Prof. Haskell's moving picture entertainment – Vintage 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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Prof. Haskell's moving picture entertainment in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Prof. Haskell's moving picture entertainment
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Prof. Haskell's moving picture entertainment presents itself as a traveling show, a format common in the early years of cinema, when projected films reached towns without permanent theaters. Showmen often used the title "Professor" to suggest scientific novelty, a habit borrowed from lantern lecturers and medicine-show performers. The caption card gives no date, so the poster's exact age is uncertain, but its subject headings place it among motion picture posters. Bills like this show how exhibitors marketed the new medium as a wonder before film became a routine part of everyday entertainment.
| Medium | 1 print (poster). |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion pict.--Posters; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 524 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133631 |
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