Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland

Ernst Deutsch-Dryden's 1912 poster for Urban Gad's Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland, reproduced from the standard illustrated catalogue of the period's cinema. In 1912 the multi-reel feature was barely three years old and the film poster had no settled conventions of its own. Dryden was importing them wholesale from commercial advertising, and this is among the earliest instances of that transfer surviving in reproduction. The narrow columnar format, matching the hoarding sizes German printers already used for consumer goods rather than any cinema-specific standard. A new medium, still borrowing its clothes.

Maker

Ernst Deutsch-Dryden

Date

1912

Medium of the original

One-sheet poster

Original held by

Wikimedia Commons

Credit

Wikimedia Commons

Rights

Cleared for print

Catalogue number

PA-00738