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The world's first film poster (to date), for 1895's L'Arroseur arrosé, by the Lumière brothers Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand, 1922. The first poster for a specific film, rather than a "magic lantern show", was based on an illustration by Marcellin Auzolle to promote the showing of the Lumiere Brothers film L'Arroseur arrosé at the Grand Café in Paris on December 26, 1895.
Today, posters are produced for most major films, and movie posters are some of the most actively collected. The record price for a poster was set on November 15, 2005 when US$690,000 was paid for a poster of Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis, from the Reel Poster Gallery in London. [21]
John Henry Alvin (November 24, 1948 [1] – February 6, 2008) [2] was an American cinematic artist and painter who illustrated many movie posters. [2] Alvin created posters and key art [1] for more than 135 films, beginning with the poster for Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974). [2]
Automatically generated playlists known as "YouTube Mix" were first rolled out in April 2013. [147] A year later, the feature was rolled out to the mobile app for Android OS. [148] A similar feature called "YouTube Radio" for continuous music playback in resemblance to radio stations was tested in February 2015. [149]
Henryk Tomaszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland on June 10, 1914, to a family of musicians. [1]In 1934, he enrolled in the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1939. . During World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland, Tomaszewski earned a living through his painting, drawings, and woodcuts which were later destroyed during the Warsaw Upri
Kiyoshi Awazu (Japanese: 粟津 潔, romanized: Awazu Kiyoshi, February 19, 1929 – April 28, 2009) was a Japanese graphic designer, active in the post-WWII era in the fields of poster design, architecture design, set design, filmmaking, and illustration. A self-taught artist, Awazu possessed an eclectic and variegated graphic style that ...
Caroff created the poster design for the movie West Side Story (1961), often wrongly credited to Saul Bass who did design the animated title sequence for the film. [13] For the launch of the James Bond movie franchise in 1962, Caroff conceptualized 007 with the integral pistol which became the signature of the brand, which remains in use. [14]
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