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Der Golem und die Tänzerin
The clay man returns, this time as a joke he does not get to be in on.
What
A German placard for the 1917 sequel to the lost 1915 Golem film, designed by Paul Scheurich, a graphic artist better remembered now for porcelain figures than for film advertising.
Why
This is the middle film of the Golem cycle and the one nobody keeps — a self-aware comedy in which the figure appears as a costume. Its survival is almost entirely in paper like this. The poster is the film.
Notice
Scheurich draws with a decorative, almost eighteenth-century line, which sits oddly and wonderfully against the monster it is selling.
“A lost film, held upright by its own advertising.”
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
- Der Golem und die Tänzerin (1917)
- Country / studio
- Germany · Deutsche Bioscop
- Designer
- Paul Scheurich
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1917
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.5×) of the surviving archival scan (original 447×668px). 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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The Double Bill
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