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Traffic in Souls
A vice exposé that proved a feature-length American picture could fill a theatre for weeks.
What
A 1913 one-sheet for the six-reel white-slavery drama produced at Universal and directed by George Loane Tucker.
Why
Made semi-clandestinely for a few thousand dollars, it earned a reported fortune and helped break the industry's resistance to features. It is also the founding document of the American social-problem exploitation film — outrage as the ticket.
Notice
The typographic scale of the title against the illustration: the words are doing the selling, because the subject could not be pictured directly.
“Scandal, priced by the seat.”
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
- Traffic in Souls (1913), dir. George Loane Tucker
- Country / studio
- United States · Independent Moving Pictures / Universal
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, 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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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