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Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland
The earliest sheet in this group, from the year the feature film was still being invented.
What
Ernst Deutsch-Dryden's 1912 poster for Urban Gad's Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland, reproduced from the standard illustrated catalogue of the period's cinema.
Why
In 1912 the multi-reel feature was barely three years old and the film poster had no settled conventions of its own. Dryden was importing them wholesale from commercial advertising, and this is among the earliest instances of that transfer surviving in reproduction.
Notice
The narrow columnar format, matching the hoarding sizes German printers already used for consumer goods rather than any cinema-specific standard.
“A new medium, still borrowing its clothes.”
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
- Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland (1912), dir. Urban Gad
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Ernst Deutsch-Dryden
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film poster, 1912
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.2×) of the surviving archival scan (original 350×765px). 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. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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