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Fantômas
A phantom in evening dress towers over the sleeping city he owns.
What
The 1913 Gaumont affiche for Feuillade's first Fantômas film.
Why
It gave a face to the era's most notorious literary villain and launched the French crime-serial craze.
Notice
The masked colossus astride the rooftops, a pose copied for generations.
“The master criminal made flesh”
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
- Fantômas (1913), dir. Louis Feuillade
- Country / studio
- France · Société des Établissements Gaumont
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- French grande affiche, lithograph, 1913
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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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