Metropolis — the Bilinsky Paris One-Sheet
Boris Bilinsky, 1927
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyBoris Bilinsky’s Paris-release one-sheet for Metropolis — the same film as the German crown piece, reimagined entirely for the French screen. Bilinsky, a Russian émigré working in Paris, gave the film a wholly different face: where Schulz-Neudamm went sculptural and golden, Bilinsky went Deco, lacquered, and cool. Compare it to the German one-sheet — same film, two civilizations of design, hung side by side. One city, two dreams of it.
- Maker
- Boris Bilinsky
- Date
- 1927
- 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-00675
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.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | 126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 8 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 16 in | 83 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 18 x 24 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | 42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 30 x 40 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 27 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,008 x 1,328 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 40, lights 242 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 7.47
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