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Official United States War Films, the Battleship
A battleship under flaring searchlights.
What
H. Devitt Welsh's 1917 colour lithograph, 107 by 72 cm, for the war films of the Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information.
Why
These were the government's films of its own army, shown in commercial theatres; the sheet is from the Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.
Notice
Searchlights flare from the ship into the night.
“The navy, in lights”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Official United States War Films (1917)
- Country / studio
- United States · Committee on Public Information
- Designer
- H. Devitt Welsh
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. government film poster, colour lithograph, 1917
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (LCCN 2001700143)
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.
The same film, another screen
From Silent Hollywood
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