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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
DESIGNER UNKNOWN GONE WITH THE WIND. Half -Sheet. 1940. 22x28 inches, 56x71 cm. Condition B+ / B: repaired tears at edges, some affecting image; creases and abrasions along vertical and horizontal folds and in margins and image; darkened edges. Printed on thick paper. Mounted on Japan. After an initial, limited release of Gone With the Wind in late 1939, producer David Selznick put it into a much wider release in 1940. The poster emphasized "nothing cut," to assure movie goers that they would be seeing the same lengthy feature that had been originally screened. This scarce variant reads "Nothing Cut! Full Length ! . . ." whereas subsequent printings read "Nothing Cut But the Price! . . ." It should be noted that for the scenes showing the burning of Atlanta, so vividly illustrated here, the studio actually burned sets that had been used in King Kong.
