Edison's Greatest Marvel: The Vitascope poster – Antique Poster Print
(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 poster, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Edison's Greatest Marvel: The Vitascope poster
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Edison's own company promoted the Vitascope as the inventor's "greatest marvel," even though the projector was largely built by Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins, who sold it to Edison's firm to market under his name. The machine made its public debut in April 1896 at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York, where it projected short motion pictures onto a screen for paying audiences. Posters like this one show how quickly the new medium was turned into a headline attraction. Film was then still a novelty, and showmen billed it as a wonder to draw crowds into vaudeville houses.
| Original scan | 5,725 × 4,367 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 05943u |
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