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Lumières Kinematograf
Sweden's first film poster, from the 1897 Stockholm Exhibition.
What
Carl August Olausson's 1897 poster for Lumières Kinematograf at the Stockholm Exhibition.
Why
The record calls it Sweden's first film poster; the Lumière show ran in the exhibition's Gamla Stockholm quarter.
Notice
Commons files it under L'Arroseur arrosé, the Lumière comedy of the gardener and the hose.
“The first screening in Sweden.”
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 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Lumières Kinematograf (1897)
- Country / studio
- Sweden · Lumière
- Designer
- Carl August Olausson
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Swedish exhibition poster, 1897
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Furhammar, Filmen i Sverige)
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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