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Satana — Ambrosio lobby card
A studio card from the four-part history of evil that Ambrosio staged across all of human time.
What
An original 1912 lobby card issued by Ambrosio Film of Turin for Satana, a four-episode feature tracing the devil through biblical, medieval, Renaissance and modern eras.
Why
Before the poster hardened into a single dominant image, studios sold films through card sets pinned in vestibules — a sequence of stills that let a passer-by read the story off the wall. This is the Italian version of that vanished display grammar.
Notice
The photographic frame sits inside a printed border rather than bleeding to the edge; the card is designed to be seen in a row of its siblings.
“One frame lifted out of a lost film and made to stand for all of it.”
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
- Satana (1912)
- Country / studio
- Italy · Ambrosio Film
- Format
- Lobby card
- Poster published
- Italian studio lobby card, 1912
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.7×) of the surviving archival scan (original 1020×704px). 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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