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Accusée, levez-vous !
A music-hall dancer in the dock, in the first year France could hear her answer.
What
A French affiche of 1930 for Maurice Tourneur's courtroom drama Accusée, levez-vous !, drawn by Roland Coudon.
Why
By 1930 the French industry had converted to sound, and the courtroom picture — all testimony and confession — was among the first genres to exploit it. Coudon was one of the affichistes who carried the drawn French poster across that break into the sound era.
Notice
The design still works like a silent sheet, telling the story through pose and staging rather than announcing that the film talks.
“An old craft, keeping its hand in as the medium changed underneath it.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Accusée, levez-vous ! (1930), dir. Maurice Tourneur
- Country / studio
- France
- Designer
- Roland Coudon
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1930
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.7×) of the surviving archival scan (original 755×1000px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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