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Playing with Fire
A father points, a mother covers her mouth.
What
A 1914 one-sheet colour lithograph, 104 x 70 cm, for Playing with Fire, a Selig Polyscope picture in two reels subtitled The Penalty of a Flirtation.
Why
The sheet credits the story to James Oliver Curwood.
Notice
A breakfast-table scene sits between "SELIG PRESENTS" at the top and a large red Selig signature at the foot.
“A flirtation found out at breakfast”
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
- Playing with Fire (1914)
- Country / studio
- United States · Selig Polyscope
- Printer / stone
- Goes Litho Co., Chicago
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 1914
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Library of Congress scan)
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.
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