Auction Date:2012 Jan 26 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Very rare 1965 Beatles HELP! in-store promotional motorized motion display with its original shipping box. The working display measures 17.25 x 17.25 x 17.25. In fine condition, with a bit of light rubbing to top and sides, some small edge tears and toning to the LP slicks affixed to the front and back sides. The original shipping box is in very good condition.
The Beatles’ second full-length feature motion picture Help! premiered in the USA on August 11, 1965. The soundtrack album, released two days after the film’s premiere, quickly went to #1 on the Billboard Album chart, a position it held for nine weeks on the way to eventually selling three million copies. Capitol Records definitely went the extra mile in its promotion of ‘Help!’ by distributing a motion display complete with a rudimentary electric motor to select record outlets. Patterned after a Jack-in-the-box, the motor activates the lid, revealing four Beatles’ hands reaching out and then retracting. Attached to each hand is a wrist band with a different letter spelling out H-E-L-P. The sacrificial ring central to the film’s plot is attached to Ringo’s hand. The front of the display has an original Capitol Records Help! album cover slick attached, while the back side has the back cover slick attached. In the fully-opened position, the display is 32” tall.
The display, in superb working condition, comes with the original Capitol Records shipping box. A reproduction of the instruction sheet is included as well. The fragility of this promotional display, as is the case with other similar, oversized and multi-part displays of the era, were usually discarded by record outlets because of their size. The few that survived were usually the result of being ‘rescued’ by fans. Finding them today, intact and in working condition is quite uncommon. This is the finest of the few surviving examples we’ve seen!
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