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L'Italia s'è desta!
A wartime screening announced with the first line of the national anthem, in a year when it was not a metaphor.
What
A 1916 Italian screening poster for Nino Oxilia's L'Italia s'è desta!, printed by the Regie Officine Tipografiche.
Why
Italy entered the war in 1915 and its film industry turned immediately to patriotic production. Oxilia — a poet and director who would be killed at the front in 1917 — made this one; the sheet is a document of cinema conscripted.
Notice
The typography carries most of the weight. Wartime paper and press time were scarce, and the design economises accordingly.
“A country waking itself up, in the year it could least afford to.”
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'Italia s'è desta! (1916), dir. Nino Oxilia
- Country / studio
- Italy
- Printer / stone
- Regie Officine Tipografiche
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Italian typographic screening poster, 1916
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.6×) of the surviving archival scan (original 748×1041px). 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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