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Everyone loves cinema and movie posters are merely the physical incarnation of those special movies.
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Motion pictures, invented in 1895 by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, are one of the most popular art forms of the twentieth century. Everyone loves cinema and movie posters are merely the physical incarnation of those special movies. It is often said that movie posters communicate the essence of film. Though in some cases the poster and film are tied closely together and speak with one voice, the former summarizing the latter. Movie posters not only echo the evolution of cinema, the independent trajectory of the film poster reflects the changing nature of the audience. Posters in their primary sense are advertisements; their task is to connect to the person on the street, not with the images on the screen. The history of the film poster is the ongoing story of the link between cinema and society. As films began to become more popular nothing attracted an audience more than...
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