A 1918 poster for the D. W. Griffith production, made with British government cooperation and partly photographed in France and England. Griffith went to Europe in 1917 at official invitation and returned with the first major American feature to use the Western Front as a location rather than a set. The film is propaganda and Griffith later said so; the poster is the propaganda's shopfront. The domestic register of the imagery — the war reduced to a village and a family, which is precisely how the picture argued its case. The front line, sold as a threat to the parlour.

Maker: Unknown
Date: 1918
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-00765

As chosen: 16 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	16 x 24 in
Outside size	17.6 x 25.6 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	455	Excellent	Trimmed 0.1%
12 x 18 in	303	Excellent	Trimmed 0.1%
16 x 24 in	227	Excellent	Trimmed 0.1%
20 x 30 in	182	Good	Trimmed 0.1%
24 x 36 in	151	Good	Trimmed 0.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 15% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 17% crop
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
40 x 60 in	91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged