eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8z073 KLONDIKE STEAL OR THE STOLEN CLAIM 52x79 special poster 1911 Bedos art of men fighting, rare! Date Sold 9/12/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Special Movie Poster (measures 51 1/2" x 78 3/4" [131 x 200 cm]) (Learn More) A Klondike Steal; or, The Stolen Claim, the 1911 Gaston Melies silent Alaska gold mine adventure romantic melodrama (about three daughters who inherit a goldmine from their father, but the guides they hire steal the map to the mine, but luckily, the sisters meet three young men who help them regain the map and their inheritance) starring Julia Swayne Gordon, and Bertha Krieghoff. Note that Gaston Melies is the brother of celebrated French director Georges Melies. He was sent by his brother to New York City in 1902 to open an American branch of Melies' film studio, called Star Films, because many people were pirating the Melies films. Gaston distributed his brother's films, but he also began making some documentaries on his own, but they were not successful. He hated the New York weather and moved the studio to Texas in 1907, and then moved it to California in 1910. He was not a good businessman, and in 1912 he went to the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, Tahiti, Southeast Asia and Japan, directing filming on those locations, and sending the footage back to his son in Hollywood, but most of the film he sent was unusable! In 1914, Gaston sold his studio to Vitagraph Studios and moved to Italy, and he and his brother blamed each other for their failures, and they never talked again. In 1915, Gaston died, of "shellfish poisoning", and was buried in France! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Harry Bedos Important Added Info: Note that movie paper of any kind from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this poster! Note that in the very early days of cinema, it was very easy for movies to be shown in countries other than the one in which they were made. All were silent, and most had little dialog, and what there was transmitted through "inter-titles", which were inserted at the appropriate times. All that had to be done to show a movie in another language was to change the opening credits and the inter-titles! When movies were first exported to other countries, the distributors would simply print additional examples of their poster, but leaving off the title area, and then they would overprint it with the title in the specific language of the country required (as the years went by, and there was more and more of a "foreign" market, those other countries would print their own posters, often with different artwork). In the case of this specific poster, it has been printed with the title in three languages (Italian, French, and German) in the top area instead of the U.S. title, so it could be used in all three countries. Condition: good to very good. The poster has tears and tiny paper loss on parts of the folds and borders. It has some darkening and faint stains on the part of the poster that was on the outside when the poster was fully folded. The poster has likely survived in about as good condition as one could hope, given the poster's size and age. Learn More about condition grades
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