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Auction History Result m030 SPOOKS ON THE LOOSE Spook Show jumbo window card movie poster '50s cool! Date Sold 11/1/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Jumbo Spook Show Window Card Movie Poster (measures 27" x 28") (Learn More) Spooks On the Loose, the circa 1950s Spook Show ("The Great Toussaint and Company in 'Bedlam of Terrors'"; "On our stage"; "Guaranteed to scare the daylights out of you... Make up a spook party"; "Come see it! We dare you..."; "The Thing from Out of This World"; "First time on any stage"; "Can you stand 1001 mystery chills?"; "All in person!"; "Dr. Neff's the greatest thrill show of all time!"; "Sandra the beautiful girl burned alive! Before your very eyes"; "Exotic! Exciting! Vampire Bat Girl"; "Also horror chiller-diller on screen"). This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this window card is one of an amazing group of eight "Spook Show" window cards we are offering this week on eBay (in eight separate eBay auctions). What are "Spook Shows"? These were special shows at movie theaters (sometimes run at Halloween, sometimes on Saturday nights, and sometimes at other times), but almost always these started late at night, after the regular movie theater's program ended, and often ran into the wee hours of the morning! These "Spook Shows" would often combine two, three, or more horror movies (sometimes classics), and would also almost always have live stage acts that promised (on the advertising) outrageous things that could not possibly happen ("See a person decapitated on stage")! Most of these "Spook Shows" seem to date from the 1940s to the 1960s. It seems that few regular posters or lobby cards were ever made for them, but they would almost always create a window card for a specific theater, and then plaster them all around the town the show was about to play in. It seems that the vast majority of these "Spook Show" window cards were thrown away after use, for few survive, and you rarely see more than one from the exact same show. This week we offer eight different examples of these, and each has wonderful graphics and taglines! Condition: very good. There is paper loss in the bottom right corner, that just slightly affects the bottom of the writing. There is a water stain in the top left corner and a few creases, "bumps", and tiny stains around the edges of the card. There are a few faint brown water stains in the lower right of the image. Other than the above, the card is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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