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Auction History Result Lot #: 196 PRISON BARS linen 1sheet  Date Sold 12/1/1997Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Hollywood & Early Cinema Posters CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh) (Learn More) Prison Bars, the 1901 Walter Barnsdale silent crime prison documentary. Note that details on this movie are difficult to find. It appears to have been a very early documentary filmed in Wisconsin's Waupun Prison. Walter Barnsdale made this film (and a few others) and toured with an electronic lamp house and a portable gasoline power supply of his own invention to show his films in the towns and cities that he visited. Barnsdale is a forgotten pioneer of movies who, at the turn of the 20th century in Wisconsin, created his own movies and exhibited them at prisons around the country (he had the ultimate "captive audience"!). Not surprisingly, all of Barnsdale's movies were morality plays, designed to uplift the inmates who viewed them. In the 1960s, Barnsdale's son surfaced with multiple examples of several posters his father had made at the turn of the century (including this one). Those posters were sold decades ago, and one rarely sees any of them for sale. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: Very Good. Learn More about condition grades 
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