eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6m091 MELODY MASTER BANDS linen 1sh '40 Vitaphone short, artwork of sexy baton twirler! Date Sold 4/12/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) A New Melody Master Bands, the 1940 Vitaphone musical short subject series. Apparently, this series began in 1932, and Vitaphone made a stock one-sheet that year. They apparently made a completely different stock one-sheet every other year until at least 1948! The ones we have seen are from 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1948 (so we know the series ran for at least those years!). If anyone knows more about this series, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that this is a "stock" poster created by Vitaphone for use for all entries of their "Melody Master Bands" series. Theaters would order this poster, which had a blank area at the bottom. They would be sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, and they could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had glue stains in the rectangular box at right where there was once a snipe attached. It had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and separation and darkening along the foldlines, with a 5" vertical tear near the bottom center. It had many pinholes, tears, and stains around the edges, with some small paper loss. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Someone backed it to a thin linen with no excess, and they performed slight paint touch up to the above defects, but over the years, the paint has aged differently than the poster so that it is now quite noticeable. There are also some small areas of paper loss around the edges. Certainly, it would make sense to remove the poster from the thin backing and have it properly linenbacked and restored. Learn More about condition grades
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