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Auction History Result 9f0217 INTOLERANCE 10x30 English special poster 1918 D.W. Griffith anti-discrimination silent! Date Sold 7/6/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1918 (from the first continuous release of this movie in England) Vintage Folded English Special Movie Poster (measures 10" x 30" [25 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) Intolerance, the 1916 D.W. Griffith silent anti-discrimination melodrama ("Love's Struggle throughout the Ages"; "D.W. Griffith's Colossal $2,000,000 Spectacle") starring Olga Grey, Mildred Harris, Elmo Lincoln, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Alfred Paget, and Constance Talmadge (billed as "Georgia Pearce"). The movie was intended to show discrimination throughout the history of man, and it has a framing device of Lillian Gish (as "a fairy girl with sunlit hair and a hand on the cradle of humanity") rocking that cradle, and it then goes to a modern story (in 1916!) and then a story of Christ in Judea in 27 A.D. and then a medieval French story in 1572 A.D., and finally, a Babylonian story in 539 B.C., with Gish and the rocking cradle in between each of these stories! Note that director D.W. Griffith made this movie after the huge backlash against him that occurred when he made "The Birth of a Nation" the previous year (because that movie presented a sympathetic view of the Ku Klux Klan). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this major movie premiered in England in April 1917. This poster is dated June 1918. We would think it is extremely likely that the movie played in England throughout that year and that this is from the first continuous release of this movie in England (and it may well be the only surviving poster from its English release, given how scarce pre-World War II English posters are!). Also, note that the theater that made this poster, the Theatre Royal, Exeter was a major English theater which had been burnt down twice prior to 1918, and rebuilt both times, so this was the third version of this theater showing this movie in 1918! The theater was demolished in the 1960s. Note also that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: fair to good. The poster was fragile and separating on the folds, and someone (surely decades ago) glued the poster to a thin paper backing, and did no restoration other than putting two small pieces of tape on the right ends of the folds. The poster was created with a tipped in still from the movie glued over the lower part of the poster and at some point after it was created the poster acquired staining in the still and some smudges and stains around the edges of the poster, where there are also small tears and tiny areas of paper loss. Obviously, this incredibly rare poster needs to be properly restored, so bear that in mind before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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