This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $195 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
The Elephant Man, the 1980 David Lynch (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award) English/U.S. historical biographical medical melodrama ("'I am not an animal! I am a human being! I... am... a man!'"; "A true story of courage and human dignity."; "An incredible but true story... probably this year's best film."; "Based upon the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, and not upon the Broadway play or any other fictional account."; produced by Mel Brooks).
Starring Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role "as the Elephant Man"), Anne Bancroft, Sir John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, and Freddie Jones
Please note folded as original, may have slight tears in folds, small losses in borders etc. See photo.