An original 1921 United Artists one-sheet, printed as a stone lithograph, for the D. W. Griffith production. Dream Street is a curiosity of the transition years - Griffith attached an experimental sound sequence to it in 1921, six years before the industry followed. The Commons record states this is the only known copy of the poster, which makes the scan itself the artefact of record. Stone lithography rather than the cheaper offset of later years: the ink sits in flat, dense fields with visible grain, not halftone dots. A unique survivor of a film history nearly forgot.

Maker: Unknown
Date: 1921
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00782

As chosen: 12 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 18 in
Outside size	13.6 x 19.6 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 12 in	250	Excellent	Trimmed 2.9%
12 x 16 in	171	Good	Trimmed 8.5%
12 x 18 in	166	Good	Trimmed 2.9%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 13% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
16 x 24 in	125 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	114 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	100 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
24 x 36 in	83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	68 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	57 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,059 x 3,000 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 60, lights 223 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 8.96