#1 GREATEST THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL MOVIE POSTER! ONLY KNOWN ORIGINAL!! MOST IMPORTANT!!! ECONOMY PROOF!! Start Price USD 400,000.00 Current Price USD 400,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 29, 2008 End Time Monday, December 29, 2008 Location Studio City, Calif. See more about '#1 GREATEST THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL MOVIE POSTER!' Description Mrs.Miniver NOW HAS AN eBay STORE!! JUST click here * * * * * UP FOR SALE is undeniably one of the greatest movie posters ever made in the history of cinema! It is unique and the only original known to exist AND the only original that is LIKELY to exist! That is because 24-sheet billboard posters are practically non-existent on ANY 1950's films. 1951 - THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - 24-sheet - The 1950s were not all "Happy Days." The war was over but the aftershock was still very present. Post-WWII paranoia spawned from the fear of the new atomic age. This prompted a wave of science fiction cinema, exploiting the nightmare proposition of annihilation and radiological mutation.The Day the Earth Stood Still, granddaddy of the 1950s films. Truly one of the few films to have changed cinema. Still very relevant today. This poster has all the elements - the robot, the girl, the government, and pandemonium as alien forces grip the world. Robert Wise's best film. This 24-sheet poster was printed sharper than the smaller 1-sheet counterparts. A different printing presses of higher quality was used. This Day The Earth Stood Still 24-sheet is a great example of superior resolution. This 24-sheet is razor crisp!  In fact, upon close-up inspection, the images (down to the tiniest detail) are dramatically clearer and sharper than on the 1-sheet. Truly amazing! When the studios designed their poster campaigns the 24-sheets were typically created first. The result being that the 24-sheet would most often have best and the strongest images. This poster is all of that. A more fantastic poster does not exist! Another copy of this poster is not known to exist! 24-sheets are the rarest poster size. Very few 24-sheets survived on any films, only several hundred printed and most were destroyed, pasted on billboards, displayed on dead walls, and used on the sides of trucks. It is remarkable this poster survived. Approximately 9-feet by 20-feet, and in M/Near mint condition, linenbacked in one piece - ready for display. Arguably THE GREATEST, but certainly no argument on being one of the GREATEST movie posters in existence! "Klaatu barada nikto." An entire business can be created around this poster. It would certainly make an overwhelming public display. The magnitude and importance of this artifacts warrant presentation at the Smithsonian Institute or The Museum of Modern Art. This is one the rarest and finest of all movie posters and another "like" entity does not exist. This poster not for everyone - It is for people who only want the best! Buying this poster is ECONOMY PROOF! Why waste your money in the stock market? It can crash regardless of any decision you make and can even crash regardless of any decision made by the company related to the stock - Leaving you with a near worthless piece of paper that won't inspire anyone! With the purchase of an historic document such as this 24-sheet, it doesn't matter what happens to the economy, you will still have the inspirational document which can be displayed and enjoyed. The magnificence of art and historic documents have an inherent value that relates to civilization and society. Unless civilization itself crashes then this piece will hold its value and if civilization itself crashes - Who will care about money? This poster is definitely ECONOMY PROOF!   I have several other 24-sheet Billboards up on eBay right now, including  Forbidden Planet, The War of the Words, The Thing, When Worlds Collide and MORE!!  Please write with any questions. If you're in the market for top quality vintage movie posters or Star Wars, then please click here  Robert Wise ...  Director    Edmund H. North ...  screenplay  Harry Bates ...  story Michael Rennie ...  Klaatu  Patricia Neal ...  Helen Benson  Hugh Marlowe ...  Tom Stevens  Sam Jaffe ...  Prof. Jacob Barnhardt  Billy Gray ...  Bobby Benson  Frances Bavier ...  Mrs. Barley  Lock Martin ...  Gort  Holly Bane ...  Army Captain (uncredited)  Marshall Bradford ...  Chief of Staff (uncredited)  John Brown ...  George Barley (uncredited)  John Burton ...  British radio MC (uncredited)  Wheaton Chambers ...  Mr. Bleeker (uncredited)  John Close ...  Captain (uncredited)  Frank Conroy ...  Mr. Harley (uncredited)  Eric Corrie ...  British Soldier (uncredited)  John Costello ...  Cockney (uncredited)  Marjorie Crossland ...  Hilda (uncredited)  Jack Daly ...  Bit Man (uncredited)  Lawrence Dobkin ...  Army physician (uncredited)  Jim Doyle ...  A doctor (uncredited)  Charles Evans ...  Major general (uncredited)  Edith Evanson ...  Mrs. Crockett (uncredited)  Franklyn Farnum ...  Extra in Office Building Corridor (uncredited)  Michael Ferris ...  British Soldier (uncredited)  Elizabeth Flournoy ...  Emma, Jewelry clerk (uncredited)  Grady Galloway ...  American Radar Operator (uncredited)  Bill Gentry ...  Sentry (uncredited)  Glenn Hardy ...  Interviewer (uncredited)  Sam Harris ...  Scientific Delegate (uncredited)  Harry Harvey ...  Taxi driver (uncredited)  Gabriel Heatter ...  Himself (uncredited)  Gil Herman ...  Government agent (uncredited)  John Hiestand ...  TV Announcer on Truck (uncredited)  H.V. Kaltenborn ...  Himself (uncredited)  Hassan Khayyam ...  Indian Radio Announcer (uncredited)  Harry Lauter ...  Platoon leader (uncredited)  Freeman Lusk ...  Gen. Cutler (uncredited)  George Lynn ...  Col. Ryder (uncredited)  Herbert Lytton ...  Brigadier General (uncredited)  Michael Mahoney ...  Sentry (uncredited)  David McMahon ...  Air Force sergeant (uncredited)  Tyler McVey ...  Brady (uncredited)  Harold Miller ...  Military Officer at Pentagon Meeting (uncredited)  Howard Negley ...  Colonel (uncredited)  Dorothy Neumann ...  Margaret (uncredited)  Sammy Ogg ...  Sam (uncredited)  Robert Osterloh ...  Major White (uncredited)  Gayle Pace ...  Captain (uncredited)  Drew Pearson ...  Himself (uncredited)  Ted Pearson ...  Colonel (uncredited)  House Peters Jr. ...  MP captain (uncredited)  'Snub' Pollard ...  Cab Driver (uncredited)  John M. Reed ...  Tank Driver (uncredited)  Fay Roope ...  Major general (uncredited)  Olan Soule ...  Mr. Krull (uncredited)  Kim Spalding ...  Army orderly (uncredited)  Harmon Stevens ...  Bit Man (uncredited)  Charles Tannen ...  Voice of Radio Announcer (uncredited)  Harlan Warde ...  Carson (uncredited)  Rush Williams ...  MP sergeant (uncredited)  Carleton Young ...  Colonel in Jeep (uncredited) Place a Bid!