Satana — Ambrosio lobby card
Unknown, 1912
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 14% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyAn original 1912 lobby card issued by Ambrosio Film of Turin for Satana, a four-episode feature tracing the devil through biblical, medieval, Renaissance and modern eras. Before the poster hardened into a single dominant image, studios sold films through card sets pinned in vestibules — a sequence of stills that let a passer-by read the story off the wall. This is the Italian version of that vanished display grammar. The photographic frame sits inside a printed border rather than bleeding to the edge; the card is designed to be seen in a row of its siblings. One frame lifted out of a lost film and made to stand for all of it.
- Maker
- Unknown
- Date
- 1912
- Medium of the original
- Lobby card
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00816
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 |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 65 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 39 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 32 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,700 x 1,173 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 39, lights 225 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.91
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