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The Mystery of Room 13, Trade Advertisement
A crayon letter E circles three suspects.
What
A full-page 1915 advertisement in Motion Picture News for The Mystery of Room 13, a four-act Edison mystery feature on the General Film Company's Regular Service.
Why
George Ridgwell directed it, with Marc McDermott and Lillian Herbert in the leads.
Notice
A crayon-drawn E loops round the whole page, which bills McDermott as "STAR OF STARS" and closes on Thomas A. Edison's script signature.
“One letter around a mystery”
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
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Provenance
- Film
- The Mystery of Room 13 (1915), dir. George Ridgwell
- Country / studio
- United States · Edison Studios
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. trade-paper advertisement, Motion Picture News, 1915
- 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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