eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9p005 MAJESTIC THEATRE daybill circa 1910 the ever popular Majestiscope Moving Pictures! Date Sold 3/3/2011Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Daybill (measures 14" x 42 1/4" [36 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) Majestic Theatre, the circa 1910 daybill advertising the acts appearing at this theater. The main attraction was the "Rusticana Trio", but among the other acts was "The Ever Popular Majestiscope Presenting the Best in Moving Pictures". Note that there are no names of movies shown, which was true of almost all super early motion picture advertising that survives. We have found references on the Internet to Majestiscope being used in 1910, but we don't know if that was when the process was invented. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Important Added Info: Note that in the earliest days of motion pictures (at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th), movies were all quite short (usually several minutes each), and they were shown at vaudeville theaters and other kinds of shows. The advertising for these kinds of places were often "daybills", which resemble U.S. inserts in size, but were printed on one-sheet paper, and were sometimes double-sided (similar daybills were used to advertise circuses at that time). These daybills would rarely have any artwork, but rather would list all of the varied entertainments available at the show. They were put on the sides of buildings and on poles, and were completely disposable, and very few of them survive! Condition: good. There are tears and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster, along the foldlines, and down the center where it was folded an extra time. There is clean separation down the top center of the poster on that extra fold. The entire poster is fragile. But given that the poster is over 100 years old, it has survived in pretty good condition! Learn More about condition grades
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