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Auction History Result

3y118 OUR NATIONAL VAUDEVILLE 3sh '16 cartoon art of Uncle Sam w/tiny national defense gun, rare!

Date Sold 1/17/2017
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More)

Our National Vaudeville, the 1916 Harry Palmer silent animation animated cartoon political comedy short ("An original animated cartoon by Harry Palmer and picturesque views of Tampa, Florida"; "Mutual Traveler No. 25"; this entry deals with national politics, and includes animated appearances by Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, and Teddy Roosevelt, and it talks about the battle between the "trusts" and the common man, and the poster we have seen from it, which is amazingly, a three-sheet, has a great cartoon of Uncle Sam holding a small pop gun labeled "National Defence" in his hands with the caption "It won't do"). Note that Harry Palmer was a major figure in early animation and in early newspaper cartoon art, but he is almost completely forgotten today. Exact information about him is somewhat sketchy, but he was born somewhere around the 1870s, and in 1905, he sold some newspaper cartoons, and in 1910, he did some newspaper cartoon strips. In 1914, he got into movies, creating cartoon shorts for Mutual, and he did around 75 of them between 1914 and 1917. In 1917, he announced he was going to start his own company, but we don't know what became of that, or what he did for the remaining years of his life until he passed away in 1955. If anyone knows more about this poster or Harry Palmer, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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Important Added Info: Note that virtually no cartoon movie posters survive from silent cartoons, surely because few theaters would have had incentive to order them. Not only is this poster from a 1916 cartoon, which is extremely early, but it is also a three-sheet, which is even more unusual! The poster was placed on to a very thin linen backing shortly after being printed. The purpose was to reinforce the poster, so that it would survive, when it was passed from theater to theater, and when it was put up on walls and taken down. Such posters can be professionally removed from the original linen and placed on to a proper linen backing. I have done this to several such posters, and they end up looking wonderful!

Condition: good to very good.
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