lenticular standee counter display ICE STATION ZEBRA 1968 Original USA CINERAMA

Description: Original Vintage Theatrical Lenticular Movie Standee in VERY GOOD condition, 10.25 x 13.5 inches. This lobby card size, counter top 3-D lenticular standee display is one of the very best lenticulars ever created, giving a truly "real life looking" 3-D image. Also note that this lenticular is for the Cinerama release of the movie, and this was a counter top standee. The easel backing on the back of the poster was barely used, and is entirely intact with light foxing. Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen. Invented by the New York City photographer Fred Waller, the first Cinerama movie, "This Is Cinerama", was presented in New York City in 1952. It was soon presented in theatres across the country that leased the necessary equipment from the privately owned Cinerama, Inc. Rising costs of making three-camera widescreen films caused Cinerama to stop making such films in their original form. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you. 1968. Directed by JOHN STURGES, novel by ALISTAIR MacLEAN. TAGLINES : "It's a race for the secret ... or TOTAL DESTRUCTION" "Ice Station Zebra"... Remember The Name -- Your Life May Depend On It!" "An American nuclear sub.. a sky full of Russian paratroopers--and a race for the secret of Ice Station Zebra!" - USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station. Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed. Nominated for TWO Academy Award OSCARs including Best Cinematography, Best Visual f/X. CAST includes Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin,, Gerald S O'Loughlin, Ted Hartley, Ron Masak, Murray Rose, Buddy Joe Hooker, Lloyd Haynes. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : In the era before VCRs, Howard Hughes would call the Las Vegas TV station he owned and demand they run this particular movie. Hughes so loved this film that it aired on his Las Vegas station over 100 times during his lifetime. In one scene Patrick McGoohan was supposed to dive into the flooded torpedo room of the nuclear sub to rescue a trapped naval officer. Being a strong swimmer, he insisted on doing the scene himself rather than use a stuntman. A change was made to the script so allowing Olympic swimming champion Murray Rose, who'd been cast in another role, to do the scene with him in case anything happened. It was only after the scene was completed that Rose revealed that whilst he and McGoohan were standing up to their necks in the rising water just before the cameras rolled, Pat had whispered to him "Now I've done it, my foot's stuck". Rose dived down and freed his foot which had become wedged tight in the torpedo rack. The movie's plot has similarities with the real life 1962 CIA Project COLDFEET aka Operation Coldfeet. Conducted in May and June of that year, the assignment purpose was to gather intelligence from an abandoned Soviet arctic research ice station. Two agents parachuted from a B-17 Flying Fortress and searched the facility and were collected three days later via the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system. In a curious premonition, several plot lines of Ice Station Zebra played out in reality a decade later in the far north of Canada. On 24 January 1978, COSMOS 954, a Soviet nuclear-powered surveillance satellite, crashed in the Northwest Territories. The crash scattered an enormous amount of radioactivity over a 124,000 square kilometer area in Canada's north. According to the Canadian government "the clean-up operation was a coordinated event between the United States and Canada. Dubbed "Operation Morning Light", the clean-up effort continued into October 1978 and resulted...in the estimated recovery of about 0.1 percent of COSMOS 954's power source". In November 1978, the United Nations authorized its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to set up a working group to study nuclear-powered satellites.

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