First Time Here. Mexico at War and Peace. Moving Pictures [caption title]

San Francisco: Francisco Valentine Co, 1914. Still very good.. Large broadside, 28 x 21 inches. Previously folded. Light chipping at edges; one small puncture along old fold line. Some toning, but quite solid. An attractively printed and fairly large poster advertising a nickelodeon-era film depicting scenes and events in Mexico during its revolution of the 1910s. "SEE General Carranza, the new Ruler of Mexico, and his advisors. SEE Big Military Parade and Review of Army and Navy at Mexico City. SEE Vera Cruz Harbor and inspection of Sailors and Guns on Mexican Warships...." The appellation of Venustiano Carranza as the "New Ruler of Mexico" points to a release date of 1914, when he defeated Victoriano Huerta with the backing of Pancho Villa, and several newspapers carrying advertisements for showings in Los Angeles and Southern California in late 1914 and early 1915 corroborate this surmise. The film itself was one of several motion picture attempts to capitalize on the strong American interest in events south of the border, that included another contemporaneous movie, titled "The Great Mexican War," and the famous contract between Pancho Villa and the Mutual Film Corporation to film the revolutionary's battles. We locate one copy of the present broadside, at the Bancroft.