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Filibus — the question mark
The third sheet gives up on images altogether and sells the film with a single punctuation mark.
What
The third surviving 1915 Corona Films poster for Filibus, also from the EYE Filmmuseum collection.
Why
A poster built around a question mark is a teaser in everything but name — an advertising strategy usually credited to decades later. The Italian trade was experimenting with withheld information as a selling tactic before the First World War had finished.
Notice
The mark itself is doing the typographic work of an illustration; scale and placement are the entire design.
“Curiosity, printed at poster size, a century before anyone called it a teaser.”
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
- 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
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.1×) of the surviving archival scan (original 572×800px). 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.
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