberlain absurd political comedy, Shelton art, rare! Date Sold 8/31/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Special Movie Poster (measures 33 1/4" x 47 1/4" [84 x 120 cm]) (Learn More) Brand X, the 1970 Win Chamberlain outrageous political black comedy ("The movie for people"; "Music by Ken Lauber"; a series of pretty unrelated skits on a fictional TV network, and many of them are beyond outrageous, and are certainly designed to offend absolutely everybody and includes many skits that could never be filmed or shown today) starring Taylor Mead (a son of a wealthy family and a stock broker, who "dropped out" and worked with Andy Warhol), Sally Kirkland, Tally Brown, Frank Cavestani, Abbie Hoffman (in his first movie, and he would, of course, go on to great fame as one of the founders of The Yippies, and a member of the Chicago Seven), Candy Darling, Joy Bang, Ultra Violet (the three previous became well known for their participation in Andy Warhol movies), Carlos Anduze, Sam Shepard (in his very first movie!; he quit acting and became a famous playwright and then resumed his acting career in 1978 in "Days of Heaven", and had substantial success in both fields), Jim Huff, Madalyn Lloyd, Jim Maya, Serge Bouterline, Sam Ridge, John Rainer Long (billed as "John Long"), and Susannah Baumgart. Note that this movie is almost completely forgotten today (and almost surely never shown publicly), but it had a great influence on counter culture movies of the 1970s, especially The Groove Tube and The Kentucky Fried Movie, and also, of course, TV shows like Saturday Night Live and Second City TV (SCTV). Finally, note that poster material of any kind for this movie is beyond rare, almost surely because it only played in an extremely limited number of theaters (we only know for sure that it played at the Elgin Theatre in New York City in 1970). Because we have auctioned it, we know that the Elgin Cinema had a poster created that measures 33 1/4" x 47 1/4", and it has wonderful full-color art by Gilbert Shelton, and the character he drew is clearly one of his "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Gilbert Shelton Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this special poster, and that was 8 years ago, and it was only in "fair to good" condition, and it still sold for $110! These two posters both came to us from the same individual, a man who worked at various New York City movie theaters in the 1960s and 1970s (and also at 20th Century-Fox), and he acquired a number of movie posters that were created for specific New York City theaters during their limited showings. We have previously auctioned some incredibly rare posters from this man's collection, and this one (and the previous example of the same poster, which was in much lesser condition) were surely acquired by him when he worked for the Elgin Cinema when this movie came out, and we don't know that any other examples survive. Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It has staining on the back of the top of the poster that lightly shows through to the front. There are also small bits of paper loss in the upper left and upper right blank borders. It has some light creases scattered in small parts of the poster. It has brown dot staining in the bottom right corner and in parts of the left of the bottom border. Other than the above, the poster is in nice condition, and after a pretty simple linenbacking, it will display wonderfully! Learn More about condition grades 
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