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Auction History Result m195 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE three-sheet movie poster '51 George Pal classic! Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) When Worlds Collide, the classic 1951 Rudolph Mate science fiction (sci-fi) doomsday fantasy thriller ("Spectacle never before filmed!"; "Most amazing story that science or fiction ever imagined!"; "Planets Destroy Earth!"; "Giant planet collides with earth!"; "Enormous earthquakes swallow whole continents!"; "Tidal waves flood entire countries!"; "Space ship leaves earth!"; "Based on the famous novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie"; produced by George Pal, who did the excellent special effects; a highly literate screenplay by Sydney Boehm; this is the sort of movie that proved that science fiction movies did not have to be silly to be critically acclaimed or popular with the public; it is a pity more movies did not follow this wonderful movie's formula!) starring Barbara Rush, Richard Derr, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Frank Cady, and Stephen Chase 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 the collector who owned this three-sheet (and five others that we are selling as separate items this week on eBay) taped or glued the two sections of the poster together, and put tape on several of the seams (for reinforcement) and then rolled the poster and stored it in a tube. He would take one of the posters and display it on his wall, and then occasionally take that one down, replace it in the tube, and display a different one (this method of displaying the posters was certainly inexpensive, and saved him the cost of a frame!). The downside to this is that the posters can no longer be folded, and in some cases the tape (or glue) has bled through to the front to some degree. For each of these six posters, we have described the amount of tape (or glue) on the reverse, and the effect it has had on the front. In all six cases, it would be an easy matter for any talented restorer to remove the tape (and/or glue) from the back and mount the poster on linen. After proper linenbacking and restoration of any defects, the poster would look wonderful! But please do not bid on this poster (or the other five similar three-sheets) unless you have read the above and understand it. Of course, we will need to send this poster in a tube, as it cannot be folded. Condition: good. The poster has a huge amount of clear tape on the back (it is on the back of almost all of the folds and there are also many small pieces around the edges of the back of the poster. There is one long, thin piece of clear tape across the front of the poster, where the two pieces were intended to be joined (across the middle of the letters of "COLLIDE"). Some of the tape from the back has bled through to the front somewhat, but much of it has not (most of the bleed through is around the edges of the poster in blank borders). There WAS a great deal of bleed through in the white letters of the title, and an amateur restorer painted over ALL of the white letters. It is somewhat noticeable, only because the rest of the poster has aged somewhat, and the bright white of the letters stands out more for this reason. Obviously, this poster has a number of significant, and unusual defects. Please do not bid on this poster unless you have read the above carefully, and can either live with the poster as it is (I think it would display pretty well just as it is), or are willing to pay to have it professionally restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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