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Der Tunnel
A tunnel is driven beneath the Atlantic, and the century's appetite for enormous machines is fed.
What
A German placard of 1915 for Der Tunnel, designed by Ernst Deutsch, the Viennese commercial artist who later worked under the name Ernst Dryden.
Why
Adapted from Bernhard Kellermann's enormously popular novel, this is one of the first German features to treat engineering itself as spectacle. The line runs from here to the machine-cities of the following decade.
Notice
The sheet is horizontal, unusual for German film placards of 1915, and the format is used to let a single receding perspective do the work.
“The future, sold as a hole in the ground.”
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 Tunnel (1915)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Ernst Deutsch (Ernst Dryden)
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1915
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.4×) of the surviving archival scan (original 700×519px). 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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