D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms hand-colored lobby card – Historic Reproduction
(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: D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms hand-colored lobby card, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms hand-colored lobby card
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Broken Blossoms (1919) was one of the few films D.W. Griffith made in a small, intimate scale rather than the epic sweep of The Birth of a Nation, and this lobby card points to that difference. Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess star in a story set in the crowded Limehouse district of London, where a gentle Chinese immigrant falls for a mistreated young woman and the film ends in violence. Lobby cards like this one were displayed in theater lobbies to advertise upcoming features, and hand-coloring added warmth that black-and-white stills could not offer. Worth noticing is how the film's soft, tinted look sets its mood apart from the stark realism of its era.
| Original scan | 4,246 × 3,340 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 03736u |
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