Original Greenport Sky-Way Poster Moby Dick 1956

$355.00

Offered here is the original 1956 Greenport Sky-Way Drive-In Theatre poster. Vintage window cards are composed in wood type then hand printed in small numbers on heavy card stock. Very few originals remain as they were considered disposable.

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Offered here is the original 1956 Greenport Sky-Way Drive-In Theatre poster. Vintage window cards are composed in wood type then hand printed in small numbers on heavy card stock. Very few originals remain as they were considered disposable. They are the standard size, 14 × 22 inches, to fit displays that were installed in the theatre, in nearby restaurants, and on exterior walls around town. They were manually replaced whenever the movie changed.

17½ × 25¼ in a custom white wood frame, ready to hang.

The Oklahoma Kid is a 1939 western film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The film was directed for Warner Bros. by Lloyd Bacon.

Moby Dick is a 1956 film adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Huston and Ray Bradbury. The film starred Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, and Leo Genn.

Greenport is on Long Island, New York locally known as the North Fork.