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Les Vampires
A hooded criminal empire spreads its wings across nocturnal Paris.
What
Francisco Tamagno's poster for Louis Feuillade's Gaumont crime serial.
Why
The serial's masked underworld set the template for a century of pulp and surrealist fascination.
Notice
Tamagno's theatrical figure work and the batlike silhouette looming over the title.
“Masked crime rules the night”
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
- Les Vampires (1915), dir. Louis Feuillade
- Country / studio
- France · Société des Établissements Gaumont
- Designer
- Francisco Tamagno
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- French grande affiche, lithograph, 1915
- 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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