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Auction History Result 8z080 DAS GEHEIMSCHLOSS German 59x86 1914 art of Ellen Jensen Eck as female detective Miss Clever! Date Sold 9/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded German Movie Poster (measures 58 3/4" x 85 1/2" [149 x 217 cm]) (Learn More) Das Geheimschloss (literally translates to "The Secret Castle", the third part of "Miss Clever Versus the Black Hand"), the 1914 German silent female detective kidnapping crime adventure (about a female master detective, who is also a "mistress of disguise", and she has really impressive ones, including as a beggar, a school girl, and even as a Greek statue, entirely painted white, and wearing a toga!) starring Ellen Jensen Eck. Note that this was the third in a series of films (called a "serial", similar to, but different from the later serials) about this female detective and her adventures, but the film was censored and later banned because some of the heroine's costumes (and scenes of her changing in and out of them) were seen as too suggestive! Also note that the evil organization that Miss Clever fights against is called "The Black Hand", which was the name of the Serbian nationalist group whose assassination of Duke Franz Fedinand of Austro-Hungary that same year triggered the First World War, but in the film, it is a fictitious organization, and has the same name, but no political overtones. The only known surviving print of this film is in the EYE National Museum for Film in the Netherlands. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have previously auctioned a different example of this German poster, which is a "country of origin" poster for this German movie, and that example auctioned for $977! Also note that this German poster was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Condition: very good. The poster has staining on small parts of the folds that were on the outside of one section when it was fully folded. They slightly show through to the front. Otherwise, the poster has pretty minor fold and border wear and has likely survived in about as good condition as one could hope! Learn More about condition grades 
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