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Auction History Result 1s334 ROSARY linen one-sheet movie poster R17 cool religious stone litho artwork! Date Sold 8/19/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1917) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Rosary, the circa 1916 silent religious melodrama ("Two Part Puritan Drama"; "See here comes our master"; this was apparently a silent religious movie from the mid 1910s that the Unicorn Film Service bought the rights to; see below; we are unable to discover what the original movie was called, but based on the poster from Unicorn, it was surely a religious film set in the days of Christ.) Note that this is a poster from the Unicorn Film Service. This was a company that in 1917 or so bought the rights to early 1910s movies and then re-released them, often with changed titles. I had long suspected this, but I got confirmation from exhibitor magazines from 1917 that had ads for the Unicorn Film Service, which explained that they had older movies available to be booked by theaters who were doing poorly with movies they were currently showing and wanted to replace them with something that would do better! The Unicorn Film Service bought the rights to this movie, as they did so many others, but they got into trouble with this one, because they renamed it "The Rosary", which was the name of a movie that Selig had made in 1915. The Selig movie was set in the present day, and dealt with an Irish priest getting involved with the son of his ex-girlfriend, and it had wealthy Wall Street people and a rags-to-riches story, ending with redemption. The Selig people sued the Unicorn Film Service people, saying they had used the same title in order to deceive people into thinking their movie was the same as the Selig movie (even though it had entirely different subject matter). If anyone knows more about this movie, especially what its original title was, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. The poster was folded in half an extra time, and there was an extra vertical foldline 1" to the left of the regular middle vertical foldline, and extra horizontal foldlines above the regular top and bottom horizontal foldlines. There were some creases, tears, and small areas of paper loss on parts of many of the foldlines. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the restoration along the foldlines (although it is not very noticeable or distracting from any reasonable viewing distance). Learn More about condition grades 
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