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Sunnyside
A farmhand dreams of dancing nymphs between chores, in the picture its maker found hardest to finish.
What
A 1919 poster for the First National short comedy, written and directed by its star.
Why
Sunnyside was made during a period of acute creative difficulty and is the odd one out in its author's run - a pastoral with a dream ballet sequence owing an open debt to Nijinsky. It shows a comedian reaching for something he had not tried before, and not quite closing his hand on it.
Notice
The pastoral setting worked into the design, quite unlike the urban register the same comedian's advertising usually took.
“A daydream in the middle of a working day.”
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
- Sunnyside (1919), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Country / studio
- United States · First National
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. poster, 1919
- 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. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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