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Auction History Result 3d0259 TIME MACHINE linen Aust 1sh 1960 H.G. Wells, George Pal, great sci-fi artwork, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/30/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, the classic 1960 George Pal science fiction (sci-fi) time-travel romantic adventure thriller ("You will Orbit into the fantastic future!"; "in futuristic Metrocolor"; "It smashes the time barrier... And You take the greatest adventure of your life!"; "Based on the novel by H.G. Wells") starring Rod Taylor (as H.G. Wells), Alan Young (as David Filby, and also his son James Filby), Yvette Mimieux (very young, in her second big screen role as Weena), Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, and Paul Frees (as the voice of the Talking Rings). Note that anyone not familiar with the H.G. Wells novel might think that this movie adapted most of its ideas into the screenplay. But actually, the source novel is an incredibly bleak story about a dystopian future, with no romance of any kind. Screenwriter David Duncan, who had written a few 1950s B-science fiction screenplays before this, did a brilliant job completely changing H.G. Wells' ideas into an entirely different story! His screenplay was merely "inspired by" Wells' story, and he deserves far more credit for the success of this movie than he often receives! 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this Australian one-sheet, and that was 19 years ago! Also note that this Australian one-sheet measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster has a real oddity. The rating circle at lower right was either overprinted or printed with red over much of the rating words. We don't know why this would have been done, except that we auctioned a different example of this poster that had the same oddity, and searching the Internet, we found an example that did not have this oddity. It is definitely in the printing (or overprinting) and not a defect. Otherwise, the poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some in paper loss on parts of the folds, and other than the above oddity, it was well backed and is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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