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Les Transatlantiques
American money meets French manners on a liner, in the last full year of the silent film.
What
A very large French affiche published by Aubert in 1928 for Pierre Colombier's Les Transatlantiques, after Abel Hermant, held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Why
The transatlantic comedy of manners was a French staple of the twenties, and 1928 was the last year such a film could be made silent without apology. Aubert was among the major French distributors of the period, and this sheet is a full-scale record of how it dressed a wall.
Notice
The BnF scanned this at close to seven thousand pixels tall; at full size the paper fibre and the grain of the lithographic stone are both legible.
“The last confident year of the silent screen, printed at wall height.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Les Transatlantiques (1928), dir. Pierre Colombier
- Country / studio
- France · Aubert
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French affiche, 1928
- 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.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
From The French Screen
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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.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family