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Morfinisten

Name: Morfinisten
Brand: The Picture Palace
SKU: PA-00823

Unknown, 1911

The Picture PalacePA-00823Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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The 1911 Danish poster for Morfinisten, issued by Det skandinavisk-russiske Handelshus, carrying a still of the actor Albrecht Schmidt. Danish cinema in these years took subjects — narcotics, prostitution, suicide — that American and British production codes would spend the next thirty years forbidding. The bluntness of the title is itself the historical evidence. The lettering is set flat and plain, with no attempt to soften what is being sold. A word on a wall that nobody yet felt obliged to hide.

Maker: Unknown
Date: 1911
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00823

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.

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 16 in	96 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 20 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
18 x 24 in	64 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 30 in	48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
30 x 40 in	38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop