the history of movie posters dates to roughly 1890. That’s when Jules Cheret’s French-language short film, Projections Aristiques, advertised itself with a black-and-white illustration of a ...

It did little more than announce show times, but the idea blossomed and five years later the first artistic poster to advertise a specific film appeared. The movie was a short black-and-white film ...

A movie poster is made to promote a film. Hung on a wall at home, it becomes an advertisement for a sense of self.

the history of movie posters dates to roughly 1890. That’s when Jules Cheret’s French-language short film, Projections Aristiques, advertised itself with a black-and-white illustration of a ...

and today there’s an emphasis on stark white typography and human-focused visuals. Horror movie posters can be dramatic, gory, and suspenseful, but there’s a more difficult-to-describe feeling ...

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