Oberammergau Passion Play Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Oberammergau Passion Play Poster: date made: ca 1903. producer: Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company. maker: Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company.
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster advertising The Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company’s film of the Oberammergau Passion Play. The Oberammergau Passion Play is a presentation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, including his trial, suffering, and crucifixion, that has been performed in Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany since 1634. Walter Barnsdale started a traveling moving picture show company in the early 1900s that showed feature films with the best electric lighting equipment available at the time. Barnsdale traveled around the country and brought films to people who were often unable to travel to the city to see films.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1903
- producer: Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company
- maker: Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company
- Object Name: broadside
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 35 in x 24 in; 88.9 cm x 60.96 cm
- referenced: Germany: Bavaria, Oberammergau
- acquired: United States: Wisconsin, Madison
- general subject association: Motion Pictures
- general subject association: Theater
- Subject: Christianity
- Subject: Jesus Christ
- Subject: Lantern projection
- ID Number: 1987.0200.01
- accession number: 1987.0200
- catalog number: 1987.0200.01
- Credit Line: Michael R. Harris
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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