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Nice Charlie! I love this movie and lobby card 

Here's a quickie post to help answer the question (that no one is asking) about what to do with partial 3 sheet posters. It's a happy ending to two otherwise fairly derelict items. YEARS ago I bought a really large frame (the opening is 52x40 inches) at a thrift store for 15 bucks. I thought I got a steal, as it would be super expensive to have something framed that size. I thought that, until I figured out that there aren't really any posters that fit well in a frame that size. With the proper matting I suppose, any poster could probably go in a frame that big, but none of the art supply stores anywhere around here sell matting that big.



So, the frame sat (and sat and sat). Enter an ebay auction a couple weeks ago for a partial 3 sheet (top section) of Tarzan and the She-Devil. It's in arguably pretty poor condition, but it too I scored for 15 bucks (plus shipping, of course).



When I got the poster, I measured it to see what the size actually was. The measurements sounded dangerously close to the forsaken frame, so I looked up the measurements I had written down for it. It was close enough to make it work. Since the matting was large enough that I didn't have a straight edge long enough to help trim it down with the mat cutting tool, I decided to leave it rather than risk screwing it up. The result crops more from the image than I'd like, but it works out ok. 

So, for plus or minus 30 bucks (and a few yards of document repair tape), I now have a gigantic Tarzan and the She-Devil poster. I have no idea what to do with it or where to put it, but for now we'll just consider it a poster success story. 

(Suburban Mayhem 1 sheet peeking through there for scale)



Thanks for having a look.