SIXTY GLORIOUS YEARS

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1938 Herbert Wilcox Historical Drama SIXTY GLORIOUS YEARS starring Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria, Anton Walbrook as Prince Albert, C. Aubrey Smith as the Duke of Wellington, Walter Rilla, Charles Carson as Sir Robert Peel, Felix Aylmer as Lord Palmerston, Lewis Casson as Lord John Russell, Pamela Standish as the Princess Royal, Gordon McLeod as John Brown, Henry Hallett as Joseph Chamberlain, Wyndham Goldie as Arthur J. Balfour, Malcolm Keen as William E. Gladstone, Frederick Leister as Herbert H. Asquith, Derrick De Marney as Benjamin Disraeli, Joyce Bland as Florence Nightingale, Frank Cellier as Lord Derby, Harvey Braban as Lord Salisbury, Aubrey Dexter as Prince of Wales and Laidman Browne as General Gordon.

A colourful historical pageant presenting significant public and private events during the 60-year reign of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1901, with particular emphasis on her marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

The advert art is by George Cattermole.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold and staple holes.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners.
The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.