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The Gaumont Co. L'T'D. London presents the motion picture records of the undying story of Capt. Scott and animal life in the Antarctic / The Morgan Lith. Co., Cleveland, O.

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The Gaumont Co. L'T'D. London presents the motion picture records of the undying story of Capt. Scott and animal life in the Antarctic / The Morgan Lith. Co., Cleveland, O.

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Motion picture poster for "Capt. Scott and Animal Life in the Antarctic" showing view from an ice cave of a ship moored in the distance.
From photo copyright 1912 by H.G. Pontiny, F.R.G.S.

Movie posters and movie theaters.

Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.

The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week. By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars. At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.

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01/01/1913
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Gaumont Co. Ltd.
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Asuka_Station_(Antarctica)-71.52612, 24.13799
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