The picture shows a view of these Unused 1956 Walt Disney Davy Crockett & Man In Space Ad Mat Molds. The ad mats are not dated but they are from the 1956 movie ''Davy Crockett and The River Pirates''. The largest has the advertising for the Davy Crockett movie and for ''Walt Disney's - Man In Space''. Three of the others have river boat scences and one has an image of a rocket launch. These are molds in which lead is poured to create a thin metal negative image that is then mounted on a wooden block for printing. Advertising is no longer being made or printed like this. The ad mat is like a miniature 3-D poster and would look nice framed, or you could still use it and make print blocks from it. The print block would have been used to print on movie pages in newspapers, in magazines, or in the movie theater programs. It is made of a thick compressed paper board. This admat has images of Davy Crockett and other men from the movie and a comic character astronaut for the extra film. It is marked as follows: EXCITING NEW ADVENTURE... IN THE LIVING LEGENDS OF A TURBULANT RIVER ERA. WALT DISNEY'S DAVY ROCKET AND THE RIVER PIRATES FESS PARKER - BUDDY EBSEN - JEFF YORK WIDE SCREEN... ...TECHNICOLOR A FULL LENGTH FEATURE ADAPTED FROM THE ORIGINAL ''DISNEYLAND'' TELEVISION PRODUCTION BUENA VISTA FILM DISTRIBUTION CO. © WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS PLUS... THE ROLLICKING ADVENTURES OF WALT DISNEY'S MAN IN SPACE TECHNICOLOR THEATRE 150 LINES - 2 COL. x 75 = (10-1/2 INCHES) The ad mat measures about 6-1/2'' x 9-3/4''. It is in excellent unused condition with a water mark on one corner and an uneven cut edge on the right as pictured. Below here, for reference, is a cast list from the feature movie: Cast Fess Parker - Davy Crockett Buddy Ebsen - George Russel Jeff York - Mike Fink Kenneth Tobey - Jocko Clem Bevans - Cap'n Cobb Irvin Ashkenazy - Moose Mort Mills - Sam Mason Paul Newlan - Big Harpe Frank Richards - Little Harpe Troy Melton - (archive footage) Hank Worden - Fiddler Dick Crockett - (archive footage) Walter Catlett - Col. Plug William Bakewell - (archive footage) Douglass Dumbrille - Saloon owner William Fawcett - Old Timer with Livestock George J. Lewis - Black Eagle Mike Mazurki - (archive footage) Walt Disney’s 1955 “Man In Space” Cast Dick Tufeld - Narrator (voice) Walt Disney - Self - Host (uncredited) Heinz Haber - Self (uncredited) Ward Kimball - Self (uncredited) Willy Ley - Self (uncredited) Wernher von Braun - Self (uncredited) |