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L'Équipage
Two men in an observation plane, and the war still close enough to touch.
What
A French affiche of 1928 for Maurice Tourneur's L'Équipage, adapted from Joseph Kessel's novel of a French reconnaissance crew, signed by Bécan.
Why
Kessel had flown in the war himself, and the 1928 film arrived while the aviation picture was at its European peak. It is Maurice Tourneur working in France again after his Hollywood years — a director carrying American production craft back across the Atlantic.
Notice
Bécan, better known for comic line work, restrains it here almost completely; the drawing is sober in a way his comedy sheets never are.
“A war remembered from the air, ten years on.”
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
- L'Équipage (1928), dir. Maurice Tourneur
- Country / studio
- France
- Designer
- Bécan
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1928
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.8×) of the surviving archival scan (original 454×606px). 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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