No, no, no. This is a movie poster (how many turn-of-the-century stage
productions do you know about which made, at the very least, movie-style one
and three sheets - that are still available in quantity a hundred years
later?). It has to be from a movie (all the ones I've ever seen have come from
movie poster collections, not theatre poster collections). As I mentioned, I
used to know which movie this was supposedly from (but have since forgotten -
and there were about a billion early film versions of the Passion Play). If I
had to guess, I'd say the film's probably the 1898 short version (not the 1898
Edison version, the foreign one - which would explain the lack of credits,
etc...), but the poster's probably later (teens or twenties, perhaps for some
kind of rural 4-walling or roadshow). In any case, far too many of them have
survived for it to be 110 years old (I even have one in my collection).
Although, being an other-company kinda poster, we may never know what the real
case is... Definitely an odd-ball piece...
Doesn't anyone here collect silent posters?...
Cheers,
Bob
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