1927 Lon Chaney in London After Midnight Poster $478,000.

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Name of Collectible: Lon Chaney in London After Midnight 
This item Sold for $478,000. (Click Image to View Auction).
Seller: heritage
Description by seller: “London After Midnight was reconstructed more than ten years ago using more than 200 still photographs and a continuity script (coinciding with the film’s 75th anniversary) and released to DVD. The film is considered to be one the “holy grails” of lost cinema. Starring Lon Chaney, the “Man of a Thousand Faces,” and directed by Tod Browning, who is most known for directing Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932), the film is based on a script by Browning and depicts Chaney as a vampire (though in makeup only). Now, for the first time in modern history, the stone litho original U.S. release one sheet can be seen! The film was released with two different one sheet posters, this one and the Rotogravure style, done in a sepia tone photographic process, which MGM did frequently during this period in time”.