Film poster
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A film poster is a poster used to advertise a film. Use of such posters goes back to the earliest public exhibitions of film, where they began as outside placards listing the programme of (short) films to be shown inside the hall or theater. By the early 1900s, they began to feature illustrations of a scene from each individual film.
Film posters belong to the paratext of a film.
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Notable film-poster artists
- Examples: Blade Runner, The Lion King, Jurassic Park
- Examples: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Sting
- Examples: Vertigo, The Shining
- Examples: The Wicked Lady, Mad Max
- Examples: Ferry to Hong Kong, The Living Daylights (film)
- Examples: A Fistful of Dollars
- Examples: Von Ryan's Express, Zulu Dawn, The Land That Time Forgot
- Examples: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Viva Max!, Kelly's Heroes
- Examples: From Russia With Love (film) (British) Carry On Up the Jungle
- Examples: What's New Pussycat?
- Examples: Dr. No (film), The Sand Pebbles (film), and El Dorado (film).
- Examples: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ("Style B" re-release), Barbarella (1979 re-release)
- Examples:
- Examples: The Devil's Brigade (film), Hang 'Em High
- Examples: The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, The Hindenburg (film)
- Examples: Casino Royale, Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Examples: Our Man Flint, Camelot, Apocalypse Now, The Spy Who Loved Me
- Examples: The Virgin Soldiers (film). White Mischief (film)
- Examples: Back to the Future, The Thing
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