A German placard for the 1918 Gloria-Film production, designed by Paul Leni — who co-directed the film and drew its advertising, as he drew so much else. Leni was a poster artist and set designer before he was a director, and the traffic ran both ways all his life. Sheets like this are the working evidence for how Expressionist film design actually arrived: through commercial graphics, not theory. The design thinks in flat cut shapes and silhouette rather than modelled figures — the same instinct that would later build the painted architecture of his films. A director's hand, still learning on paper.

Maker: Paul Leni
Date: 1918
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00717

As chosen: 8 x 10 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	8 x 10 in
Outside size	9.6 x 11.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	156	Good	Trimmed 8.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 16 in	104 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	78 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	52 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	41 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 1,248 x 1,700 px, srgb, sRGB
Tone: Darks 53, lights 252 of 255; 2.4% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 3.46