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Auction History Result 2w135 DAS GEHEIMSCHLOSS German 59x86 1914 art of Ellen Jensen Eck on horse chasing cargo truck! Date Sold 12/14/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded German Movie Poster (measures 59" x 85 3/4" [150 x 218 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 this German poster, which was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap, has no title on it. This was not unusual with pre-World War II German posters, because they would print them like this and then send them to other countries, which would then overprint them with titles and credits in their own language (an "export" poster). The logo for Apollo Film is in a Jewish star. We tried to research this company (which is likely a German film company) and we only found a little bit of information, and it seems that it was a German film company of the 1910s and 1920s, and that it was likely acquired by UFA in the mid 1920s.
UPDATED 12/08/2017: Note that a knowledgeable collector identified this previously unknown film and we have updated the auction accordingly. Condition: good. There is some water staining scattered in fairly small parts of the back of the poster. The back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded has much staining. Only some of the staining shows through to the front. Otherwise, the poster has survived pretty well. Learn More about condition grades 
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