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Edison's Greatest Marvel: The Vitascope
The projector itself, sold as the show.
What
A colour lithograph of 1896, 73 by 97 cm, advertising the Vitascope projector under the Edison name.
Why
The Vitascope, built from Jenkins and Armat's Phantoscope, cast moving pictures onto a wall or screen for a paying crowd.
Notice
The machine is the attraction here: no film title, no star, only the marvel of projection.
“The screen announces itself”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Vitascope (1896)
- Country / studio
- United States
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. exhibition poster, 1896
- Source
- Library of Congress
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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