Coming! Greatest Moving Picture and Stereopticon Exhibition handbill – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Coming! Greatest Moving Picture and Stereopticon Exhibition handbill, preserved in this stereograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Coming! Greatest Moving Picture and Stereopticon Exhibition handbill
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The handbill's headline promises a "Greatest Moving Picture and Stereopticon Exhibition," a pairing that tells us how early film shows were sold. Around the turn of the twentieth century, traveling and hall-based showmen often combined motion pictures with lantern slides projected by a stereopticon, mixing novelty films with hand-colored or photographic slides to fill an evening. Printed handbills like this one were the main way to announce such programs in a town, and they were usually tacked to storefronts, posts and fences a few days ahead of the performance. Look at the wording and layout for clues to the era's showmanship, which leaned heavily on bold type and superlatives.
| Original scan | 2,298 × 3,584 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 05981u |
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