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Auction History Result 6b0207 HOCHSPANNUNG German 25x38 1913 Gottfried Kraus crossing power lines, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/12/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded German Movie Poster (measures 25 1/4" x 37 3/4" [64 x 96 cm]) (Learn More) Hochspannung (literally translates to "High Voltage"), the 1913 Martin Hartwig German silent action romantic melodrama (about a man who is love with the daughter of his boss and a romantic rival gets him fired, but the man then saves the life of his boss by crossing electrical wires and the boss gives the man his blessing) starring Gottfried Kraus. Note that this film was distributed by Messter Film. Oskar Messter was an innovative German film pioneer, and in 1896, a year after the Lumiere brothers showed the first film, Messter developed the first Maltese cross projector, opened the first German film studio and opened the second movie theater in Berlin (after the first one opened that same year by the Lumieres themselves). Messter Film was one of the dominant German producers before the rise of UFA, into which it was ultimately merged. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that movie paper from this film is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we were consigned this poster (which is a "country of origin" poster for this German movie!). Not only that but this is an extremely rare pre-World War II German poster! Virtually no German posters survive from the 1940s or earlier, because during World War II there were many paper shortages resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! Condition: fair to good. The poster is fragile and it has completely separated on one of the horizontal folds. It has some creases, tiny tears, small stains and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges and on parts of the folds. It is otherwise "mostly all there" and after proper restoration the poster will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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