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Auction History Result 2m139 MEMORIES THAT HAUNT 55x78 special poster 1914 art of author surviving Titanic-like sinking! Date Sold 12/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Special Movie Poster (measures 55" x 78" [140 x 198 cm]) (Learn More) Memories That Haunt, the 1914 Harry Lambart silent romantic shipwreck melodrama short (a great story and very involved for a very early short film; an author neglects his wife, and she leaves him, and he is so distraught that he leaves the country on a ship; but the ship sinks and hundreds are killed, but he miraculously survives, although he is reported dead; he washes ashore and is taken in by a lighthouse keeper and his wife and grandchild, and that family shows him how much he was missing; he writes a book about how haunted he was by his regrets, and it is published anonymously, and people remark that it is much like the work the author did years earlier, and his "widow" reads it, and goes to see who wrote so much like her dead husband, and finds her husband very much alive, and they reconcile) starring Earle Williams, Rose Tapley, George Stevens, Mary Maurice, and Helene Costello. Note that a key plot point in the movie is a shipwreck that drowns hundreds, and it seems incredibly likely that the author of the screenplay drew inspiration from the tragic sinking of the Titanic, which had occurred just two years before (and the only surviving poster we know of has wonderful art of the ship sinking!). 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 this poster has the title at the top printed in German, Italian, and French, so it was clearly an "export" poster designed to be used in all three of those countries. The poster may well have been printed in the U.S. and then sent to those countries, or it certainly could also have been printed in one of those countries and then distributed to the others. Condition: good. The poster has many pinholes, tears, and some small paper loss around the edges, and some along the folds. It has some staining on the back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded, and a few stains scattered in the image. Still, it is remarkable that this poster has survived at all after more than a century! But the poster is mostly "all there", and after linenbacking by a talented professional, the poster will look fantastic. But please bear in mind its defects and the cost of restoration before placing a bid on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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