<i>Oberammergau Passion Play</i> Poster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1903
name: label: producer
content: Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company
label: maker
content: Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Poster advertising The Barnsdale Electric Moving Picture Company’s film of the <i>Oberammergau Passion Play</i>. 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: referenced
content: Germany: Bavaria, Oberammergau
label: acquired
content: United States: Wisconsin, Madison
topic: label: general subject association
content: Motion Pictures
label: general subject association
content: Theater
label: Subject
content: Christianity
label: Subject
content: Jesus Christ
label: Subject
content: Lantern projection
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movies
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content: Religion
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Michael R. Harris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0200.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0200
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0200.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: broadside
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 in x 24 in; 88.9 cm x 60.96 cm