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The Cat and the Canary
A will read at midnight in a house where the corridors themselves seem to lean in.
What
A 1927 window card — the small, heavy-stock format printed with a blank top band for a theatre to overprint its own name and dates — for the Universal production directed by Paul Leni.
Why
Leni arrived from Germany and brought the visual grammar of the Weimar studios with him. The film established the 'old dark house' comedy-thriller as an American form, and its shadowed corridors run straight into the Universal horror cycle of the following decade.
Notice
The blank band across the top: window cards were finished locally, and this one was never overprinted, which is why it survives unmarked.
“The German shadow, naturalised in an American hallway.”
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
- The Cat and the Canary (1927), dir. Paul Leni
- Country / studio
- United States · Universal Pictures
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. window card, 1927
- 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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