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La Poule aux œufs d'or
A féerie of hand-tinted marvels, advertised in colour as loud as the film itself.
What
A Pathé Frères affiche for the 1905 trick-film féerie La Poule aux œufs d'or, designed by Cândido Aragonez de Faria and distributed in the Netherlands by Jean Desmet.
Why
The féerie was early cinema's most extravagant genre — stencil-coloured fairy spectacle built on stage machinery — and the poster had to promise colour on a screen most audiences had only seen in black and white. This is the sales pitch for the medium's first special effects.
Notice
The palette runs deliberately hotter than any photograph of the era could be; Faria is selling the stencil colour, not the story.
“A promise of enchantment, printed before cinema had learned modesty.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- La Poule aux œufs d'or (1905), dir. Gaston Velle
- Country / studio
- France · Pathé Frères
- Designer
- Cândido Aragonez de Faria
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1905
- 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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