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Lot # 259: 1950's-60's Benton Movie Window Card Collection (50)

Category: Hollywood

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "December 2003",
which ran from 11/5/2003 12:00 AM to
12/4/2003 9:00 PM



Stock of 39 window cards (14x22”) and 12 double window cards (22x28”) from the Benton Card Company of Benson, North Carolina. Benton printed window cards for movie production companies, in advance of the release, distributing the cards to movie theatres throughout the country. There are multiples, mostly two up to seven of the better titles. The majority of the smaller size cards are sci-fi & horror, some for one movie and others for double-feature “Drive In” movies. Titles (Singles): Boris Karloff in “The Terror”, “Children of the Damned”, “The Brain from Planet Arous”, “Angry Red Planet”, “Atragon”, “Dr. No” (James Bond), “The Man with the X-Ray Eyes”, & “Flesh Eaters.” Double Features: “I was a Teenage Werewolf” & “Invasion of the Saucer Men”, “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die” & “Invasion of the Star Creatures”. There are many titles as good as these just to many to mention. Also, “Adults Only” - early soft-core porn titles in silkscreen before movies were rated. Of the larger size (22x28”), “Lost Women”, a double feature including “The Dangerous Years” with Marilyn Monroe, and other exploitation films of the 1950s. Condition is overall EX-MT.

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