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Edison's Greatest Marvel-The Vitascope - Restoration
Metropolitan Print Company; Copyright 1896 by Raff & Gammon
1896
- Classification
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.05943. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Edison's Greatest Marvel--The Vitascope
Poster for The Vitascope showing a movie audience, watching a large screen with women dancing on it. A small orchestra plays in front of the screen. The theatre has a box which several more people have packed into.
The Library of Congress places the scene in New York, this, combined with the date, would make this the April 23, 1896 reveal of the technology at Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York City.
Lithographic colour poster, height: 97 cm (38.1 in); width: 73 cm (28.7 in) 29057B U.S. Copyright Office
