Ved Fængslets Port

The 1911 Danish poster for Ved Fængslets Port, issued by Nordisk Films Kompagni of Valby. Nordisk was for a few years the largest film company in Europe outside France, and Denmark's social melodramas set the template — the fallen woman, the gambling den, the moral abyss dressed in evening clothes — that Germany and Russia both borrowed. The scene is printed as a photographic still inside a typographic frame; Danish sheets of this date sell the film as reportage, not as painting. A small country's brief command of the world's screens, on cheap paper.

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-00822