THE SON OF MADAME SANS-GÊNE - Lot 285

THE SON OF MADAME SANS-GÊNE Napoleonic era Italian silent film by B. Negroni (starring Hesperia, C. Troisi...) distributed in France by Gaumont, 1921. Vintage promotional booklet (press kit), 12 pages bound with a cord to a lithographed cover by Bernard Lancy and illustrated with drawings and images (in heliogravure) taken from the film. 31 x 24 cm. Cover shows signs of wear (wear and tear, small tears along the edges) that do not affect the pages. Note: This 1921 promotional booklet is a valuable record of how silent cinema was promoted in its early days. Its cover, lithographed by Bernard Lancy, and its heliogravure illustrations make it a captivating graphic document, at the crossroads of film history and the Napoleonic imagination.