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Hearts of the World
A war picture shot near the front lines while the war was still being fought.
What
A 1918 poster for the D. W. Griffith production, made with British government cooperation and partly photographed in France and England.
Why
Griffith went to Europe in 1917 at official invitation and returned with the first major American feature to use the Western Front as a location rather than a set. The film is propaganda and Griffith later said so; the poster is the propaganda's shopfront.
Notice
The domestic register of the imagery — the war reduced to a village and a family, which is precisely how the picture argued its case.
“The front line, sold as a threat to the parlour.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Hearts of the World (1918), dir. D. W. Griffith
- Country / studio
- United States · D. W. Griffith Productions / Artcraft
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, 1918
- 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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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.
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