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Garragan
A name on a placard, promising a man large enough to need only one.
What
A German placard of 1924 designed by Theo Matejko, whose loose reportorial line dominated German film advertising through the middle of the decade.
Why
By 1924 the German industry had settled into a house manner for its adventure and sensation pictures, and Matejko largely was that manner. Seeing him beside the Expressionist campaigns clarifies what was radical about them and what was simply the trade.
Notice
The title is set to be read across a street at speed: one word, oversized, doing the entire job of identification.
“A whole picture compressed into a single spoken name.”
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
- Garragan (1924)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Theo Matejko
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1924
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.4×) of the surviving archival scan (original 482×700px). 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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