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Gift O' Gab, Three-Sheet

A man with a ukulele among five women.

What

A 1917 Essanay three-sheet for Gift O' Gab, a Perfection Pictures comedy distributed by the George Kleine System.

Why

W. S. Van Dyke directed it, and the sheet gives the screen time as 65 minutes.

Notice

The banner reads "Perfection Pictures" over "The Highest Standard in Motion Pictures," above a crowded group portrait.

“A talker and his admirers”

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 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Gift O' Gab (1917), dir. W. S. Van Dyke
Country / studio
United States · Essanay Studios
Printer / stone
Morgan Litho Co.
Format
Three-sheet
Poster published
U.S. three-sheet, colour lithograph, 1917
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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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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