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Auction History Result 1h0006 JAWS 2 8ft x 12ft standee 1978 massive shark's mouth for theater entrance, incredibly rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Standee (measures 96" x 144" [245 x 366 cm]) (Learn More) Jaws 2, the 1978 Jeannot Szwarc man-eating Great White shark attack horror sequel ("...May be too Intense for younger children"; "All New"; "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."; "Written by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler"; "Based on characters created by Peter Benchley") starring Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox Paxton, and Cindy Grover (as the girl swimmer in the close encounter with the shark). Note that Steven Spielberg, who had directed the original Jaws, did not return to direct this sequel, and he later stated that it was because of the horrendous problems they had in filming the first movie (particularly in making the mechanical shark, Bruce, work), and he was afraid to possibly repeat that experience! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a wonderful "standee" that was printed in 4 sections designed to overlap (it was only the paper poster, plus an instruction sheet, because it would have cost an insane price to ship this fully assembled to theaters). What the theaters got were the four sections of the poster, all rolled together in a tube, with an instruction sheet, which told them to mount the four sections to a 3/8" backing. They then needed to cut out the bottom center area, and then assemble the sections as shown in the diagram, and add "reinforcement joints" and then "attach to easel partitions"! When finished, this would provide the theater with an amazing standee that could be placed at their entrance so that customers would literally enter the mouth of the shark to get in the theater! We don't know how many theaters ordered this standee, or how many actually assembled it, but this is surely an incredibly rare unassembled standee, and it is only the second one we have ever seen or heard of (the first one was consigned to us in 2016, and it sold for $900)! The new owner can either leave it as it is, mount it on linen as it is, or actually turn it into the standee it was meant to be by following the included instruction sheet! In each case, that new owner will have an amazing poster, which will surely be a cornerstone of any "Jaws" collection! Condition: very good. Each of the four pieces were never folded. They were stored rolled for many years and they have some minor creases around the edges and in the bottom of the image, but overall, it has probably survived pretty well (and it likely one of only two examples of this that has survived!; see above). The information sheet that comes with it was sent to the theater that ordered this taped to the outside of the tube, and we removed it from the tube, but it has darkened (although it is still completely readable, which is what is really important, so that you can take its advice about how to assemble this into a standee, if the new owner chooses. Learn More about condition grades 
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