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Ved Fængslets Port
Nordisk Film advertises the temptations of the great city, three years before the great city caught fire.
What
The 1911 Danish poster for Ved Fængslets Port, issued by Nordisk Films Kompagni of Valby.
Why
Nordisk was for a few years the largest film company in Europe outside France, and Denmark's social melodramas set the template — the fallen woman, the gambling den, the moral abyss dressed in evening clothes — that Germany and Russia both borrowed.
Notice
The scene is printed as a photographic still inside a typographic frame; Danish sheets of this date sell the film as reportage, not as painting.
“A small country's brief command of the world's screens, on cheap paper.”
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
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Ved Fængslets Port (1911)
- Country / studio
- Denmark · Nordisk Films Kompagni
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Danish studio release poster, 1911
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.1×) of the surviving archival scan (original 503×800px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
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.
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