Appraisal: 1933 Duck Soup Movie Poster
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Appraisal: 1933 Duck Soup Movie Poster
Watch Rudy Franchi's appraisal of a 1933 Duck Soup Movie Poster in Vintage First Finds, Hour 5!
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Appraisal: 1933 Duck Soup Movie Poster
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAPPRAISER: Most movie posters are folded.
GUEST: That's what I understand.
APPRAISER: Pre-pre-1988, almost every movie poster was sent to movie theaters folded, because they traveled with the film from theater to theater in between the film cans, and they would fold them.
One of the exceptions to that was a size called 30 by 40.
There's 30 by 40 and a bigger one called 40 by 60.
These were printed on light cardboard and rolled-- they were silk screened, and they were meant to be put on an easel outside the movie theater.
I mean, outside in the weather.
So very few survived, unless they were never used at all.
Where did you find this piece?
GUEST: At a house sale, like, you know, just... amongst a, lots of things, you know... APPRAISER: Now, when you framed it... Is-- was anything covered up that you remember?
GUEST: Maybe a number, like a Roman numeral or something at the bottom.
APPRAISER: Yeah.
There-there would most likely have been a series of numbers down here that's called the National Screen number.
GUEST: That's possible, that's possible.
APPRAISER: It would've been the year... which is 1933, and then a slash and three numbers.
National Screen, which distributed these posters to all the movie theaters in the United States, used to assign a, a number to every film as it came out during the course of the year.
So the first film was 001, and it went up from there.
So this is a 30-by-40 silkscreen of Duck Soup, original from 1933.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: How much did you pay for this thing?
GUEST: Very little.
(laughing) I'll tell you-- APPRAISER: How much is very little?
GUEST: To tell you the truth, I really don't remember.
APPRAISER: How much did you pay to frame it?
GUEST: Uh, that was pretty expensive.
APPRAISER: Yeah?
GUEST: That was about $350.
APPRAISER: $350.
This poster, in an auction would sell conservatively at $15,000.
GUEST: Okay.
(laughs) APPRAISER: Really glad you brought it in, it's a masterpiece.
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