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Auction History Result 3k0066 DAS GEHEIMSCHLOSS German 59x86 1914 art of Ellen Jensen Eck on horse chasing cargo truck! Date Sold 2/20/2020 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 two different examples of this great German poster (with wonderful early automobile art), which is a "country of origin" poster for this German movie, and those examples auctioned for $1,075 and $977! Also note that this German poster was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Condition: good to very good. The top section of the poster has visible darkening on the parts of most folds, and there is a lesser amount on the bottom section. Otherwise, the poster is in pretty nice condition (especially considering it is over a century old!), and after a simple linenbacking, it will display wonderfully! Learn More about condition grades 
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