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One-sheets for post-1960 shorts were sometimes issued, but a half-sheet is very unusual. It implies that there was a full range of paper put out on the title, but no one has ever found a six-sheet for The Critic, a brilliant 1963 film that runs but a few minutes. It features the voice of Mel Brooks as an old man who wanders into a theater showing an experimental short. While animator Ernie Pintoff visually skewers the entire 1960s genre of abstract films, Brooks supplies a hysterical running commentary. No doubt pintott, who came to cartoons via graphic design, created this poster.

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For a few brief shining moments it looked as though the much- missed tradition of a cartoon short preceding a feature was to return. Dick Tracy (1990) had a brilliant short, Rollercoaster Rabbit, accompanying it into theaters, and Honey I Shrunk The Kids, from the next year was teamed with TummyTrouble, which, like the earlier short, had its own one-sheet. 







But it was not to be. No doubt Disney could have turned out an endless number of mini-movies, but they would have had to compromise on quality since the cost of the first two was stratospheric. Posters for both shorts sell in the same range, and they would make an interesting pair to collect.

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  If The Little Mermaid revived Disney's dominance of feature animation110, its 1994 film The Lion King turned it into a dictatorship.The phenomenal success of this movie has spawned best-selling books, a highly rated TV series, platinum records, and a Broadway show that is eternally sold out-








Movieposter s have been gscalating in price, and it is indicative of the specialized nature of collecting animated paper that they have gone higher especially in light of the restrictions Disney places on their use.Technically, original movie posters should be returned to the distributor or destroyed, and Disney can be quite strict with theaters about this.

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Ralph Bakshi is a talented animator who, over the years, has created a solid body of work that is full of new techniques and innovations, especially concerning the blending of animation and live action; Cool World, whose 1992 one-sheet is illustrated here, is such a film. 




But he is also an example of Disney as the animation-collecting widow-maker Not even the poster for this director's controversial Coonskin (1975) can reach the $ 100 mark, and the only reason the advertising art on Wizards (1977) sells for close to that is because the rock band The Grateful Dead objected to the use of their logo and asked for it to be withdrawn.

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This French grande is from the original 1955 release of Lady and the Tramp, but the imagery is quite different from the U.S. release. 

In later releases this popular spaghetti-eating scene has invariably been used, usually with the two dogs accidentally kissing as they share a strand of pasta. 

Disney would often reach out and grab back ideas that had been generated during the creation of foreign campaigns.

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This was Disney's first feature in CinemaScope and, while perennially popular the posters, except for three- and six-sheets, have trouble struggling above the  mark. Often re-issues fetch higher prices than initial versions, the more finely honed illustrations capturing the film's endearing qualities.

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