Tweety & Sylvester
27" Wide Original Theater Poster from Italy
(Rome, Italy - 1960's)
The stamps on the posters mean they have been approved and taxes
paid to the Italian Government when issued to movie theaters
I have been asked several times how and where I got these amazing and rare cartoon posters. I received a call way back in 1988 from one of my customers in Italy. He had discovered a closed Theater Exchange in Rome Italy and found some boxes of posters. In the old days, all theater posters were originally sent to a Theater Exchange, which would keep possession and track of all movie reels and all theater display posters (and lobby cards) for the various film companies. The Exchange would rent them to the various theaters (never sold them) along with the movie reel. At the end of the rental term, both movie reel and posters were returned to the Exchange, where they again be rented to the next theater in line, and so on, until the film was out dated. At that point the films were returned to the respective studios and the worn posters were usually destroyed, which is why nearly all animation posters prior to 1970 are quite rare.
Italian animation posters are exceptionally rare and quite colorful compared to the very few USA counterparts. Actually, while Italy loved the Warner Brothers & MGM cartoons, and made some fantastic theater lobby posters, there were no American made posters for these cartoons. So what I am selling are exceptionally rare posters.
Condition is fully original, with storage and handling wear as seen - Please look at the pictures for detail
I will Ship this in a tube
I always combine ship!
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This item is unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic, and from 1960's
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