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Auction History Result 3k0074 BLONDE CAPTIVE WC R1930s story of white woman lost amongst oldest living race, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/20/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1930s) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Folded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Blonde Captive, the 1931 Clifton Childs (or Clinton Childs) & Paul Withington Australian/U.S. Aborigine exploitation jungle adventure thriller ("The story of a white woman lost among the oldest living race!"; "Captured by cavemen!"; "An absolutely authentic amazing adventure!"; "The strongest warrior won her for his bride!"; "Harpooning the Dugong"; "The Ceremony of the Breaking of the Teeth"; "The Blonde Captive Waves Farewell to Civilization!"; "Under the Auspices of The National Research Council of Australia"; "Produced by Northern Australia Expedition Syndicate") featuring Clifton Childs (or Clinton Childs), and Paul Withington, with dialogue and narration by Lowell Thomas ("The Voice of the Literary Digest"). Note that there are U.S. posters for this movie that do not have a studio listed, but say "William Pizor presents", and there are also lobby cards, a pressbook, and a glass slide that are identified as being from Columbia Pictures. It appears that after the great success of "Africa Speaks" in 1931, Pizor discovered that in 1928/1929 Paul Withington (an anthropology professor at Harvard) and Clifton Childs (an Australian archeologist) had organized an expedition to the Australian Aboriginal territories. The footage these men had filmed, combined with new (and likely "faked") footage, was used to create a wild exploitation movie called "The Blonde Captive" which was released on December 30th of 1931 (or perhaps February of 1932). A resourceful collector discovered two early 1932 newspaper articles which state that Columbia purchased the distribution rights from William Pizor after it's New York premiere. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that, as noted above, this movie was released by both William Pizor and Columbia Pictures, and it is unclear as to which predates which. This window card is even more bizarre than the other paper that we have seen from this movie, because all of those are either marked as being from Pizor of Columbia, while this window card has no studio at all! So it is very possible it is from a roadshow re-release of the movie, possibly in the 1930s or early 1940s, but that is only a guess (but we are marking it that way to be on the safe side). However, do not bid on this window card unless you can accept that we don't know exactly when it is from. Note that the window card was folded at one time. Because the foldline is not exactly across the center of the card, we don't want to re-fold the window card prior to mailing, because it would not fit in one of our standard mailers, and we believe that re-folding the window card would lessen its condition (we never roll window cards into a tube). If you specifically request it, we will re-fold this window card, but you will not be able to return it. Condition: good. The poster was folded across the middle and near the top and bottom of the image, and it was also lightly partially folded vertically, 3" from the left border. There are creases along all those folds (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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