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Filibus — the airship
A sky pirate lowers herself from a dirigible, and cinema's first great masked thief turns out to be a woman.
What
The 1915 Italian poster for Filibus, produced by Corona Films of Turin, held in the EYE Filmmuseum's poster collection.
Why
Filibus is an aerial jewel-thief who descends from an airship on a winch, moves through society in male disguise, and outwits the detective hunting her. Made a year after Feuillade's Fantômas, it hands the master-criminal role to a woman — a gesture Italian cinema made casually and almost nobody repeated for decades.
Notice
The dirigible is given more of the sheet than the figure; in 1915 the airship itself was still the marvel being sold.
“The future arriving by balloon, with a thief aboard.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Filibus (1915), dir. Mario Roncoroni
- Country / studio
- Italy · Corona Films
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Italian lithographed affissione, 1915
- 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.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
The same film, another screen
From The World Screen
The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family