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Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola
The illustrator who invented the flying city drew the poster for the film of his own book.
What
The 1913 poster for Marcel Fabre's Italian serial adaptation, drawn by Albert Robida — the French illustrator and futurist satirist who wrote the source novel four decades earlier.
Why
An author illustrating the advertisement for the film of his own fiction is nearly unique in this period. Robida's proto-science-fiction imagery, already a generation old by 1913, was here handed to the medium that would finally be able to stage it.
Notice
The density — Robida crams incident into every quadrant, an engraver's instinct at a scale meant to be read from across a street.
“A nineteenth-century imagination catching up with the twentieth-century machine.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (1913), dir. Marcel Fabre
- Country / studio
- Italy · Ambrosio Film
- Designer
- Albert Robida
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Italian lithographed affissione, 1913
- 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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