Pick of the Week: Poster promoting first movie show makes £160,000 at Sotheby's

Posters advertising the first-ever public screening of a film, which took place in Paris in 1895, have hardly ever emerged outside France. While one is known in an American collection, the appearance of another at Sotheby’s latest online film posters auction understandably caused some excitement.

Consigned from a private French collection where it was housed for over 40 years, the Cinématograp…

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