6 SHEET MOVIE POSTER 1920 RARE
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:43077416 | Original/Reproduction: Original |
| Industry: Movies | Object Type: Poster |
ORIGINAL 6 SHEET MOVIE POSTER 1920 RARE
NOT A REPRODUCTION. NOT A RERELEASE
THE TWELVE POUND LOOK. 1920. FIRST RELEASE ENGLISH POSTER. VERY RARE
POSTER MEASURES APPROX 79 x 79 INCHES. POSTER IS IN 6 SECTIONS. WOULD LOOK GREAT LINEN BACKED.
POSTER IS IN EXTREMELY GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE.
'The Twelve-Pound Look' was originally a play by James M. Barrie, who is now best known for writing 'Peter Pan'. Throughout his life and career,... Barrie exhibited some strange attitudes towards women. (Among other things, he had a penchant for writing plays in which the main role is a boy played by an adult woman: not only 'Peter Pan' but also 'The Boy David'.) 'The Twelve-Pound Look' is interesting because it advocates feminism and women's financial independence, at a time when most 'feminist' plays and stories were more interested in lampooning the women' suffrage movement. Barrie wrote 'The Twelve-Pound Look' in 1892, when Englishwomen were still getting arrested (and ridiculed) for seeking the right to vote. This film version was released in 1920, shortly after women in Britain received the vote at long last.
'The Twelve-Pound Look' is also interesting for another reason, because it depicts the effect of the typewriter upon society, and how this machine helped women gain financial independence. When originally invented, the 'typewriting machine' was intended for men only. The word 'typewriter' referred to the machine's operator, not the mechanism itself, and all 'typewriters' were men ... because the machines were only used in office situations, and respectable women did not work in offices! Eventually someone discovered that long narrow female digits were better suited to a typing keyboard than stubby male fingers, and gradually women were employed as typists ... in many cases, getting their first chance to earn wages and participate in a workplace. A goodish Betty Grable musical ('The Shocking Miss Pilgrim') deals with this social trend.
POSTER WILL BE FOLDED AND SENT IN A STRONG FLAT CARDBOARD PACKAGE.
NOT A REPRODUCTION. NOT A RERELEASE
THE TWELVE POUND LOOK. 1920. FIRST RELEASE ENGLISH POSTER. VERY RARE
POSTER MEASURES APPROX 79 x 79 INCHES. POSTER IS IN 6 SECTIONS. WOULD LOOK GREAT LINEN BACKED.
POSTER IS IN EXTREMELY GOOD CONDITION FOR ITS AGE.
'The Twelve-Pound Look' was originally a play by James M. Barrie, who is now best known for writing 'Peter Pan'. Throughout his life and career,... Barrie exhibited some strange attitudes towards women. (Among other things, he had a penchant for writing plays in which the main role is a boy played by an adult woman: not only 'Peter Pan' but also 'The Boy David'.) 'The Twelve-Pound Look' is interesting because it advocates feminism and women's financial independence, at a time when most 'feminist' plays and stories were more interested in lampooning the women' suffrage movement. Barrie wrote 'The Twelve-Pound Look' in 1892, when Englishwomen were still getting arrested (and ridiculed) for seeking the right to vote. This film version was released in 1920, shortly after women in Britain received the vote at long last.
'The Twelve-Pound Look' is also interesting for another reason, because it depicts the effect of the typewriter upon society, and how this machine helped women gain financial independence. When originally invented, the 'typewriting machine' was intended for men only. The word 'typewriter' referred to the machine's operator, not the mechanism itself, and all 'typewriters' were men ... because the machines were only used in office situations, and respectable women did not work in offices! Eventually someone discovered that long narrow female digits were better suited to a typing keyboard than stubby male fingers, and gradually women were employed as typists ... in many cases, getting their first chance to earn wages and participate in a workplace. A goodish Betty Grable musical ('The Shocking Miss Pilgrim') deals with this social trend.
POSTER WILL BE FOLDED AND SENT IN A STRONG FLAT CARDBOARD PACKAGE.
