Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope
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Billed as "Edison's greatest marvel," this 1896 color lithograph advertised the Vitascope, a projector that threw moving pictures onto a screen for paying audiences. Edison's name sold the machine, though its design owed much to Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins, and its New York debut that spring at Koster and Bial's Music Hall helped launch commercial film exhibition in America. The Metropolitan Print Company printed the sheet for the copyright holders Raff & Gammon, and it shows how quickly showmen turned the new motion picture into a headline attraction.
| Created / published | New York : Metropolitan Print Company, c1896. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 73 x 97 cm. |
| Genre | and other venues |
| Notes | 29057B U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Raff & Gammon. No. 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 250. No. 1. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. No. 1a. Exhibited: On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early 20th Century American Art, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2002-03. No. 1a. Exhibited: Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between American Art and Early Film" at the Williams College of Art |
| Subjects | Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931--Associated objects. Motion picture theaters--1890-1900. Motion picture devices--1890-1900. Advertisements--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176500 |
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